Get your Flamin’ Flamers chips and Skux energy drink: Reservation Dogs renewed for third season
The acclaimed series about a group of Native American teenagers is produced by FX and Hulu
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Get out your Flamin’ Flamers chips and get your Skux energy drink: Reservation Dogs has been renewed for a third season. The FX and Hulu series about a group of Native American teenagers growing up in Oklahoma has been widely acclaimed for its blend of laugh-out-loud humor and sensitive depictions of grief.
“I couldn’t be more proud of this show that I created with my friend Taika Waititi,” showrunner Sterlin Harjo says in a statement shared by The Hollywood Reporter. “It was born out of a conversation in Taika’s kitchen and has now made its way into the lives of people across the world. The love for season two has been outstanding. Thank you to FX for ordering season three, excited to bring you more laughter and love from the Rez. Ahoooo!”
Reservation Dogs premiered in 2021. Starring Devery Jacobs, D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis, and Lane Factor, the series opened with the four teens struggling to rebuild their dynamic after the death of their mutual friend. The loss continues to linger over the characters as high school graduation approaches and they consider the milestones they won’t be sharing.
The second season has also expanded on the show’s world by exploring its supporting cast, with standout episodes digging into Rita (Sarah Podemski)’s rare alone time as a single mother and Big (Zahn McClarnon)’s lingering guilt about not being able to prevent a previous tragedy on the reservation.
“Reservation Dogs is not only a much-needed corrective of decades of Native American representation (or erasure) on U.S. television, but it also accomplishes another feat: churning comedy gold out of a grounded if stylized vision of reservation life,” writes The A.V. Club’s Manuel Betancourt in our season two review.
The news of the renewal comes ahead of the second season’s finale next week.
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I wanted to like this show but after like 4 episodes it just wasn’t grabbing me. Does it pick up in the second season or something, or is it just not my bag? There were some funny bits but as a whole it made me depressed.
Four episodes is enough to get the vibe of the show. If you’re still not into it at that point, then yeah, it’s just not your thing.
Thanks for the info!
It’s much more of a drama than a comedy.
Thanks for the info!
I agree with the other reply that the first 4 eps are pretty representative, but I might suggest you go back and check out episode 7. It’s a great episode that’s nearly all one-on-one between Elora and an almost-unrecognizable Bill Burr who really disappears into his guest role as her driving instructor/former basketball coach.Honestly I think eps 5-7 are the best of season 1, though they’re as much drama as comedy if not more.
Thanks! I will, Bill Burr is always good!
Season 1 is only 8 episodes and its a half hour show. You watched the first half, might as well watch the back half. I do understand 4 episodes in generally being the cutoff to where most will decide if the show is for them or not, but this show does pick up a tad bit in the 2nd half. It’s not dramatic, but the first four episodes you’re kinda getting to know all the characters and then the last half you really see its charm.
Yeah but if it doesn’t change into more of a comedy then it’s too depressing for my taste. Knowing a great deal about the history of why they even live where and how the day just makes the whole thing sad.
Then it probably won’t be for you. I wouldn’t categorize it as a drama as some have, but its not a joke factory comedy either. It’s more of a slice of life with some comedic and fantasy elements mixed in. There’s probably a proper term for it out there somewhere that escapes me that better describes it, but its not a “comedy” or a “drama” either.
I think it’s one of the better (if not best) new shows in recent years, and I think Harjo made a great decision in making it more episodic than serialized. The first season’s only real serialized plotlines focused on the kids saving enough money to run away to California, and the (moral) fallout from the chip truck heist in the opening episode; rather than making these issues the absolute focus of the series, Harjo crafted something that reminded me of my favorite Altman films, with a panoramic eye for the whole “human ecosystem” shot from a fly-on-the-wall perspective.There are certain episodes that could be described as “stand-alone” or “anthology,” in which some “main” characters will show up on the narrative periphery, but it doesn’t end up feeling like a pause in the overall story (I liked the Atlanta stand-alones, but felt like they just slowed the storytelling momentum down too much). What that choice does for Rez Dogs is brilliant: it underscores that the community-centric ethos of Native/rez life cannot be superficially separated from story structure: everything is connected, and all stories are shared. So too with art, trauma, healing, and the everyday lived experience. Obviously, that’s true in non-Native communities as well; it’s just something that isn’t acknowledged, and seldom makes it into TV, movies, or novels writ by white folks, in which the rugged, self-assured maverick goes his own way and sticks to his guns even when his closest friends and family members think he’s being unreasonable. Genetically, I’m a mutt (can’t really claim to be any one ethnicity because I’m not more than 20% of any one thing) but I’ve got a Native quarter of the family, and spend a lot of time visiting the rez… so for what it’s worth, I’ve never, ever seen a better depiction of those family/community dynamics in any show or movie made before.
This news makes me happy. The episode “Mable” was about as perfect of a half hour of television that I’ve seen.Also, I’m not too surprised—I can’t imagine the show requires all that much of a budget, so it’s a pretty low-risk endeavor for a streaming site.
Mable and the Cheese episode were about as good as it gets
That was a much needed Cheese episode. I know he’s a fan favorite, but he was well overdue for some character development, especially when it comes to Daniel.
yeah, his first standalone was kinda more about Big, but this season’s was perfect. I love how simple and sad the explanation was for his behaviour: his friend killed himself, so Cheese made himself the most understanding and accommodating person he could so that wouldn’t happen again. what a beautiful concept
Hell yeah, shitasses.
Good. It’s an excellent show. One worthy of having its episodes written about and discussed among its fans if such place were to ever exist. Like a gathering, perhaps a club, that focused on art work of the audio and visuals fields.
its insane that s2 hasn’t been getting episodic reviews here. it’s the best season of TV I’ve seen all year
This quickly became my favorite current show and season 2 has somehow managed to be better than the high bar set by season 1. Well deserved renewal.
Offerings was a moving ep focusing on Willie Jack. I’m glad there will be another season.
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I love slow semi-anthology shows and this scratches my High Maintenance itch. Plus I get to learn more about modern native culture and that’s been great as well.
This is excellent news!
The second season got to be even more incredible then the first… this week episode encapsulated the heart of the series masterfullyI keep thinking this could be such a great game by Naughty Dog or Rockstar
Maybe if AV Club, would, I dunno….
REVIEW THE EPISODES every week, more people would know about one of the best shows on television right now.