Mar 21 2011
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We live in an age where there are few good reasons to be religious, honestly. Science has answered nearly all of the…
Big Love
Mar 14 2011
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One of the things I always like about Big Love, even when it’s awful, as it often was tonight, is its sense of…
Mar 7 2011
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After a season where even the best episodes can be charitably described as “hit and miss,” “The Noose Tightens” is…
Feb 27 2011
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There are good ways to build suspense, and then there are… not good ways to build suspense. This season on Big Love,…
Feb 20 2011
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“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…
Feb 13 2011
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Every season of Big Love, there’s an episode or two that goes in for red, hot doctrinal differences, and “The…
Feb 7 2011
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One of my favorite songs by Sufjan Stevens is “Seven Swans,” off the album of the same name. The song is a lilting,…
Jan 30 2011
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Most episodes of Big Love have a fairly predictable format. There’s a chaotic first half, where it seems like the…
Jan 23 2011
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Bill Henrickson is uniquely terrible at figuring out that his actions are going to have consequences other than…
Jan 16 2011
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Coming back on television after a disastrous season is always tough, but it’s particularly tough when you’re a…
Mar 7 2010
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Well, that happened. The season that virtually obliterated Big Love's dramatic credibility has finally come to a…
Feb 28 2010
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We've only got one more episode of Big Love to go, and so tonight's jaunt through the many, many unresolved…
Feb 21 2010
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Most shows only have one season finale. Big Love, of course, has several. Every season has a couple of big, grand,…
Feb 14 2010
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A little business: If you notice a steep drop in quality from the Big Love recaps you’re used to getting every week…
Feb 7 2010
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Really, HBO? A new episode of Big Love on Superbowl Sunday? Not that I would normally care, but it's the first…
Jan 31 2010
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"Why does it have to be crazy?"
Jan 24 2010
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"Mr. Margene Heffman, everybody!" (You may know him as Greg Brady, or possibly Ben Henrickson.)
Jan 17 2010
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"Another day, another revelation. This time my father's running for office."
Jan 10 2010
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Whew. That was an exhausting opener. Sometimes Big Love stretches just a little too far to live up to the "Big" part…
Mar 22 2009
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Ah, communion (Wonder Bread) and holy water in Dixie Cups by the pool with the fam (minus one. Is Teeny back at…