‘Reservation Dogs’ Director Danis Goulet On The Final Season, What’s Next, + TIFF & The Strikes
deadline.com“Some kids have more baggage than others,” Teenie (Tamara Podemski) tells her niece Elora Postoak (Devery Jacobs) on the road home to Oklahoma from California in the opener of the third and final season of Reservation Dogs.
Once again tossing expectations aside and centering in on the personal to find the political, the “BUSSIN’ “episode of the acclaimed Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi created FX series literally and figuratively puts out the road map to its conclusion. “We are going to see the show take some really big risks to go into places that we may not have gone before, and especially there’s an episode that I was a part of that deals with collective historical trauma,” says returning director Danis Goulet who helmed the season premiere and the haunting Deer Lady episode that debuts on August 9.
Coming off the end of Season 2 last year that saw Elora, and pals Bear Smallhill (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) and Cheese (Lane Factor) finally make it out to the Golden State together to give their departed friend Daniel a fitting send-off, Rez Dogs’ latest 10-episode season kicked off today on Hulu with a two-episode premiere.
Speaking from northern Saskatchewan, Goulet reflected on the turns the final season takes, where it could all end up and the horrors the show delves in to.
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