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Big Love: The Complete Second Season (DVD)
The critically accled hit series, Big Love, returns for it’s
second break-out season. Bill Henrickson works hard and plays by
the rules. All he wants in return is a happy, secure, normal life
for his family. Is that too much to ask? Maybe so. For a
polygamist like Bill, the American Dream comes with strings
attached. Season 2 opens with even more drama, as Bill’s mission
to learn who tipped off the authorities and exposed first wife,
Barb, as a polygamist escalates. Not surprisingly, his search
will lead him to the polygamist compound of Juniper Creek where
his primary suspect is Roman Grant. Bill contemplates changes in
his personal and professional life that promise to impact every
member of his family.
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Early on in Big Love's second season, closeted polygamist Bill
Henrickson's kids come to him with a broken toy. "I can fix
anything," he reassures them. If only his chaotic life were as
easy to mend. Among the crises vying for his attention this
season are finding out who was responsible for outing his wife,
Barbara (Jeanne Tripplehorn), at the Mother of the Year ceremony;
the investigation into the poisoning of his brother-in-law, Alby,
for which he could be implicated in a cover-up; negotiating a
deal to purchase a gaming company coveted by Roman (Harry Dean
Stanton); and, in a "holy spirit sucker punch," meeting Ana
(Branca Katic), a Serbian waitress who just could be wife No. 4.
A Golden Globe nominee for Best Drama, Big Love further draws
viewers into the polygamists' shadow world. "If they could show
just one normal plural family for a change," someone remarks at
one point. Grounded in "the principle," the Henrickson households
are about as normal as you can get with the sister wives at once
fiercely protective of the family, while at the same jockeying
for position and influence. Nicki (Chloe Svigny) is beholden to
her her, the prophet Roman (whom Bill aptly calls "venal,
corrupt, the face of evil"), and duty-bound mother, Adaleen (Mary
Kay Place). Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin), the third and youngest
wife, has absolutely no boundaries, and initiates a friendship
with Ana, and agrees to be a surrogate mother for her unwitting
neighbor. "Boss Lady" Barbara must come to terms with the
sacrifices she made for her marriage. Meanwhile, Barbara's
teenage son and daughter are at their own crossroads on deciding
whether to follow their parents' path. Complicating matters even
further are Rhonda (Daveigh Chase, the voice of Lilo in Disney's
Lilo & Stitch), the lying and manipulative child bride who runs
away from Roman and the compound, Alby's sinister ascendancy, and
Hollis Green, a rival polygamist patriarch and fierce
fundamentalist with a penchant for branding those who cross him.
Season 2 further es out television's most unconventional
family drama. This set also includes three "prequels" that peek
in on the Henricksons up to five years before the events of the
first season. In one, Nicki suffers post-partum depression
following the birth of her first son. In the second, Margene
makes an indelible first impression in "Meet the Baby-Sitter."
The third shows how Bill's three wives compel a move to the
suburbs and into their three-home compound. This series has
emerged from The Sopranos' shadow to earn some Big Love of its
own. What happens next? As the Beach Boys sing during the
haunting and etheral opening credits, "God only knows." --Donald
Liebenson