Big Love premiered last night

[ZPT1022]

That would make sense. Frankie was kicked out of Juniper Creek for being "friendly" with a girl his age who was "ear-marked" for an older, more prominent member of the compound. Rhonda and Frankie are about the same age and Rhonda is pre-engaged to Roman.

Oh, the suspense, it kills me!

The girls did call it the rats nest. So its gotta be hers.

I'm really curious to see if there is a Rhonda/Frankie storyline, where it will go. Rhonda is such a conniving *b*

 

[RUDisney]

ok - I got HBO today - just for this show

I get Showtime each year when The Tudors starts a new season... I catch up on everything else I like OnDemand and then I cancel it again. A girl has to do what a girl has to do...

 

[fairykin]

this is a very interesting show.

How sad for Barb that when she was struggling through the cancer scare..she was all alone.. and where was Bill... out with another woman.
Not one of his 2 wives even.
Come on.. isn't he in tune with his wife of MANY years.. can't he see she's not up to par.

I wonder if the phone call really said she has cancer and she just didn't want to ruin the family moment.. that's why she had that look on her face.
This is a very well written show.
HBO does it right when it comes to controversial shows.
They present them initially as harmless ..but upon futher viewing as the storyline developes you see the silent victims and the crimes against each other.
This has been shown in..Weeds, and now Big Love.

 

[RUDisney]

I wonder if the phone call really said she has cancer and she just didn't want to ruin the family moment.. that's why she had that look on her face.

She said to the doctor that she'd see him in a year, so I don't think she has cancer. I think it was the call to tell her everything was benign.

 

[MrsKreamer]

I felt really bad for Nicki when she went to the Fertility Dr. How she said she never had a choice. I don't think it is right for her to be on the pill without telling her family, but in their culture, I can't say I blame her.

 

[DVCisME]

I wonder if this will call attention to them. If the doctor prompts for more information, that would be interesting! Would it be confidential or considered a risk to her well being?

 

[fairykin]

RUDisney... well... i know that when i was teaching preK and got a call in the middle of class that my grandfather died.. i just nodded and said alright.. okay..yes i'm alright.... i'll see you later.
And I acted like everything was alright so that i didn't upset the room full of 4 year olds.
It could be?

Anyways..Wow..it seems the women are really workhorses. Digging trenches and such. No Thank You.

 

[4greatboys]

She said to the doctor that she'd see him in a year, so I don't think she has cancer. I think it was the call to tell her everything was benign.

I think so too. I think the face was over the Ana deal and wondering what she had gotten herself into.

 

[RUDisney]

I think so too. I think the face was over the Ana deal and wondering what she had gotten herself into.

That's what I thought, too.

 

[momrek06]

Another great episode.....omg!!! So much happening!!!

 

[djm99]

Another great episode.....omg!!! So much happening!!!

I know - I was thinking the same thing. It's so much going I hope I don't get lost in the details.

 

[Nik's Mom]

OMG, that was a great episode. I will have to watch it again though. I kept flipping between Big Love and the Super Bowl.

 

[LoraJ]

Doh! It was on last night? I assumed it wouldn't be because of the Super Bowl. I will have to cath it tonight. Hooray for TiVo!

 

[shortbun]

Great show!!! Poor Margene and where to put the box. Nikki is really bugging me. She's so conflicted. I don't think a normal person could live peacefully with her background and lifestyle. WHY am I routing for the whole Ana thing? I hate Barb's sister and yet, I might act the same way. lol!

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

I haven't read this whole thread, but I'm glad I found it! Big Love is such a guilty pleasure!

So, do we think Bill's dad (I forget his name) will be dead?

I feel bad for Sarah, she is a conflicted girl. I wonder if she will tell Barb she is pregnant?

 

[snarlingcoyote]

I found this on a website but can't find the explanation on the pants.


Lois explains her short hair to Sarah (Amanda Seyfried), telling her that she cut her hair, like the women used to in biblical times, after her daughter, Margaret, drowned in Lake Mead.

I thought I remembered it as Lois saying it was because she'd read that the Greeks did that in tragedies, but I did remember she said she cut it after Margaret drowned.

Lois, remember, is the daughter of the Prophet Roman had killed, and in that same conversation, she told Sarah that she was educated. Using that as extrapolation, it's possible that she wears pants to show her separation from Roman's rules, or because in the days when her father was Prophet, women wearing skirts was only tradition and not law.

I've been wondering just how educated Lois is since the conversation with Sarah and the previews from next week seem to confirm that she was quite well educated. I believe the previews showed Lois muttering something in Latin or hearing something in Latin and Lois having to translate it for Barb's mom.

