Big Love... Now Featuring 347 Plotlines Per Episode, All Portraying Bill As A Giant Dickhole
HBO did not do the fourth season of Big Love any favors by scheduling it for an unorthodox nine episodes to make room for the arrival of the World War II miniseries, The Pacific (which looks INCREDIBLE, by the way). After an exceptional third season, Big Love's producing duo of Mark V. Olson and Will Scheffer have opted to cram so much story into these nine hours that it's difficult to feel the emotional weight of anything that's unfolding in the lives of the Henrickson clan. Add to that the realization that central character Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) has become a complete and utter douchebag that's impossible to root for and that leaves you with an equation for an uneven season that proves to be a huge disappointment, especially after last year's season had turned out to be the series' best.
Martin Short continues to amaze us with his performance as Leonard Winstone on the third season of FX's Damages. Never thought the guy who put on a fat suit to insult celebrities as Jiminy Glick would be capable of such pathos as the consigliore of a Bernie Madoff-type scammer. An Emmy nomination definitely isn't out of the question.
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't seen this week's Lost, skip this section.
So, seeing as how Sayid went all kill-crazy in this week's episode, "Sundown," our long-held theory (as in, of the last three weeks) that he was Jacob reincarnated following the Iraqi's drowning at the hands of Dogen in the temple is probably invalid. The symmetry of Locke/Smokey and Sayid/Jacob made some sense in our opinion but it apparently wasn't the direction that producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse decided to take. Our new theory is that the flash-sideways timeline that unfolded since the season opening "LAX" exists in a different dimension than we've seen in Lost's previous five seasons. Basically, we're now seeing the characters that we've become familiar with be transported into another version of Lost's world. We just can't shake the thought that there's something odd about the fact that Jack (a surgeon, no less) has to ask his mother about an appendectomy scar that he apparently has no memory of. Have whatever mysterious island forces that deposited Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, and Jin into the 1970s now shifted the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 into a more placid world? Probably not but for now, it serves as The Dirtywhirl's Lost Operating Theory Of The Week.
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