Sign up for More to the Story, TIME’s weekly entertainment newsletter, to get the context you need for the pop culture you love. Kiowa Gordon and Jessica Matten in 'Dark Winds' Michael Moriatis/Stalwart Productions/AMC And it’s clear that the detective has some unpleasant history with her family. The only witness is the woman’s grandmother, a blind healer who is so traumatized by the incident that she can’t even answer questions about it. A Navajo cop played with melancholic decency by the great Zahn McClarnon (recently seen in Reservation Dogsand as Westworld’s haunting Ghost Nation leader Akecheta), he is investigating the motel-room murders of an elderly man and a young woman from the community. While the heist makes for quite a spectacle, it’s a second violent crime, committed weeks later, that consumes the attention of Detective Joe Leaphorn. ![]() The fact that it is gives the show resonance far beyond its overcrowded genre. Dark Winds, whose six-episode first season premieres June 12 on AMC and AMC+, would be a remarkable crime drama-at a time when unremarkable ones dominate television-even if it wasn’t a groundbreaking showcase for Native talent. This isn’t a common backdrop for the kind of TV epic whose elaborate action sequences run up a tab of $5 million per episode neither do its overwhelmingly Native American cast and crew fit the profile of the typical storyteller Hollywood sees fit to bless with such a generous budget. But the journey has taken us to the show’s true setting: the Navajo Nation. We won’t find out, right away, where the helicopter ends up. A gunfight ensues, the masked bandits make off with the money, and as the helicopter ascends, the generic cityscape gives way to panoramic shots of the golden, butte-studded vistas surrounding Monument Valley. ![]() One of its occupants hops out and throws a bomb under the van the explosion lifts the vehicle’s back end into the air like the hind legs of a bucking bronco. Suddenly, a helicopter descends, blocking the road in front of them. Two uniformed guards emerge from Gallup Savings & Loans, in the small city of Gallup, New Mexico, lugging padlocked bags stuffed with cash, which they load into an armored van before driving off. Dark Winds, the latest crime drama from AMC, opens with a heist scene worthy of a summer blockbuster.
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