Big Sky Review: Do No Harm (Season 2 Episode 11)

Big Sky is able to carry over the pressure cooker intensity from the previous episode on Big Sky Season 2 Episode 11, “Do No Harm.” The tension continues to build with situations becoming more and more dire by the second.

Ronald teeters between life and death as Scarlet desperately tries to get him medical help all while Wolf, Cassie, and Mark are hot on their tail thanks to Wolf having the wherewithal to chip his cagey captive. Max and Rachel’s lives hang in the balance as well as we don’t know the outcome of Max’s tussle with Bob who’s gone rogue. 

The Bhullar family drama intensifies ten-fold with Daddy Bhullar pitting his children against each other, and Constance Zimmer being there and fabulous in the sassy trophy wife/stepmother role.

Although, I see no flashy ring, so maybe it’s a different kind of relationship going on there. “Alicia has been helping me with my financial planning, among other things,” is how Veer describes it.

Either way, I am definitely down to explore it. 

Alicia is a random and peripheral addition, at least for now, but she is definitely a Big Sky character. Hopefully her role will be beefed up because her presence brings a whole other dynamic—and it is one that I can’t quite see where it fits into the overall scheme of things.

Nevertheless, it feels as though it ought to be there, and the show usually uses that to its advantage. 

I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but Big Sky is all about its female characters. The men are all kinda terrible in their own ways with few exceptions—Joseph (RIP) and Mark, for example.

Jenny: [rolls eyes] Men. 

One of the more recent baddies is like Alicia where he feels like he just belongs in this universe. Bob (Alex Knight) is sufficiently creepy with some quirks like building wooden friends to keep him company, and on the less disturbing end, a fondness for television.  

The downside to bringing in these interesting characters that relate to the secondary cases (secondary to the Ronald storyline) is that once the case is over, so is their time on the show. 

I still miss Merilee Legarski from the first half of Season 1, played by the underrated Brooke Smith. And I would love a check-in with the Kleinsassers, too. 

Big Sky creates these characters that are just too unique to be casualties of the procedural format. 

Speaking of, we haven’t seen much of Donno in these last two episodes. I hope this is not indicative of a trend where there is so much story that the characters are sacrificed.

For instance, there is a lot of potential for Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s character, Tonya, but the sparse usage of her worries me. 

It’s really anything goes on Big Sky, so I will try to refrain from pessimistic speculation. There’s plenty about the show to enjoy, so I’ll focus on that. 

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Big Sky airs Thursdays at 10/9c on ABC.

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