‘Reservation Dogs’ Co-Creator on How Robert Altman’s ‘Nashville’ Inspired the Series Finale
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “Reservation Dogs” ended its three-season run on Wednesday with a funeral — but also with a lot of joy.
In bringing almost all of the show’s characters into one place for one final gathering, co-creator Sterlin Harjo said his goal was to show how “Reservation Dogs” was much bigger than just the kids at its heart. “It’s not just for kids on the rez,” Harjo told Variety. “It is their whole community.
And we see that by going back into the past with some of the elders. We see that by learning more about the other characters.
I wanted to illustrate that in the finale, which is all of them coming together for a goodbye to one of their own.” As the episode (“Dig,” written by Chad Charlie and Harjo) draws to a close, the town celebrates as they pay tribute to the passing of Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman). “I thought that it would be the way to show the beauty of this community, in one episode with all of the characters,” Harjo said. “Everything you see on that episode is something that my community does [when someone dies].
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