Before Jason Momoa became one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars, he was actually just a journeyman television actor trying to find his big break. Now, while most audiences remember his early success in Game of Thrones, there’s another television drama from the same period that never quite received the attention it deserved and now, more than a decade after its original premiere, the entire series has found another opportunity to reach audiences.
Momoa’s forgotten crime thriller The Red Road has officially returned to Netflix in the United States, with both seasons joining the platform on November 1. The show, which originally aired on SundanceTV between 2014 and 2015, was created by Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners) and it studies the increasingly dangerous relationship between a small-town police officer and a member of a neighboring Native American community.
The series revolves around a local sheriff struggling to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities: the small town where he grew up just outside of New York City, and the neighboring mountains — home of a federally unrecognized Native American tribe. After a terrible tragedy and cover-up further divides these worlds, an uneasy alliance is forged between the officer and a dangerous member of the tribe. As each of the two men find themselves increasingly compromised by the other and the emotional ghosts of their collective pasts begin to emerge, the lives of both quickly unravel, leading to terrible consequences.
Season 2 sees every character face an ordeal: Jean learns of dark family secrets, Kopus battles his conscience, and Harold must decide where his morals lie, but the question is, can any of them find their redemption before it all comes to an end?
- The Wachowskis’ 1999 film won four Academy Awards, including Visual Effects and Film
Editing. - Bullet time was shot with a rig of roughly 120 still cameras firing in sequence around the
actors. - Keanu Reeves trained in martial arts for about four months before a frame was shot,
recovering from neck surgery the whole time. - It opened the same year as Fight Club and eXistenZ, in a run of films about not trusting the
world in front of you.
- Mad Max: Fury Road won six Academy Awards in 2016, more than any other film that year.
- George Miller storyboarded the entire film as roughly 3,500 panels before there was a
script. - The chase was shot almost entirely practical in the Namib Desert, with real vehicles and
real stunt performers. - Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth carried the prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in 2024.
- Blade Runner 2049 won Roger Deakins his first Oscar for cinematography, on his fourteenth
nomination. - The film also took Best Visual Effects, 35 years after Ridley Scott’s 1982 original.
- Villeneuve shot it on large-format film and kept the fog and rain practical on set wherever
he could. - Three short films by Luke Scott and Shinichiro Watanabe bridge the 30-year gap between the
two movies.
- Denis Villeneuve’s Dune won six Academy Awards in 2022, including Cinematography and
Original Score. - Hans Zimmer turned down Christopher Nolan’s Tenet so he could score Dune instead.
- Dune: Part Two arrived in 2024 and brought in Austin Butler, Florence Pugh and Christopher
Walken. - David Lynch’s 1984 version and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unmade one are both their
own legends by now.
- The 1977 original won six Academy Awards plus a special achievement award for sound effects.
- John Williams’ score was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and became the
best-selling symphonic film soundtrack ever. - Andor took the galaxy somewhere colder and earned Emmy nominations for drama series in both
seasons. - The saga now runs across eleven feature films and a growing shelf of series on Disney+.
Who Stars in ‘The Red Road’?
The cast stars Jason Momoa (Aquaman) as Phillip Kopus, Martin Henderson (Virgin River) as Harold Jensen, Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) as Jean Jensen, Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) as Marie Van Der Veen, Annalise Basso (Snowpiercer) as Kate Jensen, Allie Gonino (The Lying Game) as Rachel Jensen, Kiowa Gordon (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) as Junior Van Der Veen, and Lisa Bonet (The Cosby Show) as Sky Van Der Veen.
The series ran for two seasons and 12 episodes before SundanceTV canceled it in 2015. It previously left Netflix in June 2026, making its November return particularly welcome for viewers who missed the opportunity to watch it earlier in the year.
Both seasons of The Red Road are streaming now on Netflix in the United States.
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