Thread Where We Call Each Other Shitass & Proclaim Our Love For RESERVATION DOGS

Also a quick shoutout to the soundtracking, my jaw hit the floor when Spacemen 3 swelled up in the roofing episode.

More importantly, they're playing a shit-ton of music by Native artists who would never get a sync in any other show. That's bound to represent a serious paycheck for a bunch of them.

That *is* more important, thanks for the note. Also prompted me to finally investigate Jesse Ed Davis.

https://mikebonemedia.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSry_L6b05s

yeah the soundtrack is awesome, really enjoying all the music

Lil Mike and Funny Bone!!

god I love those guys, wish they would make a reappearance

"well, you get paid in influence"

the two who would have been their "sidekicks" on a traditional show, Willie Jack and Cheese, are the smart, deep ones who I want to see more of.

i've been thinking about this too. it's just gradually happened, not as a gimmick for one episode but for long stretches.

when Willie Jack was surrounded by the medicine people spirits i was fully crying

same here

my kids were like "this show started out silly but it changed, it's pretty deep now" and i'm like what about the last episode where the cop take drugs?? and they're like oh yeah

Willie Jack is my absolute favourite, the hunting episode is so beautiful and profound.

Willie Jack is my absolute favourite, the hunting episode is so beautiful and profound.

Yep, both her episodes have been highlights of the entire series.

I will probably make a poll for the first two seasons at some point, mostly so I can rewatch tbh

:D

Wow, another great episode, this show is incredible!

Seriously, though, Willie Jack gets the heavy stuff, doesn't she? This ep we finally learn her real name, too, which was a subtle payoff to her hilarious Native in-joke nickname.

My favorite thing about the show, besides it being perfect, is how they keep expanding the circle of adults. People out of the picture, from ghost ancestors to relatives, seamlessly brought in and connected to the story like they were never gone. I might have missed who the woman in prison was, how she was related, but it didn't really matter. As she says to Willie Jack at the end, she's a grandmother, she's an aunty, she's a cousin ...

scene at the beginning of the credits was a+

love these kids so much

I was worried the season finale would be some weepy hugging-and-learning bullshit, but this show is way too good to do (just) that. And Brandon Boyd of Incubus as white Jesus? Come on!

But, what about Tim Capello! Great joke at the end.

I also need to listen to more Black Belt Eagle Scout.

Really good interview with Sterlin Harjo about constructing Season 2. Some of the ideas they threw out seem not-great.

great finale, sweet and emotional and especially great to see the Dogs back together again

i like the little easter egg that they all wore suits to Daniel’s funeral & thats how we got the promo shot <3

Show is so great we haven’t had enough time to call each other shitass, bitches.

love you bitch

if i come back as a horse, feed me oats

haha I loved that, dude was still fried from the last episode

"it's been a weird couple of days"

i was dying! he was wearing a native choker too lol

loved the scene where Cheese was nerding out about Thunderdome & Elora is like wtf this is supposed to help me stay awake so i can guard white jesus's tent?

just finished the last two episodes. both had me bawling, big time. this show is so good

Wondered something about the end there do they get their shoes back or did they get washed away. Seemed water came in faster than expected. Just would have compounded the situation or ah well another adversity for comradeship to get them through. Quite apart from getting home.

i assume yes lol

like it’s not the kind of show to tell you everything anyway, some conclusions you just have to draw on their own

*your own

i saw two teenage girls at the supermarket chips aisle trying to decide what to buy

one girl walked up and down the aisle boredly punching every bag of chips

then she saw what she wanted but was too short to reach, jumped up on the lowest shelf to grab it, the front of the shelf fell off and a bunch of chips tumbled to the floor

they laughed & ran off & i pissed myself laughing it was so dumb

i felt like the spirit of willie jack waz with these girls somehow even though they were latina

<3

This show really nails being a teen better than most shows. But that may just be because this show is better than most shows in pretty much every regard.

I went to a powwow this weekend and one of the merch tables was selling "Don't Be A Shitass" window decals. I've been to a bunch of powwows and never heard the term before this show so it seems to be creeping out of oklahoma.

Show back

so excited!

S3E3 is so devastating, so good… i fell apart all the way through

but the way he kept such a gentle touch, the interactions between the kids, the alien voices of the nuns, “keep smiling” … incredible. and Deer Lady, just an incredible representation & such a great way to tell this story

how this show doesn’t own every emmy category every year it’s been running is baffling to me

beautiful post by harjo about the ep here:
the comments are worth yr time too

https://www.instagram.com/p/CvyFOJNLh_5/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

that was so good, and yah very heavy

reading Joe Brainerd in the diner <3

*Brainard*

like in inexperienced and/or non indigenous hands, this would have been a horribly retraumatizing after school special … harjo makes such sensitive, good choices, like he is always leading with his community first, this show has such a huge heart

otm

I also love how the rap twins are rocking scooters now instead of cruisers

it's the little details that make it

he understands who is watching

anyway, great episode

sidebar omggggggggg i want a whole cherry pie to myself so fucking bad now

YES

thank you thread for reminding me that this is back.

i am a full-on fx fanboy, only been watching justified, sunny, shadows, and the bear. now this!

same lol

wondering whose decision it was to end the show after this season?

