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Dark Winds: Season 2

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   Based on: 1970s & 80s Leaphorn & Chee novel series by Tony Hillerman Created by: Graham Roland Starring:  Zahn McClarnon (Joe Leaphorn), Kiowa Gordon (Jim Chee), Jessica Matten (Bernadette Manuelito),  Deanna Allison (Emma Leaphorn), Nicholas Logan (Colton Wolf)  Dark Winds  season 2 trailer: I jumped into Dark Winds  season 1 for a more in-depth glimpse at Indigenous culture and life. I then got sucked into the stories of three tribal police offers dealing with the trials of life on the Navajo Nation reservation.   The show centers on the perspectives of these officers as they tackle cases on their reservation such as smuggling and murder. As exciting as the actual crimes were, my true love for the series came simply from watching these three characters as they went about their lives and solved the cases, and seeing how their different levels of experience and degrees of loyalty to their own culture shaped their att...

Fate: Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works

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         Based on: 2004  Fate/stay night  visual novel developed by Japanese video game company Type-Moon Written by: Akira Hiyama, Kazuharu Sato, Tatsuki Ichinose Produced by: Ufotable  Starring:  (Note: due to a large cast of characters, multiple iterations, and separate English and Japanese actors, I'm only listing the primary characters to avoid excessive clutter) Japanese: Noriaki Sugiyama (Shirou Emiya), Ayako Kawasumi (Saber), Kana Ueda (Rin) English: Sam Riegel (Shirou Emiya), Kate Higgins (Saber), Mela Lee (Rin)  Fate: Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works  trailer:  This series is long and convoluted, but also rich in philosophy and mythology.  I'll jump right into a basic synopsis because it can be very complicated to discuss otherwise. Fate: Stay Night  (and other series in the "Fate" franchise) is about the Holy Grail War, an epic strategy game (battle?) where several different players (usually aristocra...