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Think having three wives is a dream come true? Think again. HBO presents the new contemporary drama series that tells the story of Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), a practicing polygamist who lives in suburban Salt Lake City with his three wives and seven children. An independent businessman who runs a growing chain of hardware stores, Bill faces a myriad of challenges in meeting the emotional, romantic and financial needs of his wives - Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicki (Chloe Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin) - while dealing with their kids, three adjoined houses, an ever-mounting avalanche of bills, and the opening of his newest hardware store. Complicating matters are a series of crises affecting his parents, Frank and Lois (Bruce Dern and Grace Zabriskie), who live on a polygamist compound in rural Utah, as well as an unexpected business challenge from Roman (Harry Dean Stanton), one of his fathers-in-law and the "Prophet" of the polygamist commune where his parents live. (Verleiher-Text)
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It is obvious from the first couple of scenes what TV station is responsible for this series. It carries almost all of the “trademarks" of an HBO series. Unfortunately this series had the bad luck that it was made to replace the phenomenal Six Feet Under after a five-season run. There is great potential hidden in Big Love. It’s excellently cast and acted - no question about that. But it is missing what is always HBO’s greatest asset: the polished dialogs. This isn’t a bad series, but it tries too obviously to be on the same wave as the Fishers and it doesn’t work. A solid average, but for an HBO series that’s too darn little.
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Sie sind eine große Sache, diese außergewöhnlichen HBO-Serien. Diesmal ist der Ausgangspunkt eine polygame Familie in Utah. Wenn Sie sich für Mormonen, die Amischen und andere US-Spezialitäten interessieren, sind Sie hier genau an der richtigen Adresse. Es gibt Reality-Shows über die Amischen, aber dies ist das erste Mal, dass ich ein ernsthaftes Mormonen-Drama sehe. Glücklicherweise ist das Drama im Stil eines Familien-Gangsterfilms à la Der Pate geschrieben, was es viel einfacher macht, sich in all den Ablegern seltsamer Gemeinschaften wie der Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage oder der Gemeinschaft Christi (fundamentalistisch oder unorganisiert) zurechtzufinden. Interessante Namen aus den 90er Jahren wie Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny und die damalige Newcomerin Ginnifer Goodwin sind in den Hauptrollen zu sehen.
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