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Big Love
Season Three
SERIES: HBO, Sunday 9:00p (60 minutes)
Starring
Bill Paxton,
Jeanne Tripplehorn,
Chloe Sevigny,
Ginnifer Goodwin,
Harry Dean Stanton,
Shawn Doyle,
Joel McKinnon Miller, Matt Ross, Douglas Smith,
and
Amanda Seyfried
The Henricksons return for a third season, and Bill (Paxton) may be ready for wife number four.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| CREATED BY: |
Mark V. Olsen
Will Scheffer
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| FIRST AIR DATE: |
January 18, 2009 |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly Tim Stack
The underrated bigamy show returns from a too-long hiatus with a plot-packed season 3 opener, and, not for the first time, the females deliver the best moments.
100
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
If there's a better written, better acted, more originally conceived show on television, I defy you to name it.
88
New York Post Linda Stasi
Happily for you, when you see what each of those truly terrible characters is up to this year, your hair will stand on end like an FDLS lady with a sugar-water-stiffened 'do. It's so much more satisfying than a pizza and a night at the Bada Bing
80
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Big Love succeeds in entertaining through the nuance of its characters, especially perpetually seething Nicki (Chloe Sevigny, queen of the slow burn), one of the three wives of Salt Lake City businessman Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton).
80
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
The current season, exquisitely plotted so far, deals in part with the repercussions of outing.
80
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
It's always been well-acted and crafted with surprising restraint. But as the dawn of this new campaign underscores, the production team looks to be taking things to another level beyond serialized contrivance.
80
LA Weekly Robert Abele
A series that seems to get better and better with each season, exploring issues of openness in religious belief, economic betterment and emotional escape that are as relevant and chilling as ever.
80
Salon Heather Havrilesky
Big Love not only recovers from this near disaster in its third season, but its episodes build to a dramatic climax heretofore unseen on this series.
80
Variety Brian Lowry
Exec producers Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer possess a marvelous knack for dancing right up against the precipice with their narrative arcs without toppling over--aided immeasurably by their talented multigenerational cast.
80
Time James Poniewozik
Big Love quickly settles you into its odd setting. The particulars of the Henricksons' lives--their intrigues and secrecy, yes, but also their familiar family dynamics and sincere faith--are presented, simply and unpatronizingly, as the reality of the show's universe.
75
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
Big Love just doesn't induce love. And yet, the series crafts compelling stories.
70
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
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, that I'll suffer through the rest for a few episodes at a time before Bill's unsettling stare or Roman's calm, criminal sense of entitlement chases me off again.
40
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Everything but the problems feels increasingly awkward and forced. Well-played as the characters remain, we care less about them, not more.
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