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There’s plenty of praise for Thief, the new FX series starring fave Andre Braugher.
Meanwhile, the new HBO series Big Love is getting props from another set of critics — former and current polygamists. Felicia R. Lee recently watched an episode with five women in Salt Lake City. “And despite the show’s flaws,” she writes, “these women called ‘Big Love’ a cultural benchmark, one with the potential to cast a warmer light on their lives.”
One of the viewers, Anne Wilde, a widow who was in a polygamous marriage for 33 years, said, “It’s a more realistic view of a polygamous family that lives out in society than people have known … It can be seen as a viable alternative lifestyle between consenting adults.”
Might I suggest as a companion read: Under the Banner of Heaven.
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March 29, 2006 at 8:54 am
Uh, Alessandra Stanley didn’t watch with the polygamists!!!
March 29, 2006 at 10:33 am
Thanks for catching that! It was Felicia R. Lee, post corrected.
March 29, 2006 at 1:08 pm
As a boy during a birthday party, at the age of 13 outside of Utah, I was introduced to a “Secular-Catholic-Bigamists/Polygamists.” (Common where I came from)
I also want to watch “(HBO) Religion-Neutral BIG-LOVE!”
CONCURRENTLY WITH (HB0) BIG LOVE IN UTAH, OTHERS MUST PRODUCE AND DIRECT OTHER SITCOMS OF OTHER SEGMENTS OF SOCIETY:
LIST OF NEIGHBORS:
1. “SECULAR-CATHOLIC-BIGAMISTS OR POLYGAMISTS MAINTAINING AND COHABITATING IN TWO OR MORE HOUSEHOLDS!”
2. “SECULAR-PROTESTANT-BIGAMISTS OR POLYGAMISTS MAINTAINING AND COHABITATING IN TWO OR MORE HOUSEHOLDS!!”
3. “SECULAR-EVANGELICAL-BIGAMISTS OR POLYGAMISTS MAINTAINING AND COHABITATING IN TWO OR MORE HOUSEHOLDS!!”
4. “SECULAR-ATHEIST-BIGAMISTS OR AGNOSTIC SECULAR-POLYGAMISTS MAINTAINING AND COHABITATING IN TWO OR MORE HOUSEHOLDS!!”
Then, the TV ratings will grow.
I see a bigger WORLWIDE AUDIENCE MARKET POTENTIAL: SITCOM LICENSE $ALES!