I get a "quit while you're ahead" vibe but have no idea really

(I will buy the hell out of this as DVD/BR)

It was the authors’ idea aiui

i couldn’t stop thinking about that episode & went down a rabbithole finding out about one of these schools in northeast california at Fort Bidwell (ran from 1898 and closed in 1931). Not a ton of info around but the vibe is grim, obviously.

And shit like this here in Sacramento County “August 1921, the California legislature amended the School Law of California so that "The governing body of a school district shall have power to exclude children of filthy or vicious habits, or children suffering from contagious or infectious diseases, and also to establish separate schools for Indian children and for children of Chinese, Japanese or Mongolian parentage. When such schools are established, Indian children or children of Chinese, Japanese or Mongolian parentage must not be admitted into any other school." (from https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/5views/5views4h16.htm)

i mean, i knew a lot of this already but still there is always something about seeing it so coldly codified that always fucks me up.

the scene in the diner when she’s watching him while he’s not looking, and she gets this soft, sad sort of wistful look… then he looks at her & she tightens up, shields up
she kills me

so fucking good. she’s so young! blows my mind how good she is

declaring this a safe space to hug it out

<3

i am going to miss this show so much

Hoping everybody in it is going onto further projects. & somebody else is going to make a non tokenist indigenous show that Red Nation will love. They get pretty scathing to exploitative shows cashing in on indigenous culture.

Will miss this definitely so hope there's something coming to distract that.

This was of course beautiful, though I maintain it feels like it ended a little too soon. On the other hand, I kind of like it ending that way. It feels simultaneously incomplete but satisfying, like we were privy to this special thing that could only last so long before it moved on, like a passing natural phenomenon.

I love how they lowkey had all 4 characters grow in hugely significant ways when you look at them in the finale vs s1e1 but they did it without it feeling growth was the obvious goal idk

also kinda like irl life maybe

I can't show Deer Lady to a tenth-grade class, right? Because of the thing at the end that the whole episode is building to?

I'm bummed because I want to show it for Orange Shirt Day but don't think I can.

just finished last ep and thought it was really beautiful and sweet. the series easily had more stories to tell but this ending felt like a good resting place, not an “end”

Several torrents supposed to be episode 10 are actually 9 I think. Unless they repeated the beginning to do a sliding doors/what if thing.
& I haven't seem if Ireland is up to date or even has the show otherwise. Ho hum.

Gus van Zandt shot by shot remake

Benjamin/Warhol mass production.
Shade of Borges meticulous reproduction.

Or just annoying glitch oversight that at least a couple of different releases of the same episode are wrong in the same way. Thought they were done independently so not sure how that works.

Finally got around to watching this (was traveling during the week). A good ending. Someone said online that this was the first time Wes Studi, Graham Greene and Gary Farmer had all been in a scene together, which is crazy.

i love how the show became a story abt the elder rez dogs as well as the younguns

yes, the continuation of community as per the potato chip example

Kept putting off watching the finale - didn’t really want to get to the end. It was a beautiful episode. Think they had most (?all) the key characters at the funeral. Loved the way the visuals slowly faded out at the end. And that the lead for the episode was Willie Jack, the most overtly community-focused character.

Dear Sterling

when can I buy the DVD/BR box of this plz thx

just finished this, i also kept putting it off because i didn't want it to end.

what a beautiful, hilarious, perfect show - the fact that it isn't winning all of the awards is a crime

good interview with Harjo from a few weeks back where he says there could potentially be a movie, among other spin off ideas: https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/reservation-dogs-series-finale-explained-spin-off-ideas-1235736827/

:D a movie would rule

I'd rather a fourth season, tbh. I maintain that the show ended too early.

~muffled shouting~

fair enough

Finished this last night, what a hilarious, beautiful and damn near perfect show.

I think about this show whenever Free Fallin’ comes on the radio

lowdown also good

SO good

I've been watching the dumb-as-shit Apple TV show The Last Frontier and I don't think I'm gonna make it to the end, but Dallas Goldtooth is in it as the protagonist's #2 and he's really good.

one of the Native characters in this week’s Welcome to Derry ep called the other Natives “shitasses” and i did a little cheer lol

rewatching this is such a joy, we finished S1E2 last night and everybody hating the clinic was even funnier the 2nd time around

still no DVD or physical release of this at all, right?

if you are considering watching The Lowdown they just cast Tommy Lee mfkin Jones for S2 - his first tv role in 40 years!!!

honestly better news than i possibly could’ve dreamed of

I maintain that Reservation Dogs ended too early for no good reason.

yes we are Lowdown fans too! xp

sometimes you're done with a show and want to make The Lowdown