Darkish Winds is off to a robust launch at AMC.
The cabler right this moment introduced that it has ordered a second season of the Western noir crime thriller Darkish Winds.
Produced by AMC Studios, the six-episode second season will arrive on AMC+ and AMC subsequent yr.
The sequence premiere on June 12 attracted an viewers of two.2 million viewers on AMC in Nielsen reside+3 scores, turning into the #5 cable drama premiere of the present broadcast TV season.
Darkish Winds can also be the #1 new sequence launch in AMC+ historical past.
The sequence has a uncommon 100-point rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
“Set in 1971 on a distant outpost of the Navajo Nation close to Monument Valley, Darkish Winds follows Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police as he’s besieged by a sequence of seemingly unrelated crimes,” the logline reads.
“The nearer he digs to the reality, the extra he exposes the injuries of his previous. He’s joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee.”
“Chee, too, has previous scores to settle from his youth on the reservation.”
“Collectively, the 2 males battle the forces of evil, one another and their very own private demons on the trail to salvation.”
The sequence is predicated on the long-lasting Leaphorn & Chee guide sequence by Tony Hillerman.
“This once-in-a-lifetime inventive group and forged have delivered one thing actually particular with Darkish Winds,” mentioned Dan McDermott, president of leisure and AMC Studios for AMC Networks.
“We are able to’t wait to share the remainder of this thrill journey of a primary season with the followers and comply with Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee right into a second season on AMC and AMC+ subsequent yr.”
“Overwhelming gratitude to our whole manufacturing group and a particular due to govt producers Robert Redford, George R.R. Martin, Chris Eyre and naturally Zahn McClarnon, who additionally leads the forged and brings humanity, authority and the knowledge of richly lived experiences to all the things he does.”
Created and govt produced by Graham Roland (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Returned, Nearly Human, Fringe), the sequence stars McClarnon (The Son, Westworld, Fargo), who can also be an govt producer, Kiowa Gordon (The Pink Street, Roswell, New Mexico) and Jessica Matten (Tribal, The Empty Man, Frontier).
Govt producers are Robert Redford, George R.R. Martin, Anne Hillerman, Chris Eyre, Vince Calandra, Vince Gerardis, and Tina Elmo.
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