Dark Winds Season 4 Trailer: Titus Welliver Joins Cast as Crime Boss

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Published Jan 27, 2026, 3:33 PM EST

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Death hangs heavy over Dark Winds in the newly released trailer for the neo-Western’s fourth season. Familiar faces return, dangerous new adversaries step into the spotlight, and the stakes feel higher than ever in the George R.R. Martin–produced AMC series. Season 4 is set to premiere on AMC and AMC+ on February 15, 2026.

The trailer opens with longtime Navajo police officer Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) reflecting on a hunt — a moment where the deer he tracked seemed to understand, just seconds before the shot, that its end had arrived. That haunting thought lingers as Leaphorn faces a turbulent chapter in his own life, now separated from his wife Emma (Deanna Taushi Allison). Meanwhile, Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) and Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) stand on the edge of finally confronting the feelings they’ve been circling for seasons — if they survive long enough to act on them.

Their latest investigation may be their most dangerous yet. When a teenage girl vanishes from her boarding school, the search spirals into a massacre at a roadside diner and stretches all the way to the unforgiving streets of 1970s Los Angeles. There, Leaphorn and his team come face to face with a ruthless crime boss, played by Bosch's Titus Welliver, and a deadly survivalist. This time around, Dark Winds makes one thing painfully clear: not everyone is guaranteed to make it out alive.

Is 'Dark Winds' Worth Watching?

Collider's Michael John Petty wrote in his review that Dark Winds Season 3 continued to prove why the AMC series stood apart in an overcrowded field of crime dramas, delivering its most confident and emotionally charged chapter yet. Set in 1970s Navajoland, the season deepened its central mystery while pushing its characters into darker, more personal territory. Zahn McClarnon delivered a career-best performance as Joe Leaphorn, whose buried guilt and moral code collided in a storyline defined by haunting imagery and psychological tension. Jessica Matten and Kiowa Gordon also shone, with Bernadette Manuelito navigating dangerous new ground away from the Rez and Jim Chee emerging as the connective tissue holding the season together. Though the expanded episode count led to minor pacing issues, the series’ commitment to character, culture, and atmosphere outweighed any flaws. Season 3 was challenging, self-assured, and arguably the show’s strongest installment to date. Petty wrote:

"Frankly, it's hard to find things about a show like Dark Winds to nitpick. The longer season may contribute to a bit of an uneven pace, and it (at first) feels strange that Bernadette is so separated from the rest of the cast. Indeed, certain elements of each respective mystery could have been condensed, offering audiences a more easily digestible plot. However, more Dark Winds is never a bad thing. The show is clearly well-crafted by showrunner John Wirth and the rest of the writers, who have well-succeeded in their construction of a mystery series that continuously lives up to the hype."

Dark Winds is streaming now on AMC+ and will return for Season 4 on February 15.