As other reviewers noted, the episode tried to pack to much into it. I still enjoyed the episode but the rattlesnake bite was ridiculous. It's not explained but that absolutely had to be a dry snakebite (where the snake bites but doesn't inject venom)--yes that's a thing. Because unless Walt only had to drag Hank a couple hundred yards, there's no way he'd be able to do that after a rattlesnake bite without also being very, very ill.
8 Reviews
Yes, A Bit Too Much
Hitchcoc28 December 2018
There's way too much stuff packed into this episode. Spread out, it may have worked. But we the intercessor, Marilyn, playing god, up to a point. We have the hallucinations, representing Henry's guilt. We have Cady and Walt reconciling over Darius's craziness. Then there's the business with Cowboy Bob and his holdup, and the shooting of the security guard at the bank. Even all that's OK, but could they have left out the snake?! Oh, well, it goes on.
Ridiculously overdone
info-89-36607324 November 2017
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The episode includes many of the elements we expect from the series: mystic visions, mistrust of the white man, inter-tribal rivalries, to name a few. I could handle letting Henry live for days in the desert with no water and even letting Marilyn shoot his captors yet still not actually save him. But then when Walt, with no water himself, has to get bitten by a rattlesnake while dragging Henry the miles back to the car. Seriously? What were the writers even thinking?
Big plot problems
rogerorne22 April 2022
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The plot has some glaring deficiencies. Walt, who has lived in Wyoming all his life, goes out into the wilds without carrying water along? Then reaches under a rock without checking first for dangerous critters? I think not to both. And Marylin shoots all Henry's captors but, when he later gets free of his bonds, there are only empty water bottles. Did the captors plan on dying of thirst along with Henry?
Water water nowhere and not a thought to think.
futuretype1 February 2020
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It was bad enough that Standing Bear was alive, much less coherent, after days of no water but then having Walt get bit and survive a rattlesnake bite was over the top. It seems the writers had lost it at the beginning of this season and not just the last episode. And difficult to accept that Walt would rely on Marilyn to bring/carry the water.
Poor policing and survival skills
milkcrate-920248 March 2024
I'm so tired of the stupidity of Walt not carrying a cell phone, one of the most useful tools for a policeman: important for communication, photos, etc. Even smarter when going deep into the wilderness would be a satellite phone, but he is too stubborn or foolish to carry anything other than a long gun. Seems like he should retire. It's not 1890 any longer. The sheriff needs to be reachable.
Why is he always grabbing evidence without wearing gloves??
Why does he go into the wilderness without carrying water?
Why does he reach into crevices without checking for snakes first?
His obsession with Night horse seems cartoonist.
Why is he always grabbing evidence without wearing gloves??
Why does he go into the wilderness without carrying water?
Why does he reach into crevices without checking for snakes first?
His obsession with Night horse seems cartoonist.
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drexmaverick13 March 2020
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