FX ‘s sorely overlooked series Reservation Dogs delivered some of the best storytelling TV has to offer, thanks in part to star, writer, and director Devery Jacobs who, as Elora Danan rose to the occasion for the show’s third and final season later last year. Created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, the series opened with a group of Indigenous youth — Elora, Bear ( D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai ), Willie Jack ( Paulina Alexis ), and Cheese ( Lane Factor ) — living on an Oklahoma reservation where they were dealing with the aftermath of their friend Daniel’s (Dalton Cramer) suicide. As the series progressed, the pals moved through their grief, making the long trek to California where they let Daniel go, and begin to think about the next chapters of their lives.
For Elora, that means exploring her future career through schooling, but to get to that next step, she must face a mystery from her past by uncovering the identity of her father. Grappling with the reality of learning her dad is a white man named Rick Miller, it is financial aid forms that send her in his direction, unveiling one of the show’s most pleasantly surprising guest appearances from Ethan Hawke who is currently set to headline Harjo’s The Sensitive Kind . TV Insider caught up with Jacobs, who along with starring in the episode opposite Hawke, also wrote the dialogue they share onscreen in the unique entry.
“When writing this episode, I knew that Sterlin Harjo wanted to pay homage to the Before Sunr.
