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Dark Winds also wrapped its season last Sunday, although I found an “Episode 0” on the DVR from Thursday; haven’t played it yet but it appears to be a wrap-up doc on Season 2. I cared far more about the character interplay than this season’s mystery plot except insofar as the latter informed or merged with the former. Zahn McClarnon’s distinct work as Joe Leaphorn on DW and Big on Reservation Dogs is even more impressive in the wake of the largely comic-relief Big getting serious a couple of weeks back and Joe loosening up in the coda of the DW finale.

Sarah Podemski, meanwhile, shone on RD once again. I hope that she pops up more frequently on Resident Alien whenever that finally returns. The cast and creators of Reservation Dogs bear following (no pun intended) — some of them, like Devery Jacobs, both in front of and behind the camera.

Maybe I should finally check out Rutherford Falls.

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Rutherford Falls has its charms -- especially when it’s focusing more on the Native characters than Ed Helms -- but was definitely a distant third among those three shows that briefly co existed.

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Thanks. I have a low tolerance for Ed Helms' usual stuff (like Will Ferrell's and other snarky and/or clueless man-child schtick) or I'd probably have sampled it from go.

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The second season is much better about recognizing that the show shouldn’t really be about him.

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