Dark Winds

2022 - 6 - 12

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Is Dark Winds on Netflix? (Netflix Life)

The story for Dark Winds, which touts an all Native American writer's room, follows two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest named Joe Leaphorn and Jim ...

There is really no point in denying that watching the well-crafted psychological thriller would be an ideal experience on the popular streaming service. Some other exciting titles from the psychological thriller category ready to stream now include Dark, You, Black Mirror, Mindhunter, Alice in Borderland and Into the Night, just to name a few. Also in the cast is a fantastic lineup that includes Noah Emmerich, Rainn Wilson, Jessica Matten and Deanna Allison. The first season will consist of six entries.

Zahn McClarnon Sets His Thousand-Yard Stare on the Lead (The New York Times)

AMC's new thriller “Dark Winds” represents several firsts for the Indigenous actor, who has built a long career playing roles of quiet intensity.

“I’m getting to an age where I’m looking like a father, finally,” he said. “I’ve heard stories where a lot of leads, unfortunately, don’t really welcome the input of their co-stars,” she continued. “There’s a tremendous pathos to him.” “A light bulb went off,” Eyre said. For Gordon and Matten, both of whom are of Native descent, “Dark Winds” was a chance to work closely with a giant among Indigenous screen actors. “‘Dances with Wolves’ had come out, and there were productions looking for Native American actors,” he said. “There was competition, obviously, but we were all happy that everybody was working.” “You’re seeing the show from the perspective of people who have grown up around their culture and understand what it’s like to live on the reservation,” added McClarnon, who lived on reservations growing up. “Is he a robot?” “So that’s pretty much why I got that job.” In a video interview from his home in Los Angeles last month, McClarnon was funny and modest — perhaps self-deprecating to a fault. “He just looks scary,” their “Dark Winds” co-star Jessica Matten later said, also laughing.

'Dark Winds' review: Zahn McClarnon stars in AMC's moody Native ... (CNN)

Atmosphere goes a long way in "Dark Winds," a brooding crime series set on Native-American tribal land in the 1970s that's part "True Detective" and part ...

There are also pointed reminders of past transgressions against this community, such as a pregnant woman being warned about forced sterilization if she has her baby in the hospital. soon coming to an end. AMC is at something of a crossroads, with two of the network's signature series, "The Walking Dead"

Dark Winds Premiere Episode Recap: "Monster Slayer" (Cowboys and Indians)

Zahn McClarnon stars in the new AMC series based on the mystery novels by Tony Hillerman.

Zahn McClarnon is a major badass, and we fully expect him to clean somebody’s clock before this eight-episode limited-run series runs its course. It’s not even past.” Sometimes that’s a good thing: McClarnon and co-star Deanna Allison credibly and compellingly convey the mostly loving but sometimes edgy give-and-take common to long-time married couples as Leaphorn and his wife Emma. In short, it’s very easy to believe these two people share a past together — a past that includes, it’s affectingly implied without being announced, the loss of a son. For example: When they were riffing about their college days, Leaphorn mentioned to Chee that he studied the effects metal elements might have on the environment when placed where they don’t normally belong. (“Out here, sometimes the best defense isn’t your .38 — it’s your medicine.”) But, in his defense, he hasn’t had a witch (Amelia Rico) stop him dead in his tracks with a stern look, a pointed finger, and a haughty, “Walk in beauty, Officer!” At least, not yet. — that wound up being intertwined even before the end of the premiere episode. What are we to make of this?

'Dark Winds' episode 1 review: Titillating mysteries on the reservation (AIPT)

The Leaphorn & Chee book series from author, Tony Hillerman, has been adapted previously with the films The Dark Wind and Skinwalkers.

The more curious revelation is the fate of the helicopter from the opening. The rest of the characters have interesting aspects as well. Near the end of the episode, there are a few reveals to shake things up and establish directions in where Dark Winds can go for the rest of the season. In a way he does but not as the first scene leads you to believe. There is a bit of a tortured soul within him. That’s not the only excitement on the reservation as sometime later, gruesome murders occur at a hotel leaving only a single witness: an elderly and blind medicine woman.

Dark Winds season 1, episode 3 preview, release date and where to ... (Ready Steady Cut)

The episodes will be released both on the cable network and the streaming service at the same time. One new episode will premiere every Sunday on AMC, and AMC+ ...

Viewers can watch Dark Winds season 1 on AMC and their streaming service AMC+ on the date above. The episodes will be released both on the cable network and the streaming service at the same time. The series is created by Graham Roland (known to produce Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime).

AMC's Native Crime Drama Dark Winds Took Inspiration from John ... (PRIMETIMER)

Director Chris Eyre tells us how he set out to present the show's Native characters as classic American heroes.

We conjure them in westerns as antagonists, but besides that we’ve really had an absence of a three-dimensional Native character that was progressive and contemporary and part of their own living culture.” (Eyre himself is Native, and so is most of the team on Dark Winds.) And the only reason it’s political is because of the absence of Native people in mass media. He cuts to a shot of Leaphorn’s waist, where we see his blue jeans, his leather jacket, and his pistol in a holster. “The western is a comfort food. In fact, the first thing we see is his cowboy hat. “Which is the hero’s color.”

Dark Winds review: A pulpy thriller led by a stellar cast | Digital Trends (Digital Trends)

'Dark Winds' is a fun, pulpy detective thriller anchored by an incredible Zahn McClarnon performance. It premieres on AMC and AMC+ on Sunday, June 12.

But even if Dark Winds doesn’t get renewed, its first season still tells a story that’s engaging and worthwhile, and McClarnon’s Joe Leaphorn is sure to stick around in the minds of viewers as one of the most compelling TV detectives of the past few years. As for the two mysteries at the center of Dark Winds, it may be disappointing to hear that they aren’t quite as complex as the show’s early episodes might have you believe. The impact of Dark Winds’ odd pacing is lessened by the strength of the show’s characters. Unfortunately, the further into the investigation he gets, the more Leaphorn is forced to consider the possibility that the bank robbery and pair of murders that kicked off Dark Winds’ story may not be as disconnected as he initially assumed. However, in the final half of the show’s first season, its various threads begin to grow more connected and a sense of real danger quickly emerges. The series, which is based on the Leaphorn & Chee novels by Tony Hillerman, is set on a Navajo reservation in the early 1970s and goes to great lengths to depict its setting as respectfully and authentically as it can.

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