Big Love (TV series)
| Big Love | |
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Promotional poster for Season 1
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by |
Mark V. Olsen Will Scheffer |
| Starring |
Bill Paxton Jeanne Tripplehorn Chloë Sevigny Ginnifer Goodwin Douglas Smith Grace Zabriskie Mary Kay Place Matt Ross Cassi Thomson Amanda Seyfried Shawn Doyle Mireille Enos Željko Ivanek Melora Walters Joel McKinnon Miller Daveigh Chase Jolean Wejbe Bruce Dern Harry Dean Stanton |
| Opening theme | "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys (Seasons 1-3) "Home" by Engineers (Seasons 4-5) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 53 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Anima Sola Productions Playtone HBO |
| Distributor |
Warner Bros. Television HBO Enterprises |
| Release | |
| Original network | HBO |
| Original release | March 12, 2006 – March 20, 2011 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Big Love is an American television drama series that aired on HBO between March 2006 and March 2011. The show is about a fictional fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy. Big Love stars Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin, as well as a large supporting cast.
The series premiered in the United States on March 12, 2006, following the sixth-season premiere of the HBO series The Sopranos. Big Love was a success for HBO, running for five seasons before concluding its run on March 20, 2011.
Big Love received widespread critical acclaim, and earned several major awards and nominations throughout its run. The third season was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, and the first three were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Drama. For acting, Chloë Sevigny won a Golden Globe Award for her supporting role, and Bill Paxton was nominated three times for his leading role. At the Emmys, Ellen Burstyn, Bruce Dern, Mary Kay Place, and Sissy Spacek were all nominated for their recurring roles. Creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer won the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama.
The series left behind a legacy as one of television's most complex studies of American family life. It has been the subject of seminal pieces in top academic journals, including the Columbia Law Review, Law and Contemporary Problems, and Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. Several publications listed the series's first three seasons as among the best television of the decade 2000-09, and its final season ranked among the best-reviewed scripted series of 2011.
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