- The Red Road completed its six-episode run—will it be back?
The Red Road, or “Chanku Luta,” is a (mostly) Lakota belief in a “right path”—a kind of code of conduct that’s difficult to define, let alone adhere to. Its purported to have lent its name to The Red Road, a SundanceTV drama created by writer/executive producer Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners) that aims to dramatize the twists and turns, but leaves its audience pondering the road not taken.
The supporting cast, which includes Tamara Tunie and Tom Sizemore, is great and has plenty to do, but the Harold-Phillip standoff/dichotomy is clearly at the heart of the show. Henderson is better here than in anything I’ve ever seen him in before (which, admittedly, is just The Ring and a Britney Spears video), but Momoa (Conan the Barbarian, and freaking Game of Thrones) is the standout. The show suffers when Henderson is asked to do the dramatic heavy lifting, because he often just looks panicked, and the Harold character is mostly one-dimensional. But as Phillip, Momoa manages to be engaging, intimidating, and pitiable, often in the same episode.
