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Reservation Dogs

   12 January 2025, evening time

I’ve watched Reservation Dogs twice now. The first time was with Shima. We zoomed through the first two seasons, and watched the third and final season as it was actually airing. We watched it all again with Mythilli over the past few weeks. The show is incredible. I would happily watch it all again right now.

Reservation Dogs follows the antics of a group of friends living in a reservation in Oklahoma. Their friend has died the year prior. There is lots of sadness and tragedy that permeates this show that is so funny. I love to see television that’s so well executed. You can see the creators had a real vision for what they wanted to do, and then they actually managed to do it. I think in different hands, a show about children in a reservation could have just been a lot of misery porn. This show is hopeful, at its core. People persevere despite the obstacles placed before them.

The first two seasons are mostly focused on the kids, and the show feels like it could have ended with the second season. But then they come back and did a third season that somehow manages to be even stronger. The last three episodes of the series are some of my favourite television. I can’t recommend this show enough.

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