'Reservation Dogs' gives Native American experiences a rambling, indie-movie vibe — but Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi's comedy also fills in a representational gap in the best possible way. Read Alan Sepinwall's review.
approach the world of Bear and his friends and family. It’s a show that believes in magic on some level, but not in any higher power that can improve the lives of Bear, Elora Danan , Willie Jack , and Cheese , leaving them to scrap and steal in hopes of making their way out of town.
The show generates a lot of humor out of the intersection of Native culture and hip-hop culture, especially by casting diminutive rapping brothers Lil Mike and FunnyBone in supporting roles as freestylers who roam the reservation on their matching bicycles, passing along gossip and rhymes in between our heroes’ misadventures.
Harjo, Waititi, and company are aiming for more of a rambling, indie-film hangout comedy vibe, which leans heavily on the appeal of the performers. Fortunately, they found four extremely charming young ones to play their leads, with Devery Jacobs a particular standout as Elora Danan.
If the character’s name sounds familiar, it’s because Elora Danan was the baby in the 1988 Ron Howard-directed fantasy film. One of the series’ stranger and more endearing running gags is that everyone on the reservation seems to know the movie very well, and has strong opinions about whether it’s good or just, as the clinic’s doctor puts it, “the knock-offIndigenous characters have been part of television forever, in part because Westerns were so prominent in the medium’s early days.
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