Big Sky returned last night and I am not sure how much I care. Of all the fall TV I am looking forward to returning this is towards the bottom of my list. The show has moved to Wednesday from Thursday and I didn’t even notice and spent half the day today thinking it was Friday because Big Sky taped last night, and this annoys me. If you are not already watching Big Sky you are missing nothing. No need to start. Season 1 was halfway decent and if you are really desperate and bored (like me) then go for it. But then you can safely stop after that and rest assured you are missing nothing except more hours of your life.
Reba McEntire is in this season and I am here for it. But I am unable to think about Reba McEntire without picturing the Lonely Island & Keenan Thompson absolutely genius song “Two Worlds Collide” for SNL. If you have not yet seen it, you are in for a treat. Keenan Thompson finds a red wig in a dumpster and pretends to be Reba McIntire and seduces Andy Samberg. This song is a also a legit banger and I blast it in the car. I’m cackling just thinking about it. I’M REBA!
ANYWAY, it’s all been downhill in the town of Big Sky since Ryan Phillipe was killed off in Episode 1 of Season 1 of this extremely mid-show, so maybe Reba can be the one to turn things around.
Off the bat it appears Big Sky has rebranded itself for the season as “Big Sky: Deadly Trails” and so naturally I am expecting Captain Jack Sparrow to make an appearance and save this mess of a show. I’m also immediately reminded that Jensen Ackles of Supernatural joined the cast last season (a role so memorable I completely forgot about it until now) and can’t help but wonder what he is doing on such a mediocre show after his supremely perfect performance on far superior show The Boys.
Spoilers ahead (jk, no one cares): Creepy outsider, woods, hiking, hiker, rocks, falling, someone dies, blah blah, mystery blah. Really wasting no time on the “deadly trail” reveal. Mystery solved can I stop watching now? (No because ABC owns my soul as long as Grey’s Anatomy is on. Don’t ask, I made a deal with the dev- I mean Meredith Grey.)
Reba and her husband run a super cute dude ranch I want to go to. Reba’s son Cormack is extremely and unrealistically hot for a Montana local (I’m allowed to say this because I grew up in Wyoming). Cormack could be the only reason to watch this show. Halfway through the episode the most excitement by far was a commercial informing me Grey’s will be back on October 6th. I also will be watching the new show Alaska Daily with Hillary Swank (see above deal).
Some other crime-y things happen and it’s all pretty standard and boring. I couldn’t even really tell you what went down in the second half of the episode because I got distracted by a fake poster on Facebook purporting to be for You Season 4, which was just CRUEL, and promptly sent me down a rabbit hole to seek out when this show is actually coming back (answer: no date yet, but supposedly before end of year). After that I was distracted by a trailer for the new M. Night Shaymalan movie Knock at The Cabin, which TBH looks pretty good, but I also really liked The Happening, sooooo….
The episode (yes I am still watching Big Sky) ended on a snooze of a “cliffhanger” and I will keep wasting an hour of my life this season and probably until it is cancelled in 15 years.
2 stars.
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