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Big Love

  • Season 03
  • Episode 10
  • Sacrament

Big Love Season Finale: Happy Ending, Ominous Beginning

Bill's triumph is the show's triumph: His wild ambitions were like this season's wild ambitions, and somehow, both came unexpectedly to fruition.

  • S.03
  • Ep.08
  • 'Rough Edges'

Big Love: Off the Reservation

Virtually everyone reverts to savage modes, reconnecting with their fundamental, tribal beings. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.07
  • 'Fight or Flight'

Big Love: Next Time, It’s Personal

Something terrible happens. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.06
  • 'Come, Ye Saints'

Big Love: Dear Penthouse Forum...

The National Lampoon's 'Vacation' installment of 'Big Love.' 

  • S.03
  • Ep.04
  • 'On Trial'

Can Big Love Possibly Get Any Better?

A tour de force of awkwardness. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.03
  • 'Prom Queen'

Big Love: So Darn Blankety Blank

Nicki's finally the center of the show. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.01
  • 'Block Party'

Big Love Season Premiere: The Hot-Dog Man, Back on the Job

Enter wife four! 

  • S.02
  • Ep.12
  • 'Oh, Pioneers'

‘Big Love’ Finale: Return of the Bavarian Waitress!

For the Big Love finale, the so-clever writers shuffle the character deck like crazy. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.11
  • 'Take Me As I Am'

‘Big Love’: More Apostasy, Less Serenity and Joy

Once again, Bill's in hot water, Margene's been caught in a lie, and Big Love is spinning its favorite narrative trick: the huge gathering gone horribly, horribly awry. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.10
  • 'The Happiest Girl'

‘Big Love’: Our Weasel Proves How Dirty He Really Is

In this fantastic episode, Bill Hendrickson sends each sister-wife into a wormhole of insecurity. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.09
  • 'Circle the Wagons'

‘Big Love’: Somebody Give Chloë Sevigny an Emmy!

"I know how to submit and that's why I'm happy." 

  • S.02
  • Ep.08
  • 'Kingdom Come'

‘Big Love’: Utah Gets Kinky

This week, Sandy, Utah, really gave Entourage's Hollywood a run for its money, dishing up one graphic sequence for each sister-wife. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.07
  • 'Good Guys and Bad Guys'

‘Big Love’: Will the Bada Bing Open a Utah Branch?

The Sopranos-ification of polygamist Utah hit a high in this week's episode of Big Love. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.06
  • 'Dating Game'

‘Big Love’: Margene, Flee for Showtime!

"You're my wife, Margene. You can't be seeing the girl that I'm dating."  

  • S.02
  • Ep.05
  • 'Vision Thing'

‘Big Love’: Can Bill Hit the Trifecta?

"Where's Wanda?" "I had her committed." 

  • S.02
  • Ep.04
  • 'Rock and a Hard Place'

‘Big Love’: Paper Always Covers Rock

Okay, people: Here are your orders. Stop watching Entourage. Start watching Big Love. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.03
  • 'Reunion'

‘Big Love’: Cancan Dancers for Christ

"This could be our last family portrait. Jesus could be here by Labor Day."  

  • S.02
  • Ep.02
  • 'The Writing on the Wall'

Oh, ‘Big Love,’ You Frustrate Us So

The self-deception is building to Sopranos-esque proportions. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.01
  • 'Damage Control'

‘Big Love’: We’re With You, Barb!

Everyone’s favorite family of Utah polygamists are back. 

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HBO
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Creators
Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer
Producers
Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman
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