'Dark Winds' is a stunning crime drama that also happens to be a showcase for Native talent, writes judyberman
’s haunting Ghost Nation leader Akecheta), he is investigating the motel-room murders of an elderly man and a young woman from the community. The only witness is the woman’s grandmother, a blind healer who is so traumatized by the incident that she can’t even answer questions about it. And it’s clear that the detective has some unpleasant history with her family.TIME’s weekly entertainment newsletter, to get the context you need for the pop culture you love.
Joe is a fascinating hero—an intelligent, college-educated family man whose personal sorrows trickle out little by little, and for whom tribal police work is a way of serving his people. When we meet him, he’s issuing a stern warning to a white man who has attempted to make off with some shards of Native crockery, which Joe is now forcing him to rebury on Navajo soil: “If I catch you stealing artifacts again, the hole you’ll be digging will be a whole lot bigger.
Aiding Joe in his investigation is a newly arrived deputy, Jim Chee , another college boy, who grew up on the reservation but has been gone for so long that he’s received as an outsider. Bernadette Manuelito , a shrewd and courageous officer who is practically a part of Joe and his wife Emma’s family, complicates what might otherwise have been the overpowering machismo of an adaptation of
’s novels about Leaphorn and Chee, without straining believability. The variety of relationships—romantic, competitive, parent-child—that form among these characters, and are tested by their pressurized circumstances, give the show enough emotional depth to sustain multiple seasons.’ depiction of the Navajo community in the ’70s, where traditional agricultural practices mingled with roadside knickknack sellers catering to tourists and a wave of activist sentiment was on the rise.
The heist never drops off the radar, of course. It is the primary preoccupation of Noah Emmerich’s Whitover, a ruthless FBI man who could care less about the two murder victims but needs Navajo law enforcement’s help to search for the helicopter that disappeared over their sovereign land—and for perpetrators he believes are Navajo. “One hand washes the other,,” the perennially condescending Fed tells Joe.
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