Bill Paxton and Jeanne Tripplehorn are enormously appealing actors, which is why I gave "Big Love," which they star in as a couple that heads a polygamous family, a chance during its first season.
But I'm done giving this series, which returns 8 p.m. Monday on HBO, the benefit of the doubt. "Big Love" is a waste of time, and an excruciating waste of these actors' talents.
It's not just that some of the characters on the show, particularly Chloe Sevigny as the priggish, petulant second wife, Nicki, and Ginnifer Goodwin as the naive, puppylike third wife, Margene, haven't deepened much and aren't interesting enough to spend time with. It's just that sanctimonious people with persecution complexes make for terrible drama.
Smug condescension isn't the only problem. "Big Love" goes through the motions of progressing its plot without actually doing so very often. There is a lot of smoke and noise about indictments from the state and lots of whispered conversations about fights with the Juniper Creek sect and so forth, but during the first five episodes of the season, very little actually happens.
The fact is, being around these people is exhausting. Almost nothing about this series inspires actual pleasure, with the exception of Paxton and Tripplehorn, who infuse their characters with warmth despite the intrinsic rigidity and humorlessness of the show.
source : metromix.chicagotribune.com
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