What I’m Watching: Big Sky (Season Finale)

Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 13 “That Old Feeling” (B-)

This show wraps its third season a few episodes shy of its first two seasons’ counts, though I’m honestly not sure how much story there was left and how many more people Buck could have kidnapped. It’s hard to believe that someone who managed to remain undiscovered and uncaught for so many years would just leave his two latest captives in the back of his truck for anyone to find while he wandered around the parking lot, even if he was losing blood for his Paige-inflicted flesh wound. Stealing someone else’s car isn’t terribly effective if the police know who did it and which car he’s now driving, and they brought him in right away to try to use Sunny to their advantage. Beau and Jenny could learn something about the art of negotiation since they instantly gave up their leverage, and then that leverage opted to shoot and kill Buck before he could tell them where Emily and Denise were. Luckily, there was another Barnes family member who was happy to cooperate and had an inkling of just where his father may have put them. So, somehow, everyone gets a happy ending, including Paige, who escaped with no consequences, and Walter, who survived and is now going to have a relationship with the brother he never knew. Donno even made it out alive because apparently it’s nearly impossible to kill someone on this show - except when such a thing is inconvenient - and Tonya managed to get the money. I’m not sure whether a fourth season is in the cards, and while this one was a slight improvement, I don’t think this show really needs to continue, even if I’d probably watch if it did.

Season grade: B-
Season MVP: Jensen Ackles as Beau

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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.

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Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 11 “Super Foxes” (B-)

Cassie and Jenny both managed to get themselves out of their tricky situations, but it didn’t seem like that was going to happen for a good portion of this episode. Buck’s desire to keep Sunny out of trouble isn’t helping anyone, and everyone would be much happier if he wasn’t holding her hostage and now breaking his sobriety to deal with her. Cassie got called away because Jenny needed her, and they somehow managed to survive a very quickly-progressing twisted game that revealed a violent sect living very close to everything in this great state of Montana, whose geography is always baffling to me on this show given my memories of driving through a state whose east-west distance is just as far as Chicago and New York are from each other. Dean had little trouble tracking down Avery and was quite confident in his trigger-draw abilities when he suggested that his would-be abductor just go ahead and take Avery before shooting him dead. Avery’s fortunes didn’t get much better after he was arrested and then released, though his newfound captors were more than happy to work with the police when the right cause presented itself. Emily seemed to understand that her coffee shop run-in was creepy and threatening, and of course Avery has now put his family in danger even after he’s pretty much abandoned them. Hopefully Dean will put the same protective instincts into action once he realizes how close his family is to being used as pawns to push a criminal to act.

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Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 10 “A Thin Layer of Rock” (B)

Good communication is always important, and would be helpful in a situation like this where a wife is desperately looking for the person who has promised to save her son and her husband has her tied up in his attic thinking that she came back only to give them more trouble. It’s like this show to end for the calendar year with both Jenny and Cassie walking into perilous situations, though those do tend to work out relatively well for them, whether it’s shooting someone in the head or recovering fully from a pretty bad gunshot wound of their own. Poppernak’s wedding fiasco turned out to be unrelated to the regular storyline, though it was an intense journey to find the bride attempting to bury the woman she used to call her best friend, and now Jenny has to contend with her apparently missing mother. She also handled herself very well with Carla and Emily showing up just when she was about to finally kiss Beau, and that look of sadness as she watched them while walking away indicated plenty of disappointment. They do finally know that Walter is Sunny’s child right now, but, as we can see, it’s not Sunny so much as Buck, and Avery made an unfortunate decision that prompted Tony to expressly go after his family when that wasn’t even his plan before that. Midway through the season, how much more trouble can all these people get themselves in before more innocent people end up getting killed in the process?

