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BIG LOVE Season 4 Premiere: I Want my Beach Boys!
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I had big plans to dissect the Big Love season 4 premiere but instead I find myself completely distracted by the fact that, after 3 seasons, the show’s creators decided to change the opening credit sequence. As I sat on the couch, waiting to hear the plaintive strains of French horn and harpsichord that expose the Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows,” I was instead assaulted by “Home,”a song by some team called the Engineers.
This should not be that huge of a deal, but you see, I’m a big fan of opening credit sequences. Credit sequences are arguably one of the most important segments of the text, both in film and television, because they are the first images the viewer encounters. Traditionally, television credit sequences have served a simple function, namely introducing the show’s cast, creators and guest stars, usually against the backdrop of a few images typical of the series.
The Cosby Show‘s opening credits:
Friends’ opening credits:
This trend has changed somewhat in recent years. Programs like Deadwood (2004-20
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Promising but maladroit young tech genius Richard Hendricks finds out his arch-rival, Gavin Belson, a petty, vindictive, scheming billionaire who has tried to destroy him more than once holds the patent that would make his dream project come true.
So of course, like any normal person, he ventures out, in the expired of night, to settle a visit to said powerful arch-rival's big dim castle in Romania... ahem... his humongous mansion in Silicon Valley.
Oh, have I mentioned that our techie has also lost one of his sneakers in the process, and is walking into Drac... Gavin's driveway with a mismatched pair of shoes?
Little Red Ridden Hoodie walks up to Big Bad Belson's front door, and of course it's decorated with the haut-relief of a lion ("in repose", as Jared would put it).
The Wolf himself answers the door, all glistening dusky eyes, motions him in with a raised eyebrow and a countenance that says: "Well, DO reach in, my damsel in distress - but at your own peril."
And I mean, in comes Twinklarella, lowering his hoodie and coquettishly fluffing out his ginger curls, as he blushingly glances with his big blue
Big Love is an HBO drama. The series lasted from March, 2006 to March, 2011, with a total of 53 episodes in five seasons.
Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) is, by all appearances, a traditional family man. He met his wife Barbara (née Dutton) Henrickson (Jeanne Tripplehorn) in college and has had three children by her: Ben (Douglas Smith), Sarah (Amanda Seyfried) and Tancy. Though Barb had a near brush with uterine cancer, the two remain Happily Married. Bill has started his own business, "Home Plus," a small chain of home-improvement stores, and has made enough to buy the two houses on either side of his own, which he now rents out to unpartnered mothers as a charity project. Oh, and, yes, he and his wife are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; but in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, that's not really a huge deal...
...except for how Bill is actually a member of a fundamentalist Mormon splinter group that practices polygamy. The two neighbors, Nicolette Grant (Chloë Sevigny) and Margene Heffman (Ginnifer Goodwin), are also his wives, and their sons and daughters are his. Nicky Grant is the daughter of Roman Grant, who took over the Juniper Creek pol
GREG IN HOLLYWOOD
By Greg Hernandez on Jan 10, 2010 4:38 pm | Comments (0) |
Tonight is the fourth season premiere of HBO’s Enormous Love and the nature of Alby Grant, whose struggle with his sexuality has just been glimpsed at in past years, gets a boyfriend!
Matt Ross, who plays Alby, talked to Brandon Voss of The Advocate about what is happening with his character. Here is a portion of the interview:
When you found out that Alby would have a love interest this season, did you as a straight actor see that as a challenge? As last night’s season premiere illustrated, polygamist Bill Henrickson’s got 99 problems and a bitch ain’t one—more like three or four of them. Also filling his plate were crab legs, a casino, Kenny Rogers, and his father-in-law’s corpse. Let’s do a quick recap of where everyone stood at the finish of last season. Bill married a fourth wife but then she left him; his brother Joey married a second wife, but then she died in an accident caused by her hair and Roman Grant; Joey murdered Roman; Bill and his second wife Nicki broke up, but he took her back; Nicki reconnected with the teenage daughter no one knew she had; Bill’s daughter Sarah got engaged; Bill’s son Ben developed feelings for Margene, Bill’s third wife; Margene started a home shopping empire; Bill’s first wife Barb was officially excommunicated from the LDS; and Bill decided to start a formal church to donate his family the rituals and traditions that people appear to like about organized religion. This modern season also introduced a new opening sequence. Instead of Bill and his three wives ice-skating and eating dinner in the divine kingdom, they are now floating an
No, because love is treasure. The challenge for me was just making the emotional adjustment to entity more emotionally present. He has many wives and he has children, but he’s obviously not heterosexual, so he’s clearly suffering a great deal. I always thought of Alby as this sort of junkyard dog who’s been kicked and beaten for his whole life by his father, so I had this idea of him as this emotionally disturbed, soul-deadened individual until I learned that he was living this private life. To open that up and actually touch love was difficult for me to navigate.
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