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Friday, January 8 2010

The Best TV of 2009

Aside from one or two new shows, this look at the Best of TV 2009 seems awfully familiar. A look at early '60s admen? A practically incomprehensible drama about an island of airplane crash castaways? The Americanization of a UK workplace comedy? That definitely rings a bell.


Reviews

Tuesday, December 13 2011

'Big Love: The Complete Collection' Mined Private Family Dynamics and Public Personas

Big Love ran the gamut in its five seasons and the series did an admirable job of addressing such charged material.


Sunday, January 10 2010

Big Love: Season Four Premiere

Even in the face of all the men's realm intrigue, the most compelling aspect of Big Love remains the women.


Wednesday, January 6 2010

Big Love: Season Three

Big Love: Season Three becomes less of a melodrama than an examination how religious belief survives in 21st century America -- if at all.


Monday, July 2 2007

Big Love

Big Love generally handles the Henricksons' faith respectfully, but there's no forgetting that they are polygamists.


Thursday, March 23 2006

Big Love

Big Love illustrates the ways the cell phone serves as faux 'intimacy'. Everyone voice mails or pages each other, creating bland clips of conversation without contexts.


Blogs

Saturday, January 9 2010

Big Love for Big Love

Thoughts on Big Love as its fourth season kicks off on HBO.


News

Tuesday, March 22 2011

'Big Love' finale was a perfect finish to this look at the sticky mess of marriage

It was always about the women. Polygamy may seem like a man's game — a different bedroom every night, never having to do a dish…


Friday, January 14 2011

Fifth-season premiere of 'Big Love,' Sunday on HBO

REASON TO WATCH: The fifth and final season begins. CATCHING UP: In the crazy fourth-season finale, Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) wins election to the state…


Wednesday, March 10 2010

'Big Love' showed too much love to big cast

LOS ANGELES — The problem with having what is arguably the best, and certainly largest, cast on television is that if you want to give…


Friday, January 15 2010

Globe predictions: Michael C. Hall, John Lithgow, Jane Lynch should have speeches ready

You may hate awards shows, but the participation of Ricky Gervais as host could make for a funny and unpredictable Golden Globes this Sunday. Gervais…


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