‘Reservation Dogs’ launches third — and final — season
‘Historic’ series aims to go out on top but Sterlin Harjo hints at more to come from the characters
https://ictnews.org/news/reservation-dogs-launches-third-and-final-season
Sandra Hale Schulman
Special to ICT, July 25, 2023
All good things must come to an end, but an audible groan was heard across Indian Country when “Reservation Dogs” creators Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi announced that Season 3, which starts Aug. 2 on Hulu, would be the last.
The show has been showered with awards — the 2022 American Film Institute Awards, a Peabody, a Gotham Award and two Independent Spirit Awards, despite the veritable snub from the Emmy Awards this year.
The last season had already been written and shot when the Screen Writers Guild went on strike in the spring, so the third and final season has faced no delays from the combined writers and actors strikes.
Harjo, Seminole and Muscogee Creek of Oklahoma, took to Instagram with a statement about the show’s final season, promising more things to come.
“When we came up with the idea for ‘Reservation Dogs,’ I didn’t think the show would ever get made, but thankfully it did,” Harjo said on Instagram. “The first and most basic idea for us as Native people, was to show the world that Native humor and Natives are funny. Almost all television and film depictions about Native people are mostly inaccurate. And most of them have been untruthful.
“It has been a gift to us to show the world a different perspective of Indigenous people and our culture,” he continued. “Most important of all, it has been a dream to collaborate and make a show that is entirely written by, directed by, and stars Native people. These are our stories, and they represent our people. We know it’s an enormous responsibility and we never took that lightly.”
- more at link:
https://ictnews.org/news/reservation-dogs-launches-third-and-final-season (well worth a few of your minutes to read the whole piece)
I absolutely
love this series. I’ve been telling everybody I know to subscribe to Hulu just long enough to watch this, even if nothing else on the channel interests them. It’s one of the most entertaining, uplifting, and
important TV series in history. I’m not native myself, but I have acquired a much deeper appreciation of at least some aspects of Indian culture(s). And I’ve gotten a ton of laughs, and not a few tears, from this show.
I will really miss these characters, settings, and stories. I hope there are sequels.
Skoden.
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