EPISODE
SEASON
Big Love - Season 2
A polygamist and his relationship with his three wives.
20 July 1953, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
1 December 1966, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
February 10 in Manhassett, New York, USA
20 June 1964, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
1968, Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
28 July 1961, Midland, Michigan, USA
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
To avoid saying that it kicked off with a whimper, we'll just say it sort of chugged along.
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.
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.
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
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
Well-played as the characters remain, we care less about them, not more. For "Big Love," that's big trouble.
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
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 fact is, being around these people is exhausting. Almost nothing about this series inspires actual pleasure, with the exception of Paxton and Tripplehorn.