Warning: This post contains spoilers about Thursday s episode of
Walker.
Ever since Walker (Jared Padalecki) returned home from being undercover, August (Kale Culley) has been the easy kid. While his sister Stella (Violet Brinson) was getting arrested, August was keeping his head down, trying to play peacemaker at home. But when he came across a box full of his dad s undercover gear, he got angry. It resulted in Walker having to go back undercover, before ultimately, getting out of the game for good.
This week s episode of
Walker ended with Cordell and his kids coming together to say goodbye to his undercover life, but there s still a lot we don t know about his time away. There s also still the mystery of what happened the night Emily (Genevieve Padalecki) died.
Walker on the CW?
I was, but that isn’t what we got, and I’m not mad. Did I love the first episode? No. I’m not even sure that I liked it, but I didn’t hate it either. I’m viewing it as what it was an information dump. I can only hope that the threads dangled in this episode end up paying off as the season and series progress.
It’s the first one, so it’s a long one.
The episode opens with Walker greeting his wife Emily, played by Padalecki’s real-life wife, Genevive. Emily’s about to leave to deliver supplies, but it doesn’t sound like a simple charitable donation because Walker gives her a specific route. We all know this isn’t going to end well, which is too bad because we didn’t know this Emily for long, but I liked her. A final kiss, then they go their separate ways.
Tonight on the CW their reboot of the long-running series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” WALKER premieres with an all new Thursday, January 21, 2021 episode and we have your WALKER recap below!
On tonight’s WALKER season 1 episode 1,
“Pilot,” as per the CW synopsis, “Texas Ranger Cordell Walker (Jared Padalecki), a widower and father of two with his own moral code, returns home to Austin, TX, after being undercover for two years, only to discover there’s harder work to be done at home. As Walker attempts to reconnect with his creative and thoughtful son August (Kale Culley) and his headstrong, somewhat rebellious teenaged daughter Stella (Violet Brinson), he finds that he needs to navigate clashes with his family.
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Jared Padalecki on a CW show about complicated family relationships and an (at least recently) absentee father? After Padalecki spent 15 years on
Supernatural, it does sound a bit familiar. But the good news is that, ultimately,
Walker and
Supernatural each stand on their own. In the new series pilot, Padalecki and company succeed in establishing a completely new character in a completely new world, one where ghosts only exist in Walker s mind.
The pilot begins with the origin story of the aforementioned ghost. In the first scene, Walker says goodbye to his wife, Emily (played by Genevieve Padalecki). She s off on a trip but assures him that she ll take his approved route. As for Walker, his parents and kids are waiting at home for game night to begin.