Months after Dark Winds concluded its third chapter on AMC, the gripping season is headed to another streaming home in the U.S. this month. Season 3 of the 100% RT crime drama premiered on March 9, 2025, and ended after eight episodes on April 27. However, ahead of its premiere, much to fans’ delight, the series was renewed for a fourth season, which currently doesn’t have an exact release date, though filming was scheduled to begin earlier in March amid Season 3’s run.
As fans await more details about Dark Winds’ fourth season, they can also revisit the most recent episodes of the 1970s-set noir on Netflix, which already streams Seasons 1 and 2. With that, reports confirm that Dark Winds Season 3 —which adapts two Tony Hillerman novels, Dance Hall of the Dead (1973) and The Sinister Pig (2003)— lands on Netflix on October 27, 2025. The season also marks Robert Redford’s final onscreen performance, playing a prisoner in the Navajo police station alongside fellow executive producer, Game of Thrones’ George R.R. Martin, with the duo appearing together in a 30-second cameo during the premiere episode.
For those who missed out on the installment’s epic run on AMC, the synopsis teases that it picks up six months after the events of Season 2 and follows Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee as they investigate the disappearance of two boys, with only an abandoned bicycle and a blood-stained patch of ground left in their wake. Meanwhile, Bernadette Manuelito attempts to settle into her new life hundreds of miles from home with the Border Patrol, but stumbles across a conspiracy involving human and drug smuggling with far-reaching implications.
Who Stars in ‘Dark Winds’ Season 3?
Zahn McClarnon returns in the third season of the psychological thriller as Joe Leaphorn and is joined by fellow main players, Kiowa Gordon portraying Jim Chee and Jessica Matten as Bernadette Manuelito. Also back for Dark Winds Season 3 are Deanna Allison as Emma Leaphorn, A Martinez as Gordo Sena, and Jeri Ryan as Rosemary Vines. New additions in the season include Raoul Max Trijillo, Tonantzin Carmelo, Alex Meraz, and Christopher Heyerdahl, among others.
Dark Winds Season 3 debuts on Netflix in a few weeks. Stay tuned to Collider to find out more.
Release Date
June 12, 2022
Network
AMC
Directors
Michael Nankin
Writers
John Wirth, Steven Judd, Max Hurwitz, Rhiana Yazzie, Thomas Brady, DezBaa’