Big Sky (1×03) The Big Rick Review

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Synopsis: Cassie grows more suspicious of Legarski after a threatening conversation. Grace manages to make headway on the girls’ escape. Helen confronts Ronald about his increasingly bizarre behavior. (IMDb)

The third installment in this small-town human trafficking story continues at an unbearably slow speed that continues to set up its premise while equally exhausting all options for its secondary story. The series started with Cassie and Jenny at ends with one another because of their fallout over Cody, but they needed to come together to solve his murder and the human trafficking case he was uncovering.

This episode continues to series them working separate: Cassie is still prying into the life of Sheriff Legarski and learning more about his private life while Jenny travels to the Church of Glory and Transcendence where Cody was apparently going as per Legarski’s testimony. As they learn more about the shady behavior of the sheriff, they come together with their notes and decide he is their person of interest. Finally they are working together!

Meanwhile, the captives attempt to escape from the extremely unreliable and bumbling Ronald. Grace manages to free herself and evade him, but Legarski catches up to her, kills a fly-fisher and shoots two arrows into her thigh to make sure she cannot escape. As Grace runs off, Danielle has a touching moment with Jerrie asking about when they came out and that struggle with their family. When Grace is returned to them, they continue to be pests to Ronald, banging on the walls of their cage.

So essentially the captive story has already attempted an escape, Legarski’s involvement as an officer is revealed to them and they continue to erode Ronald’s sanity. There doesn’t seem to be much left here to explore. Just as this part of the story feels like it is coming to its impending end, the other half is just beginning as Cassie and Jenny finally start to work together. With Legarski already uneasy about how much Cassie is digging, they won’t have much time before he acts. The series just seems incredibly murky on what it wants to achieve in a meandering storyline that feels dull and lacks the level of mystery or thrills required for its subject matter.

Detective’s Report

• Who will prevail by season’s end?
• Why is Ronald the way he is?
• Will Ronald let Jerrie go?
• When will Jenny and Cassie figure it out?

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Dylan Phillips