Big Sky - Season 1 *Spoilers*

In this age of television one can't even be sure if he actually died after getting shot in the head!

Overall I thought it was OK for an ABC show (ABC tends to target female audience for most of their shows), with a nice twist at the end.

 

I've watched half, and I'm trying to convince myself to watch the other half, out of respect for David Kelley's past work.

But it's hard to believe a David Kelley show could be this dreadful...

 

I watched maybe 15 minutes. I spent another 15 minutes trying to figure out why this was greenlit. The writing was... less than good.

I'll keep watching later today, and see if I can make another 15 mins.

 

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Didn't finish the episode myself. Not yet.

Neither the story nor the characters engaged me at all.

 

And I adore Kathyrin Winnick! But not even she can draw me into this.

 

I thought it was OK. It was kind of predictable and had a sort of Twin Peaks vibe. I though the acting was pretty bad.

 

I’m going to watch tonight.
I can’t explain, but I’m hankering for a slice of cherry pie and a cup of coffee, black

 

It was ok. Don’t understand why they felt compelled to mention the pandemic if they were going to act like it didn’t exist.

 

Apparently, it's set in the post-pandemic world. Which I guess is a potentially interesting concept, if you're going to do something with it. Which they haven't.

 

Makes sense now that you mention that. When the sheriff said “this place shut down due to the pandemic” I took it as present tense, but it can be taken as a past tense statement.

Then again, in the opening scene in the restaurant, a customer says “in pandemic times, people want to believe”

 

Meh!
It pains me to say that because I love Kathyrin Winnick and even more so the excellent C.J. Box books this show is based upon. However, unlike the Bosch series, here Box has obviously ceded complete control to Kelley whose work I tired of decades ago. Lots of changes, too many to the worse. I'm not a purist as I love the changes to the Bosch TV series which unlike here are reasonably congruent to the author's style.
Will try a 2nd episode out of desperation but sadly this looks like yet another reason I hardly ever watch TV any more. Foolishly, I had such hope.

 

From the trailer I had watched, I thought I'd like this show so set up a season pass for it. But I was mostly disappointed. I'll give it another episode or two, though. It just seems like standard network dreck. I laughed at how in almost every scene, they had to have some song or instrumental track playing in the background at some point. I wish they'd spend more of their budget on better writing, not on licensing music. I noticed the sheriff was bit "off" the instant he showed up and started talking, so I fully expected him to be revealed as a bad guy at some point. I think they should have led us viewers on longer, though. While what happened with Ryan P. was a surprise, it was also a "ok, whatever".

 

I probably would have given up on it if what happened at the end didn't happen. I wasn't even paying attention at that point and had to rewind and watch it over. So now I'm in at least for ep2.

 

That scene was there right at the end for the specific purpose of selling the Pilot to the network & viewers. It worked.

 

Ironically, Lost was originally going to start that way (Jack gets killed at the end of the pilot), and the network and showrunners talked the writers into letting him live because they feared it would alienate the audience. Michael Keaton was onboard to play Jack, but of course when they spared his life they had to find a smaller name to play him.

 

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I’ve enjoyed this show.

 

I like the show, but Emmy territory? It's really kind of a typical network TV show trying to imitate the type of thing that the pay services do so well, but under the constraints of network TV. It's a little (lot?) over the top in presentation and a bit of a train wreck. But it's still an interesting watch. Of course ABC has to thrown in a few soap opera type plot devices. Wife and husband's lover team up. Trooper shot and clings on to life with "memory losses", main baddie having "mommy issues" and we all knew that eventually he was going to "off" her. Ditzy kid teamed up with smart kid. Yeah, we've never seen that before. But it all kind of works pretty decently for what it is. At least it's not the same junk that CBS puts out constantly, 15 versions of the same cop show with a different name.

 

If it were on CBS we’d be having Big Sky: New York and Big Sky: Chicago