HOLLYWOOD—Last week’s episode of “Big Love” was titled “Til Death Do Us Part.” The Henrickson family is falling apart, but Bill tried his best to repair the damage his family has endured due to his ambition to become a state senator and out themselves as a polygamous family in Utah.
Bill eyed a wedding as a chance to reseal his commitment to his three wives, though Barb remained highly skeptical of his true intentions. In the meantime, Nicki looked for a way to take full advantage of her special day, while taking her eyes off her young teenage daughter who is becoming sexually involved with her math teacher at school.
Alby made a game-changing decision, while also finding himself in a torturous and very unhealthy homosexual relationship with one of the men in his polygamous compound. Lois resisted her daughter-in-law Barb’s vision of her future, and then kept her sick husband away from medical care when he fell and broke his hip in their home. Lois’s dementia became highly apparent to Bill when she verbally attacked Barb in the hospital. Margene was cautioned by Bill about the financial pitfalls of the Goji Blast Company, and getting involved with a pyramid scheme.
Cara Lynn brought a guest to the theater, but it was not who Nicki expected. Heather changed her mind about dating Ben, but was alarmed by a phone call from her father to get out of the Henrickson home, because the police were on the way to investigate Bill’s statutory rape of Margene, who was only 16 when he married and first slept with her.
As the episode came to a conclusion, the police took Barb in for questioning, while Bill looked on in horror and shock to see one of his sister-wives being driven off in a police car. The episode was well written and acted. It’s really a shame “Big Love” is coming to a conclusion this month, with only three episodes to go before the series becomes history. Sunday night’s episode, “Til Death Do Us Part,” was written by Aaron Allen and directed by David Petrarca.
This week’s exciting episode is titled “The Noose Tightens.”
“Big Love” is produced by HBO Entertainment in association with Playtone and Anima Sola Productions; created by Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer; executive producers, Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, David Knoller, Bernadette Caulfield and Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer; supervising producer, Patricia Breen; producers, Seth Greenland and Peter Friedlander; co-producers, Dauri Chase, Don Bensko, Melanie Marnich and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; executive story editor, Julia Cho; story editor, Jami O’Brien; staff writer, Aaron Allen; casting, Junie Lowry Johnson, C.S.A., Libby Goldstein and Lisa Soltau.
“Big Love” airs Sunday nights on HBO.
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