B+Season 5Big Love: "When Men And Mountains Meet"Todd VanDerWerff3/21/11 1:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWe live in an age where there are few good reasons to be religious, honestly. Science has answered nearly all of the…
B-Season 5Big Love: "Exorcism"Todd VanDerWerff3/14/11 3:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOne of the things I always like about Big Love, even when it’s awful, as it often was tonight, is its sense of history,…
ASeason 5Big Love: "The Noose Tightens"Todd VanDerWerff3/07/11 3:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAfter a season where even the best episodes can be charitably described as “hit and miss,” “The Noose Tightens” is one…
B+Season 5Big Love: "Til Death Do Us Part"Todd VanDerWerff2/27/11 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere are good ways to build suspense, and then there are… not good ways to build suspense. This season on Big Love,…
B+Season 5Big Love: "D.I.V.O.R.C.E."Todd VanDerWerff2/20/11 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“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…
B+Season 5Big Love: "The Special Relationship"Todd VanDerWerff2/13/11 9:45pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkEvery season of Big Love, there’s an episode or two that goes in for red, hot doctrinal differences, and “The Special…
BSeason 5Big Love: "The Oath"Todd VanDerWerff2/07/11 4:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOne of my favorite songs by Sufjan Stevens is “Seven Swans,” off the album of the same name. The song is a lilting,…
B+Season 5Big Love: "Certain Poor Shepherds"Todd VanDerWerff1/30/11 9:05pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMost episodes of Big Love have a fairly predictable format. There’s a chaotic first half, where it seems like the show…
A-Season 5Big Love: "A Seat At The Table"Todd VanDerWerff1/23/11 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkBill Henrickson is uniquely terrible at figuring out that his actions are going to have consequences other than…
BSeason 5Big Love: "Winter"Todd VanDerWerff1/16/11 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkComing back on television after a disastrous season is always tough, but it’s particularly tough when you’re a…
C+Season 4Big Love: "End Of Days"Amelie Gillette3/07/10 11:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWell, that happened. The season that virtually obliterated Big Love's dramatic credibility has finally come to a close…
B+Season 4Big Love: "Next Ticket Out"Amelie Gillette2/28/10 11:25pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWe've only got one more episode of Big Love to go, and so tonight's jaunt through the many, many unresolved plotlines…
BSeason 4Big Love: "Blood Atonement"Amelie Gillette2/21/10 11:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMost shows only have one season finale. Big Love, of course, has several. Every season has a couple of big, grand,…
A-Season 4Big Love: "Under One Roof"Scott Tobias2/14/10 11:32pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkA little business: If you notice a steep drop in quality from the Big Love recaps you’re used to getting every week…
C+Season 4Big Love: "Sins Of The Father"Amelie Gillette2/07/10 11:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkReally, HBO? A new episode of Big Love on Superbowl Sunday? Not that I would normally care, but it's the first…
B+Season 4Big Love: "The Mighty And Strong"Amelie Gillette1/31/10 11:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink"Why does it have to be crazy?"
B+Season 4Big Love: "Strange Bedfellows"Amelie Gillette1/24/10 11:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink"Mr. Margene Heffman, everybody!" (You may know him as Greg Brady, or possibly Ben Henrickson.)
B+Season 4Big Love: "The Greater Good"Amelie Gillette1/17/10 10:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink"Another day, another revelation. This time my father's running for office."
BSeason 4Big Love: "Free At Last"Amelie Gillette1/10/10 10:45pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhew. That was an exhausting opener. Sometimes Big Love stretches just a little too far to live up to the "Big" part of…
B+Season 3Big Love: "Sacrament"Amelie Gillette3/22/09 10:35pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAh, communion (Wonder Bread) and holy water in Dixie Cups by the pool with the fam (minus one. Is Teeny back at…
