After three seasons, FX‘s “Reservation Dogs” will come to an end. Series creator Sterlin Harjo announced the news on his Instagram account today, and FX also sent a press statement about the show ending. The news comes before the third season of “Reservation Dogs” premieres this August.
“Here it is: the coming third season of Reservation Dogs will be the final season,” Harjo wrote on his Instagram post. “That’s a difficult line to write and a more difficult decision to make. However, it’s the correct decision creatively for the show. I always knew what the end of this story would be, I just didn’t know when it would arrive. As we continued to break stories and write scripts this season, it became clear to the producers, Taika [Waititi] and me that the season three finale is the perfect series finale. When we came up with the idea for “Reservation Dogs,” I didn’t think the show would ever get made, but thankfully it did.”
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Created by Harjo and Waititi, “Reservation Dogs” follows four Indigenous teenagers who live on a reservation in rural Oklahoma. After the death of another friend, Devery Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis, and Lane Factor hatch a plan to commit petty crimes to wrangle enough cash to live out their departed friend’s dream of moving to California. But after some initial success, the pack disbands, with each member of the group going their own way in the reservation community.  Sarah Podemski, Zahn McClarnon, Dallas Goldtooh, and Gary Farmer also star.
“The first and most basic idea for us as Native people, was to show the world that Native humor and Natives are funny,” Harjo continued. “Almost all television and film depictions about Native people are most inaccurate. And most of them have been untruthful. It has been a gift to us to show the world a different perspective of Indigenous people and our culture. Most important of all, it has been a dream to collaborate and make a show that is entirely written by, directed by and stars Native people. These are our stories, and they represent our people. We know it’s an enormous responsibility and we don’t take that lightly.”
Here’s FX’s press statement about “Reservation Dogs” ending:
People throw around the words historic and groundbreaking far too often and without merit: Reservation Dogs is worthy of those superlatives. Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi created one of the most important TV shows ever made. They gave the world a wholly unique, original, and honest portrayal of Native people—one that has never before been seen in television or film.
It’s difficult to say goodbye to these indelible characters and to an award-winning series that The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Variety and Vulture named The Best Show of 2022. That said, we support Sterlin and Taika’s decision to end the series in a way that will cement its legacy.
We, along with our partners at Hulu, are forever grateful to the producers, writers, directors, cast, crew and the Native land and communities in eastern Oklahoma who collaborated to make this masterpiece. While we’re sad to see the show come to an end, we’re excited for Sterlin, Taika and Garrett Basch to continue to tell stories for FX. And Rez Dogs fans, we hope you share our excitement and anticipation for the coming season.
The third and final season of “Reservation Dogs” premieres on FX on August 2.