The third season of the best drama on TV -- aka, HBO's Big Love -- came to an end last night, and I'm already feeling the withdrawal. Part of the issue, I think, is Big Love's third season ended on such a dramatic high, that the season finale felt like the height of sweeps. There were new plot developments, loose ends, raw tension -- hell, TV so damn good I don't think I want to wait another year for the series to pick up again.(Side note: When is Chloe Sevigny gonna get an Emmy for her work on this show?!)
Here's what the LA Times' Mary McNamara wrote of the show:
HBO's Emmy-free and too long under-appreciated Big Love came out of its yearlong, writers-strike-created hiatus like the buffed-up guy tired of eating sand.
But instead of going for fireballs and kidnappings (OK, there were a few of those, but they were totally incidental), cancer scares and intra-cast murder attempts (well, yes, there were those too, but again, not the point), creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer took their strange and startling American fable to new heights, and depths.
All of which came to a DefCon 1 "conclusion" in the season finale Sunday night. Oh, there were several moments of "closure" in the final minutes, but that was just the writers handing a bit of narrative Xanax to keep viewers from developing unsightly nervous tics while they wait to see what will really happen next season. Read the rest by CLICKING HERE
Here's what the LA Times' Mary McNamara wrote of the show:
HBO's Emmy-free and too long under-appreciated Big Love came out of its yearlong, writers-strike-created hiatus like the buffed-up guy tired of eating sand.
But instead of going for fireballs and kidnappings (OK, there were a few of those, but they were totally incidental), cancer scares and intra-cast murder attempts (well, yes, there were those too, but again, not the point), creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer took their strange and startling American fable to new heights, and depths.
All of which came to a DefCon 1 "conclusion" in the season finale Sunday night. Oh, there were several moments of "closure" in the final minutes, but that was just the writers handing a bit of narrative Xanax to keep viewers from developing unsightly nervous tics while they wait to see what will really happen next season. Read the rest by CLICKING HERE
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