Follows Leaphorn and Chee, two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest that are forced to challenge their own spiritual beliefs when they search for clues in a double murder case.Follows Leaphorn and Chee, two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest that are forced to challenge their own spiritual beliefs when they search for clues in a double murder case.Follows Leaphorn and Chee, two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest that are forced to challenge their own spiritual beliefs when they search for clues in a double murder case.
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- 6 wins & 6 nominations
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- TriviaWith production booming in New Mexico, the Tesuque Pueblo reservation converted its 1950s-era gambling destination into Camel Rock Studios, booking AMC's 'Dark Winds' as its first high-profile project.
- GoofsThe Buffalo Society use of a painting to move the money to Devoted Dan doesn't make any sense. Doing so opened them to the possibility that the painting could be lost, as it was when the Mormon family bought it. It also ran the risk that the shopkeeper, or someone else, would notice them coming in repeatedly to buy the painting, that someone at the car dealership would notice someone repeatedly handing over the painting, and require them to pay the painter hush money. They could have just brought the cash openly and directly to Devoted Dan.
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Sheriff Gordo Sena: Last few years... life's gotten cheap. The monsters ain't just in the shadows. They're in broad damn daylight. Country's got the devil in it, Joe, and no one is calling him to account, which you know... more than most.
- ConnectionsVersion of The Dark Wind (1991)
I admit that I am old and well steeped in the Leaphorn and Chee tradition from the excellent novels and the Robert Redford PBS American Masterpiece programs so this version- which discards the most basic elements in favor of superficial oh so predictable plot progression and politically correct characters that this is thin gruel indeed.
Joe Leaphorn is NOT Joe Leaphorn. Bernie is NOT Bernie. And Jim Chee is from another universe altogether. It could be that everything was changed to make the series more palatable to a younger audience which has not experienced the richness of the novels from Tony Hillerman and continued by his daughter Anne, but there is no there, there and Jim Chee is NOT Jim Chee- not even close.
Maybe as a stand alone with new names for the characters it might work, but it plods and skims along the surface of something that has great potential to tell a great story.
I hope that those new to the Lephorn Chee Manuelito canon might take the time to read or listen to the books as written by the Hillermans, both father and daughter there is much to be drawn from them and, in my opinion, provide a much greater return for the time invested.
- wmrfisher
- Jan 27, 2023
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