How ‘Dark Winds’ Channeled David Lynch to Create a Fever Dream Explaining Joe Leaphorn’s Generational Trauma

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for “Dark Winds” Season 3, Episode 6, titled “Ábidoo’niidęę (What He Had Been Told)” streaming now on AMC.

Throughout season 3 of “Dark Winds,” Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) has been seeing monsters, particularly Ye’iitsoh, the Navajo creature known as Big Giant. He’s haunted by killing wealthy villain B.J. Vines (John Diehl) in Season 2, and the Ye’iitsoh has been plaguing him.

At the end of last week’s episode, he had another encounter with the Ye’iitsoh – but was he hallucinating or was it real? Episode 6 delves into Joe’s past and explains it shaped his character.

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