Reservation Dogs boss Sterlin Harjo has opened up about season 2's heartbreaking finale.
In an interview with Vulture, the showrunner talked about the final episode and how they landed on the idea of sending the gang to California.
"Always with the finale, you're rewriting it right up until the end because so many of the other episodes inform it," Harjo said. "But I knew I didn't want to have this California-Daniel thing be an idea they just kept moving toward."
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"It'd be cheap to keep doing that. It was expected but unexpected. It was a good way to end their journey and a good way to open up a new chapter," he added.
He also talked about how they reached their chosen ending and what it was like to shoot the water scenes.
"The more we went through the season, the simpler it got. For a while it was like, they're in L.A.! Fish out of water! They're in Venice! Then it became: let's get them to the ocean. It should be about performance and about them talking to Daniel," he explained.
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"I think it was amazing what they did. It was really hard shooting in the water like that, but they pulled it off. I was running around soaking wet, and at one point I was directing and was behind the cameras and the tide was down and all of a sudden it just lifted me off the ground. It was wild," he added.
He also teased what we could see next.
"Next season, whatever they're dealing with will change into something else. Daniel will always be there, but it's been a year. The hard part of the mourning feels like it's coming to a place where they’ve moved through it."
Reservation Dogs airs on Hulu in the US, and Disney+ in the UK.
