Reservation Dogs
The Curse
TV Flash files “The Curse” as a desk essential hour — Reservation Dogs (2021–2023) on FX, season 2, episode 1, aired 2022-08-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 9 of 28 in the Reservation Dogs guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 2022-08-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Satvrday” (S01E08). Next is “Run” (S02E02).
Essential hour: “The Curse”. The Curse as season-two ignition: spirit-guide comedy still sharing the hour with funerals, the freest 2020s tonal mix refusing a prestige rinse.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
As the town recovers from the tornado aftermath, Willie Jack tries to reverse a curse.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Curse sit in the Reservation Dogs guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 9 of 28 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Reservation Dogs S02E01 air?
The Curse aired 2022-08-03 and is listed at 30 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
- Devery Jacobs as Elora Danan
Devery Jacobs’s Elora Danan gave Reservation Dogs its steel-and-grief center — Oklahoma teens, hustle, spirit guides, funerals sharing episodes without asking permission. Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, Indigenous writers’ room, three…
- D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Bear Smallhill
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai’s Bear Smallhill is Reservation Dogs’ grief-and-hustle engine — Oklahoma teens, spirit guides, funerals sharing episodes without asking permission. Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s 2020s comedy with an Indigenous…
- Paulina Alexis as Willie Jack
Paulina Alexis plays Willie Jack on Reservation Dogs, Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s 2020s Oklahoma teens with the freest tonal range on the decade’s television — grief, hustle, spirit guides, and funerals sharing episodes without…
- 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…