Watch the trailer for the new Taika Waititi comedy ‘Reservation Dogs’

We have a full trailer for the new Taika Waititi TV series Reservation Dogs, which is due for release on August 9th on FX on Hulu.

Fresh from sending social media into a frenzy after being spotted in a ménage à trois with Tessa Thompson and Rita Ora, Waititi’s getting back to business.

With a title that sounds like a play on Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, the coming-of-age comedy follows the lives of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma, as they spend their days committing crime as well as fighting it. The trailer begins with the friends stealing a truck full of chips as they desperately try to raise the money to fund their dreams of making it to California.

Waititi created the series alongside Sterling Harjo, a Native American filmmaker whose films have all been set in his native Oklahoma and concerned with the Native American people. It also follows the recent Peacock comedy Rutherford Falls which was also about Native American themes and had an Indigenous show runner (Sierra Teller Ornelas).

The cast is led by D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Creeped Out) as Bear, Devery Jacobs (American Gods) as Elora Danan, Paulina Alexis (Beans) as Willie Jack, and newcomer Lane Factor as Cheese. The cast is rounded out with guests including Tamara Podemski, Zahn McClarnon, Macon Blair, Kirk Fox, Matty Cardarople, Dallas Goldtooth, Lil Mike and Funny Bone.

Waititi has previous with FX as it’s the home for the TV remake of his hilarious vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, which is currently scheduled to debut its third season later this year, so things bode well then. The Kiwi director also just finished filming the Marvel blockbuster Thor: Love and Thunder, the sequel to 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok.

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