Let me start by mentioning my favorite line. That was from Big Rick's lawyer, who says "Bobby Orr voted for Trump". I already forgot the context, but it's a standalone great line anyway.
And, of course, one big development in 1.9 is that Rick will no longer need an attorney. His wife hammered him to death. I'm pretty but not positive he was faking his amnesia, and he certainly remembered enough to convince his wife that he was evil Rick who almost killed her. Well, for Big Rick's fans, there'll always be that lifelike cardboard stand-up figure of Rick.
The other big news is the brilliant strategizing of Ronald. After killing his mother and the priest, and kidnapping the boy, and being recognized by Cassie, he manages to escape everyone's best efforts to nab him by employing elements of all three victims: (1) his mother's corpse, dressed as a boy, nearly gets Jenny blown up, (2) he has the priest's body auto-drive the Tesla with the kidnapped boy next to him, which (3) leads everyone on a wild goose chase. Well, not a goose chase, because thank goodness the boy is now safely back with his mother, but the chase was one of the wildest I've seen on television.
So Ronald's on the loose, Rick is dead, and the slate is almost clean. And the show won't be back until April. It certainly has had a unique narrative structure, with tonight's ending, and the winter break ending last year, which would have worked well as conclusions to a somewhat truncated and a very truncated series. Is that what David Kelley had in mind, in case the series was cancelled?
Who knows, but I'm glad it wasn't, and I'll be back here in April with more reviews when Big Sky resumes.
See also Big Sky 1.1: A Pretty Big Deal ... Big Sky 1.2: The "Goods" and the Ruined Plan ... Big Sky 1.3: "You Kidnapped the Wrong Girl" ... Big Sky 1.4: Controls on Psychos ... Big Sky 1.5: Winter Finale Indeed! ... Big Sky 1.6: "Sweet Psycho" ... Big Sky 1.7: The Montana State Trooper
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