After watching two episodes of ABC's new drama Big Sky, from creator David E. Kelley, I've narrowed my responses down to a pair of possibilities: The first is that despite a strong creative team and a cast of TV favorites, Big Sky is a very bad show.
It's tawdry and manipulative, basically ABC's version of Criminal Minds. And I'm fully aware lots of folks lovedCriminal Minds.
The second is that the pilot for Big Sky is a feint, a misdirect, a near-parody of tawdry and manipulative shows like Criminal Minds and the violence against women that fuel them.
The second episode, then, is much closer to the actual show that Kelley and company want to be making. It unfortunately happens that the second episode isn't very good either.
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