According to AMC Networks, Dark Winds has been renewed for a fourth season, ahead of its upcoming Season 3 premiere. The critically acclaimed noir drama’s third season, consisting of eight episodes, is set to debut on March 9, 2025, on AMC and AMC+.
AMC also reports that production for the fourth season is scheduled to begin in March 2025 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The new season will also feature eight hour-long episodes and is slated to premiere on AMC and AMC+ in 2026. Notably, series star and executive producer Zahn McClarnon (Into the West) will make his directorial debut in the upcoming season
Dark Winds stars Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon (The Red Road), Jessica Matten (Frontier, Tribal) and Deanna Allison (The Batman). The show follows Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and his team as they solve mysteries in the Navajo Nation during the 1970s. Season 3 will pick up six months after the events of Season 2, with Leaphorn (McClarnon) and Chee (Gordon) investigating the disappearance of two boys, while Bernadette Manuelito (Matten) encounters a conspiracy involving human and drug smuggling.
President of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, Dan McDermott, stated, “When we greenlit the first season of Dark Winds, we saw the potential for an authentic and long-running franchise that could live alongside the worlds we were building around The Walking Dead and Anne Rice…fans have embraced this series on AMC/ AMC+ and made it a top 10 show on Netflix for a solid month last fall. There is so much great storytelling yet to come in these expanded third and fourth seasons.”
Fans can catch up on the first two seasons of Dark Winds on AMC+ and via the AMC Collection on Netflix. Additionally, AMC will air a Dark Winds After Dark programming event from March 3-7, featuring catch-up airings of the first two seasons at midnight.