Reservation Dogs
What About Your Dad
TV Flash files “What About Your Dad” as hour 4 of 28 in the TV Flash guide — Reservation Dogs (2021–2023) on FX, season 1, episode 4, aired 2021-08-23, 24 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 28 in the Reservation Dogs guide, hour 4 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2021-08-23 (24 min). The listed hour before it is “Uncle Brownie” (S01E03). Next is “Come and Get Your Love” (S01E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The town gets ready for Bear's rapper father to come into town and perform at the local IHS conference.
Viewer FAQ
Where does What About Your Dad sit in the Reservation Dogs guide?
S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 28 — hour 4 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.
When did Reservation Dogs S01E04 air?
What About Your Dad aired 2021-08-23 and is listed at 24 minutes.
Where should I start?
Season one in rural Oklahoma. The teen ensemble and tonal freedom — grief, hustle, spirit guides — are the show; there is no skip-to-the-important-arc button.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi's Oklahoma teens for the freest tonal range on 2020s television: grief, hustle, spirit guides, and funerals sharing episodes without asking permission. Three complete seasons, Indigenous writers' room at the center, characters lived-in rather than explained.
Oklahoma Indigenous teens scrape, hustle, and mourn while planning escape and choosing home, and the tone does not ask a network for permission. Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi's FX series premiered August 9, 2021 on FX on Hulu, and made an Indigenous writers' room and cast the center of American comedy-drama. Devery Jacobs, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis, and Lane Factor lead a world that feels specific and unbound: spirit guides, heists, and funerals sharing episodes. Three seasons, 2021–2023,…
Filed against
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- D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Bear Smallhill
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- Paulina Alexis as Willie Jack
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- Lane Factor as Cheese
Lane Factor's Cheese ran with Reservation Dogs as Oklahoma teen weather — Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi's freest 2020s tonal range, grief and hustle and spirit guides sharing episodes without asking. Three complete seasons, Indigenous…