Dark Winds: Season 1

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It does not take very long for a dark wind to appear in this 1970s-set murder mystery. We first meet the Navajo Nation cop Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) out in the middle of the parched plains of Monument Valley as he compels a sweaty white biker to dig a hole that looks like a grave. Could this be a prelude to some old-school frontier justice? A bullet to the skull, a body swallowed by the desert?

Dark Winds’ seeks true storytelling Navajo mystery series ‘Dark Winds’ seeks true storytelling

verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ This article was amended on 19 October 2023. A previous version said that Dark Winds was available to stream in the UK on UKTV Play, which is not the case. It has taken a while for Dark Winds to come to the UK – season two broadcast in the US earlier this year, with a third in the works – but its arrival seems well timed. This week also sees the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, another sobering story about the government failing to act when Native Americans are murdered, either through callousness, incompetence or both. Despite being set in the 1970s, Dark Winds feels like a useful companion piece, one that suggests an uncomfortable question 50 years on: for Native Americans seeking justice for murder, is the situation materially different today?