Monday, June 12, 2006
The Merry Wives of Utah
POLYGAMY! Big Love, Five, 9.00pm
We've got to hand it to Five - slowly and slyly over the past few months they've really been upping the ante where American imports are concerned to give themselves quite the impressive slate. They've had CSI and its various spinoffs for ages, of course, and then last year they brought in House, and then this year they've slipped in Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy and now HBO's "controversial" (apparently) Big Love. If Channel 4 aren't careful, Five is going to get all the good US shows and leave Channel 4 with some serious gaps in its slate. Of course, they've always got Lost (YAWN).
Anyway: why "controversial"? Well, partly because that label seems to get attached to every show that airs on HBO, but also because this show features a man with three wives. Bill Henrickson lives in Salt Lake City, and has three wives: Barbara, Nicolette and Margene. So we suspect the themes of this show are going to be the usual sort of family dramas, but with something of an unusual twist on them. Either that, or just three times the number of hilarious mother-in-law storylines: it's your call, really.
Obviously we've not seen any of the show yet so we can't say if it's any good, but we can point out that the casting looks pretty terrific: Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Chloë Sevigny (who here, at least, has some kind of excuse to wear the kind of outfits that make her a regular on the front page of Go Fug Yourself, even if we're not sure what her excuse is the rest of the time) and Amanda Seyfriend (who avid viewers will recognise as the fabulously dense Karen from Mean Girls and the fabulously dead-but-still-bitchy Lilly Kane from Veronica Mars). And in what seems to be the fashion these days, we're getting two episodes to kick things off with. Lovely.
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