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cloudboy -> RE: BIG LOVE (2/8/2010 8:14:57 PM)
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ORIGINAL: KatyLied
I missed last night, because of that big football game.
I am disappointed in the show this season. It has gotten away from what makes it great - focusing on the family and its struggles. There are too many storylines and I do not enjoy it like I have in previous seasons.
Before the season started, the critical refrain was that the story lines emanating out of the compound were believable and engrossing, but that the whole construct of the Hendrickson clan had gone off the reservation.
Bill running for office to help "mainstream" polygamy is ludicrous, and he's become a kind megalomanic requiring everyone around him to sacrifice to his far-fetched vision. Common sense has been replaced by religious destiny, and Bill's leadership promises ruin instead of redemption. He's literally lost sight of everything around him -- his stores, his casino, his daughter, his eldest son, and of course his wives.
In some ways Bill has become a modernized version of Roman with new twists, the most brightline of which was sending his oldest, good-as-gold son away because he's a threat to the polygamous family order.
I had really thought that Bill would see the folly of public office and turn his attention to the compound -- but that does not seem to be the case.
To me, for reasons I don't fully understand, the writers seem to be drop kicking the whole show over a cliff, maybe because they want to show that Bill isn't that much better than the creepier others (Roman, Hollis Grant, his father, et. al.) and they want to drive home the point that the evil in the show is polygamy itself and not the immorality of the "bad polygamists."
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