In its final season, the FX on Hulu comedy leaves a promising blueprint for TV’s future.
was unprecedented in form and theme when it premiered in 2021. It was a coming-of-age story, but by no means your typical teenage roller coaster. Its point of view was never exclusive to the enthusiasms of its eponymous quartet—Bear , Willie Jack , Elora , and Cheese —but grew to include a community bound by circumstance but comically divergent in temperament. Layered and vivid, world-building was the key to its magnetism, and that's what originally captivated me.
Native representation that neither flattens nor costumes itself in cartoonish mysticism is hard to come by. The lack of sincere Indigenous stories on TV only made creators Sterlin Harjo andwant to upend expectations. It’s why the show is never overly sentimental about life on the reservation. What it endeavors to explore, instead, is the romance of friendship—what brings people together and what breaks them apart.
Growing up in Okern means growing up with very little. Many of its residents are poor, working-class Natives, and for the Res Dogs, community becomes their bounty, even if it isn’t always entirely clear to them. In its first season, the death of their friend Daniel lingered like a ghost. It was Daniel’s dream to get off the reservation and move to California, and his suicide is what eventually inspires Elora to make good on his promise.
Across its three seasons, the series has focused on issues of friendship, family, and heritage with striking clarity. The absence of parental units—Bear’s deadbeat dad, Elora’s mom and grandmother—gave occasion to their personal ambitions. They're eager to fill a void. No one wants to get left behind or feel alone because they’ve all dealt with loss up close. They know how intimately it scars, and much of season 3 grapples with this fact.
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