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List Price: $59.99 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 3746
Released: December 11, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The critically acclaimed hit series, Big Love, returns for it’s second break-out season. Bill Henrickson works hard and plays by the rules. All he wants in return is a happy, secure, normal life for his family. Is that too much to ask? Maybe so. For a polygamist like Bill, the American Dream comes with strings attached. Season 2 opens with even more drama, as Bill’s mission to learn who tipped off the authorities and exposed first wife, Barb, as a polygamist escalates. Not surprisingly, his search will lead him to the polygamist compound of Juniper Creek where his primary suspect is Roman Grant. Bill contemplates changes in his personal and professional life that promise to impact every member of his family.
Description of Big Love - The Complete Second Season:
Early on in Big Love's second season, closeted polygamist Bill Henrickson's kids come to him with a broken toy. "I can fix anything," he reassures them. If only his chaotic life were as easy to mend. Among the crises vying for his attention this season are finding out who was responsible for outing his wife, Barbara (Jeanne Tripplehorn), at the Mother of the Year ceremony; the investigation into the poisoning of his brother-in-law, Alby, for which he could be implicated in a cover-up; negotiating a deal to purchase a gaming company coveted by Roman (Harry Dean Stanton); and, in a "holy spirit sucker punch," meeting Ana (Branca Katic), a Serbian waitress who just could be wife No. 4. A Golden Globe nominee for Best Drama, Big Love further draws viewers into the polygamists' shadow world. "If they could show just one normal plural family for a change," someone remarks at one point. Grounded in "the principle," the Henrickson households are about as normal as you can get with the sister wives at once fiercely protective of the family, while at the same jockeying for position and influence. Nicki (Chloe Svigny) is beholden to her father, the prophet Roman (whom Bill aptly calls "venal, corrupt, the face of evil"), and duty-bound mother, Adaleen (Mary Kay Place). Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin), the third and youngest wife, has absolutely no boundaries, and initiates a friendship with Ana, and agrees to be a surrogate mother for her unwitting neighbor. "Boss Lady" Barbara must come to terms with the sacrifices she made for her marriage. Meanwhile, Barbara's teenage son and daughter are at their own crossroads on deciding whether to follow their parents' path. Complicating matters even further are Rhonda (Daveigh Chase, the voice of Lilo in Disney's Lilo & Stitch), the lying and manipulative child bride who runs away from Roman and the compound, Alby's sinister ascendancy, and Hollis Green, a rival polygamist patriarch and fierce fundamentalist with a penchant for branding those who cross him.
Season 2 further fleshes out television's most unconventional family drama. This set also includes three "prequels" that peek in on the Henricksons up to five years before the events of the first season. In one, Nicki suffers post-partum depression following the birth of her first son. In the second, Margene makes an indelible first impression in "Meet the Baby-Sitter." The third shows how Bill's three wives compel a move to the suburbs and into their three-home compound. This series has emerged from The Sopranos' shadow to earn some Big Love of its own. What happens next? As the Beach Boys sing during the haunting and etheral opening credits, "God only knows." --Donald Liebenson
Big Love - The Complete Second Season Reviews:
awesome show! 
2009-09-07 - This is one of the few seasons on DVD that I have actually watched more than once! I can't get enough of this show!
Doesn't disappoint
2009-07-19 - The second season of "Big Love" is great. I was not disappointed with it. "Big Love" is my favorite HBO series.
fantastic!!!!
2009-06-27 - THIS SERIES IS FANTASTIC!! BILL PAXTON IS HOT AND I WANT TO BE WIFE #4!!
Great! Except for 1 thing 
2009-06-18 - Big Love Season 2 is totally bananas. I absolutely love it...other than the fact that by the time you are totally addicted and there were 2 episodes left, they would not play! half way into the 11th episode it froze, tried skipping to 12 and that would not play either. So I'm a bit angry but other than that the show is addicting!
Keep's you coming back for more!
2009-06-17 - My husband and I really enjoyed Season One of Big Love. I had checked it out from our local library. I really wanted to see Season Two of Big Love and was very excited to find it on Amazon for such a reasonable price with free super saver shipping. It came in just a few days and then we enjoyed watching every minute of Season Two. We can't wait for Season Three!
