The first American television drama series on the theme of polygamy, HBO's Big Love starred Bill Paxton as Bill Henrickson, owner of a hardware store chain based in Salt Lake City. Although Bill was no longer an active member of the extremist Mormon sect United Effort Brotherhood who remained married with three different women at the same time, living in neighboring houses with a backyard connected.
Jeanne Tripplehorn played Bill's first wife, Barb. Wife number two, played by Chloë Sevigny, was Nicki Henrickson, and the youngest of the wives, played by Ginnifer Goodwin, was Margene Henderson. Bill was forced to jump through hoops to maintain their status as multiple marriages in secret, thus enabling wife Nicki's father, Roman (Harry Dean Stanton), self-styled "prophet" of Juniper Creek, for Bill to blackmail him give a substantial part of its corporate profits.
Although the basic situation was frankly nothing to laugh, a lot of irony and humor arose from the byplay hot amongst the many cast members, and from the tortuously twisted plot convolutions. Created by Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, the weekly one-hour "Big Love" debuted March 12th, 2006.
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