We live in an age where there are few good reasons to be religious, honestly. Science has answered nearly all of the…

One of the things I always like about Big Love, even when it’s awful, as it often was tonight, is its sense of history,…

After a season where even the best episodes can be charitably described as “hit and miss,” “The Noose Tightens” is one…

There are good ways to build suspense, and then there are… not good ways to build suspense. This season on Big Love,…

“D.I.V.O.R.C.E.,” like every episode of Big Love this season, veers wildly from what seems like it’s going to develop…

Every season of Big Love, there’s an episode or two that goes in for red, hot doctrinal differences, and “The Special…

One of my favorite songs by Sufjan Stevens is “Seven Swans,” off the album of the same name. The song is a lilting,…

Most episodes of Big Love have a fairly predictable format. There’s a chaotic first half, where it seems like the show…

Bill Henrickson is uniquely terrible at figuring out that his actions are going to have consequences other than…

Coming back on television after a disastrous season is always tough, but it’s particularly tough when you’re a…

Well, that happened. The season that virtually obliterated Big Love's dramatic credibility has finally come to a close…

We've only got one more episode of Big Love to go, and so tonight's jaunt through the many, many unresolved plotlines…

Most shows only have one season finale. Big Love, of course, has several. Every season has a couple of big, grand,…

A little business: If you notice a steep drop in quality from the Big Love recaps you’re used to getting every week…

Really, HBO? A new episode of Big Love on Superbowl Sunday? Not that I would normally care, but it's the first…

"Why does it have to be crazy?"

"Mr. Margene Heffman, everybody!" (You may know him as Greg Brady, or possibly Ben Henrickson.)

"Another day, another revelation. This time my father's running for office."

Whew. That was an exhausting opener. Sometimes Big Love stretches just a little too far to live up to the "Big" part of…

Ah, communion (Wonder Bread) and holy water in Dixie Cups by the pool with the fam (minus one. Is Teeny back at…