Big Love

Name: Big Love
Genre: Drama, Soap
Released: March 12, 2006
Rating: 73
Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Mary Kay Place, Grace Zabriskie, Cassi Thomson, Douglas Smith (VI)

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Big Love: Season 5

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HBO | Release Date: March 12, 2006

Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Mary Kay Place, Grace Zabriskie, Cassi Thomson, Douglas Smith (VI), Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Bill Paxton, Matt Ross, Audrey Wasilewski

Summary: From creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer comes Big Love, the story of a man, Bill Henrickson, living in Salt Lake City with his three wives, three houses, and three families.As if normal family life isn't enough trouble, Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton, Twister, Thunderbirds) has everything in triple: three wives, three houses, threeFrom creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer comes Big Love, the story of a man, Bill Henrickson, living in Salt Lake City with his three wives, three houses, and three families.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).Polygamy Loves Company… Expand

Creator: Will Scheffer

Genre(s): Drama, Soap

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Mary McNamara

Feb 3, 2011

Season 5 Review: In early episodes, Big Love quickly reclaims its astonishing ability to balance the insightful and the absurd, hilarity and heartbreak and the personal with the political. The hours race by and already the final season seems far too short. Read full review

James Poniewozik

Season 1 Review: Secrets, threats, Viagra--Big Love was always going to be interesting TV, but what makes it first-rate drama is how confidently it moves past exoticism to the ordinary universals of family life. Read full review

Linda Stasi

Season 3 Review: Happily for you, when you see what each of those truly terrible characters is up to this year, your hair will stand on end like an FDLS lady with a sugar-water-stiffened 'do. It's so much more satisfying than a pizza and a night at the Bada Bing Read full review

Heather Havrilesky

Season 3 Review: Big Love not only recovers from this near disaster in its third season, but its episodes build to a dramatic climax heretofore unseen on this series. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Season 4 Review: It's all very entertaining, and extremely well acted, but feels overly hectic. Not until next Sunday's episode, when Bill and Barbara's daughter Sarah makes a move toward determining her own future, does Big Love approach the kind of emotional, transcendent high that made so much of last season so memorable. Read full review

Diane Werts

Season 1 Review: [The episodes are] smarter than you might expect but not quite as clever as they work at being. Like the family unit it portrays, this dark/lighthearted drama tries to have everything at once and struggles under the far-reaching effort. Read full review

Maureen Ryan

Season 2 Review: “Big Love” is a waste of time, and an excruciating waste of these actors’ talents. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 5

85
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: January 16, 2011
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  S5:E10. When Men and Mountains Meet
  Air Date: March 20, 2011
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  S5:E9. Exorcism
  Air Date: March 13, 2011
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  S5:E9. Exorcism
  Air Date: March 13, 2011
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  S5:E8. The Noose Tightens
  Air Date: March 6, 2011
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  S5:E7. Til Death Do Us Part
  Air Date: February 27, 2011
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  S5:E6. D.I.V.O.R.C.E
  Air Date: February 20, 2011
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  S5:E5. The Special Relationship
  Air Date: February 13, 2011
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  S5:E4. The Oath
  Air Date: February 6, 2011
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  S5:E3. Certain Poor Shepards
  Air Date: January 30, 2011
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  S5:E2. A Seat at the Table
  Air Date: January 23, 2011
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  S5:E1. Winter
  Air Date: January 16, 2011
Season 4

68
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: January 10, 2010
Season 3

79
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: January 18, 2009
Season 2

71
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: June 11, 2007
Season 1

72
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 12, 2006