For years, Dark Winds has been one of AMC‘s most popular series, critically acclaimed and popular with audiences. Sounds like it should be a surefire certainty for renewal constantly, right? Well, in today’s day and age, nothing is guaranteed. Luckily for us, AMC has seen sense.
Season 4, which premieres Sunday, February 15 at 9 PM ET/PT on AMC and AMC+, sees the story expand beyond the Navajo Nation. This time, Lt. Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, and Bernadette Manuelito are drawn into the search for a missing Navajo girl. Their investigation pulls them from their familiar territory into the rough streets of 1970s Los Angeles as they race against time to stop an obsessive killer with ties to organized crime. The series stars Zahn McClarnon as Lt. Joe Leaphorn, Kiowa Gordon as Jim Chee, Jessica Matten as Bernadette Manuelito, with Franka Potente appearing in Season 4 as a key antagonist.
Ahead of the Season 4 premiere, AMC Networks has renewed Dark Winds for a fifth season. The new installment will consist of eight hour-long episodes and is set to begin filming in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this March, with a planned debut in 2027. The early renewal is a strong vote of confidence for the series, which has earned critical acclaim and a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes for its first three seasons. Executive producers include the late Robert Redford and George R. R. Martin, bringing a serious storytelling pedigree behind the camera.
How Good Is ‘Dark Winds’?
Collider‘s Michael John Petty wrote in his review that Dark Winds Season 3 continued to prove why the AMC series stood apart in an overcrowded field of crime dramas:
“Frankly, it’s hard to find things about a show like Dark Winds to nitpick. The longer season may contribute to a bit of an uneven pace, and it (at first) feels strange that Bernadette is so separated from the rest of the cast. Indeed, certain elements of each respective mystery could have been condensed, offering audiences a more easily digestible plot. However, more Dark Winds is never a bad thing. The show is clearly well-crafted by showrunner John Wirth and the rest of the writers, who have well-succeeded in their construction of a mystery series that continuously lives up to the hype.”
Dark Winds is streaming now on AMC+ and will return for Season 4 on February 15.
via Collider