This just in: The STW Daily News Round Up featuring all the streaming news that’s fit to (digitally) print for Friday, July 8th, 2022. FX’s Reservation Dogs drops a trailer for season two and Night Sky gets surprise cancellation notice.
Related: Streaming Wars: Where Is The Industry Going Now (2023)?
Reservation Dogs Gets A New Trailer
FX has released an official trailer for Season Two of Reservation Dogs, Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo’s acclaimed comedy about four Native American teenagers grieving the death of their mutual friend. The show follows the friend group as they navigate life on the rez as teens taking on adult responsibilities and grappling with adult emotions.
The show charts the Rez Dogs’s journey of self-discovery, initially a journey taken as a group, but increasingly as individuals. As each member branches out on their own, the show touches on a universal experience: the heartbreak of childhood friendships eroding coupled with the exhilaration of starting down a new path all on your own.
The new season finds the group split as Elora has embarked on road trip to California with frenemy Jackie. Meanwhile, back on the rez, everyone else is stepping out on their own while being questioned mercilessly by adults about their love lives (or lack thereof).
Devory Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Lane Factor, and Paulina Alexis return as the core foursome while Deadline reports that Megan Mullally and Marc Maron will guest star in the new season.
Season 2 of Reservation Dogs premieres on Hulu on August 3. The first season is streaming now.
Good Night to Night Sky
Amazon Prime has announced that it has cancelled otherworldly drama Night Sky after only one eight-episode run. Starring J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek as a retired couple whose backyard contains a doorway to another dimension, the promising show offered the perfect combination of intrigue and actor chemistry as the two vets skillfully played off of one another.
In the show, Simmons and Spacek are the Yorks, an older couple with a long-held secret: There’s a portal to a far-off desert world underneath their backyard shed. They’ve been aware of the wormhole for years and have always been able to keep its existence secret…until a mysterious man appears in their lives one day and proceeds to stir up trouble.
It’s a very promising premise, high-concept though it is, and the eight episodes viewers have seen solidly delivered on that promise.
In addition to putting the kibosh on such a promising premise, the cancellation is also a big bummer for viewers who got sucked in by the show’s mystery. Night Sky is very much a puzzle box show that only had parts of its puzzle (very slowly) revealed in the existing eight episodes, and now anyone who got invested in the story of the York family is just going to have to be satisfied with everything remaining an enigma.
Or maybe some streamer somewhere will pick it up for, at the very least, a two-hour feature that reveals all the pieces of the Night Sky puzzle and puts them together in a way that is satisfactory for intrigued fans.