Big Love - The Complete Second Season
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Movie Reviews of Big Love - The Complete Second Season
Movie Review: Enlightening Entertainment
Summary: 5 Stars
In Season Two of Big Love, the Henrickson family finds that the challenges of being one, big, polygamous family is just beginning.
Season One of the show leaves off with Barb - Bill's first wife - not winning the mother of the year award, Margie (Margene) discovering that she is pregnant, and Roman Grant (leader of the polygamous compound at Juniper Creek) being seriously wounded. But Season One turns out to be child's play in comparison with the events of Season Two.
In Season Two, Nikki (Nicolette) - Bill's second wife - is more manipulative than ever, leaving the audience wondering just how far she'll go to become first wife. Bill, who for all of his faults appears to be a decent person in Season One, also becomes more deceptive (both at home and in his business dealings) as he secretly courts a woman that he considers for a fourth wife and wrests a gambling company named Weber Gaming away from two polygamous factions.
The political intrigue surrounding Juniper Creek and the Grant family also becomes more pronounced in Season Two, with many unexpected twists from characters such as Alby Grant (Nikki's brother), and Adaleen Grant, Nikki's biological mother.
The most notable difference between Season One and Season Two however is the focus on how the Henrickson's secret life of polygamy affects Barb and Bill's two oldest children, Ben and Sarah. Sarah, the Henrickson's oldest child, becomes resentful of her parent's choice as the season progresses and takes action in the last episode of the season to ensure that she never makes the same choice as her parents. In contrast, Ben, (now sixteen in Season Two) begins to romanticize the idea of leading a polygamous life like his father. He ends his relationship with his girlfriend and beings to court two girls (twin sisters) from the compound at Juniper Creek.
With each event that unfolds in Season Two, Big Love fights past being just entertainment and tackles the hard questions of polygamy and the LDS fundamentalist lifestyle.
The bottom line is that Season Two of Big Love does not disappoint; there is no adequate way to express how tastefully, artfully, and successfully the staff of Big Love portrays what is considered difficult subject matter. Each event that unfolds in Season Two of Big Love fights past being just entertainment and tackles the hard questions of polygamy and the LDS fundamentalist lifestyle.
While some individuals may find certain aspects of Big Love offensive, I hope that people will be willing to look past something that might make them uncomfortable to an experience that is both entertaining and highly enlightening. It is especially a must-see series for anyone who is interested in shows that deal with religion or the psychology of cults.
Movie Review: Big Love Season 2
Summary: 5 Stars
Shows a different point of view on the FLDS. Great Cast. Very well acted. Loved it. Movie Review: Interesting!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This show is a very interesting drama... Its a lot like Desperate Housewives except that they are all married to the same man. Creative writing and interesting plots. I am looking forward to the next season!!Movie Review: The Wheels Fall Off
Summary: 4 Stars
Great intrigue as Bill's perfect world starts to fray at the edges. Nicky, surely the least likeable wife, wrangles with her money demons. Barb renews her attempts to placate and mediate impossible situations for love of Bill and Margene makes efforts go her own way.
The threats hinted at in series one emerge powerfully in this series because it was too good to be true. Veterans of series 1 knew that and the narratives which drive series 2 will please them. Bill's oldest children have to find ways to deal with their weird family which adds an extra level of intelligence to the script.
Movie Review: No letdowns in fast-paced Season 2
Summary: 4 Stars
In Big Love - The Complete Second Season we learn the effect of polygamy on Bill's oldest children, Sarah and Ben. Sarah is against the principle, and joins a support group for ex-Mormons. Ben decides to embrace the principle whole-heartedly, and begins dating homely identical twins who wish to marry a 'rigeous man' such as he. Barb, Nicki and Margene all get more screen time the season, with Bill figuring in when there's a business deal or something is amuck at the compound.
The climax of the season is when Roman is shot by a rival polygamist family (the Greens) and Bill very nearly gets voted to be prophet-in-waiting until Roman dies. Instead, the unstable, dangerous Alby begins taking over well before his father is ready to go. The relationship between sibling-rivals Alby and Nicki is fascinating, one which I hope the writers develop further next season.
There is no let-down in Season 2. The acting, writing and pacing have a cinematic quality to them, not unlike other HBO series. Watch out for Nicki's emerging gambling addiction, Ben leaving the family for an 'alternative' (i.e. nonpolygamous) lifestyle pushed by his mother and the possibility of Bill bringing a fourth wife. Season 3 has been delayed due to the writers' strike.