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Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 9 “Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire” (B)

It’s an interesting strategy that Walter is employing, one that may be getting by Beau and Jenny but isn’t fooling Cassie. Confessing to the one murder that there’s no proof of him committing is evidently a way to protect Paige, who showed up in the final scene of the episode to surprise Sunny as she sang “Wayfaring Stranger,” a song that immediately made me think of this scene from “The Broken Circle Breakdown.” Avery’s involvement in all this was made more concrete both by his meeting with Tony and his successful unlocking of the account, but he saw a consequence for all of it in his relationship with Carla. Her refusal to indulge his nonrefundable reservation may have made it clear how she feels, but unfortunately that won’t protect her or Emily from anyone who might come after them if they want to get to Avery. Cormac is choosing an unexpected side after Cassie pushed him to look more closely at what his parents weren’t telling him, and now he has the truth, which he’ll likely use to impress his new girlfriend rather than support the parents who have been lying to him for years. Sunny showing up to confront Tonya and Donno at the dinner added another dimension to this complex puzzle, and her ability to get Donno to apologize for being impolite shows that she’s still in control in certain respects. Like with past seasons, I don’t see too many members of the murderous Barnes family surviving this whole ordeal once it’s finished.

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Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 8 “Duck Hunting” (B-)

This episode felt like it really changed the show into a traditional police-oriented murder mystery, with the repeated interrogation scenes with nearly everyone in the camp lying completely about what they’ve done recently and why they’re really there. It’s taken me a while to appreciate Donno but I do see some comic relief value in him this season, and that’s especially surprising to me since I had the chance to interview a much thinner Ryan O’Nan twelve years ago about his first feature film role in “The Dry Land,” which is so different from this show. But it’s clear in this case that, though Donno would likely have killed if the circumstances required it, he and Tonya aren’t to blame. Paige also isn’t guilty, and she managed to get away thanks to Walter sacrificing himself for her, likely much more into her than she was into him. His ability to seem normal and interact with people in an unsuspicious way doesn’t exactly track with him living in the woods all by himself for years, but this show has always had that problem, particularly with Ronald, who somehow seduced everyone into thinking he was capable of functioning before reverting to uncontrollable desires only when no one was looking. Beau and Carla did enjoy a warm reunion, and Avery’s story doesn’t exactly seem airtight. Fortunately, even though Walter may be one culprit they’re looking for here, many people at the campsite are guilty of something and may eventually be caught by the slow-moving cops who never seem to be on the right track until a lot of people have died.

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Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 7 “Come Get Me” (B)

I’ve been saying for a while now that Jenny and Beau are off investigating cases that feel completely unrelated to what’s going on at that campground, and now it’s finally all coming together following that unusually creepy opening with Denise getting rightfully scared about an intruder in the office who had left a very threatening message behind. I was excited to recognize Brad William Henke as the actor who played Joe Lucan, but I can’t find any confirmation that it was in fact the “Orange is the New Black” and “Manhunt: Deadly Games” actor playing the role (and nothing to contradict it either). I did think that it would make sense for him to have a meatier part, but the fact that he was able to identify Walter so that Cassie could make the connection was more important for the show’s overarching narrative. Luke thought that staying at the camp with Donno and Tonya coming back for him was a bad idea - and it was, considering the new kill order out on him - but then he went and ran into Paige in the woods, who was accompanied by none other than a bloodthirsty Walter. Things didn’t work out for Sunny and Buck with Mary’s body as they had hoped they would, but at least Emily found Mary in a moment that didn’t put her own life at risk. I remain intrigued about what Avery’s role in all of this and whether Carla or Beau is going to be angrier about it when they finally piece it all together.

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Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 6 “The Bag and the Box” (B)

