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‘Big Sky’: S01.E10-E11. “Eps. 10 & 11”
US Marshals, with Ronald Pergman at large, pursue a new lead
Big Sky, after a significant break, returned to television screens on Tuesday, 13 April 2021 with two new episodes. The Montana set Big Sky, created by David E. Kelley, is partially based on the C.J. Box written literary series.
Episodes, as series fans have come to expect, have taken us down numerous metaphorical rabbit holes. The various twists and turns, many of the completely blindsiding viewers, have added significant dramatic tension to the narrative.
Previously, in Let It Be Him, Merrilee Legarski (Brooke Smith) finally realised her husband had intended to kill her. Merrilee, in an earlier episode, awoke to find Rick Legarski (John Carroll Lynch) standing over her with a hammer in his hand.
Curiously, with no real plausibility, Rick had suggested he wanted to re-hang a painting in the bedroom. There was no reason for Merrilee to not believe her husband. Merrilee, having connected all the dots, eventually realised Rick’s true intent. Turnabout is fair play. Merrilee, in what could essentially be seen as poetic justice, took the same hammer Rick intended to use on her and bashed him to death.
