Guess what? HBO is replaying Big Love on their HBO Signature channel! I don't know if all five seasons will be replayed but, so far, they are showing an episode almost every night. Tonight will be Episode 6, Roberta's Funeral. What makes this so sweet is, if you have Amazon Prime, all 5 seasons of Big Love are FREE! If you subscribe to HBO, you can also watch online at HBOGo.
It's been years since I watched Big Love. Although the show deteriorated drastically into telenovela land after season 2, it's still interesting to watch, if not to marvel at the ensemble acting of the main characters.
So I got to thinking; Which were my favorite scenes from Season One?
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From episode one, it has got to be the opening title with the Beach Boys singing God Only Knows. I think the shot where the ice starts to break and the wives are separated from Bill was perfect to illustrate that no matter how much they claimed they were one family, each wife was headed into a different direction away from Bill.
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I also liked the ending of the title scene, where Bill and his Wives are together on their own celestial "world".
Also from episode 1, this little confrontation between second wife Nicki Grant and first wife Barb showed the competition that existed between the wives, right down to who got to sit next to Bill in his car:
Wife #2 Nicki opens the door and is about to get into the car when... |
Wife #1 Barb deftly slips into the car seat while Nicki talks to Bill |
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Luckily, even though the storylines went further and further into the ridiculously unbelievable (like Bill's mother slicing off the arm of a rival polygamist prophet with just a large serrated bread knife?!?), these small acting nuances were allowed to continue throughout the entire run of the series.
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Here's an example of Jeanne Tripplehorn's character Barb expressing her disgust, shock, and horror of having a child bride of the Prophet telling a youthful bodyguard that Barb's uterine cancer and subsequent inability to bear children was a direct result of heavenly displeasure.
If you watched Big Love, what were some of your favorite scenes?
And here's something for you to think about...Kody and his Kodettes© at times seem to be following a Big Love game plan with their reality show. For example, moving out of the big house of Lehi into 4 separate houses that share one back yard. (Please note, the Henricksons did not live in McMansions in a gated cul-de-sac but they did share one huge backyard).
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Do you know which one of Kody's Kodettes© also owns this lovely lamp?
All righty, let's get back to real life.
Well, real life according to Twitter and Facebook and reality TV's version, that is.
I suppose Kody and his Kodettes© have decided to save up their collective twitter energy for the impending premiere of their new season in about 9 days...
Meri is using this downtime before the new season to educate her twitter fans exactly when Robyn first appeared on the show...
@andersonm_85984 Ha ha! You've only known us since Robyn! :)
— Meri Brown (@MeriBrown1) May 28, 2014
@andersonm_85984 Nope, she was introduced at the end of the very first episode :)
— Meri Brown (@MeriBrown1) May 28, 2014
Well, at least Meri appeared to be nice about it...kind of...I guess.
Maddie has started tweeting using the hashtag polygamyproblems. Unfortunately, she tweeted this picture using #polyganyproblems, but it's a cute pic of Truely putting the heebie jeebies on someone...
#polyganyproblems pic.twitter.com/XmAJEPbZ1F
— Maddie Brown♏ (@MaddieR_Brown) May 29, 2014
Here's a small sampling of her other #polygamyproblems tweets. Just file these under "In jest, there is truth"...
"Are you here tonight dad??" #polygamyproblems
— Maddie Brown♏ (@MaddieR_Brown) May 26, 2014
"How many cell phone lines can you have on one plan?" #polygamyproblems
— Maddie Brown♏ (@MaddieR_Brown) May 26, 2014
When an average house barley fits half the family #polygamyproblems
— Maddie Brown♏ (@MaddieR_Brown) May 26, 2014
"How are you related??" "She's my other mom's sister's husband's other wife's daughter.... Does that make sense?" #polygamyproblems
— Maddie Brown♏ (@MaddieR_Brown) May 26, 2014
When your dad gets called a lion cause of his hair and size of his family. #ThePride #Polygamyproblems
— Maddie Brown♏ (@MaddieR_Brown) May 26, 2014
Somehow I missed this Mother's Day tweet from Brady and Wives...
Happy Mothers Day! Hope yours was great! Brady made dinner for us. pic.twitter.com/c7CycavwdY
— BradyandWives (@BradyandWives) May 12, 2014
Call me cynical (Ms Jinx if you're nasty) but those are some real Stepford Wives looking faces in that picture. Maybe that's their hungry look. And how many bottles of wine are on that table?This is the newest posting on their Facebook page. Looks like Brady's got kids graduating, too.
Post by Brady and Wives.
I wonder if Kody will be tweeting graduation pictures of Maddie and Mykelti?
And what are your thoughts about True Tori, The Real Housewives of OC and NYC, I wanna Marry Harry, Masterchef and/or any other reality TV show you watched this week?