Review of Big Love

Big Love (2006–2011)
1/10
Depicting The Bizarre As Normal
24 July 2014
OK , i've only seen the last episode , but that's enough. I can't believe this series presents what are basically a bunch of religious loonies as being normal. Are we supposed to care what happens to this bunch of morons ? Morons missing the letter ''m''. Judging by the sentimental background music it seems we are. The potential was here for a satirical comedy , instead we get deadpan seriousness.

To a Brit like myself , Mormons rank alongside Scientologists as being a weird religious cult . By all means let them indulge their bizarre beliefs , but for goodness sake don't turn the bizarre into the everyday.

What a waste of a great cast , especially Bill Paxton , wonderful in the brilliant A Simple Plan.

Maybe the producers could come up with a follow up , depicting the ups and downs of an everyday Taliban family in which the master of the house struggles with one wife who wants to listen to music , another who wants to wear make up and a third who wants to fly a kite.
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