The Blogosphere is a buzzin with excitement over the January 18th season premiere of Big Love. To get you pumped here are some great summaries and comments on the show:
For those of you who might be judgemental - let me just explain. First of all, wife number one - Barbara married Bill with no plans to be part of a polygamist family. Bill was raised on “the compound” at Juniper Creek - where everyone lives “The Principle” - that is the polygamist lifestyle that is no longer accepted practice in the mainstream Mormon religion of today.
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It’s like the car accident that you drive by and you tell yourself that you really don’t want to see anything disturbing; really you don’t. Then why are you still looking? Why are you driving so slowly, carefully scanning the scene? There’s something about our psychological makeup that I’ll never understand. Take for instance the controversial HBO series, Big Love. When it premiered, the first Big Love episode drew 4.6 million viewers. Pretty impressive. We all wanted that glimpse into this mainstream polygamist family. Living in suburban Utah in adjacent houses, right under everyone’s nose? How could that be? Eager to be the proverbial fly on the wall, we wanted to learn everything from their financial situation to their bedroom arrangements. Many of us didn’t agree with it, but how could we look away? We couldn’t, and we don’t. We’re all hooked. Makes you kind of wonder what could be going on in your own little suburban neighborhood.
Read more at Big Love: Why We Love to Watch