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The second season... crackles with high drama, suspenseful twists, unexpected humor and emotion.
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[It] remains a nervily ambiguous concept. [18 Jun 2007, p.37]
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Big Love has dropped the last vestiges of its ostentatious quirkiness and fashioned itself into a rich and grounded family drama. [22 Jun 2007, p.62]
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It's the characters, and the character development, that continually lift the show out of soap into true opera, in which things writ large resonate with pinpoint accuracy.
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"Big Love" does more this year than you might expect, and more richly, more provocatively, more dramatically and amusingly, too.
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The series performs a deft balancing act, creating sympathetic characters in a nontraditional family that viewers care about while making polygamy look like a much bigger relationship headache than any two-person union.
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There's lots of humor in "Big Love" this season, but it is all based in the characters and a new spin on familiar situations.
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Like the fledgling “John From Cincinnati” but with fewer side effects, “Big Love” derives suspense, humor and thrills from HBO’s signature insight: that Americans are profoundly anxious about how their families are different from other families.
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The show feels cold, like it's holding the audience at arm's length.
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“Big Love” is a waste of time, and an excruciating waste of these actors’ talents.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 52 out of 70
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Mixed: 1 out of 70
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Negative: 17 out of 70
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MikeAug 28, 2007
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LynnN.Aug 27, 2007Easily the most compelling and best written script on TV today.
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karenmJul 30, 2007It is as close to the real thing as it gets good job..