Dark Winds

This series expertly blends crime noire with seventies nostalgia and traditional life on a native reservation. All of the lead characters are highly charismatic and compelling. The writing, directing and performances are all top-notch.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Season one was decent. Season two crashed and burned. My primary issue is the pacing. I do not know why these morons in modern entertainment think scenes consisting of characters engaging in mundane activities while music plays is engaging story telling. Common activities they often choose include driving, preparing food and brushing teeth. I do not watch shows/movies to watch characters engage in mundane activities I do every day. It’s just filler material because they do not much story and need something to make up the run time. This became even more obvious when they started dragging out scenes. They ran out of story and had to come up with some way to fill up the run time. Boring. I, and I guess most people, have limited entertainment time and I will not waste it on boring. Another show with some potential went down the drain. People consume entertainment to be… surprise, entertained. Not bored, definitely not preached at, and not bullied. Modern “entertainment” is broken, fubar, and clearly has forgotten they are in customer service. Viewers are your customers; service them fool.

Well shot, well-edited, writing is better than Disney+ garbage level (i.e. above mediocre,) nice New Mexico scenery (this ain't shot in Arizona much if at all, though it's mostly set there. I lived right next to the Rez for years & spent plenty of time out there.) For half an ep or so I figured it would be an organically diverse show instead of Disney+ "duhversity," but then it became clear that every Native or black character is a soulful saint/soulful saint with one flaw, every white character a villain, a bigot, or a villainous bigot. In other words: just more woke trash. Maybe Noah Emmerich will learn what a horrible white privileged bigot he is by the end. That's called a "redemption arc" in woke trash parlance. I won't be around to see his talent wasted on trite 2022 cliché though.

Tis the most god awful and shameful stereotyped display of native American actors ever, and that's from the pilot no less. Huge disappointment since the male lead in the AMC Pierce Brosnan series "The Son" and his performance there was much better, no comparison to this banal **** even. Terrible story all over the place, bad acting, bad story, very BAD idea yet again for a "new series", AMC---so you better run Better Call Saul for another season which is multiple powers of 10 better than "Dark Winds"