In Its Final Season, Coming-of-Age Comedy ‘Reservation Dogs’ Goes Out on a High Note: TV Review
variety.comAlison Herman TV Critic The last we saw of the Reservation Dogs, the friends were letting go of their grief on a Los Angeles beach.
The protagonists and namesake of the half-hour series on FX were thousands of miles from home, a testament to the flexible, expansive world-building of co-creator Sterlin Harjo and his team. “Reservation Dogs” is rooted in its specific setting of Indigenous Oklahoma, but the show also gives itself license to experiment with focus, tone and, eventually, geography.
It’s a story with the confidence to go new places, and trusts the audience will follow. As a result, “Reservation Dogs” could’ve started its third and final season just about anywhere.
Instead, the action picks up right where it left off: with Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Elora (Devery Jacobs), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) and Cheese (Lane Factor) stranded in Santa Monica without a car or a plan.
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