It’s interesting that this show continues to have Beau and Jenny off on cases of the week while Cassie very slowly looks into what’s going on at that camp as she’s cozying up to the son of two people we now know are willing to kill to keep their secrets buried. It is entertaining to see Beau hop on the hood of a classic car and marvel at a multimillion-dollar Mickle Mantle rookie card, but Avery not wanting Carla to bring her ex-husband into what’s going on is only serving to endanger everyone else there. That said, I’m pretty sure Avery is still involved in something, even if he’s not officially a bad guy. Though Donno is not my favorite character by any stretch, I did enjoy the dialogue exchanged between him and Walter, who was willing to let Paige in on all that he’s done to show her how far he would go to protect her. We also saw a level of previously untested commitment from Buck, who went ahead and stabbed Mary before Sunny could figure out a way to talk herself out of her latest lie that Mary was starting to realize didn’t make sense. Cormac was upfront with Cassie about wanting to be read in on everything, and it’s still not clear what he would be willing to do for the sake of his parents. As Cassie’s romance with Cormac heats up and Beau presses Jenny about dating cops, I’m starting to get confused since this season opened and it seemed like Cassie and Beau were going to be the item. Has everyone forgotten the fistfight that happened between Cassie and Jenny the last time they both went for the same man?

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Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 5 “Flesh and Blood” (B-)

For all the people who tend to get killed in a violent manner on this show, most of the series regulars seem to be immune to any real harm, like Poppernak, whose abduction by a gang of murderous bank robbers never truly put him in danger. Beau and Jenny were already all set to laugh it off by telling him that he was going to have to be fired for poor policework despite the fact that he could easily have been killed numerous times throughout the ordeal. But everyone on this show, particularly law enforcement officials, tends to be very easily distracted. With Cassie focused on flirtation with Cormac, it looks like Jenny and Beau might ultimately get together. Focusing on a romance hopefully won’t keep Beau from checking in on his daughter and her very confident stepfather, who managed to reassure Carla and then went right at Luke to get answers out of him. I do believe that Sunny would choose Walter over Buck if the need to make that decision came, but for now Buck appears to be on board with her plans, while Cormac is leading Cassie closer to Walter as Buck thinks he’s taking care of the latest threat. Though Donno was typically unsubtle about his violent intentions, he and Tonya did manage to join up with the camp after it had already started, also not being subtle by paying double so that they could join the party late. Things are about to converge out in the woods, and I have a feeling that the only one who’s really a match for Walter is probably Donno, should their paths ever cross.

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Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 4 “Carrion Comfort” (B-)

Beau didn’t seem to be too concerned about the revelation regarding Jenny’s mom, but that’s also going to have to wait for another episode since this one had a contained and rather creepy standalone subplot. I recognized Aaron Staton immediately from his role on “Mad Men” and figured that Scott was likelier to have a bigger role than just as a business partner being interviewed for a moment, and he still didn’t have many more lines like that but did make a memorable and haunting impression. I was excited to see Angelique Cabral from “Life in Pieces” and “Undone” as Carla, Beau’s ex-wife, and to see how argumentative she was from the start, which frustrated Beau and amused Jenny. Going hiking with Cassie is a great way for Cormac to keep an eye on her, but they also seem to be dialing up the flirting, and it’s hard to know how protective Cormac will be of his mother given how she’s clearly chosen her other son over her current husband. It’s also not clear what Paige is doing with Walter and if he’s really the villain in that situation at all. I did appreciate the connectivity of some of the show’s other threads, like Tonya and Donno being approached to get back into their extralegal business and their first targets being none other than Paige and Luke. That and them working with Virginia, fully aware that she’s Jenny’s mom, assure that they’ll continue to be a thorn in Jenny’s side as she knows that they’re not playing by the book but can’t quite prove how.

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Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 3 “A Brief History of Crime” (B)

This show is offering a series of misdirects about its characters, starting with Luke, who was perfectly happy to move on right away from his missing girlfriend but may not have been responsible for her murder. Avery is starting to take, or at least feign, an interest in what his stepdaughter wants to do, though their digging isn’t going to take them anywhere good. Walter got spotted by Cassie, who would have had his truck inspected if Denise hadn’t rushed her to get back on the road, and Sunny seems like the kind of parent who will do anything to protect her family, even from law enforcement. It felt considerably more casual and lighthearted than usual to see Beau and Jenny go undercover, posing as a married couple who couldn’t quite get their story straight in order to catch Harold in the act. The introduction of Rosanna Arquette as Jenny’s estranged mother felt innocuous enough at first, but having her use Jenny to get the money back from the man who was her partner has now sent her daughter spiraling, deeply hurt by a betrayal of trust that hadn’t really even been earned again. That she brought the money directly to Tonya is going to make her the target of Jenny’s rage when she puts those pieces together, and it’s a good thing that it’s Beau and not Tubb in charge now since otherwise Jenny wouldn’t be allowed anywhere near this case. What’s not clear is whether the two primary cases are connected, but I imagine they’re not since there’s always a lot happening on this show.

