Big Love Season 5

If you want a drama that takes its characters as seriously as its plot, Big Love Season 5 is available on and right now. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. 150 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Bill Paxton anchors it with a performance that rewards close attention. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Big Love Season 5 is worth clearing space for. Big Love Season 5 trusts its audience to sit with discomfort instead of resolving it too quickly. As season five begins, the Henrickson family encounters a wave of hostility from neighbors, Home Plus employees, casino partners, students at their kids' schools, even fellow polygamists hoping to keep their personal lives private. Meanwhile, at Juniper Creek, Alby Grant returns from a self-imposed exile with a new mindset...and revenge on his mind. Can the Henricksons stand up to this flood of ill-will? Bill Paxton and Jeanne Tripplehorn lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2011. The performances in Big Love Season 5 do a lot of work in the silences between the dialogue. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Big Love Season 5 is what you recommend to people who say they do not really watch much. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Bill Paxton's work here is the kind that gets referenced in career retrospectives. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.