What I’m Watching: Big Sky

Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 12 “Are You Mad?” (B-)

It’s quite the coincidence that Tony would go ahead and show up to see Emily in an ominous way and then for her to get taken, along with Denise, by someone else entirely. The Bleeding Heart Killer didn’t have anything to do with the missing money and Paige, but Buck holding her hostage and nearly killing her was enough to show that he’s violent and has apparently – somehow – been harboring this murderous secret for decades, which doesn’t quite add up. Walter, on the other hand, is a nice guy who stopped by to see how she was doing while his mother’s husband is driving out of town with two women tied up in the back of his truck. This episode had a few casualties, starting with Tony, whose death doesn’t mean much since Avery is also apparently out of the picture, while one of the show’s best rehabilitated characters, Donno, has also gone down, leaving Tonya with a decision to make about which path she’s going to take now that she has repeatedly helped law enforcement with issues that didn’t directly conflict with her criminal enterprises. Tex walking out before things got messy shouldn’t be consequential, since he expressed how he wouldn’t cross a line that his boss didn’t actually cross anyway, and this whole deal should be done, with the focus entirely on catching Buck. Maybe a tormented Cormac can be helpful as an asset for Cassie given that he knows plenty about his father, even if he may have missed the most important thing.