#Big Sky 3x11

[let-me-be-your-home]

Beau Arlen | Big Sky 3x11

[justjensenanddean]

Jensen Ackles as Beau Arlen BIG SKY: Deadly Trails (2023) | 3.11 – “Super Foxes”

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JENSEN ACKLES as BEAU ARLEN in BIG SKY | 3.11 Super Foxes

[beaudeanw]

Jensen Ackles as Beau Arlen in Big Sky S3 Episode 11 - Super Foxes

[liberteqm]

Katheryn Winnick in Big Sky (3x11)

[deansraspberrypie]

🤠❤‍🔥 Sheriff Beau Arlen

Big Sky - 3.11 - Super Foxes 🤠✨

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[jacklesthings]

Big Sky: Screenshots from tonight episode 3x11

[witchy-writer-lady]

Hi, everyone! Big Sky is back from hiatus and I bring you thoughts on 3x11, so beware the spoilers as always. Thoughts below the cut.

@trekkiehood was right. Not only Beau is sleeping outside, that convo was bullshit. Emily, sweetie, I like you, but if your dad doesn't want to talk about his trauma, he won't do so until he's ready, so don't push and make him more guilty than he already is. And I know you want your parents get back together or whatever by standing up for Avery, but no. Just no. He belongs with Jenny. End of the story.

And Jenny's mom is back, bringing trouble once again. Hate her. Jenny got hurt. Which is bad, but at least we got Jenny x Beau hug out of it? Which got interrupted by Avery, ugh!

Speaking of Avery, he almost got taken by bad guys, but Beau saved him by shooting the guy. And then Avery has the gall to blame Beau! Excuse you! You are the one who started the mess! Beau only shot the guy to protect you because Carla asked to save your ass, so shut it. Bastard. Who later got taken by Tonya and Donno and tried to strike deal with them. Avery, you're not cut out for these kinds of things, imo. And serves you right for refusing to tell Beau the truth, honestly.

Also, have I told you that Barnes family (except Cormac) is bonkers? If not, I'll say it again. Because Buck has the jars with - human organs? - each labeled with a female name. Paige was about to join them until she got the upper hand and beat him up, and escaped. Dunno if he's alive, but the moment supports the "Buck is one behind the Bleeding Heart murders" theory.

Anyway, back with Jenny. She found her mom and they were forced to play a game by another crazy family or they get fed to the pigs. Getting the Benders from SPN vibes from them. Thankfully, Cassie saved them, family is arrested, as well as Gigi, the jail is where she belongs.

Back with Beau, we get an emotional conversation with Carla. While it's sweet and all, it's no JennyxBeau, sadly. Plus, Beau's worries are proven right as bad guys are spying on Emily, one of which is the guy that Beau shot. Oh shit.

And that's a wrap! All in all, it was a good ep if you ignore infuriating scene with Beau and Avery and the lack of Beau x Jenny scenes. Until the next episode, guys!

[whateverthedragonswant]

Omg I'm dying laughing rn though I'm really trying hard to stop. I'm rewatching certain Jenny scenes in 3x11 for writing purposes and what do I see?

Not only is Jenny more affectionate while Beau is giving her a hug like Poppernak just did but when Beau gets the call about Avery, he looks to Cassie first then Jenny, telling them an officer spotted him. Jenny tells him "Go", he nods then looks to Cassie who tells him "Yeah, we got this." THEN he leaves.

As he's leaving, he bumps into Poppernak literally and then he passes right by Jenny who moves out of his way but puts a hand on his shoulder, and tells him to call her later. He says yeah, never stopping to look at her, and walks out the door.

THEN when Jenny says she knows where they can start looking for the people who took Gigi, there is a shot of Cassie getting up and throwing a pen into a coffee cup.

Remind you of anything?

This episode is all about parallels while bringing back some good ol' Cassie and Jenny working together goodness (which is why it's such a great episode for writing fuel), it allows Katheryn to shine as well as Jensen in their performances among some of the other cast members, it allows Cassie back into the lead she's supposed to be for once, we get back to the roots a bit of what is really the heart of this show (the 2 ladies), and gives us more of a closer look into Beau's story as well.

So while Beau deals with Avery who is trying to steal 15 million that has put his daughter and her mother in danger, Jenny is dealing with the fallout of Gigi grifting the wrong people that she stole 30K from Jenny to try to fix that now has mother and daughter in danger. Parallels.

This episode has such potential and I actually would argue is one of the more decent ones we've seen all season. Maybe that's due to Ryan's involvement in writing the episode, I'm not sure, but it's fantastic all around.

But here's what cracks me up when I think just how badly they fudged this season up and how hard the actors had to work to try to offset some of these bad story decisions. Why the parallel between Beau and Cassie?

Would Cassie have become the new sheriff had the series continued and Beau actually stayed in character, following Carla and Emily back to Houston? Not likely, given Cassie has staunchly refused to go back into policing and still has her PI business. Not to mention that would be a huge disservice to her character as well as Jenny's.

Is it a romantic parallel? Nope. The show runner made it pretty clear that Beau supposedly only sees Jenny in that light.

To set up a romantic parallel between Beau and Jenny? While I wouldn't put it past them to actually do that and think they accomplished something there, that doesn't seem to be what's happening here either, especially since Jenny is not the one tossing the pen and given Beau's pilot mode responses to her physical contact.

So why the parallel? Why have Cassie sitting like Beau was, throwing the pen into a coffee mug as they got up? When Jenny and Poppernak were present in both scenes, with Jenny knowing where to go and leading the way? With a phone call happening to Beau both times?

