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Big Love: Season 01 (2006)

Big Love: Season 01 (2006)
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Meet the Henricksons. They're the typical suburban American family, occupied with hectic schedules and bills to pay, as well as trying to make sense of an increasingly complicated world. Oh, and they also happen to be polygamists. In the first season of this unconventional, critically acclaimed drama, every day is a new adventure for patriarch Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), who lives outside Salt Lake City with his three wives -- Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicki (Chloë Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin) -- and their collective brood of seven children, including Bill and Barb's teenagers, Ben (Douglas Smith) and Sarah (Amanda Seyfried). Owner of a profitable home-improvement superstore, Bill is anxious to expand his empire (and support his growing family) by opening another Home Plus location with his business partner and fellow polygamist, Don Embry (Joel McKinnon Miller). However, an unwanted investor hoping to share in Bill's good fortune emerges: Roman Grant (Harry Dean Stanton), the scheming "Prophet" of the remote Juniper Creek polygamist compound who is also Nicki's father. There's been bad blood between Bill and Roman ever since the former was expelled from Juniper Creek as an adolescent, largely by the latter's hand. Bill also clashes with Adaleen (Mary Kay Place), one of Roman's wives, and their power-hungry son and chief enforcer, Alby (Matt Ross). But Bill is not alone in this feud, as his father Frank (Bruce Dern), mother Lois (Grace Zabriskie) and brother Joey (Shawn Doyle) still live at Juniper Creek and identify, to varying degrees of familial allegiance, with Bill's enmity for Roman. On the home front, third wife Margene risks exposing the Henricksons' illicit lifestyle by befriending a Mormon neighbor; Nicki tries to hide a shopping addiction and the tens of thousands of dollars of credit-card debt that goes with it; and Barb tiptoes into the spotlight after one of her kids nominates her for Utah's Mother of the Year award. ~ Joe Friedrich, Rovi

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Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, (more)
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Synopsis of Big Love: Season 01

Meet the Henricksons. They're the typical suburban American family, occupied with hectic schedules and bills to pay, as well as trying to make sense of an increasingly complicated world. Oh, and they also happen to be polygamists. In the first season of this unconventional, critically acclaimed drama, every day is a new adventure for patriarch Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), who lives outside Salt Lake City with his three wives -- Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicki (Chloë Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin) -- and their collective brood of seven children, including Bill and Barb's teenagers, Ben (Douglas Smith) and Sarah (Amanda Seyfried). Owner of a profitable home-improvement superstore, Bill is anxious to expand his empire (and support his growing family) by opening another Home Plus location with his business partner and fellow polygamist, Don Embry (Joel McKinnon Miller). However, an unwanted investor hoping to share in Bill's good fortune emerges: Roman Grant (Harry Dean Stanton), the scheming "Prophet" of the remote Juniper Creek polygamist compound who is also Nicki's father. There's been bad blood between Bill and Roman ever since the former was expelled from Juniper Creek as an adolescent, largely by the latter's hand. Bill also clashes with Adaleen (Mary Kay Place), one of Roman's wives, and their power-hungry son and chief enforcer, Alby (Matt Ross). But Bill is not alone in this feud, as his father Frank (Bruce Dern), mother Lois (Grace Zabriskie) and brother Joey (Shawn Doyle) still live at Juniper Creek and identify, to varying degrees of familial allegiance, with Bill's enmity for Roman. On the home front, third wife Margene risks exposing the Henricksons' illicit lifestyle by befriending a Mormon neighbor; Nicki tries to hide a shopping addiction and the tens of thousands of dollars of credit-card debt that goes with it; and Barb tiptoes into the spotlight after one of her kids nominates her for Utah's Mother of the Year award. ~ Joe Friedrich, Rovi

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    Ryan C.

    I wasn't sure if I would like this show... I took a big chance and rented it. And WOW... I am SO hooked that I am going through withdrawls until January (when season 3 comes out). Season 1 was a little slower, and it definitely picks up in season 2. They had to do a lot of backstory to explain- but well worth the wait- it's like a juicy book that just keeps getting better, and harder to put down! I am more excited about this show then any of the others I watch. (Some other favorites are; Weeds, and The L Word - if that helps at all.) Regardless of what faith you are- this show is a must see!

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    Todd S.

    You'll intimately get to know the Henricksons: polygamists who do practice The Principle but they don't live on a "compound". They are hiding the truth of who they are from their neighbors--especially the Mormons. They are outcasts from both mainstream Mormonism and also from traditional polygamy. I live in Salt Lake City (and in Sandy) and was raised Mormon. The issues these people face are real and the viewpoints are accurate. It is tough to be marginalized for what you believe and how you wish to live your life--even seemingly from your "own people". There has never been something made that is quite as accurate and as good as this series. It is not for just Mormons, or x Mormons, etc. It can teach everyone what it means to make personal choices and having the God given freedom to do so. It can show how we strive to live our beliefs, but fall short. Each of us struggles like this family in one way or another.

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    Nina S.

    Simply fascinating! I agree with Marni. Watching this series is a lot like reading a good book that you don't want to put down. Before this show, I was very judgmental about plural marriage; it helped me recognize the fact that legal polygamy is just a non-mainstream lifestyle among consenting adults--another test of our tolerance, and perhaps not so "evil" after all. Although polygamists, they do so within the law (only first wife legal), and with courage. Wonder if this story is true to life at all??? Would love to hear feedback regarding this question from a similar family, if they really do exist!!

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