I did love the scene just before she starts suffocating Frank, feeding him chicken and remembered the good times she had with him as a young woman. Also, I didn't find her to be mean to her sister wife. She snapped the woman back into reality and sent her on to cover up so that she could take care matters. The sister wife knew, I think, what was going to happen when she left Frank with Lois. In the world of Juniper Creek, it might well be their best (and only) chance to rid themselves of Frank and possibly make better lives than those they'd have if Frank lived.

As for Nicki and the BC pills. She's been taking them since season one's declaration she wanted to get PG again. She only said it to get extra time with Bill, but now she's being tugged and pulled and I just don't think she wants to get PG again and have another baby, but she can't admit that to anyone because it goes against everything she was programmed to think at Juniper Creek.

I like how beginning with last season, and so definitely in this season, we're get such a real sense of how everything Nikki does is motivated by all the fear and programming that was beaten into her as a child, but that underneath all that garbage is a woman who want to be her own person, but only knows how to scheme and connive and only has the learning to be what she is, even though she wants to be someone else. I used to really despise Nicki, but now I find myself really feeling a lot of pity for her and understanding that her nastiness was created, grown and fertilized in Juniper Creek so well that it's questionable what else she could've become.

I wonder now if Nikki won't come out and testify against Roman Grant since Bill finally decided to, as the DH would say "grow a pair and man up."

And to think, I was just saying to DH the other day, "I wish they'd followed up on the lesbian sister wife storyline, but they seemed to have dropped it entirely after that one footsie scene in the first season."

Also, Sarah. Oh that just. . .well. Goodness. She is really trapped. I really feel the most for her. Can't have an abortion, won't marry the daddy, parents would really hate for her to give it up for adoption. . .oh my word, I wonder how that one will come out.

 

[MrsKreamer]

I was surprised that Nikki was married before, but thinking about it, I really shouldn't be!

 

[Nik's Mom]

I was surprised that Nikki was married before, but thinking about it, I really shouldn't be!

Me too. That little announcement totally caught me off guard.

 

[djm99]

I thought I remembered it as Lois saying it was because she'd read that the Greeks did that in tragedies, but I did remember she said she cut it after Margaret drowned.

Lois, remember, is the daughter of the Prophet Roman had killed, and in that same conversation, she told Sarah that she was educated. Using that as extrapolation, it's possible that she wears pants to show her separation from Roman's rules, or because in the days when her father was Prophet, women wearing skirts was only tradition and not law.

I've been wondering just how educated Lois is since the conversation with Sarah and the previews from next week seem to confirm that she was quite well educated. I believe the previews showed Lois muttering something in Latin or hearing something in Latin and Lois having to translate it for Barb's mom.

I did love the scene just before she starts suffocating Frank, feeding him chicken and remembered the good times she had with him as a young woman. Also, I didn't find her to be mean to her sister wife. She snapped the woman back into reality and sent her on to cover up so that she could take care matters. The sister wife knew, I think, what was going to happen when she left Frank with Lois. In the world of Juniper Creek, it might well be their best (and only) chance to rid themselves of Frank and possibly make better lives than those they'd have if Frank lived.

As for Nicki and the BC pills. She's been taking them since season one's declaration she wanted to get PG again. She only said it to get extra time with Bill, but now she's being tugged and pulled and I just don't think she wants to get PG again and have another baby, but she can't admit that to anyone because it goes against everything she was programmed to think at Juniper Creek.

I like how beginning with last season, and so definitely in this season, we're get such a real sense of how everything Nikki does is motivated by all the fear and programming that was beaten into her as a child, but that underneath all that garbage is a woman who want to be her own person, but only knows how to scheme and connive and only has the learning to be what she is, even though she wants to be someone else. I used to really despise Nicki, but now I find myself really feeling a lot of pity for her and understanding that her nastiness was created, grown and fertilized in Juniper Creek so well that it's questionable what else she could've become.

I wonder now if Nikki won't come out and testify against Roman Grant since Bill finally decided to, as the DH would say "grow a pair and man up."

And to think, I was just saying to DH the other day, "I wish they'd followed up on the lesbian sister wife storyline, but they seemed to have dropped it entirely after that one footsie scene in the first season."

Also, Sarah. Oh that just. . .well. Goodness. She is really trapped. I really feel the most for her. Can't have an abortion, won't marry the daddy, parents would really hate for her to give it up for adoption. . .oh my word, I wonder how that one will come out.

Wow, you are something else!!! You have done a great job psycho-analyzing these characters. I do that too, to shows I love. I get so emotionally involved. I wouldn't be surprised if Sarah self-abort somehow. I don't see her having that baby. The parents will find out later.

 

[matthew&haleysmom]

I was surprised that Nikki was married before, but thinking about it, I really shouldn't be!

I was shocked about Nikki being married before! I really feel for Sarah. I would be difficult for any teen to be pregnant, but just imagine in that family.

Now, I not normally pro-murder; however, I think Lois should really think about getting rid of Frank!

I can't wait for next week's episode.