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Why Doesn’t Reservation Dogs Have an Emmy?


One of the most critically acclaimed TV shows of the 2020s has yet to win the industry’s biggest award. What’s going on?

(And this doesn’t take into account the odds for the veteran actors stacked behind the younger cast: This is a show that features Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, Wes Studi, and Zahn McClarnon in the same episodes.) What I would most like to do, though, is completely impossible: I would go back in time and give an Emmy both for writing and direction to season two’s “ Mabel,” which is one of those episodes of TV that make you rethink how great the entire form can be. Yes, Rez Dogs is also sometimes “so sad.” Yes, it is a show about a lot of dark and sometimes overwhelmingly intense emotions, and it occasionally flirts with scary moments or supernatural elements, like the Deer Lady, that could scoot it into other territory.

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