We’ve been watching the AMC TV series Dark Winds which just premiered its second season. It is loosely based on characters - Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, Bernadette Manuelito - created by Tony Hillerman in a well-known series of police procedural books set in the 1970s Navajo reservation.
Navajo Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn is played by Zahn McClarnon who memorably played the tribal police chief in the Longmire series. We read the Hillerman books years ago and now are enjoying the series which uses a whole season of six episodes to tell a single story in much the same way as the Jack Ryan series does.
Younger viewers will probably be struck by the absence of cell phones, the old cars, and the police carrying revolvers instead of automatics. Sadly, these look quite normal to us seniors who remember the 70s clearly.
