Brimstone episode order

[annavere]

As is fairly common with mistreated shows, Brimstone aired massively out of order before getting cancelled. Broadcast dates make a complete mess of the first half of the truncated season we got. However, at some later date, broadcast order was switched out for something fairly close to a proper viewing order, with both my fanmade DVD and the upload using this nearly correct listing - although I'm not sure when that redesign happened, or who was responsible, as everything online still just lists the episodes in broadcast order.

Since I already watched the show, and remembered a couple very confusing moments (chiefly when a recurring guest character shows up unexplained in one episode, and then in the following one actually arrives in town), I spent this evening checking the episodes for discrepancies and making a Suggested Viewing Order for anyone interested. ♥

1. Pilot (also sometimes called Altar Boys)
2. Poem
3. Heat
4. Slayer
5. Encore (very important to watch this AFTER Slayer)
6. Repentance
7. Executioner
8. Ashes
9. Lovers
10. Carrier
11. Faces
12. It's a Helluva Life (this normally gets listed before Faces, but it forms a natural thematic pairing with the final episode as both break the case of the week format)
13. Mourning After

Comments

[teratornis]

Oh excellent, thanks for this. I do plan to watch this at some point, and this will likely save me some confusion. I appreciate you putting it together, it's always a little interesting when a show airs stuff out of order and you have to piece together what's going on.

I remember watching the 2008 Clone Wars series, and there was an episode that had a big emotional arc involving the death of a certain character. And then he was alive and well five episodes later. Top-notch airing order.

[annavere]

Among all the understandable intricacies of producing television, the airing order seems like THE simplest thing to get correct, but I guess it's a lot harder than it looks. /s

I am glad to be of help with this list! And I hope you enjoy the show! :)

[dswdiane]

This truly is a public service. I remember watching this show when it aired and enjoying the main character and the premise of the show, but I also remember it being confusing and hard to keep track of.

So, truly thank you.

Icon: A mother bird and her chick just because they're cute.

[killabeez]

I forgive it a little more readily with a show like Clone Wars that has 5 million episodes, and even Star Wars fans can't agree on the best airing order—but that one is pretty egregious!

[annavere]

You're very welcome. ♥

Watching it while it was airing must have been very confusing! Near as I can tell, they decided to air every other episode and then double back to the skipped ones. Because that makes a lot of sense.

Here's my only bird icon in return.

[yourlibrarian]

"Mistreated shows" is a good term! I can't understand the stupidity of airing stuff in the wrong order unless you're planning to cancel the show before it even gets a chance to air.

[annavere]

It's frustrating, but it does seem like executives make those kind of decisions out of the gate, because so many shows feel like they were set up to fail. I get that there's never a shortage of pilots on offer, but you'd think once a show is actually in production, and there's standing sets involved, that it would be cheaper to keep the existing show than to scrap and replace it. And yes to your icon, because American Gothic is the poster child for that sort of mistreatment. ❤️

[teratornis]

For sure, and in that show airing order doesn't really matter for a lot of it, but maybe keep track of which of your important senators are supposed to be dead. :P

[yourlibrarian]

And promise cut short!

[annavere]

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