Dark Winds Season 4 is now streaming on Netflix, giving crime drama fans a new weekend watchlist option from AMC’s acclaimed Western noir series. Set in the 1970s on a Navajo reservation spanning the Four Corners region, Dark Winds follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), Sgt. Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) and Sgt. Bernadette “Bern” Manuelito (Jessica Matten) as they investigate interconnected crimes across the reservation, confronting murder, corruption, personal demons and spiritual beliefs along the way.
Season 4 picks up after the dramatic events of the previous finale, with Joe facing the consequences of his own choices and considering retirement. Before he can step away, he commits to one last case: the disappearance of a Native teen who has run away from a Catholic boarding school.
Bern and Chee join the investigation, which eventually takes the trio beyond the reservation and all the way to 1970s Los Angeles, where they discover that a killer with ties to organised crime is searching for the same girl.
Season 4 also stars Deanna Allison, Isabel Deroy-Olson and Franka Potente. The series is adapted for television by Graham Roland and executive produced by George R. R. Martin and the late Robert Redford, with the Western noir based on Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee novel series.
There is already more Dark Winds on the way too, with AMC having renewed the series for Season 5 ahead of the Season 4 premiere. The fifth season is expected to arrive in 2027.
For CultureCues, Dark Winds is exactly the kind of streaming addition worth flagging. The series has always worked as a gripping, atmospheric psychological thriller, with Zahn McClarnon giving a standout performance at its centre. Season 4’s move into 1970s Los Angeles gives this new chapter another strong hook, so yes, this is going straight on the crime drama queue. Lights low. Phone ignored.
Dark Winds Season 4 is now streaming on Netflix.
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