The Morning After Phew! I now know how Castiel must have felt when Metatron forced the sum total of all pop culture references into his mind in the span of a few seconds! After six episodes of a slow but steady flow of clues to the Akrida, the Men of Letters, and the disappearances of…
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…
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. John Winchester has anger issues… “Art of Dying” was yet another not bad Monster of the Week episode, but it really didn’t do a lot for character advancement or plot movement. It felt like filler, designed to stall until the big midseason finale where we finally get…
What is truth? What is the truth? Walker: Independence’s “The Owl and the Arrow” sends the characters in search of the truth while many still conceal their own truths. It is an entertaining dance with life or death consequences. One of the main characters torn between searching for truth and concealing it is …
It’s not a bad episode…
A Week Later For five weeks, we have tracked The Winchesters’ messages about shedding one’s past, or learning how to live with the trauma carried forward from that past. For the first time, though, 1.06 “Art of Dying”, foreshadowed a future we know awaits both John and Mary. I didn’t hear this thread the first…
Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful… in theory. In actuality, it tends to be chaotic and stressful, filled with family and extended family drama. “Just Desserts” exemplifies the hectic holiday where not everyone gets what they deserve. In the role of the harried cook, trying his best while everything falls apart, is …
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…
Well, I guess there was some plot advancement. That was something.
After several tightly-written, crime-focused episodes, we hit the mid-season finale with “Just Desserts”, a messy Thanksgiving family drama. There was a lot to like in this episode, with a focus on connections between people, gratitude, and mending fences. We got a dose of differing traditions, family bonds, and damaging secrets. We also saw what happens…
I think I’m going to change the saying from “A for effort” to “optimistic because of effort” to rate The Winchesters 1.05 “Legend of a Mind”.
“The Owl And The Arrow” was a surprisingly fitting name for this week’s episode of Walker: Independence. It was a tense look at Old West justice, period-accurate racism and prejudice, and some unfortunate realities of the world that still haven’t changed. Since the events of this episode are focused around the accusations and proceedings surrounding Francis…
