Big Love: The Complete Third Season |  | Actors: Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin Studio: HBO Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed) Rating: Unrated Region: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Number Of Discs: 4 Running Time: 600 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.3
MPN: HBOD092475D UPC: 883929064939 EAN: 0883929064939 ASIN: B0011UMC72
Release Date: January 5, 2010 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 01/05/2010 Run time: 600 minutes
Amazon.com Three seasons in, the popular HBO series Big Love remains a highly entertaining and rewarding viewing experience. The cast is enormous and the storylines are numerous, with each of these ten 60-minute episodes adding new wrinkles to the plotlines already being pursued. This is business as usual for those who've been on board from the start, but while newcomers may need a couple of episodes to get up to speed, viewers of all stripes will be inexorably pulled in by the show's tangled combination of drama and black humor, personal peccadilloes and internecine strife, and big time social and religious issues. There really is nothing else like this on the television landscape, and that's entirely a good thing. As usual, the series centers on the anything-but-normal life of Salt Lake City businessman Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton). Bill’s a study in contrasts: while he has plenty of objections to modern Mormon mores (he and his family are no longer active members of the church), he’s committed to the practice of polygamy, which remains the single most controversial aspect of Mormonism despite having been officially banned. Bill, his three wives, Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicki (Chloë Sevigny), and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin), and their various children find themselves waging constant skirmishes on several fronts: with their nosy, judgmental neighbors, with the splinter Mormon clan headed by the evil, self-proclaimed holy man Roman Grant (Harry Dean Stanton), and with the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. But the Henricksons' most pitched battles, and they are legion, tend to be amongst themselves. Though the wives generally get along with one another, the jockeying for position is endless, and Bill's desire for a fourth spouse this season definitely doesn’t make things any calmer. Other ongoing storylines include Grant’s trial for rape (similarities to the real-life prosecution of Mormon fundamentalist Warren Jeffs are no coincidence), which presents a serious conflict for Nicki, who happens to be Grant’s daughter; Bill and his partner’s ongoing efforts to open a Mormon-friendly casino on Indian land; and sub-plots involving teen pregnancy, kidnapping, adultery, and a host of other lurid behaviors. And while there’s a certain amount of what may be perceived as Mormon bashing going on, the edifying sixth episode, "Come, Ye Saints," in which the family visits Mormon landmarks from Utah to New York, features several of the season’s most moving scenes. --Sam Graham Stills from Big Love: The Complete Third Season (click for larger image)
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Big Love brilliant! March 11, 2010 James Timothy (Australia) Confronting, thought-provoking, powerful, frustrating, funny, moving. Big Love is brilliant. Three seasons in and it has lost nothing. It works on just so many levels. Can't wait for the next season...
Big Love March 2, 2010 Carol Rossi (portland, or.) 1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Like a bad soap opera. Too much nudity and sex for me. The husband is soo stressed, it stresses me. It is not relaxing.
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Amazon vendor March 2, 2010 Juliet R. Smith (USA) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered a used DVD from an Amazon vendor. The product was said to be in good condition. It was shipped and arrived quickly and indeed is in very good condition. I will definetly continue to use Amazon and when desired any of the vendors Amazon uses.
Diane's review February 28, 2010 Misha (Canada) Excellent, the ploits are still interesting, actors are so well chosen for their role. Can't wait for Season IV to come out.
Great Television... February 17, 2010 M. Herzog (chicago) Big Love's move into the third season gave us a show tht was clearly turning into something better. The show no longer relies on the taboos of polygamy (e.g. sex with a different woman every night), but really focuses on characters and the emotional complexity of the characters involved with such a marriage. Season 3 also finds some pay offs for loyal viewers. Certain storylines and hints that were placed as long ago as season 1 begin to reveal themselves. The show also chooses to find a number of surprise character moves, and plot twists that really keep you glued to the television set. Beyond the rise in plot, the acting advanced as well. While there was depth to the characters before, we get to see characters take on a number of different issues, including stories from the past, come to fruition, which the actors show in wonderful performances.
Needless to say this was an impressive season. I hope this trend of the show growing evolving continues with the fourth season. Highly recomended.
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