Dark Winds Recap: Gods and Monsters

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It’s not unusual, in contemporary television, for an episode to break with the season’s arc to explore a self-contained storyline; remember that one episode of Girls where Hannah has an afternoon’s affair with Patrick Wilson? But in procedurals like Dark Winds, it’s rarer to encounter novelistic digression. As Agent Washington tells Joe during his alternate dimension wanderings, there is a murder — several murders, if we’re counting Halsey’s and Cata’s on top of Vines’s...