Polygamy Loves Company

I've been hearing a lot about the new TV show coming to HBO tonight. If you haven't, let me bring you up to speed.

Big Love is a show about a man in Salt Lake City with three wives and seven kids. Each wife has their own home and he has enough money to provide for all three families. Bill Paxton plays husband of wives Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin, respectively.

The Church has come out with a statement about the show with three points: concern for abuse victims, confusion over the continued practice of polygamy, and concern over the moral standards of television entertainment. More can be found at the Church's website.

If I had HBO, I'd be able to go into more detail about the show and what's going on in the lives of the characters. We have cable, but I wouldn't want to add the channel just to see what the show's about. I don't watch a whole lot of TV, maybe an hour a day, if at all. It'd be interesting to see just how the show plays out, but for now I'll have to hear about it by word of mouth.