Big Deal
I really had no desire to watch the new HBO Series Big Love, but the Misses put it on last night, so I gave it a try. As expected from an HBO series, the show had good actors, good writing, fine production values, and, from a professional point of view, was very polished.
But. . I found the set up offensive and the characters mostly messed up. I really am not compelled by the dilemmas they face as a polygamous family. The set up is preposterous. . the families are living in 3 houses side by side with a common yard and no one knows their secret? Yeah. . right. And while I am not a Mormon, I would empathize with anyone who is as concerns this show. As is typically Hollywood's point of view in the culture wars, the devout Mormon girl is made fun of while the Mormon Bad Girls (I suppose they exist) are presented as normal. May this show disappear from screen and memory soon.
But. . I found the set up offensive and the characters mostly messed up. I really am not compelled by the dilemmas they face as a polygamous family. The set up is preposterous. . the families are living in 3 houses side by side with a common yard and no one knows their secret? Yeah. . right. And while I am not a Mormon, I would empathize with anyone who is as concerns this show. As is typically Hollywood's point of view in the culture wars, the devout Mormon girl is made fun of while the Mormon Bad Girls (I suppose they exist) are presented as normal. May this show disappear from screen and memory soon.
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Ah, the things I miss because we don't have HBO!
I would be very curious to see what devout Mormons think of this show. Actually, *there's* a really daring concept for a television show -- the struggles of a "traditional" religious family in modern America. I think that's what WB thought Seventh Heaven was, but that was just mushy, misty, touchy feely, garden variety "liberalism" dressed up in a minister's robe, though it was a guilty pleasure of mine in the early years.
Daryl Ann tells me there's a good South Park episode about Mormons (no, really).
The funny thing about Seventh Heaven is that it appears to be sincere, even though it insults the intelligence of anyone older than eight. It's the only show on television I find fascinatingly bad.
That's exactly the phrase for it, Jeff. I haven't seen it in several years, I think, but when I first came upon it, I *was* fascinated, and I even remember the episode I saw. The parents think the oldest son is smoking marijuana because they find a joint in his room or something, but it turns out there's some other explanation for how it got there, but they don't really believe him, so at the end, the son ends up praying in his father's empty church at night, OUT LOUD, and his parents just happen to come upon him and overhear him telling God the whole story and telling God he's afraid his parents will never trust him again. Cut to group hug.
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