What John's Watching

  This week's episode of Big Love, titled Blood Atonement, finds Bill (Bill Paxton) and his brother Joey (Shawn Doyle), on an emergency trip to Mexico to rescue Bill's parents (Grace Zabriskie and Bruce Dern), Ben (Douglas Smith), and Jodean (Mireille Enos) from the Greene clan.   Recap of last week's episode, Under One Roof, is here.  Preview of tonight's episode: Ep. ... Read More

Wow.  Big Love brought some unexpected complications this week.  A recap of last week's episode is here.  HBO's preview of this week's episode is here.  Summary of this week's episode (spoilers after the jump): Bill (Bill Paxton) continued to clash with lobbyist Marilyn Densham (Sissy Spacek), but was outmaneuvered when Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn) used her seat on the Weber Gaming board ... Read More

Last night's episode, Sins of the Father, revolves around Bill's struggle for the nomination for state senate, and the repercussions of last week's falling out with his son Ben. It seems Ben has taken the suggestion that he leave the house for a while to mean he's banished from the household, which brings up allusions to Bill being cast ... Read More

Ever since JJ (Zeljko Ivanek) was introduced as a minor character on Big Love I've been wondering what his motives were and what role he would play in the future storyline.  Now that Nikki's mom is going to be married to him and JJ is putting some sort of pressure on Bill's brother, will JJ make a move to become ... Read More