Big Love: Season 3 - Barb So Far...(HBO)

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• Big Love
• Herickson's
• Bill
• Margene
• Nikki
• Polygamy
• Wife
• Barbara
• Paxton
• Jeanne
• Tripplehorn
• Chloe
• Sevigny
• Ginnifer
• Goodwin
• Amanda
• Seyfried
• Douglas
• Smith

[drewskione]

This is the only positive portrayal of polygamy I've ever seen. wow. How is that possible?

[Lauralynn1]

I love this show!

[rosestainedglass]

@drewskione I like Big Love, but I think you have to be married to understand how polygamy couldn't work. Marriage is impossible without love. That's true, passionate, wildly in love sort of love. That sort of love takes all of your energy. How can you possibly have that for more than one person? I feel like it must end up the way it is when you pick two best friends. One of them ends up becoming a better friend to you and the other - a third wheel...

[pyramid8]

I'm so glad Barb received what she needed in the last episode...I always admired her character so much. She was always so diplomatic, calm and really was the brains. She always tried to apply understanding to common sense. I will miss this show! Anybody know where you can go to see episodes you missed? Thanks in advance.

[owenhunt]

@godusote It's actually the notion that being faithful to a loved one is the greatest feat a man can achieve that brainwashes people against polyygamy, not visa-versa. The struggles you see arise from a cultural, not inherent, belief that marriage means the unity between a single man and a single woman. You need to remember how common the practice is in Africa and many other parts of the world.

I think having children with one person is imperative in light of the current world population,btjm

[felixpartz]

i think i like barb the best...especially with the last season what with her divorce to bill and all - it's all very intriguing...

[GwendolynRaine]

Inspite of all the crap that goes on on this show, I think Nikki and Bard are actually pretty close.

[ririririPXN]

@MsHamidian I think the concern is cultural implication. Stepping away from a tv show and the way they portray polygamy, in real life it might be there are concerns that specific polygamous groups "force" or brainwash their children into this. So the law is to protect the young. However, by making people hide I am not certain whether you prevent or just loose track of whether there is a problem and its severity.

[ashash1995]

This show is freakin wierd

[MsHamidian]

I am trying to understand how polygamy is illegal if you haven't actually been legally married to another one. These guys have one legal wife and then the others married according to their belied instead of legal documents. The problems the "Big Love" cast face is mindboggling. I would jump off a cliff. Yet, how is it illegal?

[CheyenneDakota]

i totally took a nap on that bed like 3 hours before this was shot.

[NeriahNee]

@haleyjustinkerri season 1, episode 5. if I'm not mistaken it's titled, 'the affair.'