‘Dark Winds’ Just Went Full ‘Twin Peaks’ for Its Most Ambitious Episode

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Dark Winds Season 3, Episode 6.AMC’s acclaimed crime series, Dark Winds, has often employed aspects of magical realism in its storytelling. The series, which is based on the Leaphorn & Chee novels by Tony Hillerman, follows Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and his law enforcement colleagues as they investigate crimes within and near the Navajo Nation in the 1970s. Although its depictions of the period, area, and related issues are realistic and gritty, the series has also featured Joe and company encountering phenomena that border on the supernatural and can only really be explained by Native American spirituality and mythology.