REVIEW: The third (and last) season of Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s FX series about a group of Indigenous teens on a reservation in Oklahoma starts off strong.
‘Reservation Dogs’ Season Three, Episode One: Devery Jacobs as Elora Danan, Paulina Alexis as Willie Jack, Lane Factor as Cheese.We open the second episode in more alien terrain, as Bear seems trapped in an endless flat, barren plain, being pounded by the harsh sunlight. He has no food, no water, and no hope — and that’s before the ghost of a Spanish explorer on horseback tries to kill him.
A Spanish knight, appearing with windmills behind him? This episode is definitely a chance to dream the impossible dream. But it’s once William is banished from the action that “Maximus” truly goes to a special place. Another attacker comes upon Bear, only this one is a 100 percent real product of the here and now in the form of the episode’s title character, played by the great Graham Greene.
Greene, one of a handful of Indigenous actors to ever be nominated for an Oscar, felt like an inevitability for this show before it ended. When you’ve got Wes Studi and Gary Farmer in recurring roles, can Greene be far behind? But if it’s a predictable casting choice, the role itself feels inspired. Maximus starts out aptly named, because with his mohawk, welder’s goggles, and tricked-out dune buggy, he initially comes across as someone out of afilm.
Earlier in the episode, William shows Bear a beaded eggplant medallion, akin to the beaded pickle medallion Bear bought for Punkin back in Season One. It doesn’t feel like a huge leap to get from that to this unwell but ultimately kind old man who grows eggplants for visitors we know will never come — and who in a short time feels like more of a father figure to Bear than Punkin has ever been.
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