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Extra love in the room

It’s not often TV Tonight makes mention of repeats, but this drama was so good it’s worth alerting viewers to a second outing.

Big Love will be repeated on SBS beginning 8:35pm Saturday February 23. The good news is it will lead up to the screening of the second season.

The HBO drama looks at the life of a polygamous Mormon family. Bill Paxton has three wives, portrayed by Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin. Harry Dean Stanton plays the truly creepy sect leader, Roman. Louise Fletcher also appears.

From its opening, bittersweet Beach Boys theme song, “God Only Knows” the show is a fascinating and often uncomfortable dramatisation of plural marriage.

Big Love was nominated for Best Drama in the 2007 Golden Globes.

Worth a look if you like provocative storytelling!

6 Responses

  1. Even though the premise is a bit iffy to me, I’m willing to give this a go, not just because the sexy Amanda Seyfried is a main character, but also because its a HBO show, and HBO shows are the best in existence next to Showtime’s productions.

  2. This is good news *IF* SBS airs the episodes separately. If they’re going to sloppily piece two episodes together like FTA *used* to do with some of their shows, I’ll be really pissed.

    And honestly, is it THAT hard to schedule the show at 9pm so they can air the episodes in their entirety?

  3. Ro, this show is most definitely NOT for “religious types”. I certainly wouldn’t be watching it if it was.

    Big Love is about a plural family living completely outside of accepted Mormon “behaviour” and as a result treated with suspicion – and in some cases despised – by both their neighbours and close friends. The main characters in the show are religious, but that’s never the subject of the show. It’s all about their family. Indeed, the door-knocking Spam Mormons get given what they deserve towards the end of season 1.

    I’m an atheist. But I love this show, not just for its brilliant writing, but also because it shows, without ever being the slightest bit preachy, that whatever you choose to believe in is – and should always be – completely personal.

  4. Would this be interesting for non-religious types? I can hardly stand it when they knock on the door so i never bothered tuning in when it was last on.

    What exactly is so great about this show?

  5. Seconded!

    It’s a shame that SBS has taken so long to get season 2 to air – it finished airing in the US last August – but the season 1 repeat is a must for anyone new to the show. You *need* to see this every week (which is why I downloaded it, when SBS axed the show’s Friday night repeat without notice).

    Season 1 is superb; season 2 is arguably even better.

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