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Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 2 “The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep” (B-)

It feels quite obvious that Sunny is up to no good, though she was quick to pretend that having everyone go out and look for Paige and Luke was her idea when Emily suggested it and not the opposite of what she was trying to have happen. So much for Beau’s family not being personally involved in what was going on, and that’s partially Cassie’s fault for failing to tell him just how dangerous things could be when he stopped by to check in on her while they were there anyway asking questions. Avery was cordial enough to him when he showed up, but snooping in Paige and Luke’s tent indicates that he has something to hide. This episode should be a lesson to all young - and old - people that they should turn off the sounds on their phones when they’re spying on anyone, since it’s very easy to silently take a covert photo that doesn’t then result in being immediately identified. Paul learned that living incognito can also be difficult, especially when the person who owns the property you’re squatting in calls the police to get you evicted despite having recently been a regularly-operating criminal themselves. Tonya may just be going legit, and she didn’t get any points knocked off for her role in the whole affair that just ended up revealing a corrupt U.S. Marshal who Beau was right to have Poppernak tail since things just didn’t quite feel right, the best way to describe most of what happens on this show.

What I’m Watching: Big Sky (Season Premiere)

Big Sky: Season 3, Episode 1 “Do You Love an Apple” (B)

I’m not sure exactly how it is that I’m still watching this show two seasons in, but I have found myself intrigued by the show’s new characters, and now that Ronald and all that are finally a thing of the past, I’m mildly interested in the many additions to the ensemble. The most noteworthy is Reba McEntire, whose casting is reminiscent of Margo Martindale in season two of “Justified,” a friendly Southern presence who is hiding very sinister intentions underneath that welcoming public face. There’s also Rex Linn from “Better Call Saul,” Seth Gabel from “Dirty Sexy Money,” and Luke Mitchell from “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” along with Henry Ian Cusick from “Lost.” Though he did appear in the finale, Jensen Ackles now has a much bigger part, having bonded quite a bit with Cassie and working decently well with Jenny. I like the fact that Ackles took on a very different role from his villainous and crude turn as Soldier Boy in the most recent season of “The Boys,” and Beau seems like he’s the best ally Cassie and Jenny could have. But he’s also very intricately involved in the latest case, in the same way that Jenny was in season one and then Cassie and Mark were in season two. Cassie doing a deal with Tonya was a questionable move since it means that she’s treating her as if she’s not a criminal, and the continued presence of Tonya and Donno without Ren and company suggests that they might still be tangentially involved in the show’s drama even if they’re not officially targets of any investigations.

What I’m Watching: Big Sky (Season Finale)

Big Sky: Season 2, Episode 18 “Catch a Few Fish” (B-)

This episode wasn’t nearly as bad as those before it, but it also didn’t provide a terribly emphatic finish to a season that’s been full of tension and villains. Jensen Ackles is the latest impressive addition to this cast, playing the new sheriff, Beau, who demonstrated his chauvinism immediately by assessing that a “girl” like Cassie couldn’t know anything about cars, but he did much better when he followed Jenny’s lead on her hunches. No one really lost here except for Veer, who lost his life as a result of his very deliberate and unsuccessful attempt to have someone else kill his son for him. Ren cooperated for the first time with law enforcement to send Jenny right to where she had left Travis with her father, and then Jenny went ahead and let him go so that he could track down the apparently still alive reason for his entire vengeance quest. Even Alicia made sure that she wasn’t carved out of whatever came after this, and tried to give Tonya some advice to keep herself alive and ahead. It felt a bit too easy for Scarlet to just dump Phoebe on Cassie’s doorstep and then keep running, especially since the information she handed over about the syndicate will likely keep the target on her back while she could have asked for protection in exchange for turning over that valuable intelligence. I don’t know what comes next in season three and, based on how I’ve found the first two seasons to be, I probably shouldn’t keep watching when it returns. We’ll see if that happens.

