BIG Love

HBO introduced a new series this year called "Big Love" probably hoping to create a breakout series with the same appeal of "Sex and the City" ... if only. sigh. Basically this show is about a family that practices the art of polygyny, or for those of us (like me) who thought this was polygamy misspelled, 'the practice of one man having multiple wives.'

I'm a geek who loves doing genealogy research in some of my random spare time, so I've encountered LDS members before ... they are REALLY nice, very helpful, kind of like a whole society of Donna Reeds. It's kind of spooky, actually. I've come to the conclusion that they have a very different outlook on life than the non-Morman people I know and feel comfortable around. I'm much more accustomed to brash speaking, rude, crude, funny and down-to-earth people (but enough about my family ... back to the blahg)

So imagine my surprise when I found myself sitting and watching a recap of HBO's "Big Love", marathon style, one after another, for four hours! Since the series began, I've been catching snippets and found it vaguely interesting, but there was always something else on that took precedence. However, now that all of my favorite shows are on summer hiatus, I started getting drawn in to the story, and very stealthily my interest was captured. Suddenly, I realize this is an AWESOME show, and I'm totally hooked!

There's so much going on, such freaky story lines, and so many seething undercurrents! But best of all, the great recaps on the Television Without Pity site! Such as this one, for instance:

So the driver, who plays the son on Commander In Chief and is totally fine, is driving Ben and Jason and three other boys down the road, and what he's doing is massaging his crotch in a very agitated and proud manner, and what he's yelling is "It's wood! It's wood, see?" There is country music playing, which somehow makes it worse. The kid riding shotgun, for some reason, reaches over and grabs hold, I guess to confirm Horace's erection, and proudly announces it again to the rest of the car. The two guys in the second row lean forward, all excited, to check it out. And yeah, boys are gross, and the more repressed the boys in question, the more likely they will do this kind of thing while speeding down the highway, but I don't really think the solution is to tell them to cut it out. You know? So they're all obsessed with Horace's boner, and talking about how it's his "pillar of truth" ("pencil," one of them corrects him), and then the dude full-on whips it out and lets it drive. I feel like maybe none of them know what to do with it, and that's why it's so exciting, but if that's true, I weep for them. I feel that constant masturbation between the ages of 15 and 25 is what this country is built on, and if you don't respect that, you can get badly injured. "Look, my hard-on's driving!" shouts Horace. It is a testament to the depressing weirdness of this scene that it's about the least titillating thing in the universe, even though if you told me you were bringing over a video featuring a carload of seminary students with their erections hanging out, I would promise to at least give it a look, and pop some popcorn in preparation for your arrival. In the very back, Jason is finding it somewhat hilarious, if archly as usual, but Ben is totally wigged, so Jason dials back his enjoyment, and then Horace's hard-on drives them into oncoming traffic.

I regret to say that I missed the first half of this episode, tuning in for the 2nd half ... I was reading the recap to catch up, and just LOOK at what I missed! I'm going to have to see if I can catch this episode on HBO's On Demand, because I just have to see Horace's driving hard-on!