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Big Love

A new controversy is brewing over the HBO program “Big Love.” In an upcoming episode, the show’s promotion says it will reveal sacred Latter-day Saint temple ceremonies.

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Big Love

HBO’s Big Love may be the most complicated, convoluted show ever produced by a major network.

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But also I just think it would be cool to be polygamous. At least the way it is portrayed on Big Love. Bill is so decent as played by Bill Paxton. Men like Bill marrying all the single moms and raising the children would solve a lot of cultural and economic problems.

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Big Love season 4

I stop and gaze whenever I see this billboard around L.A. Sometimes it almost feels like the whole economy, the whole society, everything would balance out better, If only men who could afford it, could have more wives. Raise the children. Better living through polygamy.

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Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer

HBO’s “Big Love” was created during a moment of boredom during a cross country drive for the two EP’s and showrunners, Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer.

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‘Big Love’ Gets a Big Tie to Real World

by Staff on January 18, 2009

suburban polygamy

For Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, the creators and executive producers of “Big Love,” the raids confirmed what they had known all along — that polygamy is alive and thriving in several pockets of the American West. Suddenly, the intriguing tale of suburban polygamy that they had woven over two seasons on HBO had a new catalyst that would make it feel more current.

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Bill Paxton

A storyline chronicling the arrest and trial of Roman Grant (Harry Dean Stanton), a Mormon prophet who has had several wives, unfolds on TV just weeks after two religious leaders in the real-life community of Bountiful, B.C., were charged with practising polygamy.

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Review: ‘Big Love’ on HBO

by Staff on January 16, 2009

the Henricksons

This creative gem returns for its third season with nary an Emmy to its name, but early episodes looks stronger than ever.

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