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BIG LOVE
( HBO )
Come for the polygamists, stay for the thespians! The story of a Salt Lake City man (Bill Paxton) and his multiple wives was a surprisingly sympathetic treatment of religious fundamentalism and a master-class acting showcase. Ginnifer Goodwin, Chloë Sevigny and Jeanne Tripplehorn portrayed a complicated "sister-wives" dynamic, while Harry Dean Stanton was supporting character of the year as a deliciously snaky cult leader. The series tended to get overshadowed by HBO's other dramas, frankly, I suspect, because critics found marriage-and-family themes a little froufrou next to the drug murders, mob whackings and Western shootouts of the rest of the roster, but at heart the show was a sharp treatment of the trials of faith in the modern world.
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