Sheriff Country appears to be going the route I really didn’t want it to.
Sure, a little bit of romance helps to spice things up, but a romance between a boss and a subordinate is an overused trope that really isn’t needed.
Sheriff Country Season 1 Episode 17 threatens to open that can of worms, but first, there’s a small issue of the $3 million.
I Don’t Want Mickey and Boone Together
I love Mickey, and I love Boone. Their friendship has been one of the highlights of Sheriff Country Season 1.
I’ve continually said that a relationship between them changes everything, and it was even brought up in an interview with Matt Lauria.
Mickey is Boone’s boss, and for the two of them to start a relationship will change everything in the workplace.
Boone even pointed out that it would be wrong to date his boss, and this is a man who understands the dynamics of power and how quickly they can change.
It’s not like they could even keep something like this a secret. Gina had already figured out that Boone had feelings for Mickey, and she thinks they’re mutual.
So, I was grateful to see a reprieve, but I guess I need to resign myself to accepting that Mickey and Boone are going to happen.
Eventually, Mickey will find out that Boone was going to ask her out, and she’ll need to confront her feelings about him.
Now, I will admit that Sheriff Country hasn’t necessarily followed these stereotypical tropes in the past, but I do think that this is one the series will opt for.
I’ll just say it now that it’s going to frustrate me.
Can we just have professional relationships in the workplace, especially when it involves a boss? Just once?
A Case That Feels Like It Could Happen Today
The case of the week wasn’t all that interesting, but it did highlight a very real problem.
Once it was revealed that Miranda was the real target, it was pretty easy to work out why she was the target.
After all, even she knew it was about money, but she thought of the most recent issue rather than the bigger one down the road.
Layoffs are happening all around the world, and we’re hearing constantly about how angry people are that the cost of living is excruciatingly painful right now.
What happens when you have direct access to someone who has had a direct impact on your livelihood?
As people get angry, they start to lash out, and this episode is a clear warning sign of what could happen if the economy doesn’t start to change.
I’m surprised Miranda was all that helpful about people who hate her in the first place, though.
After all, when it comes to her son, she’s completely oblivious.
He is just out of rehab, and she decides that drinking alcohol around him is reasonable? She didn’t even think about the message she was sending?
There’s only so much Skye — who I loved seeing in her element — can do to help, and I’m glad to see that she isn’t trying to take this on alone.
She wants her cousin to go to meetings with her, but she really does need to mention something to Miranda about what it’s like to live with a drug addict.
Someone needs to wake Miranda up!
So, How Dumb Are the Growers?
At the end of Sheriff Country Season 1 Episode 16, Wes acted way too out of character for me.
I get that he had just run from the cops, and the idea of losing $3 million would have made him feel sick.
But this is a man who has routinely stayed calm in a crisis.
The only time we saw him shaken was when he realized the hell his daughter went through that night when the sheriff’s office was being shot at, and that made sense.
That night wasn’t about a crime or about his own safety; it was about his daughter’s.
So, something just felt off with the end of the previous episode, and it didn’t come as a surprise to see him figure out a way to get the money back.
Of course, we had to assess the threat posed by the weed growers in Edgewater first.
Like with my thoughts from last episode, there was a flaw in this one: it didn’t show the weed growers for weeks on end.
Some of their reactions were a little jarring, and that’s purely because we haven’t had a chance to get to know them yet.
This installment only really fully explained the business that they have going.
They’re not just working together to sell the best strains; they are like a single entity, sharing the profits and putting all of their money and product into it.
Had this been explained from the start and revisited now and again over the last nine episodes or so, this hour could have made a lot more sense.
That said, I appreciated seeing Wes have someone he could lean on.
He knew exactly who to go to for breaking into the DEA truck, although I have to question how he knew the DEA truck would be on the road when Mickey hadn’t even agreed to release the money by that point.
A couple of scenes felt out of order.
We got that reminder that there has to be honor among thieves, because that’s exactly what we see.
The co-op works together again to make sure Wes’s plan goes off without a hitch. When things look like they could turn sideways, they find a way to fix it.However, while they’re laughing about the DEA guys only just realizing that the money was stolen, they should have thought about what they would do when that happened.
It was always going to be clear where the money was stolen from.
The DEA knows that people in Edgewater sold the drugs, so they’ll know that people in Edgewater will want that money back.
It wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that the theft happened during the staged road closure.
Wes and the group should have thought more carefully about that, moving it much farther away from town limits.
And they should have definitely had a plan for when the DEA agents realized everything that had happened.
How has this co-op remained so under the radar up to this point? They’d better start thinking ahead soon, or they are going to be completely toast.