12/7/2023 0 Comments Youth with you season 3 ep 14It’s Willie Jack who finally spills the beans on part of the plot, telling Big that “it all started at elder breakfast,” where she was serving as the plus-one for old man Fixico while “learning his wizard ways” (and scoring some free food in the process). Some kind of crime has been committed, and Big is intent on sorting out exactly what went down. “Send It,” primarily told through flashbacks of the “heist,” which has already happened, opens on a series of interrogations that Big is conducting with Elora, Bear, Cheese, Willie Jack, and several members of Jackie’s gang, including White Steve, Wheeze, and Bone Thug Dog. So: This week’s episode brings the story of Maximus to its conclusion by bringing the man home, but it’s no easy (or legal) feat to do so. How do we make it stop? And likewise, how do we take responsibility for our actions when we operate under conditions of constant stress? How do we call home all those things that have been missing (but were never lost) in an honorable and ethical way? And how do we make home an accommodating space for those who ran away? And all while living in a constant blast zone, as it were? Reservation Dogs can’t give us all the answers, but it offers moments of humor and relief as it models possible interventions. Through these interlocking narratives, Reservation Dogs has been asking an important question: How do we heal from a violence that has never ended? In her poem, “ I am graffiti,” Leanne Betasamosake Simpson writes of Indigenous Peoples, “We are the singing remnants / left over after / the bomb went off in slow motion over a century instead of a fractionated second.” As we’ve seen this season, the issues faced by the Rez Dogs are echoes of those faced by their parents and elders. Given how deeply interrelated each element is, it’s hard to point the finger at one particular moment or person as the source of a character’s trauma. We also know that such problems continue to plague Okern, given the tragedy surrounding Daniel, which was the focus of the last two seasons of the series. These schools, both IRL and within the world of the show, also led to decreased self-esteem, increased rates of suicide, and increased rates of drug use within communities. As we saw in the episode “ Deer Lady,” Residential schools severed the ties between elders and youth, and those relationships have only now started to be rebuilt. ![]() ![]() But they are not the only responsible parties. Back when Fixico was a young man on track to become a healer, Maximus claimed that his relative had repeatedly failed to acknowledge key differences in their upbringing, which for Maximus was a sign that Fixico was perhaps not yet ready or deserving of the acclaim the new position was garnering his relative.Įver since, Fixico and Maximus have held onto their grudge, each man bearing partial responsibility for their ongoing feud. And given that visitations of spirits and otherworldly beings are a fairly regular occurrence in Reservation Dogs, it feels like viewers are obliged to at least consider the possibility that aliens are “real” within the world of the series and believe that there’s a kernel of truth in what Maximus claims to have experienced.Įven before this, Maximus was already losing his faith in people because of a long-simmering beef between himself and his “cousin-brother” Fixico, whom, up until this season, we have known as “Old Man” Fixico, a healer who vends outside of the Indian Health Clinic. The extraterrestrial encounter drove a wedge between Maximus and his friends, as Bucky, Brownie, Irene, and Mabel dismissed the sighting as mere hallucination, whereas Maximus insisted that what he had experienced was real. This season, most episodes of Reservation Dogs have centered on the story of Maximus, a former Okern resident who was transformed into a recluse after a run-in with aliens (or, as he calls them, star people).
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