Ryan Philippe returns to the small screen in "Big Sky", a series available on Disney + -

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  • Disney + is launching a new section on February 23, Star, with content intended for “parents and young adults”.

  • In its catalog,

    Big Sky

    was one of the events of the back-to-school series, because it was created by screenwriter David E. Kelly and worn by star Ryan Philippe.

  • But a big surprise awaits the public at the end of the pilot of this thriller against the background of kidnappings in Montana.

Because of the Covid-19 health crisis, the start of the series on American channels did not go as planned, with fewer new features.

Big Sky

was one of them, a double event since it is the last creation of a David E. Kelley in full glory (

Big Little Lies, The Undoing

) and marks the return of Ryan Philippe on the small screen , after the

Secrets and Lies

and

Shooter series

.

Available on Disney + Star,

Big Sky

 chronicles the investigation of a duo of private investigators, Cassie Cody (Ryan Philippe) and Cassie (Kylie Bunbury), aided by Jenny (Katheryn Winnick), ex-cop and ex-wife of Cody, on kidnappings in Montana.

A classic starting pitch for a detective series, if not just a big surprise, a twist, awaits viewers at the end of the pilot.

Warning for spoilers.

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"In the series, you can often predict everything within a kilometer"

While he is presented as the or one of the main heroes, squatting the promotional posters, Ryan Philippe sees his character Cody killed at the last minute of the first episode.

With a bullet to the head.

No hope therefore that he will return, except during rare flashbacks, and the rest of the series confirms it.

Cassie and Jenny are the stars of the show, although they get stolen from the limelight by John Carroll Lynch, crooked cop and Cody's murderer.

“I was shocked, of course,” Ryan Philippe comments to Variety.

But that's what also excited me about the project.

Very often in entertainment and series you can foresee everything within a mile.

To have such a moment on a show like this, a breathtaking, unexpected moment, it's really exciting to be a part of it.

The actor is just afraid of the reaction of his fans, who will only have seen him for one episode.

The film "Psychosis", the first to test the spectator's empathy

If the series use - and abuse - the deaths of characters as a dramatic spring and

end-of-season

cliffhanger

(hello

Game of Thrones

and

The Walking Dead

), it is rarer from the pilot.

But it's not new, like - beware of possible spoilers - of

The Shield

and

Oz

.

For the first, it is about marking with a hot iron the tone of the series, and how much Vic and the Strike Team are rotten, and for the second, to remember that no one is safe in prison .

You could almost say that all these series made a

Psychosis

, in reference to the masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock, where the apparent heroine Marion, played by Janet Leigh, is killed in the shower, halfway through the film.

The point of view then changes to marry that of her sister Lila, her lover Sam, a private investigator and, of course, Norman Bates, the manager of the motel.

The film is one of the first to play with audience expectations and empathy in this way, and while it will never be equaled, it will not be copied either.

Too risky for Hollywood.

Let's mention the intro of

Scream

with Drew Barrymore, but the surprise comes less from the character than from the actress, the star, then the most famous of the cast.

A party man, two women found

This is a bit like what

Big Sky is

trying

with Ryan Philippe, who sees his sudden departure as a shocking factor for the spectator, but also a way of highlighting a duo of female stars: “I was very comfortable. with the fact that the show was centered on women.

I have three sisters, I was raised by women.

So I'm all for seeing a show that celebrates the strength of being a woman and all that goes with it.

It is a very good thing ".

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