Reservation Dogs, on FX on Hulu
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The title is obviously a play on the movie Reservoir Dogs, though I don't think the show is anything like that film. It's ostensibly a comedy, but I think of it more as a dramedy, with a few minor supernatural elements thrown in. (It's partly on account of those elements that I originally filed my review under "weird" instead of "dramedy", and later moved it to "quirky".) Mostly I just don't know how to feel about it, though. It follows four Native American teenagers: two boys named Bear and Cheese, and two girls named Elora Danan (like the baby from Willow) and Willie Jack. They live in Oklahoma, but want to move to California. That, I think, was originally the idea of a friend of theirs, Willie Jack's cousin Daniel, who died a year before the series begins. In order to get to California, the Rez Dogs are making and saving up money any way they can, including crime. But it seems to me we don't actually see much of that; mostly we see what their daily lives are like on the reservation. They also have rivals called the NDN Mafia, but we don't see too much interaction between the two gangs. We do sometimes see a spirit guide named William Knifeman, who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and now appears to Bear to offer mostly unwanted and vague advice. And there's a tribal cop called Big. And a couple of rappers who are always riding around on bikes, named Mose and Mekko. And there are various other characters, some quirky and some not.

The humor on the series, aside from the spirit, is mostly pretty subtle. In fact I'd say almost everything about the show is pretty subtle, which is great in moderation, but when it's the whole show it makes it hard for me to really get a handle on the characters or the show as a whole. It's a quality show, even if I can't manage to like it as much as I want to, or as much as the critics do. It can delve deeply into various characters' feelings, albeit in a typically subtle way, which can be affecting. But I still feel like I don't really know the characters as well as I'd like to. Maybe that will change in the second season, since it's already been renewed. It's certainly a show I don't mind watching, I just wish more stuff actually happened in it. I will say there's a major twist at the end of season one, which I don't want to spoil (and don't entirely even understand). But I look forward to seeing how things play out next season.