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  • Big Love: season 3, episode 10

    "Sacrament"

    March 22, 2009 - 10:03p.m.

    Ah, communion (Wonder Bread) and holy water in Dixie Cups by the pool with the fam (minus one. Is Teeny back at athletic camp?) after you've decided to form your own church just because you can. Is there any ...

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  • Big Love: season 3, episode 9

    "Outer Darkness"

    March 15, 2009 - 07:03p.m.

    "I don't know why we've been called to live in a time when no one holds the keys and there's no one to lead us. The church is as corrupt as Roman, and we drift in between ...

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  • Big Love: season 3, episode 8

    "Rough Edges"

    March 8, 2009 - 01:03p.m.

    Editor’s note: Amelie is indisposed live-blogging the L Word finale, so I’m stepping in this week. Considering watching a single episode of that show is the brain-cell-killing equivalent of huffing computer duster for an hour straight, please empathize ...

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  • Big Love: season 3, episode 7

    "Fight Or Flight"

    March 1, 2009 - 06:03a.m.

    Only three episodes left, and by my count this season of Big Love has already had about four mini-season finales. But somehow the drama keeps clip, clip, clipping along. I've often heard Big Love compared to a soap opera ...

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  • Big Love: season 3, episode 6

    "Come, Ye Saints"

    February 23, 2009 - 11:02a.m.

     

    First, allow me to apologize, ye fellow non-saints, for the tardiness of this TV Club entry. I'm sure last night, you felt lost, forsaken, and didn't know what to do. Perhaps you were so distraught, you barely even ...

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  • Big Love: season 3, episode 5

    "For Better Or For Worse"

    February 15, 2009 - 04:02p.m.

    "My tips are MY tips. MINE. No communal pot. And I'm telling you right now: Ana needs her own house—On the block or off the block!"

    Well, if we learned one thing from tonight's episode of Big ...

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  • Big Love: season 3, episode 4

    "On Trial"

    February 8, 2009 - 06:02p.m.

    "And we want this one to marry us. Right now. Right away."

    Oh, to be proposed to by a new-wave polygamist who wants to marry you as part of a feeble attempt to prove his first mother-in-law wrong. Can you ...

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  • Big Love: season 3, episode 3

    "Prom Queen"

    February 1, 2009 - 04:02p.m.

    Nicki, Bride Model #013

    "I'm a special girl...The prophet loved me. He chose me."

    Oh, Rhonda. I never thought I'd say this, but after tonight's dense, breakneck-paced, alternately  depressing and illuminating episode, how could you not feel a little for ...

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  • Big Love: season 3, episode 2

    "Empire"

    January 25, 2009 - 03:01p.m.

    happily ignoring their children

    If I had to sum up tonight's episode in one sentence I'd probably go with the haunting interrogative that has been at the knotty, sinewy core of this series since Season One: "Why are you massaging that bird ...

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  • Big Love: season 3, episode 1

    "Block Party"

    January 18, 2009 - 02:01p.m.

    Margene, Bill, Barb (not pictured: Nicki, God)

    In the first season of Big Love, as a Viagra-enhanced Bill Henrickson struggled to play husband to three wives in private, while playing perfect one-wife family man/big box hardware store entrepreneur in public, the overarching question or conflict was ...

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