Is anyone else disappointed with this whole season? I especially dislike the senate storyline and the boring political machinations of Bill. I feel like they’ve just done that so there’s more at stake, as if there wasn’t a lot of crap going on already. And I really, really don’t like the Margie/Ben storyline.
Dang, beat me to posting the thread, because I would have called it Big Love 1/31/10…WTF???.
What is going on with this show? I guess the only good thing that could be said was that there cannot be any question- Bill is just a big of a snake as Roman, he’d make a perfect Prophet of Juniper Creek. What he said to Ben!!!, after Margene admitted that she was the one who initiated the kiss.
I could also go the rest of my life and not know anything more about Alby’s love life.
I did like the parrot smuggling storyline.
Bill is an evil prick. The show has been building up to that for some time now, but now it’s really clear. The man is a snake. He’s a completely despicable son of a bitch. After he sold out flat-top, he lost any sympathy from me.
And maybe his son wouldn’t be hopelessly crushing on Margene if Bill hadn’t destroyed Ben’s relationship with his girlfriend earlier on in the show. (You’re having SEX?!?! That’s it! You can’t see each other anymore!) Fucking hypocrite.
If you don’t want your teenaged son to have sexual thoughts about your third wife, don’t marry someone six years older than him and totally freaking Ginnifer Goodwin hot.
The only reason I keep watching the show is see Bill take a fall and to lose his family (well, okay, Ginnifer Goodwin as well). It looks like it’s happening, I for one am excited!
Took the words. I cannot imagine what the writers and producers are hoping and expecting us to feel about Bill at this point, because what they’ve done is turn him into a complete and total bastard interested in absolutely nothing except his own ambition. Asking his partner to take the fall??? What the FUCK indeed! And why the hell would his partner agree???
The whole idea that Bill could ever make it to the state Senate without his polygamy coming out is stupid, and for Don to take the fall to keep his non-secret is doubly stupid. All it takes is one phone call from Alby or a thousand other people . . . has everyone just forgotten what happened when Barb was up for mother of the year?
That horrible thing he did to Don, and Don- shame on him for going along with it! All Bill had to do was not announce his campaign and gracefully bow out.
Oh, I did think the phone call from Adaleen to Nikki was hilarious. Honestly, the Juniper creek storylines I enjoy, and on the Hendrickson front- I like Sarah (thought tonight, Scott was actually being pretty decent) and Nikki only.
New Teeny is slightly cuter than Old Teeny, but at least old Teeny was a nice kid, not a little shit starter.
Mr. singular is convinced there will be a suicide in the near future - there go old Flat-Top. I loved Lois’s sister-wife’s grin at the birds flew away, but those birds are going to be in trouble in that climate, aren’'t they?
I’m not a big fan of Don’s and I had to laugh disgustedly at the news that Bill and Don were committing fraud by having the wives on the payroll accounts for insurance when he’s been sold to us as some kind of moral compass for Bill.
The polygamy I can understand because that’s a religious issue, but fraud is illegal no matter what way you look at it. He didn’t seem to have a problem with that.
For me this season is to new to judge, but so far I’m entertained.
I don’t think it’s really fraud. The wives and children ARE his dependents, and the fact that the law won’t let him make that legal is not his fault.
With the kids, at least, I assume it would be legal to cover them . . . they’re his actual biological kids, after all. But he’s doing it in an illegal way because he doesn’t want a record of the fact he fathered kids with women he’s not legally married to.
I’m not saying that makes it OK . . . but the issue is more with covering up his relationships than with stealing coverage for his kids. With the wives, it’s another matter, since I’m sure he wouldn’t be allowed to cover multiple spouses even if he admitted to their existence.
Regarding that, it seems to me that the point is that Bill is doing the same thing to Ben that was done to him; throw out the teenage boy because he’s competition.
And Bill’s plan regarding the election seems nuts. As I understand it, he hopes to get elected to the State Senate, after which he’s going to come out as a polygamist. I’m not sure what he expects to happen next. Does he think that the people of Utah are going to embrace the Principle because they elected one (or even just accept it)? More likely they will be really angry and impeach him or hold a recall election. And I’ll bet that he decides that he needs to continue to keep the polygamy a secret.
Does no one call him on his misdeeds? Doesn’t Barb, for instance, recognize that he screwed Don over the election?
On second thought, what kind of spineless pushover is Don that he would just let himself be sacrificed like that? Does he have no sense of self-assertion? Is he completely blinded by his loyalty to Bill? Was he planning to commit suicide or something and figured he would take the fall for Bill on his way out?
I can’t get past those jug-handle ears.
WTF was Teeny saying to Ben while he was in the pool? It sounded like she said that “reapers” are men who take women’s clothes off. She probably meant “rapists” and that’s something she learned at camp.
But uh…what?
Why was Teeny at camp anyway? On the comment section for this episode at the AV Club people are saying she went there because she had sexual desires. Am I forgetting something from last season?
Yes, I think it’s time to revoke the writers’ poetic license on those grounds. I still sort of enjoy this show, but especially after last night’s episode, I’m not a real fan. Just coasting, and hoping it’ll pick up later in the season.
My wife and I have been joking that it must have been Plastic Surgery Camp . . . which would explain why she came back looking like a completely different actress.
Bill said something about the wives having dummy time cards. It looks like they were fake employees. Presumably they were enrolled in the insurance programs as the primary insured (IOW they had the big intial premium that the company was paying). I don’t see how the insurance company is getting screwed. Theoretically, Bill could have hired all the wives as officers of the company or consultants and given them really vague job descriptions. I wonder how many company’s have a handful of employees who (for whatever reason) just sort of “keep an office,” yet still receive benefits. Fraud in name only.
Regarding polygamy - what is the Utah law and how is Bill breakling it? I presume there is no law against having kids by multiple wives or supporting women you aren’t legally married to.
Old Teeny showed some kids on the block some pornographic images (Playboy?), IIRC at some block picnic. Maybe that is why she was sent to sexual deviant camp.
Bill is one sick bastard. He gets sent away from home at 14 because he would be a threat to the older men on the compound and the young ladies. Now, he does the same thing to his son because he doesn’t trust him around hot, young Margene.
The thing that gets me, and don’t we have an Ex-Mo who can comment on this, is that Ben (the male) is being held accountable for something Margene (the female) did. My suspicion is that (in Bill’s eyes) Margene being a girl, doesn’t have control over herself, but Ben the mighty priesthood holder does.
Don is spineless, but Bill is an even bigger ass for taking advantage of him. It would not surprise me if Don did some irrational.
I love the compound wives . I would totally watch a spin-off of just them and their hair…