EPISODE
SEASON
A polygamist and his relationship with his three wives.
29 December 1999, Lakeland, Florida, USA
3 June 1977, Columbus, Ohio, USA
30 October 1972, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
31 October 1957, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
22 March 1975, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14 June 1989, Orange County, California, USA
14 December 1972, Miami, Florida, USA
13 May 1977, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
8 October 1976, Roanoke, Virginia, USA
18 June 1952, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
21 June 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 March 1962, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
13 July 1930, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 November 1972, Ashern, Manitoba, Canada
17 December 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 September 1999
10 September 1931, Toledo, Ohio, USA
December 10, 2018
The fact is, being around these people is exhausting. Almost nothing about this series inspires actual pleasure, with the exception of Paxton and Tripplehorn.
June 11, 2007
Well-played as the characters remain, we care less about them, not more. For "Big Love," that's big trouble.
June 11, 2007
The performances by the three lead actresses (and by Amanda Seyfried as Paxton and Tripplehorn's eldest daughter) are so strong, and the nuances of life in such a complicated relationship so endlessly fascinating.
December 10, 2018
Big Love gets to have fun. Having introduced and defined this very extended family, the series now gets to explore it.
December 10, 2018
The reason this whole mildly soapy storyline works is because of Tripplehorn, who reasserts her character as the show's center.
December 10, 2018
Remains a nervily ambiguous concept: A satiric drama about a dark fringe of fundamentalist culture, it also plays like a faith-based Stepford Wives.
June 11, 2007
The series is as surprising and hilarious as ever.
December 10, 2018
The show is not interested in endorsing or deriding the practice of polygamy, but instead, holding it up as a funhouse mirror to mainstream constructions of "family." In doing so, it reveals family's many absurdities.
December 10, 2018
While we found the events of last season to be a little underwhelming, season two has started off with a dramatic bang which has made us sit up and take notice.
June 11, 2007
For a show with an off-putting premise, it smartly avoids cheap shock by testing the limits of how much its faith-gripped characters can endure without sacrificing our sympathy for them as human in need of warmth, love and security.
December 10, 2018
Big Love is a very welcome re-addition to a network that's just suffered a big subtraction... It keeps the lights burning with a much softer glow than The Sopranos ever managed.
December 10, 2018
To avoid saying that it kicked off with a whimper, we'll just say it sort of chugged along.
