- Content: “A Mystery with Heart”
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What You Need To Know:
The series premiere of BLUE SKIES is an engaging and wholesome, though sometimes slow-paced, episode that stresses reconciliation. The program has good direction, solid writing, strong performances, and breathtaking cinematography of a beautiful national park. Scarlet Hunter and Markian Tarasiuk have electric chemistry together as Jodi and Ryan. Episode One of BLUE SKIES has a strong moral, pro-family worldview with redemptive content. It extols gratitude, forgiveness, love, trust, teamwork, and perseverance. The episode has some mild peril and a scene where a woman replaces a shirt over a sleeveless blouse. MOVIEGUIDE® advises media-wisdom when parents watch and discuss the episode with their children.
Content:
(BB, C, PPP, V, M): Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements: A strong moral, pro-family worldview with some redemptive values extols gratitude, forgiveness, love, trust, teamwork, and perseverance, plus program supports first responders and other uniformed people who serve society; Foul Language: No foul language; Violence: Some peril and violence with no blood includes soldiers shoot at criminals, two people engage in hand-to-hand combat, a character almost falls from a cliff while rappelling and fires a gun, and some mild peril when wolves approach a woman and a dog; Sex: No sexual content or lewd content, but a man attaches a rappel rope to a woman’s waist and pulls her rope toward him, and they give each other a look of longing; Nudity: A woman removes a shirt, but has a sleeveless blouse underneath, and a little bit of skin and cleavage while she puts another shirt on; Alcohol Use: No alcohol use; Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse: No smoking or drugs; and, Miscellaneous Immorality: A character breaks protocol, but her supervisor encourages her to trust her instinct.
More Detail:
The first episode of BLUE SKIES begins with Jodi Larsen and her partner driving in the green zone of the Poland-Ukraine Border when Jodi notices a suspicious Humvee parked in a garage while a civilian supervises. Jodi radios for permission to investigate and, after approval, she and her partner enter the building and find out that the civilian and an American soldier are discussing an illegal drug exchange. Gunfire is exchanged, and a nearly catastrophic injury occurs.
Jodi moves back to her hometown and works as a criminal investigator at the fictional Crystal Ridge National Park (the series is filmed in Canada). While she works in a forest, she runs into a family of four, and the mother asks Jodi for directions. Jodi recommends a particular route to the family. They thank her, and she returns to her cabin.
Upon her arrival, she finds a dog trashed her house. One of her co-workers calls her to the station to meet her new supervisor, and they get a call that one of the children she met, Tommy, has gone missing. With the dog’s help, Jodi joins forces with her high school classmate and search-and-rescue ranger, Ryan, to find Tommy and return him to his family.
The series premiere of BLUE SKIES is an engaging and wholesome, though sometimes slow-paced, episode, that stresses reconciliation. The episode has good direction, solid writing, and breathtaking cinematography of a beautiful national park. The episode is well-acted. Scarlet Hunter holds her own as the lead. As Jodi Larsen, Scarlet shows kindness in her smile and can handle the serious parts, too. Hunter and Markian Tarasiuk, who plays Ryan Miller, have electric chemistry, and viewers can tell they share a past and have a magnetic attraction.
The first episode of BLUE SKIES: Season One presents a strong moral, pro-family worldview. It extols gratitude, forgiveness, love, trust, teamwork, and perseverance. As is the case with UP Faith & Family shows, it is almost squeaky clean and includes very mild peril. There is a scene where Jodi replaces a shirt with a sleeveless blouse. MOVIEGUIDE® advises media-wisdom when parents watch and discuss the episode with their children.
