‘Reservation Dogs’ Season 2 Confronts the ‘What Now?’ with Characteristic Confidence and Singular Style: TV Review

variety.com:

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThere’s a desperate restlessness at the heart of the first, fantastic season of “Reservation Dogs.” Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s FX series, which premiered last August, kept a watchful eye out for the strange, and strangely beautiful, moments woven into each hazy day for four best friends reeling from the sudden death of their fifth.

It took no time at all to understand Bear (D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai), Elora (Devery Jacobs), Cheese (Lane Factor) and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), nor to slip into the show’s world where the banal could meet the surreal at any given moment.The same holds true in Season 2, which opens just hours after Elora’s not only skipped town with laconic bully Jackie (Elva Guerra) and all their money, but has also left a furious, confused Bear behind.

The implosion of the group’s California dream, seemingly the only thing keeping them going after such an inexplicable tragedy, introduces a new kind of movement to the show that keeps it from becoming too much of a Season 1 retread.

Now that the fantasy of leaving their Oklahoman reservation behind has been left in the dust — or, for Elora as she stubbornly chases it, now looks nothing like the image she had in mind for so long — the Res Dogs have to figure out what the rest of their lives might look like in actual reality.