Posted on 06/13/2007 12:29:14 PM PDT by Sonora
TV: Big Love starts new season By Vince Horiuchi The Salt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated: 06/11/2007 09:04:21 AM MDT
Ginnifer Goodwin, Chloe Sevigny, Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn. (Ron Batzdorff)Related More 'Big Love' Jun 11: Big Love illustrates good writing, directing and actingAt Bill Henrickson's house, you can feel a lot of love in the room. A lot of love. That's because tucked away in a suburb of Sandy is Bill's three-house tract where the small-business owner lives with his three wives. It's the central family unit behind HBO's polygamist drama, "Big Love," which begins a second season of marital strife - but with three times the group hugs - tonight at 10 p.m. Back are the domestic hassles and secret scandals of Utah's most popular polygamist family, which likely will cause more strife for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Beehive State's tourism bureau. To keep it all straight, here's how Bill's family tree would look and the spider web of relationships that populate it.
yeah, I’m not the only Conservative who loves Big Love, lol!! It is a great show and does take us into places we have never been. It keeps my interest for sure.
insert music here"the world turned upside down"
The world hasn't changed - it's just become more societally acceptable for women to behave the way she did. A woman will do anything to feel a man's yang energy - she needs it like she needs air and water. If she isn't getting it from the boring computer guy, she'll go get it from some thug - and feel totally justified in doing so.
If a man isn't masculine enough, he will lose his woman...almost regardless of anything else he does right.
That’s because Bruce Dern is a liberal.
A lot of Mormons look as though they could be of Swedish descent—tall and blond.
While on morality and religious (Christian) issues there is a clear black and white divide, oftentimes in the secular arena (which also includes morality) the situation is much more gray. Consider the Cold War, when those westerns were made. The United States opposed Communism--as it should have--but did so partially by propping up malevolent dictators.
Many of God’s followers in the Old Testament murdered people, too. Rather than it showing approval by God for such behavior, it shows that man is fallen, but God still loves him and can still use him.
No we don’t have to have three wives to attain Celestial Glory. One will suffice.
I enjoy watching Big Love, it is an intersting show. From an LDS perspective I can see why polygamy was discontinued. It is next to impossible to practice that in these modern times. I know I couldn’t do it.
And contrary to popular myth, most LDS members back in the day didn’t like the idea of polygamy and did it because they were obeident and saw it as God’s commandment.
I have ancestors who practiced it, and none really liked it that much.
Again, no we don’t have to have mulitple wives to enter the Celestial Kingdom.
Well, I wonder if they accepted Jesus Christ - in other words converted to that believe versus the Mormon take on getting to heaven or did they simply eliminate relegion from their lives.
BTY - it’s the pretty crazy part that will keep Mitt out of the running in the long run.
I started watching Big Love after I read Jon Krakour's (sp?) Under the Banner of Heaven and got hooked. Someone on the show did their homework (for once) because there is a lot of accuracy there like the main character getting booted out of the compound when he became a teen so that the old guys wouldn't have to compete with him for wives (there are ministries set up to try to rescue such boys from the streets).
Big Love and South Park are my guilty pleasures - and the only things I watch that aren't on the Food or Military channels.
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