{"id":245633,"date":"2021-05-07T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/big-sky-sets-the-bar-for-shocking-tv-deaths\/"},"modified":"2021-05-07T00:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:23:23","slug":"big-sky-sets-the-bar-for-shocking-tv-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-sky-sets-the-bar-for-shocking-tv-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Big Sky&#8217; sets the bar for shocking TV deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25720d4fd5e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25720d4fd5e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-sky-sets-the-bar-for-shocking-tv-deaths\/#Some_of_TVs_most_shocking_sendoffs_of_the_last_decade\" >Some of TV\u2019s most shocking sendoffs of the last decade:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Big Sky&#8217; sets the bar for shocking TV deaths<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cBig Sky\u201d exploded the prime-time playbook by killing off ostensible star Ryan Phillippe in its premiere last fall \u2014 and it was just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>The grim reaper has dropped his scythe on several lead \u201cBig Sky\u201d characters since then with an alarming regularity on the popular ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, renewed for a second season earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re putting out a casting call: \u2018Come on to \u201cBig Sky\u201d and get killed!&#8217;\u201d said Elwood Reid, 54, the showrunner for David E. Kelley\u2019s drama, which unfolds in the Montana mountains and follows private detectives Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury) and Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick) as they hunt psycho truck driver Ronald Pergman (Brian Geraghty). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an artistic sense, it\u2019s fun that nobody\u2019s safe. Also, from a disciplinary standpoint, if anybody causes problems [on the set], it\u2019s like, \u2018OK, you can catch a bullet tomorrow and you\u2019re off the show.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid is kidding, but \u201cBig Sky\u201d has been deadly serious in sending major characters to kingdom come and setting a new bar for unpredictability.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Legarski (John Carroll Lynch), the cheerfully toxic Montana State Trooper who shot Cody Hoyt (Phillippe) in the head to close Episode 1, eventually met his maker. After surviving a bullet to <em>his<\/em> head courtesy of Cassie, he was bludgeoned to death \u2014 in his hospital bed \u2014 by his crazed wife, Merilee (Brooke Smith).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"John Carroll Lynch as Montana State Trooper Rick Legarski, eventually bludgeoned-to-death by his wife.\" class=\"wp-image-18174022 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229759359.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229759359.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229759359.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229759359.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229759359.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>John Carroll Lynch as Montana State Trooper Rick Legarski, eventually bludgeoned-to-death by his wife.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ABC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At least Carroll enjoyed half a season on \u201cBig Sky\u201d; veteran actor Michael Raymond-James lasted just three episodes before his character, Blake Kleinsasser \u2014 oldest son of the dangerously dysfunctional ranching family featured of late \u2014 was nearly decapitated by a shovel to the head, courtesy of his brother, John Wayne (Kyle Schmid) and died instantly. You can\u2019t choose your family, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s become this thing on \u2018Big Sky\u2019 because we\u2019re doing a show that killed off Ryan Phillippe and the audience is like, \u2018Holy s\u2013t, anything can h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en to anybody on this show,&#8217;\u201d said Reid, who\u2019s also a novelist. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe say, \u2018It\u2019s \u201cBig Sky.\u201d You\u2019re gonna die.\u2019 It\u2019s fun; it creates this anxiety with viewers where they think, \u2018I don\u2019t want to give my heart to this character because they could end up dead next week\u2019 \u2014 and I think that\u2019s what brings people back to the show. Take Legarski, who literally put a bullet in the head of the biggest star on [the show\u2019s promotional] poster. That informed the show\u2019s tone from there and I see no reason to deviate from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid said there are two elements to the show\u2019s sudden-death template \u2014 hinting that there\u2019s more to come in that department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that allows us to do this is to get big-name actors who don\u2019t want to commit to 14 episodes or three seasons (or more) of a TV series,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can get really cool names, put them through the wringer and then promise we\u2019ll kill them off. When you do that, actors, just like writers, pull out all the stops. The hardest thing for an actor is trying to modulate a TV performance for five or 10 episodes or seven seasons \u2026 but when you tell an actor you\u2019re going to kill them off in three episodes, they pull out every trick in the book and make every moment count.