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Season 4 Ends With a Shocking Murder

Season 4 Ends With a Shocking Murder

[This story contains spoilers from the Dark Winds season four finale, “Ni’ Hodisxos” (The Glittering World).] Heading into the final episode of Dark Winds season four, which aired Sunday, things were looking pretty bleak for Joe Leaphorn and Billie, the teenager he and the Navajo Tribal Police have been trying to protect all season long. Irene Vaggan (Franka Potente) proved to be a worthy adversary for Leaphorn, and an unpredictable one.  After abducting Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Billie (Isabel DeRoy-Olson) in the penultimate episode, Vaggan held them in her bunker as sort of a dollhouse family, trying to manipulate them into pretending the kind of filial bonds she’d never experienced. In the end, Joe’s quick thinking and observation allowed him to free Billie and himself and finally arrest Vaggan. He also unraveled Vaggan’s plot to have her boss, mobster Dominic McNair (Titus Welliver), cleared through false testimony. Chee (Kiowa Gordon), meanwhile, found healing from his ghost sickness after the whole community turned out for his ceremony. But just when it looked like Joe was ready …

‘Dark Winds’ Season 4 Premieres With Linda Hamilton Cameo

‘Dark Winds’ Season 4 Premieres With Linda Hamilton Cameo

[This story contains spoilers from the Dark Winds season four premiere, “Ko’Tsiitáá Álnééh” (Baptism by Fire).] If you weren’t sure how Dark Winds could possibly top the emotionally devastating events of season three — which saw Joe Leaphorn confront past trauma and face his wife’s decision to leave him, as Bernadette was betrayed while working for the Border Patrol and killed a man in self-defense — you were not alone. Kiowa Gordon, who plays Jim Chee, tells The Hollywood Reporter that’s right where he was: “It was really nice when I got the first couple of scripts for season four, because after season three, I was like, ‘What do we do after this? What are the writers going to cook up next?’ But it’s just been a joy to continue.” Adds Jessica Matten, who plays Bernadette, “That’s all due to the writers room, where they come up with these brilliant emotional moments that each character has, exploring different layers of their personalities. I get excited when I see the scripts.” THR caught up with Gordon …

George R.R. Martin Isn’t Finished

George R.R. Martin Isn’t Finished

In 2015, George R.R. Martin confessed to having two worries that would define his future and forever change the world of fantasy entertainment. We were having breakfast in San Francisco before HBO’s premiere event for Game of Thrones season five. Martin had been professionally writing sci-fi and fantasy fiction since his acclaimed debut novel, 1977’s Dying of the Light, and had attempted a stint as a staff writer on TV shows in Los Angeles in the 1980s before launching his bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire novels, which served as the basis for Thrones. His books took high fantasy tropes and combined them with a tale inspired by the brutal, R-rated history of politics and warfare in medieval Europe. Photographed by Daniel Prakopcyk Along the way, Martin had become a celebrity figure with a distinctive look, with his bushy white beard, fisherman’s cap, glasses and suspenders — like some 1920s steampunk Santa. Between bites of eggs Benedict, Martin said he couldn’t believe he was being parodied on South Park and Saturday Night Live. In …