Big Love

Never heard of it. Is it American?

HBO, verra funny...

Absolutely, k. About Mormons in Utah! :wink:

(kinda real, too. makes it funnier...)

RH

Maybe it's called something else in the US?

(Seems rather "HBO-ish" to me.)

So I wasn't laughing in the wrong spots,then, RH? (Phew! Ya never can tell for certain! )

I think it is on hiatus, or is done in new form. I don't have premiums anymore, and I rarely travel of late...

RH

Gosh! Look what I just found: It's even go it's own official website!

Here's the lucky (? Sometimes not! :wink: ) fellow & his 3 wives. Boy, are there some power struggles amongst the wives! Momma mia!



http://www.hbo.com/biglove/

Airs Next: HBO at Monday 9:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: Returning Series Premiered: March 12, 2006
Show Category: Drama


As if normal family life isn't enough trouble, Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton, Twister, Thunderbirds) has everything in triple: three wives, three houses, three families. Bill's first and only legal wife is Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn, Word of Honor) but he also shares the bedroom with middle wife Nicki (Chloe Sevigny, Boys Don't Cry, Dogville) and youngest wife Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin, Ed, Mona Lisa Smile). Bill also has three new adjoining houses, seven kids, and a booming hardware business. His closest friend and business partner at Home Plus, Don Embry (Joel McKinnon Miller), is also a polygamist. The series kicks in as Bill receives troublesome news about his father Frank (Bruce Dern, Last Man Standing), who lives in rural Utah in a fundamentalist community lead by Bill's father-in-law, the menacing "Prophet" Roman Grant (Harry Dean Stanton, Wild at Heart, The Green Mile).

Bill's younger brother Joey (Shawn Doyle, The Eleventh Hour) was once a star athlete in the NFL, but is now getting used to living in the compound with his wife Wanda (Melora Walters, Magnolia, The Butterfly Effect). Bill's mother Lois (Grace Zabriskie, Twin Peaks, Fried Green Tomatoes) is a descendant to the original founder of the Juniper Creek compound, and is still bitter for Roman Grant's hostile takeover for the leadership. Daveigh Chase (The Ring, Lilo & Stitch) plays Roman's latest wife, the child-bride Rhonda. Rounding out the cast are Amanda Seyfried (Veronica Mars, As the World Turns) as Bill and Barb's oldest daughter Sarah, Douglas Smith (Citizen Duane) as Ben, the adoring son, and Jolean Wejbe as Tancy, the precocious 8-year-old.

The series is executive produced by creators Mark V. Olsen (Easter) and Will Scheffer (Easter), Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman (Band of Brothers, The Polar Express).

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http://www.tv.com/big-love/show/25834/summary.html

You get the picture?

I've finished watching the whole of series 1.
I think I'm hooked!
It is complex ... an excellent soap with lots of very credible bits & lots of sly, bizarre & funny elements at the same time.
Apparently this was made by the same folk who produced the Sopranos.

Hey msolga.

I'm a Big Love fan too.

Yeah, they used the hook of showing all the typical things someone might wonder about polygamy, such as the keeping 3 women "satisfied" the division of duties, etc. Then, it got into an actual story line about the politics between the family in the mainstream and the separatist community.

The 2nd season gets deeper, has a lot more meat to it. I'm sure you'll love it.

Remind me, what happeed in the last episode you watched?

Ah, another fan. Wonderful, Chai!

The last episode?: Wife no 1 had been nominated as Mother of the Year & becomes one of the three finalists. so there she was, sitting up on the stage looking confident & radiant, her family (minus wife no 2 & wife no 3 - because there weren't enough tickets) sitting in the audience, proud as punch.
Then (UhOh!) she is called to the side an asked if, in fact, she is living in a polygamist relationship. She has been dobbed in! Oh no! She admits she is. The family leave the hall in disgrace after it is announced that she has withdrawn for "personal reasons" .... What a bombshell! :wink: