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Tribeca Film Festival 2010: Sons of Perdition

Tribeca Film Festival 2010: Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten’s Sons of Perdition

by Nick Schager
April 24, 2010

The documentary is cautiously inspiring in its snapshot of independence blossoming amidst oppression.

Big Love Recap: Season 4, Episode 1, Free At Last

Big Love Recap: Season 4, Episode 1, “Free At Last”

by Clara Loginov
January 15, 2010

After watching the beginning of season four of Big Love, I think we can safely give up on ever having a premiere of this show that isn’t a busy and exhausting whirlwind.

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 10, Sacrament

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 10, “Sacrament”

by Emily St. James
March 24, 2009

The season finales of Big Love often have a bit of an out-of-control feel to them.

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 9, Outer Darkness

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 9, “Outer Darkness”

by Emily St. James
March 16, 2009

No matter how devoted you are to your creed (be it religious or otherwise), you’re always going to let it down.

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 8, Rough Edges

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 8, “Rough Edges”

by Emily St. James
March 9, 2009

“Rough Edges” just plunges forward, pell-mell, not terribly concerned with if it makes a lot of sense.

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 7, Fight or Flight

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 7, “Fight or Flight”

by Emily St. James
March 2, 2009

I’m sure some really enjoy the seriocomic tone that the Juniper Creek storylines can strike.

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 6, Come, Ye Saints

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 6, “Come, Ye Saints”

by Emily St. James
February 24, 2009

He’s arguably the most important character in Big Love, even if we never directly see Him, even if we never are sure how He feels about the Henricksons.

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 5, For Better or for Worse

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 5, “For Better or for Worse”

by Emily St. James
February 16, 2009

Few shows on TV have as many scenes that feel like they should be dream sequences but actually turn out to be reality as Big Love does.

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 4, On Trial

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 4, “On Trial”

by Emily St. James
February 9, 2009

One of the best things about Big Love is that it’s decidedly agnostic about its purported protagonist.

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 3, Prom Queen

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 3, “Prom Queen”

by Emily St. James
February 2, 2009

Think about the last time you talked to your mom or your dad or your best friend.

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 2, Empire

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 2, “Empire”

by Emily St. James
January 26, 2009

Sadly, no matter how hard the Juniper Creek stuff tries, it’s just never going to be as compelling as what’s going on at Henrickson Central.

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 1, Block Party

Big Love Recap: Season 3, Episode 1, “Block Party”

by Emily St. James
January 19, 2009

The third season premiere episode of Big Love is, in many ways, a microcosm for the series itself.

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 12, Oh, Pioneers!

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 12, “Oh, Pioneers!”

by Emily St. James
August 27, 2007

The second season finale of Big Love tries to do so many things at once that it periodically flies off the rails

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 11, Take Me As I Am

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 11, “Take Me As I Am”

by Emily St. James
August 20, 2007

On the surface, everything is pristine and perfect.

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 10, The Happiest Girl

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 10, “The Happiest Girl”

by Emily St. James
August 14, 2007

Big Love is obsessed (sometimes too obsessed) with the notion that our public faces conflict with the faces we wear in in private.

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 9, Circle the Wagons

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 9, “Circle the Wagons”

by Emily St. James
August 7, 2007

The best scene in the episode is the one when Bill takes his wives to the casino to see exactly what he wants to purchase.

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 8, Kingdom Come

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 8, “Kingdom Come”

by Emily St. James
July 31, 2007

The looks of horror in Bill and Barb’s eyes come from very different places.

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 7, Good Guys and Bad Guys

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 7, “Good Guys and Bad Guys”

by Emily St. James
July 24, 2007

If “Good Guys and Bad Guys” didn’t hit the heights that the last four or five episodes hit, it at least moved a lot of the show’s pieces further on up the game board.

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 6, Dating Game

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 6, “Dating Game”

by Emily St. James
July 17, 2007

It’s frustrating first because it’s so good and then because it seems to mire itself in the plotline that’s the least interesting on the show.

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 5, Vision Thing

Big Love Recap: Season 2, Episode 5, “Vision Thing”

by Emily St. James
July 10, 2007

One of the things that makes Big Love such an engrossing show is that it’s not afraid to make its central character kind of a selfish ass.

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