User Reviews

First the positive. The cast is beautiful. All the characters are very attractive people. The first season held a lot of promise. The story was interesting and I could hardly wait for the next episode. Now the negative. The acting is horrible. Not one good actor in the cast. I thought I was watching Lifetime or LMN. The stories started going downhill for me with the Tonya and Donno story. What was that relationship all about. Were they just business associates? Were they falling in love? What was their end game? Did they get away with their crimes? Then there was the Buck and Sunny story. How weird was that! It also annoyed me that when Buck kidnapped Denise and Emily, the sheriff never showed any concern for finding Denise. He only worried about finding his daughter Emily. He was the sheriff and his duty was to show concern and protect everyone in the town. Well , I won't be watching anymore. The actors are too stiff and dry. The stories drag on too long and get boring. The characters get boring.

This show had me hooked off the pilot. But about halfway through the first season, they kill off their strongest, most interesting character, and then the entire show goes off the rails. The characterization of the main villain totally changes without warning or explanation, and then we completely stop focusing on the hunt for him & instead we focus on a random, unconnected story about a corrupt family farm, which then fizzles out and doesn't matter at all. It feels like they couldn't come up with enough from plotline A to fill a whole season, so they had to shoehorn in a less developed plotline B to fill time. Would have been a great show had they been restricted to a 10-12 episode season, but network TV doesn't usually work that way.

I watched the first 7 episodes, and I don't believe Big Sky is worth continuing. This show had an interesting premise, but there are too many things that went wrong with this show. For instance, how come one of the girls uses the flap to escape the container they were all being held in, but doesn't go back for the others when it would've been easy for her to do so? Also, Rick is a very inconsistent character. He gets mad at Ronald for acting sloppy and weird, meanwhile for basically the first 7 episodes he acts weird and suspicious around everyone. Also what was the point of the flashback's between Cassie and Cody? I feel like the whole Cody cheated on Jenny with Cassie backstory was completely unnecessary and was only there for meaningless drama. The production design is decent considering it's ABC, and it doesn't feel very cheesy. Unfortunately, the writing and plot make Big Sky a big pile of garbage.

Big Sky got off to a very good start with a very interesting storyline, a shocking character death and a couple of good performances- mainly by John Carroll Lynch and Brooke Smith, both were terrific in their roles. Unfortunately, the two leads- Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick are just not great actors, but the first half of the season was good enough to cover their weak points.

The show should have probably been a 8-10 episode miniseries and not tried to continue because the second half of the season was a total disaster. They clearly tried to stretch out the storyline of "Ronald" and kept him around too long, and the Kleinsasser ranch story had too many characters, too many bizarre people to count and nobody to care about, basically you don't care if all of them died...you almost wish they would. The plot had holes so big that Ronald could drive his truck through them and some of the "stretches" were just embarrassing- the two private detectives running around acting as if the law doesn't apply to them at all, they have both been knocked unconscious several times but manage to "wake up" when someone just tells them to wake up- frankly, it was more fun poking fun at this show than it was watching it. You could see every development and "twist" coming up from a mile away. The law has a prisoner riding in a car? Oh no! Is that a truck that is about to broadside them and release the prisoner? Didn't see that coming....oh wait, yes I did, and so did everyone else. The victim from the first half of the season, the Trans girl, now can carry a gun and capture prisoners and basically overrules a Marshall when he tells her she can't go with him to try to capture a prisoner, then is given the job of backing him up? Hysterical!

I don't really remember a show falling off a cliff so suddenly the way this one did and I'm shocked it got renewed. If you flip the halves of the season around, it gets canceled by episode 3, I guarantee it.

I'm a big fan of Ryan Phillippe. He was one big reason I decided to put this one on my watch list. I feel like this was a bait & switch & I'm pissed off about it. We'll see how it goes, but shame on you for false advertising !!!

The first season was incredible. The second season has been utter trash. What idiotic writing. Absolutely crap and lazy writing. They could have ended it after one season with him being caught and it would have been fantastic.

Season 1 went downhill quick. Cliche after cliche, it was pretty sorry. The story got more ridiculous as it went along. I quit watching half way through. Holy crap, there's another season, a couple episodes in, same crap, same dumb story, bad acting and just stupid, really.

Bad cop chases girl through the woods, catches her and another unarmed person appears. What does he do? Hide behind other girl and scream "who the hell are you?" A real bad cop would have simply shot the both of them, because why not? He was going to kill the one girl anyway, now he just has to dig a slightly deeper hole for the both of them.

Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.

The script writers, you are enormously bad and you have imaginations like 6 year old kid Hmm should i say that? Cause i don't want to offend those smarter kids What happened really? The Sherif only talks Detective Hoyt and her nonsense mother their tiring troubles between eachother and that brings us nowhere And private eye Cassie are you a cop, or what the heck are you? Be something like have a label then we know where you stand My goodness the best player is Donno atleast we know what capacity he has and acts accordingly My good God if you keepon going like this Please have no 4.th season I am sure it will be even worse.

• The girl escapes but doesn't use any of the tools to pry open the panel to allow the others to escape.
• She doesn't slip the crowbar to the girls so that they can use it against the kidnapper when he returns.
• The trooper is angry at the kidnapper for drawing attention by being sloppy & careless. Same trooper then draws attention by acting all weird & suspicious when investigator arrives.
• Trooper shoots/kills fisherman w/girl as witness. Trooper then shoots girl in the thigh w/two arrows. She's a witness to a murder. Why didn't he simply kill her as well?
• Trooper shoots/kills Ryan Phillipe, arousing suspicion and drawing attention. But is reluctant to kill kidnapped girls because people are looking for them.
• Kid sister sizes-up their situation and makes suggestions. Older sister: 'OMG! You are so stupid and annoying!' Older sister makes no suggestions. Older sister is a drag.

Who writes this stuff??

From the ending of the first episode of this show on ABC one can see the next move with a few minutes of the start of the next episode. While this is shown at 10 PM the plot is more like a 4 PM show for kids after school! 3rd episodes in and from the time the youngest girl escapes you know that the crooked state trooper will be bring her back. If there was something else better to watch at 10 with the only other network show at this time being CBS FBI Most Wanted another lack luster show show with week acting! One can only hope this show gets a lot better quickly or that ABC kills it off for something one can only hope that would be more interesting!

After all the hype from the social media . I expected something near to the quality of HBO and Netflix . Given the good cast but oh boy was i wrong ! I can't belive this show was written by the same guy who created some decent shows back in the day ( BIG LITTLE LIES - GOLIATH - MR MERCEDES - BOSTON LEGAL ) and the list goes on .

• The dialogues are cheesy asf
• The plot itslef is a joke ( Two women fight for a man - the detective slept with his ex wife and also having an affair with his co-worker. Really ????? and don't let get me started with the truck chase it's one of the most unrealistic things i have ever scene in my life )

I gave 4/10 due to some good musics . Good scenary and the acting which is surprisingly good soo far especially John Caroll Lynch and Katheryn Winnick.And for Ryan you must be happy.At least the poor writers did something good for saving you from this trainwreck. Really fell sad for the actors who are involved in this poorly written melodrama . it's early to judge a show by its pilot but honestly i doubt this one will get another season .