The Rez Dogs return home for a final confrontation of the soul. FX released the official Reservation Dogs Season 3 trailer on Thursday, teasing the last season of the hit show created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi. The series focuses on Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs), Bear Smallhill (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), and Cheese (Lane Factor), four Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma looking for purpose and opportunity in a world that’s often against them.
After spending two seasons gathering funds to travel to California in honor of their dead friend, Daniel (Dalton Cramer), the crew accomplished their mission but needed clarification about their next steps. In the Reservation Dogs Season 3, the foursome returns home. Well, except for Bear, who breaks from the group to embark on a soul-searching journey alongside the spirit of a long-passed warrior (Dallas Goldtooth) and a conspiracy theorist named Maximus (Graham Greene). Meanwhile, Elora begins looking at her schooling career. Willie Jack invests in his home community, and Bear’s mom, Rita 9Sarah Podmski) starts seeing the spirit of her dead friend Cookie.
Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), Zahn McClarnon, Gary Farmer, Wes Studi, Kaniehtiio Horn, Tamara Podemski, Jon Proudstar, Richard Ray Whitman, Kirk Fox, Jana Schmieding, Lil Mike, and FunnyBone also star as members of the cast.
While fans will surely miss Reservation Dogs, the decision to end the series came from Harjo, not FX. Harjo announced the show’s cancelation on Instagram, saying, “it’s the correct decision creatively for the show. I always knew what the end of this story would be, I just didn’t know when it would arrive. As we continued to break stories and write scripts this season, it became clear to the producers, Taika and me that the season three finale is the perfect series finale.”
The first two episodes of Reservation Dogs Season 3 premiere on Hulu on August 2, with the remaining eight episodes streaming on Wednesdays through September 27. Today’s Reservation Dogs Season 3 trailer promises an emotional end to the series, with separate paths laid out for each crew member. I’ll be there for the end of this incredible show. Will you? Let us know in the comments below.