Big Love: (Not) Going to the Chapel

 I have to compress four hours of 24 (that's 1/6 of the season) into a single blog entry late tonight, which means I need to skimp on this week's Big Love and write about it in the lazy, bullet-points style. Spoilers are ahead:

•  First off, I thought this week was a significant improvement over last week's premiere, in part because we spent as little time with Juniper Creek as possible, and Bill's parents didn't appear at all.
• Also keeping a somewhat low-profile was Chloe Sevigny's Nicki, but what little we got of her showed us why she deserved that Golden Globe last night.
• With Roman dead and Alby part of a plot line that paints in a far more sympathetic light, it falls to Zeljko Ivanek's J.J. to serve as this season's villain. So far, great job by him, and by the writers, who added the very creepy touch of J.J. having no fingernails. Of course, Ivanek might have yanked them out for real in an extreme bit of method acting.
• Speaking of good acting, let's hear it for Aaron Paul as Scott. Actually, it's only an impressive performance if you've seen him on Breaking Bad. The perpetually frantic meth dealer Jesse is nothing like Scott, who's almost a saint (and not just by comparison).
• It's nice to see Margene growing up, asserting her independence. Of course, making $134,000 a year will allow you to do that.
• That was a pretty lengthy, public kiss between Alby and Dale, huh?
• The thing about Bill a prophet: he'd actually be good at it, and it would be just a much a nightmare as when Roman was in charge, only a different kind of nightmare. Roman ran things out of cynical self-interest. Bill would rule thinking he had God on his side, allowing him to put his every whim into practice. Hell, he does that now. 
• Gotta say, I'm not interested in the casino, or in the fact that Barb is gonna hook up with Adam Beach.
• Next week: Sissy Spacek puts Bill in his place (and hopefully uses telekinesis to do so!).

 Tom Coombe

Comments

[amber dorko stopper]

let's hear it for aaron paul as tom. because we still call him "the tom guy". he is so like you on this show.

so how about this bill paxton/michael c. hall controversy at the golden globes?

[amber dorko stopper]

for the record, bill is the world's most lovable monomaniac, this show jumped the shark with the alby/dale storyline but i love it, and that was a marvelously awkward series of kisses, yes. and barb is gonna have so much sex with that native american.

[Tom Coombe]

Yeah, "playing the cancer card" is kind of a dick thing to say.