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Other Kinds of Family Values ...
Jan. 11th, 2007 07:45 pmNo one else I know will admit to watching HBO's Big Love, but I have to say that I zipped through the first season like nothing else I've seen since ... well, HBO's Rome. Which is pretty high praise, in that Rome is just about the most consistently fascinating television series I've ever seen.
Echoing HBO's first major hit drama, The Sopranos (yes, yes, I watch a lot of HBO--just on DVD, mind), Big Love portrays a family who are in a whole lot of ways just like the network's demographic--suburban, relatively affluent--except not. The message seems to be something like: look, they're like you, but nothing like you, their family values are not yours. Or even close.
Rather than being mobbed up, however, the family on Big Love, if you haven't heard, are polygamists. ( The Angel Moroni Goes to Suburbia )
Also, kudos to the show's producers for choosing a brilliantly counterintuitive musical theme for the title sequence: the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" ...
Echoing HBO's first major hit drama, The Sopranos (yes, yes, I watch a lot of HBO--just on DVD, mind), Big Love portrays a family who are in a whole lot of ways just like the network's demographic--suburban, relatively affluent--except not. The message seems to be something like: look, they're like you, but nothing like you, their family values are not yours. Or even close.
Rather than being mobbed up, however, the family on Big Love, if you haven't heard, are polygamists. ( The Angel Moroni Goes to Suburbia )
Also, kudos to the show's producers for choosing a brilliantly counterintuitive musical theme for the title sequence: the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" ...
