In Screen Gab No. 40, 'Animal Kingdom' star Shawn Hatosy drops by before the series' final season, two new TV shows to watch and more.
as Navajo tribal cop Lt. Joe Leaphorn, embodying the casually heroic image Big only hoped to project. Rich with cultural detail, no less vital to the story for being presented incidentally, it’s a period piece as well, set in 1991, so no cellphones or GPS, but a lot of driving around and knocking on doors.
As Leaphorn’s wife, Emma, Deanna Allison gets threads of her own to pursue, though some are sure to tie back to the double homicide and an armored car robbery that are being investigated here. . The series makes political points — there are militant radicals in it — but there’s action, romance, domestic drama and comedy, and the Southwestern landscape and palette make it great to look at as well.