Season grade: C
Season MVP: Constance Zimmer as Alicia

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Big Sky: Season 2, Episode 17 “Family Matters” (C)

It’s always startling to me when, on TV or in movies, someone shoots another person while standing right next to them and then somehow manages to miss. Now this is a show where someone got shot in the head and managed to survive enough to have apparently been faking a brain injury, so the notion that Richard would shoot Jag and he would make a full and rather immediate recovery is hardly a surprise at this point. What makes much less sense is Veer’s decision to go that route, to selfishly save himself and get his son out of the way at the same time when Richard was ready to execute him, particularly because Ren is the child he should be more worried about since she’s ready to take him down. That Ren has known Travis was a cop all this time speaks to her recklessness and her willingness to do whatever it takes to stay in power, something that Jenny isn’t likely to allow. This show has never been good at staying focused on one storyline, and so now we have Scarlet back in the mix, suddenly so spooked about the syndicate being on her tail that she was ready to call Cassie to simultaneously ask her for help and taunt her. The news of a new acting sheriff being brought in coincides with the announcement of the casting of that role, and I do wonder whether the syndicate will come back into focus in season three or if the Bhullar will survive the finale and endure in Montana.

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Big Sky: Season 2, Episode 16 “Keys to the Kingdom” (C)

It's hard to know who the villain is supposed to be on this show since right now the person causing the most bodily harm is Richard, who's merely doing what law enforcement isn't and knocking down doors to get the answers he needs to make the people who got his son killed pay. That did involve some collateral damage in the form of Tubb, who, like his deputy, appears to be perfectly fine despite sustaining a relatively serious wound. It's not a good moment for the good guys with Bryce revealed to be Cassie's informant and then killed by Tonya in an apparent show of loyalty to the Bhullar family, cementing her status as someone willing to do anything for those in power. That could help Travis since his cover remains intact and he's now been promoted, but Alicia's interference isn't likely to deter Jenny, putting her back in the crosshairs of the cartel. I'm glad that Alicia has more to her than just a selfie-taking trophy wife, and that she's ready to prove her relevance to her partner's children who severely underestimated her. Amid all this chaos, somehow there's still room for not just a romance but a love triangle, one that didn't end well for Jerrie and isn't reflecting all that well on Mark either. It’s easy to forget that, while Cassie’s father is just the latest casualty this cast of characters has experienced, it hasn’t been all that long since Cody got killed, a relatively traumatic event that no one seems to remember.

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Big Sky: Season 2, Episode 15 “The Muffin or the Hammer” (C)

Jenny sneaking into the lab didn’t result in what she expected it to, which was her discovery of drugs being manufactured and the Bhullars being arrested. Instead, she nearly got killed by Dhruv and found a way to take him out instead, which now means that Travis, who let her go when he had the opportunity, has been assigned to kill her with Donno, who we know will do anything in service of Ren. Tonya has graduated from a kidnapping victim facing certain death to a promoter of torture and viciousness herself, but that doesn’t mean there’s a place for her in whatever comes next given the rocky situation of the Bhullar family that is only being further challenged by their developing circumstances in Montana. Denise is taking on a bigger role than ever before as she navigates her connection to Richard and the very bad and dangerous choices he’s making in pursuit of revenge for his son’s death. I’m puzzled by the prominence of a romantic comedy love story on this show, with Mark leading Jerrie on before acknowledging that he’s still into Cassie, and her choosing to make out with him and bring him into the house when he showed up to sort things out. There are life and death things going on, and people are bothering to focus on their love lives when they could be out trying to find the elusive criminals who are somehow much smarter than them. I am glad to see that Poppernak has made a successful recovery, even if he has to endure suspects calling him Deputy Pumpernickel.

