“Sometimes we get things wrong,” Walker tells former partner Captain James as an explanation for continuing to investigate the death of his wife Emily despite the presence of a man named Carlos Mendoza already confesses to the crime. Walker is convinced that something more is happening here, despite the doubts of everyone in his life – James, his brother Liam, Emily Geri ‘s friend, and even Walker’ s own children and parents . They have all moved on, or are trying to move on. Why can’t Walker just… focus on horse crime, and get on with it?
But look, there’s no way this display doesn’t work in a larger privacy service, right? Because, well, those episodic plots aren’t cut to date, and I refuse to believe Walker which is not deliberately spinning the wheels while the main consumer searches for more information about his wife’s murder. In pilot last week, our felts turned to pottery with a religious theme to cover up their drug smuggling. The only thing that came out of that plot: that same criminal who went to Walker about Emily, refreshing our Texas Ranger mind with what happened near the border that night nearly a year ago. This week in “Back In The Saddle” we had a rich man whose stable goes up in flames, with the fire unknowingly killing a man and (apparently) killing a horse -reason prize. The same thing came out of it sin conspiracy: Walker likes Questo. Let’s go! Who no as a Questioner! Is this real character development? Walker they can’t build the whole first season on taunts and dips on their own!
Let’s talk about the issue around the Texas Nightshade horse, I believe, because at least that name is pretty good. no Shadowfax, but it will. While Walker makes headlines with his family and Ramirez is about to get busy with his visiting girlfriend, Trey, she gets a call from Captain James about an issue, and immediately calls Walker. They appear at the bougie ‘s Manchester Fields stables, where the night before the security cameras were cut off and a huge fire spread, killing one man when a beam fell on him while trying to to save a locked rescue. The man and award-winning stall, Texas Nightshade, has died, and Mr Manchester is calling in the Rangers for their help. Maybe it was a neighbor who caused the fire? Ramirez and Walker are on the case! There is only one problem: Micki jumped the gun by calling her companion, and James had not wanted Walker on this issue at all. no just as Walker appears fearless and wears his black (personal) black hat instead of his white (professional) white hat – get it, Westworld watchers? Black hats versus white hats! – who in James’ s tight eyes is breaking a dress code. But mostly as Walker allowed his credentials as a Texas Ranger to expire, and is technically not a law officer at all.
“Walker has a chance to be on the right side of history,” James says, and there’s a stiffness to that conversation that’s common throughout Anna Fricke’s teleplay this week. Why do you have to co-opt executive terminology when you are basically just asking your lieutenant to dress better for work? But James, like everyone else, also uses that conversation to tell Walker to give the Emily who is studying a break. Instead, he sends Walker away to take his credentials, and while last week ‘s pilot focused heavily on investment communications telling us about Cordell Walker, the legend, “Back In The Saddle ”Reflects some of the highly commended skills. It’s a good sign, not to throw a bullet. Texas moves throughout the training course, simultaneously scaring and smearing his car test tester. But when it’s time to go horseback riding and riding, Walker grabs him with his saddle bag, a gift from Emily with his original letters folded on him. He walks away from the test part when his memories of Emily grow too much, and he’s not the only one who misses her – Stella and Augie are there too.
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I’m still confused by the show’s timeline between that time when we see Walker realize that something is wrong when Emily calls him, fleeing from her pursuers while she leaving water and food by the border, and that time when Walker returns home after 10 months under cover, the last 3 months he never spoke to the teenagers. Was Walker immediately suspicious of the poker chip left on Emily’s body, with her eyes closed? Did he share those concerns with family or with other Texas Rangers before he left to assign an undercover? Did he spend any time with Stella and Augie, mourning together, or did he leave them on the doorstep and kick his parents? Did Liam, Walker ‘s younger brother always think he was a subpar father? The show may spread those details over time, but it seems that so much of the tension between Stella and Walker, and between Walker and his mother and brother, is captured in the discontent of the this hidden timeline-Walker. Were you just … there was never a speech?
But Walker finally, finally starting something to try, and by the end of “Back In The Saddle,” he has made some progress. With Stella, whose terror is this program in the service of a commendable cause – asking her friend Bel, the one who was arrested with her, to be treated in the same way by their football coach – but who circulates her objections to a major argument with Walker about not deserving of a second chance to be like their father. It’s a sloppy view that relies more on raw anger than a lot of logic, but Stella is a teenager, so I guess I’d cut a bit of an exchange on this exchange. After the fight, father and daughter still don’t talk, but they text, and they had the trip to collect a concrete step from Austin’s house – a memory of Stella and Augie’s childhood, with the handprints trapped in the concrete – an important bonding moment. Meanwhile, Augie is responsible for the school project “What Texas Means to Me”, which he uses to pick up his mother’s old cameras and get creative. And while Walker and Liam get into a wrasslin game, they also reach a kind of peace when Liam ‘s warnings about Walker seem to be losing his children if he doesn’t focus on the day. today through.
In the closing times of the program, Walker and his children gather in their new home on his parents’ area to watch Augie’s “What Texas Means to Me” video, and to try and restart their family. Augie is proud of his work collecting family photographs from Emily’s old cameras. Stella is moved to see their mother again. And Walker – well, he still seems to have some questions about Emily ‘s death. He now knows that Geri has closed her eyes, and that Emily bought it from a poker package for Father ‘s Day. But is he really going to let this go? That doesn’t seem to be the case.
Oh, and Walker is passing his last test and getting a certificate as a keeper, and Texas Nightshade is fine! The wealthy man set fire to a property on his own property to protect himself from paying out losing a racing bet as Texas Nightshade was injured, and then tried to a neighbor who liked to design a horse for the crime. A rich man who is an asshole? What a panic.
Wrong thoughts
- Halo to Alex Landi’s Bret, who asks Liam’s fiancé to move to New York City with him. See if you can leave the Hen-of-the-wood mushrooms to me, I’m hungry!
- I was surprised last week how good Walker would be able to write stories about immigration, ICE, and the USA-Mexican border, introduced in the pilot. This week, we learn that ICE is investigating the family of Bel, Stella’s friend, who has no documents. Without lying, if Walker hits an ICE representative in the face or something, this would be a key as my new favorite show.
- … Although, Walker is also the character who says “progress” as it is a forbidden concept and raises a skeptical finger when he utters the word. So maybe my day for him is attacking federal representatives a bit inconvenient.
- I still don’t think we know Emily as a character at all, but the thing “I use old cameras and I like oats overnight and give a gift to artisanal leather mates’ goods” “Was Emily an influencer on Instagram?” theory.
- I would watch a full show of Texas Nightshade clip-clopping around and exploring Austin. Say, say, find + green-light this? What’s the point of all these streaming services if not for importance horse-drawn content?
- Sin… mailbox wall?… in front of the Walkers’ home in Austin, and utterly inconvenient, but still—more evidence of the impact of Instagram.
- Would Micki refer to herself as a “woman of color”? Last week she described herself as a first-generation Mexican American, but this week, she gets the WOC description. Why not describe herself as special as Mexican-American again, or say Latina (or Latinx, if she prefers), especially to a man with whom she was romantically involved for years? “Woman of color” felt weird in such close places, and I also had the same subject with James’ conversation – lines that feel bigger written na speak.
- To be fair, Micki made Legolas up on the horse behind Walker pretty well.
- Shout out to Trey taking off his shirt; more female cry, please!