Big Sky 3.13 “That Old Feeling” Night. The parking lot of a country-style bar with a wide porch is decorated with white string lights and a large American flag. A pickup truck pulls into the parking lot. It’s Buck needing to switch vehicles. Wide-eyed and panicked, Emily and Denise are still tied up in the…
Big Sky 3.12 “Are You Mad?” Sunny pulls up outside her house, pausing as she ascends the stairs when she sees the door is open. She sees blood splattered on the floor and bloody handprints on the walls. “Buck?” she calls hesitatingly a couple times. A figure clutching a large knife appears – it’s Paige, looking…
Note to readers: I’m so sorry that I didn’t get my recap of the last episode completed! I watched the show and took notes but then got overwhelmed by acting in a community theater of A Christmas Carol on top of my job as a teacher followed by the busy Christmas holiday. All of a…
Big Sky 3.09 “Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire” opens with Walter sitting alone in a dark, high-ceilinged interview room. He leans over the table, sitting up when Sheriff Beau Arlen and Deputy Jenny Hoyt enter. They want to know his name because he’s not in the system. “Two of your victims were from Sunny Day…
Big Sky‘s “Duck Hunting” opens exactly where the last episode ended with a wide-eyed Luke being approached in the dark woods by a coldly calm Paige. “Miss me?” she asks. “Paige!” he exclaims, surprised and startled. “You’re OK!” “No thanks to you!” she retorts, arms crossed. Recollecting the last time they were together in the…
Big Sky 3.07 “Come Get Me” {Editor’s Note: Updated with over a dozen Jensen/Beau Arlen screencaps!} Denise is walking down the sidewalk scratching off a lottery ticket. She notices that her “Back in 10 Minutes” sign has fallen to the ground outside the Dewell & Hoyt detective agency. Entering the dark space, lighted only with sunlight glancing…
Big Sky 3.6 “The Bag and the Box” “Are you with me?” “Til they bury me deep in the ground. In a dark bedroom in the middle of the night, a woman bolts upright in bed, startled by a strange sound in her house. She wakes her sleepy husband, who tries to blame the raccoons…
Big Sky 3.5 “Flesh and Blood” Scenes play from last week’s episode, ending with Sunny and her husband Buck leaving the cabin. Walter opens a door into a back room where Paige, a young, dark-haired woman with a bandaged ankle, is sitting and staring ahead tensely. “They’re gone,” he says softly, and last week’s show flows smoothly into the…
Detailed Recap of Big Sky Season 3 Episode 4 “Carrion Comfort” Music plays as a woman in a black and white dress and bare feet sways to the tune and removes plates from the table. She bumps a wine glass which shatters on the floor, then cuts her finger as she attempts to sweep it…
Big Sky’s episode, “A Brief History of Crime”, starts exactly where last week’s ended, with Emily frozen on top of the bank, staring down at Luke, who is covered in blood and kneeling by the river. He stands and starts toward her, and she bolts in terror. He calls out, and she pulls out her…
DEATH AT NIGHT: The third season of Big Sky continues with its second episode, “The Woods Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep.” The show opens with a direct continuation of the final scene of last week’s episode as Reba McEntire’s character, Sunny Barnes, is speaking to her son in the woods at night. “My sweet boy,…
The premier of season 3 of Big Sky opens with a landscape shot of beautiful Montana while Creedence Clearwater Revival plays: “Someone told me long ago / There’s a calm before the storm / I know, it’s been comin’ for some time.” A young man in a plaid shirt and backpack hikes through the gorgeous…