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Big Sky: Season 2, Episode 14 “Dead Man's Float” (C+)

This episode wasn’t as bad as previous installments this season, if only because Ronald is actually, finally dead and Scarlet is in the wind, a thread to surely be picked up again later but possibly forgotten. We got to meet a new set of characters in the wake of one of their family member’s deaths. Continuing this show’s trend of hiring great talent, the latest addition is Dallas Roberts, who has starred in series like “The L Word” and “The Good Wife” and now plays a far less friendly father who is actively mourning his son and not happy to cooperate with anyone investigating his death. Jenny’s closeness to the case doesn’t help, nor does Cassie’s very understandable absence. It’s a good time for Jerrie to return, even if she’s more focused on working out whether there’s a romantic future with Mark even though he told her that he and Cassie have something going on. They could have accompanied Jenny on her reckless solo mission to confront Jenny, one that is now going to leave her as a prisoner for Ren and Jag, with Travis there to potentially save her (her survival seems inevitable because she is the star of the show, after all). Jag may not be sincere about the partnership he’s proposing with his sister, but Donno and a woman she abducted earlier this season, Tonya, are fiercely loyal to her and will defend her in whatever battle for control of the family dynasty is sure to ensue soon. I haven’t previously been overly fond of Poppernak, but I did enjoy just how much he was irritating Tubb with his fun facts and other corrections.

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Big Sky: Season 2, Episode 13 “The Shipping News” (C-)

It seems like it’s remarkably difficult to kill someone on this show, though maybe that should have been obvious since Rick got shot in the head by Cassie with nothing to obstruct her aim and still managed to survive before someone else ended his life in a different way. So maybe it’s fitting that the same fate befell Wolf, who probably should have died based on his gunshot injuries in the three-way shootout but instead got suffocated by a plastic bag in the back of an ambulance because this all-powerful syndicate, who we haven’t seen doing anything else all season, was able to infiltrate a crime scene and take him out for execution. I thought Scarlet was dead but apparently that’s not the case, and I’m not sure why we have to continue following her. The teenagers who have been in focus this season got to have their farewell scene since they’re being dismissed from the storyline, and now things are turning much more sharply to the Bhullars and also the rogue undercover cop after them. It probably would have been helpful for Travis’ true motivations to have been mentioned by his handler to Jenny long ago, but that’s not how things seem to work on this show. I’m not sure what Tonya thought she could do by following a truck in her car which didn’t allow her to see what was in front of it, but, like Travis, quick thinking and a desire to exact violence on others apparently assuages the concerns of villains enough to buy more time. All the allegiances and partnerships are too intertwined to make sense, and, with Cassie and Poppernak out of commission, Jenny is going to be on her own to combat all the bad guys.

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Big Sky: Season 2, Episode 12 “A Good Boy” (C-)

I can’t believe it’s taken this long for Ronald to be killed off. I’ve never found him to be a well-written character, and one of the things that I can’t stand is when someone who, for instance, has just recovered from a life-threatening injury is suddenly able to best the perfectly capable and unharmed people who have just helped him or come looking for him. There’s no way he could possibly have been strong enough to fell Dr. Cowley, and that he would be the last man standing after Wolf and Mark were both ready to kill him. Fortunately, Cassie finally got him, and I hope there’s no reason that he would return in any flashback now that he can be fully forgotten. Though Bob also managed to get the drop on multiple police officers with a rather poorly-structured plan, Max turning on the hazards and Cassie arriving meant that they were able to get rescued, with T-Lock, who brought on his own downfall, the only lamentable casualty. Now all attention should turn to the cartel family setting up permanent shop in Montana, with Ren and Jag compelled to join forces for once because their father is clearly up to something. The casting of Emmy-nominated actress Constance Zimmer was probably a sign of Alicia being more relevant than it seemed when she stepped off the plane to get a selfie and then had to put in her headphones when the adults were talking business. I’m intrigued to see what’s really going on, and I’d love to see this show pivot to better writing and characters with Ronald’s chapter now closed.