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eye_of_a_catAre any of you people watching Big Love? And if you're not, is there any chance I could talk you into it? Because it's my main fannish crush at the moment and I have nobody to make 'very sincerely yours, eye-of-a-cat' jokes with, and it's so, so good. It really is. I was put off initially by the way it was sold as a kind of 'you might think having three wives is fun, but it's full of trouble and wacky hi-jinks!' Sopranos-lite, and I was wrong.
To give you some idea of why I'm getting all arm-wavy about how good this is, here's the montage last week's episode ended with. Some spoilers, so if you're watching already and aren't up to 2.10 yet and don't want to know, look away, but if you're not watching at all then you'll probably have forgotten most of this by the time you get here, and getting here is really worth a try...
A teenage almost-child-bride who escaped from the crazy polygamist cult, but who is pretty much the incarnation of manipulative evil in her own right, singing the old country song The Happiest Girl In The Whole USA on a TV show, over scenes of:
- Her almost-husband, the evil patriarch of the crazy polygamist cult, vaguely noticing the TV as he lies very, very ill in bed after gunshot wounds inflicted by two wives of an even crazier polygamist patriarch, and as his creepy daughter-in-law injects Something into the drip by his bed while his even creepier son, who's just 'had a revelation' that he's the next prophet, whispers "Sleep, Papa, sleep - I'll avenge you" (and this playing right when runaway child-bride sings "Wake up, sleepy-head...");
- The studio audience: teenage daughter of Husband and Wife #1 of the show's main family, and teenage best friend of the daughter, currently being blackmailed by runaway child-bride with the suspicion/knowledge that Friend has a crush on Daughter ("I've met women like you!"), both of whom are glaring at the singer;
- Wife #2 of main family tidying up outside after a party prematurely shut down by her brother, Creepy Son of Evil Patriarch, who's blackmailing her with revealing her theft of large sums of money to feed her gambling addiction unless she persuades her husband to drop out of a business deal;
- Wives #1 and #3, sharing a bed in a honeymoon suite after a convention on the aforementioned business deal went wrong and Main Husband had to switch wives, thus pissing off both of them, and not looking happy about it, as Wife #3 basks in the glow of being publically recognised as Husband's wife at last while Wife #1 silently radiates thoughts of divorce, and runaway child-bride sings "thank you, Lord, for making him for me";
- Main Husband, exiled to a room down the corridor and a bed on his own (and this playing when the singer gets to "and thank you for letting life turn out the way that I always thought it could be" - except not, because while that's the original line, runaway child-bride sings "...turn out the way that I always thought it should be", which is genius).
If you're not watching this already, you really are missing out.
And thus ends our public service announcement for today. Very sincerely yours, eye-of-a-cat.
To give you some idea of why I'm getting all arm-wavy about how good this is, here's the montage last week's episode ended with. Some spoilers, so if you're watching already and aren't up to 2.10 yet and don't want to know, look away, but if you're not watching at all then you'll probably have forgotten most of this by the time you get here, and getting here is really worth a try...
A teenage almost-child-bride who escaped from the crazy polygamist cult, but who is pretty much the incarnation of manipulative evil in her own right, singing the old country song The Happiest Girl In The Whole USA on a TV show, over scenes of:
- Her almost-husband, the evil patriarch of the crazy polygamist cult, vaguely noticing the TV as he lies very, very ill in bed after gunshot wounds inflicted by two wives of an even crazier polygamist patriarch, and as his creepy daughter-in-law injects Something into the drip by his bed while his even creepier son, who's just 'had a revelation' that he's the next prophet, whispers "Sleep, Papa, sleep - I'll avenge you" (and this playing right when runaway child-bride sings "Wake up, sleepy-head...");
- The studio audience: teenage daughter of Husband and Wife #1 of the show's main family, and teenage best friend of the daughter, currently being blackmailed by runaway child-bride with the suspicion/knowledge that Friend has a crush on Daughter ("I've met women like you!"), both of whom are glaring at the singer;
- Wife #2 of main family tidying up outside after a party prematurely shut down by her brother, Creepy Son of Evil Patriarch, who's blackmailing her with revealing her theft of large sums of money to feed her gambling addiction unless she persuades her husband to drop out of a business deal;
- Wives #1 and #3, sharing a bed in a honeymoon suite after a convention on the aforementioned business deal went wrong and Main Husband had to switch wives, thus pissing off both of them, and not looking happy about it, as Wife #3 basks in the glow of being publically recognised as Husband's wife at last while Wife #1 silently radiates thoughts of divorce, and runaway child-bride sings "thank you, Lord, for making him for me";
- Main Husband, exiled to a room down the corridor and a bed on his own (and this playing when the singer gets to "and thank you for letting life turn out the way that I always thought it could be" - except not, because while that's the original line, runaway child-bride sings "...turn out the way that I always thought it should be", which is genius).
If you're not watching this already, you really are missing out.
And thus ends our public service announcement for today. Very sincerely yours, eye-of-a-cat.
