AMC Networks Renews Dark Winds Again

AMC Networks has renewed the drama Dark Winds for a third season, with a target premiere date of early 2025.

Season two recently concluded on AMC and AMC+, and season one is currently being featured on Max as part of a two-month programming pop-up of select AMC Networks shows on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service. The series stars Zahn McClarnon (The Son, Westworld, Fargo), Kiowa Gordon (The Red Road, Roswell, New Mexico) and Jessica Matten (Tribal, Burden of Truth).

In the show’s second season, Lt. Joe Leaphorn (McClarnon) reunites with Jim Chee (Gordon) when their separate cases bring them together in pursuit of the same suspect. They find themselves in the high desert of Navajo Country chasing a killer who’s turned his sights on them to protect a secret that rips open old wounds and challenges Leaphorn’s moral and professional code.

Based on the Leaphorn & Chee book series by Tony Hillerman, Dark Winds is created by Graham Roland (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Returned, Almost Human, Fringe).

More than 90 percent of the production team on both sides of the camera for season two were Indigenous.

“We started this journey with very high hopes for this series, given the remarkable source material and extraordinary creative team behind it, and it has delivered on every level,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. “From the beloved novels to an incredibly collaborative producing team that includes Robert Redford, George R. R. Martin, showrunner John Wirth and star Zahn McClarnon, to the entire cast and crew, there is so much storytelling yet to come in this universe. Thanks to the fans for embracing this series and the critics for celebrating and shining a light on it.”