There are certainly some plot twists that make no sense, and Sheriff Country just delivered a wild one.
Now, there is time for the series to explain it all, and that’s surely what Sheriff Country Season 1 Episode 6 will do. But for now, there are a lot of elements about the first five episodes that make zero sense.
For example, how would Mickey not know her former partner had a wife?
Have Mickey and Boone Never Talked?
At the end of Sheriff Country Season 1 Episode 5, Mickey told Boone that she wanted him to stay in Edgewater.
While that was great and he didn’t really want to leave, things were already set in motion that made it impossible for him to back out at this point.
He is moving, and he revealed that a woman had come to help him with that move.
No, that woman wasn’t his sister; it was his wife!
A wife that Mickey had no idea existed, and it seems odd considering Mickey and Boone were partners before Mickey became the sheriff.
There was a whole plot point in the very first episode that made it clear that Boone was the second choice for acting sheriff, and he thought the job was going to be his, sure that Mickey didn’t want to do it.
If he were so certain the job was his, it would mean that Boone had been in Edgewater for some time.
Sure, he hasn’t grown up there, but he and Mickey have some sort of history, and something like a wife should have come up.
Yet, it’s like Mickey and Boone barely know each other.
Granted, he could be a man who likes to keep his work and his personal life separate, but it’s not like he’s told Mickey that when she delves into how she knows the people in the town or why the people of Edgewater are so against her.
Surely, she must have asked him about his personal life. He didn’t think that having a wife back in Oakland was something to bring up?
Where’s the Wedding Ring?
Then there’s the fact that Boone doesn’t wear a wedding ring throughout Sheriff Country.
Now, not all married men will wear wedding rings.
In fact, not all women want to wear rings, either, and there’s nothing wrong with this when it’s agreed upon between the couple.
We just don’t know enough about Boone to tell us if there was an agreement.
Considering his wife clearly still lives in Oakland — where we know Boone is from — and that he isn’t wearing a ring, it suggests they have been separated, possibly because of his job.
Getting a job in Oakland could be a sign that Boone wants to work on his marriage now that he’s had some time away, or that his wife wants to work on it, since she may have been the one who wanted a breakup.
During Sheriff Country Season 1 Episode 5, Boone told Val, the woman in witness protection he was looking after, that you can’t run from your past, and it’s clear that he was thinking about himself as well.
Even a Separation They Should’ve Teased More
He clearly left Oakland for some big reason, and now he has to return, and it looks like he’s realized that he needs to stop running from that past.
The problem is that the past has come out of nowhere, and having a wife just doesn’t make sense.
It would be different if there were a line about a separation or about making relationships work, but Boone has been focused on the job throughout the five episodes of Sheriff Country Season 1.
A reveal like this needs some sort of tease up to it for it to make sense.
Even just having a wedding ring or a tan line to show he used to wear one would have been enough to help tease some of this out.
The Next Episode Has Work to Do
If there was some buildup to this reveal, there wouldn’t be as much riding on Sheriff Country Season 1 Episode 6 as there is now.
Mickey was clearly shocked to learn Boone had a wife, but we didn’t get much of a reaction from the wife to see if she was shocked to learn Boone hadn’t mentioned her.
It raises questions about how much anyone really knows about Boone if he has kept this major part of his personal life back.
Does anyone know he is married?
If anyone did, it would likely be Mickey.
Then there’s the backstory of why Boone and his wife live in different cities, and why she’s come to help him move back to Oakland.
Of course, with Matt Lauria as a series regular, it would seem odd to lose him six episodes in, and we’re all pretty sure that he’s going to be around for the full season, so that would mean something happens for him to change his mind about leaving.
That’s not going to be easy if he’s trying to make things work with his wife, unless she agrees to move to Edgewater.
This twist doesn’t work at this point, but there’s a chance that it could if Sheriff Country Season 1 Episode 6 plays it right.
There’s just a lot riding on the upcoming episode.
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