Jonathan Majors’ ‘Extreme Abuse’ Allegedly Goes Back Nearly a Decade And on the whole, the school feels much more vibrant and useful than the present-day one. And even if the structure of the place clashes with Native culture in assimilationist ways, there’s also no institutionalized abuse going on. Irene complains that the boarding school is inherently anti-Native, but the one teacher we meet is Native. (*) The episode’s opening scenes at the school provide an interesting contrast to both the glimpses we’ve seen of Bear and the others in school, and to the monstrous place that gave birth to Deer Lady. He and Mabel are growing close, but he still feels at a remove from the rest of the group, and often seems more comfortable interacting with them through the lens of his movie camera than simply talking. It’s his story that’s central to “House Made of Bongs.” For all the Seventies atmosphere (including a killer soundtrack that avoids repeating the same hits you hear in every movie and show set in this era), the episode is ultimately a sad origin story for the mentally unstable loner Bear met in “Maximus.” He wants nothing to do with Fixico, to the point where he would rather spend the summer living in his boarding school dorm(*) than stay with his extended family. And Maximus never got to be either a filmmaker or the patriarch of a huge family. Mabel got to be a mama like she wanted, and then a grandma, but she also suffered a huge loss along the way when Elora’s mother died. But Irene thinks about political activism, and instead is still hanging around Okern. The Brownie of today is essentially the Brownie of 1976, and that guy doesn’t seem to want anything more. Bucky, for instance, wants to do great things with science, but close to 50 years later, he’s a folk artist who sleeps on benches, and whose connection to physics comes mainly from reading books about string theory. More importantly, it’s valuable to see characters we know so we can better understand the limits of both their dreams, and of the 2023 characters. As it is, rez life in America’s bicentennial year looks less sparse than what we see of contemporary Okern, where it often seems as if Bear’s crew and Jackie’s are the only teenagers to be found. But nothing on Reservation Dogs is ever purely coincidental, and one of the recurring motifs of the show is about how small the reservation feels. It could feel contrived that all of this episode’s significant characters are Muppet Babies versions of the show’s elders - and that Bear and Maximus are connected by more than just the former randomly stumbling onto the latter’s property. Plus, we see that Maximus is estranged from his cousin Fixico (Josiah Wesley Jones), who will age into the medicine man who hangs out in front of the clinic. If Mabel is around, that of course means we get a teenage version of Uncle Brownie (Nathan Alexis), and the crew is rounded out by Mato Wayuhi as a younger Bucky, the would-be physicist played in the present-day by Wes Studi. Mabel’s best friend is Irene (Quannah Chasinghorse), aka Cheese’s fake grandmother and current guardian. So Maximus - or Chebon, as he prefers to be called at this age - is crushing hard on Mabel (Shelby Factor), who will later become Elora Danan’s grandmother. It is 1976 in Okern, and the last day of school for the teenage Maximus (Isaac Arellanes) and his friends - who are, conveniently, all younger versions of characters we already know. We no longer need to imagine it, though, as “House Made of Bongs” fully embraces the idea, giving us a version of this series cross-pollinated with Dazed and Confused. He accuses her of affixing her own agenda and preconceived notions to his problems, and when she asks him what's bugging him so much, he replies, "You are.This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, “House Made of Bongs,” now streaming on Hulu.Įarlier this season, Bear’s new friend Maximus showed him home movies from Maximus’ own teenage years, and it was hard to look at those images and not imagine a Seventies version of Reservation Dogs. Gina alludes that his failing marriage may have to do with the erotic transference he's experiencing with Laura. She recalls that he was very angry the last time he visited her – he even skipped an important funeral – and she asks what role he's assigned her: friend, colleague, therapist? Paul explains that he's arguing with Kate and often doesn't know where she is. He quotes one of Gina's old lessons that therapists need an audience to see how cleverly they deal with their patients, but Gina corrects him, saying she meant therapists require criticism. He explains that he's having problems with his patients and runs through his outburst with Jake and Laura's feelings toward him. When Paul arrives at Gina's after a long period of no contact, she offers him a drink – and then tells him that he's sitting in her chair.
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