There are a few Big Love aficionados here at Moonhowlings. Today was the end of a very short season. Lots happened, so this thread is for us!
So where is all this headed? Will Margene stay with Ana and Goran? Will Nicki conceive? Will Barb leave Bill and will she hook up with Tommy (played by Adam Beach)? How about Bill’s state senate seat? Will he be recalled because he stupidly announced he was a polygamist? How will the incest at the compound spill over into their lives?
I’m still blown away with last night’s season finale. I really need to watch it again to make sure I didn’t miss anything.
I see them all going their own ways. I see Bill and Marilyn getting together.
I loved it when they talked about “morally corrupt vipers”. ~~~~~:<
JayJay is one sick puppy. Sicker than I ever began to imagine.
I need to see it again also. It sounds like we should be expecting to see Big Love become Little Love.
If Bill and Marilyn get together, I won’t watch. Gag! I think Barb and Tommy will resume the sweat house scene. What a nasty bastard Bill was to do that.
Margene and Ganon and Ana in a 3 some? ewwwwwwww!
I watch that show once in a while, less than regularly. (It’s no “Six Feet Under”, which gets my vote for best TV show of all time). It’s watchable, but Bill Paxton’s acting is atrocious.
To say something positive, Chloe Sevigny is quite good.
And could Bill Hendrix really get outside and run down a teenager who is already on the run? nahhhhh
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@ Rick
Bill Paxton makes me want to hit him. Some of it is his character.
Big Love is the Archie Bunker show of the 2000s. I am amazed that this show is still on TV. The underlying theme is the underground life-style of poligamy. Of course it has the obligatory crazy people, male dominance and dishonest mafia like relationships for the hate Bill crowd — a fundementalist Mormon who wants to build a casino – that is a good one. He sells cars too doesn’t he – not sure? I keep waiting for them to make the connection between gay marrige and the legalization of poligamy, but that would run counter to the Hollywood agenda. Not quite ready for that too. That would be too Big a leap for the stay out of my home and my Love crowd. Kinda hypocritic isn’t it?
Taxpayer, it is fiction. I suppose the Sopranos passed you by? Archie Bunker???? Big Love????? I hope that was a bad joke. How do you figure?
It might interest you that most of the original casinos in Vegas were set up by Mormons. They were hired because of their honesty. I don’t expect they were fundamentalist though but they were regular LDS.
I saw where Tom Hanks was one of the producers.
It is probably a good thing to expose the polygamists for what they are. There apparently is a lot of ‘spousal’ and child abuse involved with some of these groups.
A friend of mine’s daughter married a man who had been raised in a polygamist enclave. The couple does not practice polygamy. I met him once. He seemed normal. My friend had to tell me about it right in front of him. Not being from Utah, I simply did not know what to say. I was on foreign soil, as it were. I wanted to kill my friend.
Er, what’s “Big Love”?
I LOVE this show. Bill increased his ridiculousness exponentially this season. He truly believes that he has a calling and is destined to bring the principle to the masses, but it is interesting how he betrays his faith sometimes, and is starting to sacrifice anyone and everyone he loves for his cause.
I cannot wait for the Tommy/Barb storyline to heat up. I feel so awful for Jeanne Triplehorn’s character. Love that she is starting to see that this may have never been her true path.
Nikky is an amazing character, and I agree with Rick that Chloe Sevigny is marvelous in the role. I also think that the actress who portrays Bill’s mother does some of the best acting on the show.
If you are a fan of the show, you should read Daughters of the Saints. It is a true account of Mormon fundamentalism by a daughter of one of its leaders. It details an amazing history of the religion, and is reportedly one of the stories that inspired Big Love. I believe the author was shown in a featurette during the first season.
There are several good ones out there. I will look for this new one. There is one out there on the internet by one of Brigham Young’s many wives who escaped. Talk about being on the edge of your seat!
Darn, it isn’t on kindle or audiobooks.
I’ve read somewhere that Chloe Sevigny is considered one of the more underrated actresses. She does seem good in that part. I’ve fallen behind this season on Big Love and have a bunch of episodes recorded that I have to watch.
I also agree Bill Paxton is awful – and really I’ve seen him in some movies and thought he wasn’t much good in them either.
Actually, I like Bill Paxton in this role. I think he does a good job of portraying a man who is utterly blind to his own hypocrisies, seems to mean well and to be devoted to his family, but his victims are piling up. I love the way the Nikki role is developing–Chloe Sevigny has enormous potential now that they’ve taken her out of her little prairie-girl box.
And Goran is smoking HOT–there is definitely chemistry between him, Margene and Ana–it’s going to be really interesting to see where that goes, and how far Margene’s defiance will take her from the “sister wives.”
I really like the way this show has focused more on character development and the conflict and struggles of living this strange lifestyle in suburban America, with the backwards Juniper Creek always in the background. It could very easily have devolved into a much seedier product.
Emma, I think it is that I despise his character so much–and not on an instant hate but on an earned hate basis. I agree with you about character development. Yes, Goran is smoking HOT. Tommy is even more so. I want Barb to ditch Bill and hook up with Tommy.
I want them all to gang up on Bill. He really has been a self-serving you know what this season. His only redemption was going getting his father out of Mexico. Frank didn’t deserve it but it speaks well of Bill in that one instance: honor thy father and thy mother. That must be a commandment to do if Frank is your father.
Frank has got to be the world’s all time worst father. He tossed Bill out at an early age, then in recent times did the same thing to that boy he fathered with another wife. Actually, not just is he a bad father, he’s a bad human being in general. If I were Bill I’d have left him in Mexico.
Bill is indeed very self-serving. I still really haven’t seen all of this season, but really he’s been that way from the very first season.
I haven’t gotten over lying to the Mormon Church (Bill & Barb) or Bill’s request request to his ‘friend’ Don to take the hit and go public and ruin HIS life.
This season Bill’s role really was cranked up as Emma says to show his hypocrisy – although I’m not so sure he’s really that blind. Considering those the two events I mentioned – he can’t be that blind!!??
Nikki is my favorite and in my view the most honest of the bunch.
GR, he has gotten worse.
Juturna, I agree with you about Bill. He really has sold out on everyone. It is hard to say what is ‘the principle’ and what is his own self interest and ego.
Margene is my favorite. I can’t stand Nikki. i think she is a pathological sneak.
I still have to catch up on the rest of the season. I will confess I have not even seen half of it – even though it has already ended! It is on my list of things to do…. So obviously I’m a little behind on how much worse Bill has gotten!