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Rick] Legarski was a good example,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was no secret we loved writing for him \u2014 John Carroll Lynch is an incredible actor \u2014 but David [E. Kelley] said, \u2018Oh, I f\u2013ked up, I shot him, but he\u2019s not completely dead.\u2019 So we brought him back and did the whole hospital scenario. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you pull the trigger too quickly; the show wasn\u2019t ready to get rid of Legarski. He brought a lot of color and energy to the series. The minute we killed him we were like, \u2018Holy s\u2013t, what did we do? We just killed our best player.\u2019 But I think that\u2019s the flip side of the nobody-is-safe coin: We have to make sure we get all of the story out of these characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid said the shockers, such as they are, take on different shadings once they become a part of a show\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, the audience will grow numb to it, but what they never grow numb to is letting them invest in a character. It\u2019s like an arcade <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> or a bad action movie: Here\u2019s a character who has a cup of coffee and gets hit by a bus. That will get old, but what never gets old is for me to pull out my crafty bag of evil tricks, like having Blake\u2019s brother kill him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re just putting characters in there to kill them, it\u2019s boring.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Some_of_TVs_most_shocking_sendoffs_of_the_last_decade\"><\/span>Some of TV\u2019s most shocking sendoffs of the last decade:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Adriana La Cerva (Drea de Matteo), \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d:<\/strong> The likable girlfriend of Soprano crime family henchman Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli) meets her maker in Season 5 after tearfully admitting to Christopher that she\u2019s been spying on the family for the FBI \u2014 an unforgivable sin. Shortly thereafter, suspecting nothing, she takes a ride with Silvio (Steven Van Zandt), who pulls into a wooded area and guns her down in cold blood as she begs for her life.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Silvio Kills Adriana La Cerva - The Sopranos HD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bm03vt8tkdc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara), \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d:<\/strong> In the Season 2 opener, the DC journalist is pushed to her death in front of a speeding subway train by her onetime fling\/source, murderous politician Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), who\u2019s cleaning up loose ends to further his career. There were no witnesses, but Frank (and Spacey, for that matter) eventually got theirs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zoe Barnes Train Death Scene - House of Cards HD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hpi9kFskZFk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d:<\/strong> It wasn\u2019t shocking that Gus was killed, it was the way he was dispatched \u2014 by a bomb planted by Walter White (Bryan Cranston) under the wheelchair of Gus\u2019 mute, bell-ringing nemesis, Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis). The image of Gus walking out of the room and straightening his tie \u2014 with half his face and head blown away \u2014 is unforgettable.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Breaking Bad - Gustavo Fring&#039;s Death Scene\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R6CjCEyAJ2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d:<\/strong> The ABC series is known for its surprise twists \u2014 but no one saw it coming when Derek \u2014 a k a \u201cMcDreamy\u201d \u2014 was hit and killed by a truck in Season 11 just after saving others from a bad car accident while in Washington, DC. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) curled up in bed with him as he was declared brain-dead: an unforgettable moment in the show\u2019s long history.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Derek&#039;s Death - Grey&#039;s Anatomy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KpY9fHwBX5A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Ned Stark (Sean Bean), \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d:<\/strong> Ned\u2019s death-by-beheading in Season 1 shocked the show\u2019s fans, since he was the HBO show\u2019s titular star and was heavily promoted as such. Ned\u2019s sudden demise set the \u201cno one is safe\u201d tone for the series and sent the Stark brood on the paths they would take going forward. Honorable mention: the \u201cRed Wedding\u201d episode in Season 3 (official title: \u201cThe Rains of Castamere\u201d).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Game Of Thrones-Eddard Stark&#039;s Death\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PW6wfXPeJTw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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