Comments on: New TV obsession: Big Love http://www.quirkyknitgirl.com/2010/03/11/new-tv-obsession-big-love/ Weaving a web of yarn, community, and spirituality Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ivy http://www.quirkyknitgirl.com/2010/03/11/new-tv-obsession-big-love/comment-page-1/#comment-1007 Ivy Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:37:26 +0000 http://www.quirkyknitgirl.com/?p=915#comment-1007 It's definitely a show that explores some interesting dynamics and issues.<br>I'm finding it well worth watching. My only complaint so far is that whoever<br>rented it from Netflix before me must have done a number on the DVDs,<br>because I'm running into more issues with things skipping and freezing than<br>I ever had. :/ It's definitely a show that explores some interesting dynamics and issues.
I'm finding it well worth watching. My only complaint so far is that whoever
rented it from Netflix before me must have done a number on the DVDs,
because I'm running into more issues with things skipping and freezing than
I ever had. :/

]]> By: Kasey http://www.quirkyknitgirl.com/2010/03/11/new-tv-obsession-big-love/comment-page-1/#comment-979 Kasey Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:48:53 +0000 http://www.quirkyknitgirl.com/?p=915#comment-979 What for me is the most interesting part of the power dynamic in Big Love is that it shows two very different types of polygamist families. You have the folks on the compound who really have no choice, where the man rules all and the woman has nothing, and a crazed religious leader can literally divorce you and "reassign" you to another man. And then you have Bill's family where it *was* entered into willingly (more or less - I still feel bad for Barb) and very rarely exerts the kind of "Wives be subject to your husbands" thing neither of us is exactly a fan of. <br><br>At least, before season 4. Yeah, that got special. What for me is the most interesting part of the power dynamic in Big Love is that it shows two very different types of polygamist families. You have the folks on the compound who really have no choice, where the man rules all and the woman has nothing, and a crazed religious leader can literally divorce you and “reassign” you to another man. And then you have Bill's family where it *was* entered into willingly (more or less – I still feel bad for Barb) and very rarely exerts the kind of “Wives be subject to your husbands” thing neither of us is exactly a fan of.

At least, before season 4. Yeah, that got special.

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