Well, let's look at who wrote this episode: Ryan and Christine Roum. And let's look at the title of the episode "Super Foxes". Jenny leads Cassie to see Tanya and Donno in the next scene where Jenny has to ask beg for Tonya's help to find her mom, none of her disgust for Tonya present. Tonya eventually agrees to help.

Now let's go back to 3x02. Who wrote that episode? Kyle Long and Christine Roum. What's the title? "The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep" Not a parallel to foxes at all, in fact it's a line from a popular Robert Frost poem.

But in this episode what do we have? Beau is trying a sandwich from Tonya and Donno's diner The Blue Fox when Beau calls Jenny over to try it. She flat out refuses (we saw the previous episode how much she can't stand that Tonya isn't in jail) and goes on a rant with Tonya appearing behind her. Beau dashes off to help Cassie while telling Jenny to help Tonya. Jenny begrudgingly does while taking Poppernak with her. This case leads to the pen scene later on, where they're leaving to head to Tonya's house to save Paul.

This is the parallel. They literally did this to not only set up the Jenny and Tonya scene after to show Jenny's change but also to call back to 3x02. The pen parallel was the best they could do rather than pour everything they had into the Jenny and Tonya scene (which Katheryn and Jamie-Lynn were the ones to make it work btw) to wrap it up and make it more meaningful for Jenny's character which was at the forefront of this episode. They used Cassie again in order to focus on Jenny, sidelining how important Cassie actually is to the story itself. (Let's not forget y'all, she's the main character from the books this show is based on)

And then they did it to her again with Beau in the same damn scene! Even in an episode that's not about the AA-led campaign for Beau/Jenny kiss kiss tag team for once (though they still keep it in your face in their separate stories by the whole Emily and Carla scenes). Beau looks to Cassie again before Jenny like he had in 3x02 and 3x01 because he "still isn't ready to let Jenny in yet". So they literally use Cassie yet again to further someone else's story, one who isn't even one of the main characters. (Listen, I love Beau but that's the cold hard truth, it's not a slight against the character or Jensen)

And they even continuously used Poppernak for the Beau and Jenny push as well. Granted, he's not a main character but he has become a pillar in Jenny's world so to speak. Plus, the way J. Anthony Pena played him, there was SO much potential there with his character.

Literally both POC characters were pushed aside for the White characters to set up a romance that they didn't even commit to in the end (that ending scene is not romantic, sorry not sorry - Beau still can't look at her or tell her what happened in Houston without imbibing more alcohol, she settled for handhold). Just cold hard facts. And again, crappy writing.

THIS is why this show failed. Because of ridiculous story decisions like this. No wonder the cast had to work so hard to try to make things make sense when it came to marrying their performances with the writing. Because when you strip this down and look at the whole thing, what on earth do you see? A gift of a great story (from the books) and a David E. Kelly production that put an exciting twist on the whole thing was given to Elwood Reid and his writers and they completely ruined it. They literally took it and smashed it into pieces in a trash compactor then presented it to us and were like "See this masterpiece I made?"

I won't lie, I'm a huge Katheryn Winnick fan and to me it was sad to read an interview she gave back when she was first on the show, doing press. She was supposed to take a sabbatical after Vikings but got this offer, saw it was a David E. Kelly production, and knew she couldn't pass it up. So she went in full steam ahead. Anyone who has read/heard Katheryn talk knows how incredibly creative she is, knows she puts her heart and soul into the stories she tells. Not to mention Jenny Hoyt was a great character they created and it was the perfect marriage between Jenny and Katheryn on the screen. Whatever David's reasons for stepping away after season 1, Elwood was clearly the wrong choice to take over and lead this team of writers. They made some good decisions here and there like Beau and his storyline, Reba's casting, the Cassie and Jenny moments that were the heart of season 2, etc, but they really took the polished gem of potential David gave them and collectively ran over it with their cars.

I love the story of the books and I love the overall story of the show between the two women (what a smart twist to switch Cody for Jenny, to flesh out Jenny's character more, and split it down the middle between Cassie and Jenny in the storyline - that's David E. Kelly for you). This show had so much potential had they changed up either the showrunner or some of the writers or even both, but sadly they chose to do...that.

And examples like this one are proof in the pudding of how badly they missed the mark. If only they had done things differently perhaps we would have a season that pulled together better and actually made sense for all characters involved, rather than showing the desperation to stay on the air and sucking up to a section of one actor's internet fan base. We still might not have gotten a season 4 due to what's happening in Hollywood right now, but the characters would have been in a much better position by the end of the season in their storylines, then the equivalent of an apathetic wrap job in old newspaper with Scotch tape to "close things up".

So sad.

Eli Jorne and his writers told a better story in 6 episodes than Elwood and his writers did in 2 seasons (31 episodes). And Elwood was handed the world from David E. Kelly. Eli was given access to the TWD universe but had to completely create his own corner of it.

Sad.

[disasterbispn]

“Cornhole for your life” lacks the alliterative power of “lip sync for your life,” but I still think it could take off.

[let-me-be-your-home]

[justjensenanddean]

Jensen Ackles as Beau Arlen BIG SKY: Deadly Trails (2023) | 3.11 – “Super Foxes”

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God, this is a fine mf

JENSEN ACKLES as BEAU ARLEN in BIG SKY | 3.11 Super Foxes

[avengerdaisy]

Jensen Ackles as Beau Arlen in Big Sky: 3x11 Super Foxes

[liberteqm]

Katheryn Winnick in Big Sky (3x11)

[deansraspberrypie]

🤠❤‍🔥 Sheriff Beau Arlen

Big Sky - 3.11 - Super Foxes 🤠✨

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