"Big Love"is Back! Discuss

Turns out, Chloe Sevingy was reading this thread. Tells the Onion AV Club this year was "awful."

http://www.avclub.com/articles/chloe-sevigny,39476/

 

Carry on!! ;D

 

Chloe Sevigny apologizes for saying Big Love was "awful."

http://www.avclub.com/articles/chloe-sevigny-apologizes-for-av-club-interview,39609/

 

a) I smell "attention-whore publicity stunt" (in conjunction with a ploy by the producers to send a coded message to the viewing public: "OK OK OK we know this season was shit, please forgive us, we'll try to fix things next year")

b) There isn't a more overrated actor/actress in all of show business. She plays the same pissy, peevish, snotty, snippy character in virtually every role she's in. Yeah, she plays it well, but big deal. I can do snotty and snippy too; that doesn't make it great art.

 

I smell "don't bite the hand that feeds you, dummy."

But, man, this season of Big Love was the definition of THE SUCK. I think I'm done with the show.

 

Yeah, but she looks better than you doing it, I'm guessing. (smiley face-thingy)
I really can't see this as a stunt. I respect her for being willing to say what all of us theorized. Her point about the number of episodes also makes sense. It's all a damned shame, and I hope they get back on track, but as I've posted before, I just don't see where they go from here, within the framework of the original premise. It's shot to hell.

 

I don't smell publicity stunt either. I sense someone expressing what everyone, outside the writers, was privately acknowledging. And at the same time, someone trying to retain her hipster creed, even though I'm sure she wouldn't view it that way. Sevingy is limited in the kinds of characters she can play -- I can imagine her playing someone warm -- but I do think she's a pretty good actress. Nikki is a hard part to play, and for the most part, she's what makes the show work, at least according to its original premise.

It's sort of the Katherine Heigl Conundrum. If a bitchy diva tells the truth and calls out the writers for horrible writing, isn't it still the truth? Is the writing any less horrible just because they're not gracious about it?

That said, Sevingy trying to blame the Onion AV reporter was pathetic. Own up to your shit and apologize, or tell them to write you out of the show.

This show got overly praised by critics on basis of one fabulous episode last season, and this season, the writers made a stab for ratings with a bunch of outlandish plots. It backfired. Many viewers, including two in my house, will not be returning.

 

Well, the show is back again as of tonight. Anyone watch it? Or is everyone giving up on it?

Lots of drama in tonight's season premiere. Just don't know where the hell they can go now that the big secret is all out.

Plus, Amanda Seyfried is gone.

 

And so am I.

 

I watched it, and in the first 10 minutes it was like they were going through the "Greatest Hits of Everything That Went Wrong Last Season."

The first clue was the fact that they couldn't be bothered to replace last season's bizarre, nonsensical and awkwardly pretentious opening credits. You'd think for "The Final Season" they would have spent a day or so coming up with something good (if for no other reason than to disassociate themselves from last year's stink bomb), but noooooo.

OK, anyway, the drama-queen quotient of all three wives has been cranked through the ceiling. And Bill's IQ is plumbing the depths of the deepest dungeon (Margie is having a crying jag, so let's send sweet empathetic Nikki out to calm her down. Oh yah, that'll work).

With Seyfried gone as noted above (although supposedly she's coming back for a couple episodes at the end), Ginnifer Goodwin was the heir-apparent as the primary eye-candy attraction, but for some reason they've decided to make her look about 15 years older. They have also accelerated Trippelhorn all the way through 'mature mother-wife' stage to 'post-menopausal battle-ax' at warp speed).

As mentioned last season, they drop storylines (Margie's TV business, the 'forbidden kiss' between Ben and Margie, the CASINO that burned up 3/4 of last season) and characters (Teenie) like hot potatoes, apparently never to return.

(Didn't they originally have nine kids? Tonight it looked like they were down to about four.)

In about (to me) the only interesting subplot, Don suddenly steps up and demands some respect out of Bill. And, shockingly enough, apparently gets it, although IMO it is not out of any decision on Bill's part to really start treating Don with respect, it's out of not wanting to mess with the consequences if he doesn't.

I don't really have a hell of a lot else to do on Sunday nights, and as of the moment I should have HBO for most of the season, so I suppose I'll watch it till the end. But in many ways it's getting more aggravating than entertaining.

 

Oh, I guess also as a footnote to my initial reactions: Somehow I don't think it will be a totally random choice that the opening scene of the final season features Bill singing "North To Alaska" to his brood around the campfire.


Although, who knows. Maybe it will.

 

To be fair, they "dropped" Margene's TV business . . . because she was fired . . . because of her exposure as a polygamist. So it does fit along the storyline.

Not a bad opener IMO. No Sissy Spacek and no arms getting chopped off. It's a start.