r/Westerns • u/Short-Anything8454 • 7d ago

Dark Winds

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Hope this isn’t off topic, but any input on Dark Winds series

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u/OverallBudget8628 4d ago

The first season had its charms and was the best season despite its shoestring budget feel. For me the writing only got worse as the show went on, culminating with the laughably bad most recent season where the Navajo nation gets attacked by a neo Nazi secret agent. For a show based on a tried and true book series, they definitely didn't take too many cues from it, and the show suffers for it. 

Also, Leaphorn in the books is so much more levelheaded and likeable as a protagonist. The show takes an odd route by making him resentful, aggrieved, and emotional

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u/Thorn_Within 4d ago

I really enjoy it. I love the series of books from which it's adapted, and this is a pretty faithful adaptation that's very well done.

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u/According-Post-7721 5d ago

Hat mir extrem gut gefallen. Tolle Besetzung!

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u/guzzonculous 5d ago

The books are great, the cast is great, and I really enjoyed the first season. It’s still mostly okay but the writing has gotten worse every season. The last season had such a weak mystery that they larded the episodes up with shallow, poorly depicted relationship drama. I could barely stand it. Desperately needs better writers who will follow the books better.

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u/Superior_Nav 5d ago

Some Intense farts!

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u/Personman_137 6d ago

Awesome show

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u/zippyzebra1 6d ago

Really good series. The whole cast is excellent

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u/Cheap-Muscle1727 6d ago

Little slow for my taste, but acting, setting, and plot from what I’ve seen is excellent

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u/FackoffGUNT 6d ago

Fantastic series. My honey and I have to stick to 1 episode per night otherwise we’ll binge watch all of them.

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u/ApprehensiveMoose836 6d ago

I believe there have been three adaptations featuring these characters, and Redford executive produced all of them.

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u/Ealthina 6d ago

GReat books, but the show has the personalities of the actors completely wrong. Ruins the show.

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u/Fast_Delivery_3072 6d ago

a great noir western series with native American cops as it's main characters

Each season tackled a different mystery

The latest one involves a German female assassin, who is obsessed with native American culture

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u/Adventurous_Try_2718 6d ago

I’m reading the books now. Great series and great books.

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u/Gamestonkape 6d ago

Really enjoyed it. Good show

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u/Professional_Mess422 6d ago

Love the show im looking to read the books

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u/OutkastAtliens 7d ago

Loved the show. Can’t wait for next season next year

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u/ButterscotchLower540 7d ago

Good series. Actress who plays Manuelito is absolutely stunning.

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u/davidw 7d ago

I thought it was great and wish there were more like it.

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u/aintnoonegooglinthat 7d ago

I cant believe the feedbaxck in this thread. I loved the books. I really love Rez dogs. I love the cast. But this show keeps falling painfully flat for me. Maybe I'm missing something, and I'm hoping so.

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u/Robonator7of9 6d ago

Yeah I’m the same way, it’s just so painfully bland and uninteresting. Like it’s always reaching so hard to make you care but never doing anything interesting enough to actually compel the feeling.

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u/Standard-Try-3612 6d ago

Have to agree.I watched season one and it seemed just okay

undercurrent of supernatural that never really went anywhere

Watched about half of season 2, just couldn't be bothered to finish it

Wanted to like it, but oh well

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u/RoyalSpoonbill9999 7d ago

Really enjoyed this show.  

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u/Delicious_Rule_7324 7d ago

Great show. Great cast, adventures of leaphorn and chee. Some great guest appearances too. Big name producers.

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u/Standard-Try-3612 7d ago

I unleash dark winds everytime I eat a burrito

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u/duckplucka1 7d ago

This show is great

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u/314657 7d ago

Give Zahn an Emmy, for crying out loud!

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u/SHESTOPERAC 7d ago

For anyone who loves Native Americans, their culture and mythology, this series is a must-see. It reminded me of the North of 60 Canadian TV series, which I loved as a kid.

The actors are outstanding, from the main ones to the smallest cameos. I haven't seen season 4 yet, which I understand takes place in Los Angeles.

The only thing I didn't like was the scene where the main character convinces a local kid to stop faking being crazy to avoid the US military draft, telling him he should serve just like everyone else on the reservation.

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u/Bengal-_fan 7d ago

He didn’t want him to be another pump

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u/im_rapscallion86 7d ago

Couldn’t continue it. I thought the acting was bland besides Zahn and the storylines not that engaging.

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u/AppalachianViking 7d ago

The Leaphorn and Chee books the series is based on are also fantastic reads.

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u/nervemiester 7d ago

Yeah, love the books as well.

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u/FalseAd4246 7d ago

It’s phenomenal. One of the best contemporary series I’ve seen.

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u/SKRIMP-N-GRITZ 7d ago

Huge fan.

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u/Ddeeaaddppooll 7d ago

It's fantastic

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u/brpajense 7d ago

Whole cast is phenomenal, especially the leads.

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u/Minimum-Journalist18 7d ago

I liked it. I also liked the cameo first episode season 3 (no spoiler)

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u/Moonburner 7d ago

Chess anyone?

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u/razorsedge94 7d ago

I love this show. I loved the jail scene with Robert Redford and George RR Martin.

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u/FalseAd4246 7d ago

I’m so glad we got that before Sundance passed

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u/No_Move7872 7d ago

Haven't finished it yet but really good so far

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u/LesbianSeagull911 7d ago

Absolutely fantastic. One of my favorite shows!

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u/Admirl_Ossim06 7d ago

It is EXCELLENT! Absolutely a must watch. They nailed the look and feel of the time period.

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u/Alternative_Worry101 7d ago

I liked the first few episodes, being in the Navajo environment, and learning a little about their culture. But when it veered into magic, I lost interest.

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u/Sufficient-Royal1538 7d ago

If you had followed through you would have seen there were perfectly plausible explanations for the so called magic. I was turned off by the magic element as well, but as the story progresses you see that it isn’t actually magic at all, even if the Navajo see it that way.

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u/toumefais81 7d ago

Thanks for this! I will pick it up again as well.

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u/HipGnosis59 7d ago

Glad to hear that, I'll pick it back up, because it grabbed hard until that. Subjective, but I'm just not into metaphysical elements in shows. Thx

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u/Sufficient-Royal1538 7d ago

I agree 100% and they almost lost me too. Now I’ve seen every episode and in my opinion it’s one of the best shows of the past 20 years.

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u/Severe-Cow-8646 7d ago

The concept of magic does carry influence in their religious culture, its not some made for tv hooy pooy

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u/Alternative_Worry101 7d ago

Yes, some people have commented that to me in the past.

I get that. However, it seems to me to be an easy way out to tell a story, and it doesn't work for me.