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Big Love

  • 25-01-2010 6:40pm
    #1
    Doctor Zaius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭


    I'm thinking about watching the first season of Big Love, just wondering what can I expect from the show? Is it worth my while?

    The idea sounds good enough and it seems to have good actors. What would you compare the show to?


Comments

  • #2
    ronano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,155 ✭✭✭ronano


    It is an immensely underrated show sadly rarely gets mention but i think it's excellent. It is very slow paced but if you enjoy the pacing of mad men then it's not a problem. It's one of my favourite shows


  • #3
    Doctor Zaius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭Doctor Zaius


    Mad Men is one of my favourite shows so cool, I'll certainly give Big Love a shot and hope for the best.


  • #4
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,992 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    I loved this show through season one and two but I think it got very repetitive after that with the same unresolved issues with the same characters cropping up much too frequently.

    It's definitely different though and an interesting insight into another side of life. There's certainly nothing else that portrays the same issues.I'd have to recommend you at least watch season one and two and see what you think of it after that.


  • #5
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    I rate this as the "best show nobody watches" obviously lots of people watch it, it's just hard to find them.

    It starts out quite light-hearted, mainly focusing on the obvious amusing problems, ie. middle-aged guy with 3 wives to satisfy develops a viagra addiction, while at the same time showing some of the benefits of a big community family. Then the focus shifts to the individual problems of the wives, initially the heartbreak of his first wife who never really chose their lifestyle. At the same time while the focus of the show is the modern face of polygamy the story keeps returning to the FLDS* compounds how the Henricksons can't really escape being tainted by the corruption and darkness.

    At times it seems a bit over the top, although if you actually know about FLDS it unfortunately isn't. As has been said, parts occasionally get repetitive, there is a particular sub-plot that I think is going round and round in circles at this point. Though overall it's cleverly crafted and I suspect (and hope) the writers have a good idea of where they want the series to go and how to get there. There's a particularly disturbing storyline which I suspect is coming out now in S4 which was vaguely hinted at in the opening episodes and which has been hinted at bit by bit over the years. So it does seem to me as if the writers have a plan of sorts and aren't just making up crap as they go along.

    *Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints - the breakaway members of the Mormon faith who cling to polygyny and pioneer lifestyles.


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