"Big Love"is Back! Discuss

I'm still watching. This show is officially more absurd than 24, but in such a dark comedic way it almost works.

The disarming of Hollis Greene was tremendous. Hard to understand how Bill got in and out of Mexico, saved the family, no problem....but harder to understand how Adaleen is pregnant. And Barb is running casinos and campaigns, and Margeen is an industry to herself. Ho hum, just your average polygamist family trying to survive.

 

I think the shark jumping took place in the last two weeks.

Ben and Margie needed to fuck - short of that the absurd overreaction by everyone involved became comical.

Also, Barb needs to fuck the young indian or stop this damn sexual tension between them stuff.

The Albie gay thing is just an idiotic storyline thrown in for whatever reason I can't figure out.

The mother being pregnant and daughter not being pregnant, trite and ridiculous.

Sneaking into Mexico to free his family from wacko bird smugglers? What is this, Melrose Place, the original series? Where is Sidney and Kimberly at for Christ's sakes....

It was a very good show that was interesting, not it has become a carnival act......

The Fonz is certainly on the surf board.

 

Someone please watch the last episode so we can talk about how INANELY FUCKING STOOOPID it was.

Thank you.

 

After watching the final episode of "Band of Brothers" (which was understandably subdued and anticlimactic), I sat around and watched the final episode of "BL."

As usual, it was chaotic, cliched, predictable and formulaic. Several major bombshells (mostly telegraphed wayyy in advance). Several MAJOR running storylines chopped off in deus-ex-machina finger-snaps. The subliminal Barb-Jerry romance, never even brought into a storyline, evaporates instantly.

As the show drew to the end, I realized that hardly ANY scenes had been set in the houses this season. Very few, to none, at Home Plus. The casino, scene of most of the action this year, apparently is about to be dumped out of the storylines (next year, much or most of the action will be set in the state capitol).

The conduct of the three wives -- too insane/idiotic to even really discuss. None are even remotely sympathetic any more; if they're not acting selfish, shrewy and bitchy, they're acting silly, stupid and scatterbrained.

Poor Don, backstabbed and set up as a sacrificial lamb half a season ago, suddenly reappears for 30 seconds of screen time. But apparently he's on board for Bill, so any feeling of ominous dread/ danger we might have had about Don, blown away in the wind.

The JJ storyline takes a weird/macabre turn (again entirely predictable) which probably should have been developed into a much bigger storyline much earlier in the season. With the departure of Roman, the show needed a new slimy villain -- JJ should have been that guy.

The big final moment: Bill makes a big revelation he thinks will fix everything. It won't.

Almost certainly I won't have HBO (or any cable tv -- cancelling the whole kaboodle in a month or so out of financial necessity) next year, so I guess I won't have any decision to make on whether to watch it any more or not.

 

I'm not sure I've ever seen a once-decent, and occasionally great, show self destruct the way Big Love did this season. Holy shit. I'm glad Amanda Seyfried got the fuck out of this mess.

 

The whole casino subplot, which burned up about half of this season and a couple shows last year, is now a complete waste of time -- it would have made no difference if it had never happened.



"Northern Exposure" also went real bad real fast, but a few of the episodes the final season were still half-decent.

 

It's as if each week, they threw out all the previous episodes and started the series over.

 

My question is, where do they go from here?
Going forward, the secret that was the heart of the show is no longer a secret. There is no archvillain to play against, unless it's gonna be Sissy Spaceck.
And two of the three wives don't wanna be married to Bill.

 

and the one who does is the bitchy shrew who has no interest whatsoever in acting as a "mother" to any of the 9 kids (although since 6 of them never utter a word on camera, who cares), so there go the terrific "family values" Bill keeps yammering about.

Given the precedent of this season, my bet is all the marital discord is magically snapped away in the first 15 minutes of the first episode next season. Then all three wives will reveal they are all pregnant with quintuplets.

Although the Margie/Goran/Ana menage-a-trois popped up so suddenly (yet was still totally telegraphed), I kinda wonder if Ginnifer Goodwin has got some other film roles lined up, and they wanted to set things up for her abrupt (and final) departure next season.

Under the TV Drama Law which states "nobody is really dead until you see the body," it wouldn't be in the least surprising to see J.J. make it out of the fire.

Alby is still alive and likely to pull some crazy shit, Marilyn is itching for revenge, and Jerry and his dad (the Indian tribe guys), you would think, would be hell-bent for revenge after getting booted out of the casino operations.

More than likely they'll forget about all these storylines and introduce some new uber-villain. I'm not sure if it will be the Joker, Green Goblin or Darth Poligamus.

 

This is the only season of Big Love I've seen and I can't argue with any of the criticisms in this thread. It sucked.

 

This season has been fairly craptastic.

At least JJ's character is psychotic and fills the void that was left by the passing of Roman ... at least there's still anti-homosexual, condescending Roman ghost.

 

--- Did they ever get Hollis Greene to the hospital before he bled to death?

--- Where the fuck is Joey? How can Wanda function without him (well, judging by her actions, I guess she can't)?

--- Anybody seen or heard from Rhonda lately?

--- How can 5 kids under the age of 10 --- three of them under the age of 5--- command so little of their parents' time? At least in the first two seasons the adults were usually at home . . . or in the city. Now they are at casinos or Mexico or Washington, D.C. A big part of the show's initial appeal was "How can this man handle all these responsibilities?" Easy. Just pretend they don't exist, I guess.