Dark Winds Season 4 Trailer Drops, Release Date Revealed

AMC Networks just unveiled the Dark Winds Season 4 teaser, with the 100% Rotten Tomatoes mystery sending the Navajo Tribal Police after a missing girl and an obsessive killer—while also locking in the premiere date.

AMC just dropped the first teaser for Dark Winds Season 4, and the show with the perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is getting bigger, darker, and a lot more LA.

What the new case is about

The teaser sets up a nasty one: the Navajo Tribal Police are chasing a missing Navajo girl and a killer who will not let go. This season doesn’t stay on the rez either — the trail rips Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, and Bernadette Manuelito out of the Navajo Nation and into 1970s Los Angeles.

'Season 4 focuses on the search for a missing Navajo girl, which takes Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito from the safety of the Navajo Nation to the gritty terrain of 1970s Los Angeles in a race against the clock to save her from an obsessive killer with ties to organized crime.'

When you can watch it

Dark Winds Season 4 premieres Sunday, February 15, 2026, exclusively on AMC and AMC+. Yes, 2026. A long road, but at least the trailer is here now.

Who is in Season 4

• Zahn McClarnon (Westworld, Echo) returns as Lt. Joe Leaphorn
• Kiowa Gordon (Roswell, New Mexico) returns as Jim Chee
• Jessica Matten (Rez Ball) returns as Bernadette Manuelito
• Deanna Allison (Accused) returns as Emma
• New faces this season include Franka Potente (The Bridge), Isabel DeRoy-Olson (Three Pines), Chaske Spencer (The English), Luke Barnett (For All Mankind), and Titus Welliver (Bosch: Legacy)

Behind the scenes

Dark Winds comes from creator and executive producer Graham Roland, adapting Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee novels. Zahn McClarnon is pulling triple duty this year — starring, executive producing, and making his directorial debut in Season 4. The EP roster also includes George R.R. Martin, Robert Redford, Anne Hillerman, Chris Eyre, Vince Gerardis, and Tina Elmo.

Big swing for the show to uproot the action to 70s LA, and the organized crime angle feels like a sharp way to push Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito out of their comfort zone. If the trailer is any indication, the mood and craft that got the series that spotless score aren’t going anywhere.