Last year, Reservation Dogs ended its second run with what felt like the perfect series finale. Ostensibly a show about a band of young Indigenous Americans struggling through various levels of delinquency within the confines of their reservation in small-town Oklahoma, the series grew ever looser and sadder as the episodes passed. By the end of season two, the characters had finally made it to California, crying as they embraced in the Pacific.
Most shows would be content to leave it there. But today, three months after it wrapped its US broadcast, a third (and, according to creator Sterlin Harjo, definitively conclusive) season of Reservation Dogs has landed on Disney+. If you were worried the series might have nothing left to say, relax. Reservation Dogs has always been unafraid to show its heart, but these final episodes leave nothing on the table. They are weirder, deeper and far more discursive than the show has ever been.
