Reservation Dogs
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0.8 percent of 100 percent.
If one is the loneliest number, then how lonely is something less than one?
Its a way to make lonely people into invisible people.
Many of us arefinallyseeing Indigenous peoples represented publicly in an authentic way.
Like Diaz, I want to offer up some numbers to contextualize this weeks episode.
Native adults aged 1824 experience the highest rates of suicide higher than any other racial or ethnic group.
This crisis is the result of hundreds of years of genocide and colonization.
Its the tumultuous backdrop of Native life.
Shes also just been daydreaming, staring at a picture of California tacked to the wall.
Try as they might, the two passengers of the vehicle cant keep their trauma at bay.
Shortly after, the two arrive at a nearby hotel, and Bobson runs in, guns blazing.
Several gunshots and one busted taillight later, they speed off.
Another missing person casts a shadow over Elora and Coach Bobson: Eloras late mother, Cookie.
There, we find that the car accident Eloras mom died in was triggered by an intoxicated driver.
Its chilling news, especially given that it comes in the midst of Eloras own driving test.
Throughout the episode, we observe Elora as she tries to keep her grief at bay.
Its crushing when someone is there, and then like that, they are gone.
Theres before they died, and after, Bobson puts it to Elora, and ripples in between.
Daniel is impulsive, emotional, and stubborn … in other words, hes a teenage boy.
As the night wears on, he stops dancing with Elora and starts dancing by himself.
Daniel finally explodes when he bumps into a cowboy dancing, screaming and cursing before running out the door.
Daniel feels lonelyand invisible,and he feels as though theres nobody he can turn to.
Elora makes Daniel promise to text her, but in the end, he never does.
Later, she discovers him dead just outside the gangs hideout.
She must get out before the town swallows her whole.
But, sadly, thats just not the way things played out.
For those of us caught in these currents, its hard to grab hold of other castaways.
But we keep trying.
More numbers: Did you know that 73 percent of beach litter around the globe is plastic?
you’re free to thank the character Ansel (played by Matty Cardarople) for that one.
Bless this show for offering us some much-needed levity.
The last and perhaps the most important number to pay attention to is that theres onlyONEepisode ofReservation Dogsleft.
Whats going to happen?
Will Elora jump ship and join Jackies gang?
Will Bigfoot make another appearance, and will we learn if hes behind the spontaneous field catfish heads?
Will Willie Jack curse some more?
Okay, so that last one is pretty certain.
But I cant wait to see where we end up next!
