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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.
The fact is, being around these people is exhausting. Almost nothing about this series inspires actual pleasure, with the exception of Paxton and Tripplehorn.
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.
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.
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.
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.