Dark Winds (TV Series) Antigonish (2023) User Reviews

nice action episode

[nerrdrage · 8/10 · 30 January 2024]

It's good to get a strong action sequence like this every so often. No spoilers, but let's just say that the bad guy lives up to his Javier Bardem/Frankenstein looks, and Jim Chee proves to be a worthy opponent despite a serious drawback.

And soon afterwards (maybe too soon for the sake of plausibility), he rebounds to feature in a nice, quiet sequence featuring a spicy pickle and a snow-cone, which gives us a bit more insight into his personality.

Compared with the other main characters, he's still a bit of a cypher, which makes him interesting. He digs the white man's space age fabrics but he can rattle off all the tribes he belongs to at a moment's notice. Too bad about the hair though. The 70s, sheesh.

Best episode yet, Antagonish

[loeynorq · 10/10 · 16 August 2023]

I love this series. This particular episode just busts wide open, for all the characters. I can't help but see the artist hand in the writing, specifically Steven Paul Judd. The words flow through the actors in a spontaneous way. All the details make for profound storytelling. So many moments, places, fraught with tension as the "demon astronaut " and Leaphorn go into deep psychological warfare. There are scenes that have tensions like Hitchcock. The old woman , the sheep's eyes, the depth and suspense, I don't want to do spoilers. Chee and the boy, the collar..good over evil. The movie, Shane comes to mind. The moon landing from the indigenous perspective. This is the episode that has a whole lot going on. Can't wait to see what happens next.

Way too slow

[berkinet · 4/10 · 14 August 2023]

With the 3rd episode, we advance the story in basically one way. We have now learned that there is a connection between the drill site and the Charlie family. So after 45 minutes of admittedly, beautiful, New Mexico, scenery, watching Emma and Joe continue to agonize over the loss of their son, overly dramatic music, and being lectured about the plight and the treatment of Native Americans, we are no closer to understanding what is going on, let alone how it's going to end up.

When you add the slow pace, to the destruction of these stories, as they were originally told, there is not much left here.