‘Reservation Dogs’ Series Finale: Co-Creator Sterlin Harjo On Saying Goodbye With Love, Legacy & “Fekke Hvmken”

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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains detains of the Reservation Dogs series finale “Dig,” which dropped late last night on Hulu “I’m leaving,” Elora (Devery Jacobs) tells Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai) in the Reservation Dogs series finale as they sit before the coffin of Old Man Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman). “It’s awesome ..I’m proud of you,” Bear replies after a pause, giving his best friend his support. “I mean, of course, I’m going to miss you,” he adds, as the duo tell each other with tears how much they truly love each other and all they have been through over the show’s three seasons. “You’re reminded we’re a community, and we take care of each other, and that is something that I’ve always wanted to show in this show,” co-creator Sterlin Harjo says of the finale, the funeral and the series itself.

As he has in every one of the Rez Dog’s three seasons on FX and Hulu, Harjo directed the “Dig” finale, which he also co-wrote with Chad Charlie.  “Everything that you see on this episode is exactly what happens in my community.” It is a clear reflection indeed.

A delicately crafted departure full mourning, celebration, reflection and community, “Dig” openly pays homage to its influences of auteur cinema, personal history and the setting of soundtrack. “Locked and loaded, as Paulina Alexis’ Willie Jack declares, the emotionally and psychologically comprehensive “Dig” ranks as one of the best series enders the small screen has witnessed in a long time.

At a running time of 38 minutes and at the end of a 28-episode run, it is a thing complete unto itself with life and death and the importance of everything in-between and beyond right up front Set among the Indigenous communities of rural Oklahoma, and co-starring co-stars