If you’re not familiar with the TV series “Big Sky,” it came out with a bang in season one. It only lasted 3 seasons. What a shame for a show that had such a great first season! It “starred” Ryan Phillippe, which turned out to only mean he was in a few episodes very early in the beginning of the series. I won’t spoil the show for you at this moment, but let’s just say using his name was the big ticket seller, even if he barely appeared at all. Kind of lame, but I got over their trickery because the plot was good. I was all-in on the drama.
Now I might spoil the series for you but in season one there was the antagonist Ronald Pergman. He was a fantastic villain. He made it in to season two and if you were to ask me, the series should have kept his story line going but for whatever reason he went from a weak man, to a dark and mean monster, then back to a weak man and was killed off in season two. The show seemed to almost turn into one where each episode was a different crime to be solved instead of an ongoing search for the bad guys, over the course of the season or even the whole series.
Season two’s plot became one of a random family who had inner-family drama that I tried to care about but just couldn’t. Ronald Bergman was the gold of the show and when he was taken out, so was my interest. I kept watching as much of season two as I could but then found myself not caring if I missed an episode. I have no idea how season two ended and couldn’t care less what went on in season three.
I know they added Reba McEntire, who is awesome! But she was a villain, so I read, which is just not believable whatsoever. That’s like handing me an orange and telling me it’s a horse saddle. Makes no sense. So I’m not surprised the ratings were in a steady decline until the show was cancelled in 2023. Season one averaged 0.54, which is good in TV world, and season three dipped all the way down to the 0.2’s. Not good in TV world.
Like I said, it’s a shame they killed off the storyline that got them on the map– Ronald and the drama surrounding him.
Did you watch the series? What could they have done different to keep the show alive?
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