# Big Love 4/23 (spoilers)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-love-4-23-spoilers/353928>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 24, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-love-4-23-spoilers/353928 "2006-04-24T02:31:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-love-4-23-spoilers/353928/41 "2006-04-26T18:51:17Z")

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[QUOTE=CairaJade]  
I don’t think it’s pigeonholing at all. The show certainly does have a lot of homosexual subtext (hey, it’s Showtime!) and it’s one of the things that is keeping me interested.

I still don’t get the Alby thing at all. The guy outside the convenience store looked like he was expecting someone. I assumed their meeting was arranged. It wasn’t?  
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I took it to mean that was the local “gay cruising” spot.

I took the whole Alby thing to be about him being some kind of self-hating, still closeted homosexual and he couldn’t go through with it so he faked crazy as a way out.

I also thought the rope/knife stuff was for kidnapping someone in Bill’s family because Roman said, “do what we talked about” (or something) and that didn’t really come across like, “we talked about killing a homo, so do that.”

He picked up the gay guy, on a whim, on the way to his regular task.

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**Author:** ![Accidental\_Yuppie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Accidental\_Yuppie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Yuppie)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-love-4-23-spoilers/353928/42 "2006-04-26T19:41:25Z")

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[QUOTE=AuntiePam]  
I can’t remember if this has been discussed in the other threads, but who can prove that Bill’s doing anything other than having affairs, or supporting three families?

If he didn’t get government-issued marriage licenses and marry Nickie and Margene, he hasn’t broken any laws. Isn’t it just the lumber-buying public that he’s worried about?  
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According to what I have read, I think so, unless the state is going to start prosecuting adultery and fornication as crimes. He isn’t even guilty of misrepresentation, as he doesn’t publicly claim to be married to Nicki and Margene.

In many real life polygamy cases there is an element of fraud as the “single” wives collect welfare but that is not the case here.

However, as being outed as a polygamist would certainly destroy his business, he has reason to worry.

Barbara

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**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-love-4-23-spoilers/353928/43 "2006-04-26T20:02:29Z")

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Actor John Cullum played the part of Holling on Northern Exposure.

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**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-love-4-23-spoilers/353928/44 "2006-04-27T04:46:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Jackknifed Juggernaut]  
Holling Vincoeur, actually. Sorry to nitpick, but that’s my favorite show of all time. I admit that I had to look up the correct spelling of his name.

Sorry. And I thought I was doing well rememering what I did. whinge.

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