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Reservation Dogs Closes the Circle of Peak TV
The end of Sterlin Harjo’s singular half-hour dramedy might also be the end of a small but astounding moment in post-prestige television.
In the first minutes of Reservation Dogs, teenagers Bear, Elora, Willie Jack, and Cheese steal a Flaming Flamers truck, hoping to sell it for enough money to leave Okern, Oklahoma. The desperation to feed a perpetual growth chart forced executives to make as much TV as they possibly could, which meant huge names and big-budget monsters but also smaller shows made by people who weren’t from all the same alumni pools. At a time when studios were actually interested in making a show by someone like Sterlin Harjo (as long as he was backed by a bigger name, in this case Taika Waititi), there was an established model for smaller series that lived and thrived in the brackish tonal spaces between broad comedy and muscular drama.
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