News from AMC as Dark Winds renewed for season 5 — season 4 airs later this month
As announced, Dark Winds Season 5, which begins filming in Santa Fe, New Mexico in March, will consist of eight, hour-long episodes set to debut in 2027.
Dark Winds renewed for season 5 — what else do we know
Executive produced by Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin and acheiving a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score for its first three seasons, Dark Winds stars Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon (The Red Road, Roswell, New Mexico), Jessica Matten (Rez Ball, Tribal, Burden of Truth) and Deanna Allison (Accused, Edge of America) and follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn (McClarnon), Jim Chee (Gordon) and Bernadette Manuelito (Matten) of the Navajo Tribal Police solving mysteries on their reservation as it is besieged by increasingly violent crimes in the 1970s. Viewers can watch the first three seasons on AMC+ and via The AMC Collection on Netflix.
The gripping fourth season focuses on the search for a missing Navajo girl, which takes Leaphorn (McClarnon), Chee (Gordon) and Manuelito (Matten) from the safety of Navajo Nation to the gritty terrain of 1970s Los Angeles in a race against the clock to save her from an obsessive killer with ties to organised crime. It premieres Sunday, February 15 at 9pm ET/PT, exclusively on AMC and AMC+ with new episodes airing weekly on Sundays. We assume it will arrive on Netflix in the UK at some stage.
Each season also sees a prominent roster of guest stars, which for Season 4 includes Franka Potente (Run Lola Run, The Bourne Supremacy) as Irene Vaggan; Isabel DeRoy-Olson (Fancy Dance) as Billie Tsosie, a decisive and resourceful Navajo teenager who wants nothing more than the freedom to connect with her people outside of her boarding school but quickly finds herself in over her head with only her cunning and resilience keeping her alive; Chaske Spencer (The Twilight Saga, Blindspot) as Sonny, a recruiter for a Los Angeles crime ring who through his charm and menace lure young Native American men recently relocated to the city from their reservations into a life of crime; Luke Barnett (The Crossing Over Express) as FBI Special Agent Toby Shaw who arrives searching for answers to a mystery involving one of his friends, and Titus Welliver (Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, Ricky, Abraham’s Boys) as Dominic McNair, a ruthless crime boss who imports and exports drugs and stolen luxury goods into and out of Los Angeles. Season 4 also sees the return of A. Martinez (Longmire, Days of Our Lives) as Scarborough Police Department Acting Chief Gordo Sena.