Reservation Dogs, Sterlin Harjo’s FX comedy series about a quartet of Native teenagers living in Oklahoma, wrapped its third and final season this year, so the 2024 TV awards season marks its last shot at an Emmy. Over its first two critically acclaimed seasons, the show received only one nomination, for Best Sound Editing in 2023. This after TV critics and publications from The Hollywood Reporter to Rolling Stone were hailing Reservation Dogs as revelatory TV, often comparing its superior screenwriting and cinematography to Emmy juggernauts like Succession. Time named it the best show of 2021, the New York Times’ James Poniewozik called it the very best series of 2022, and all three seasons have shown up in Vulture’s rankings of the respective years’ best TV. Its finale was universally beloved, with every outlet from Variety to GQ (and yes, again, Vulture) remarking on how its pitch-perfect ending solidified its spot as one of the best shows in recent TV history.
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