Critic Reviews
| 90 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
The second season... crackles with high drama, suspenseful twists, unexpected humor and emotion. |
| 88 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
[It] remains a nervily ambiguous concept. [18 Jun 2007, p.37] |
| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Big Love has dropped the last vestiges of its ostentatious quirkiness and fashioned itself into a rich and grounded family drama. [22 Jun 2007, p.62] |
| 80 |
Newsday Diane Werts
"Big Love" does more this year than you might expect, and more richly, more provocatively, more dramatically and amusingly, too. |
| 80 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The series performs a deft balancing act, creating sympathetic characters in a nontraditional family that viewers care about while making polygamy look like a much bigger relationship headache than any two-person union. |
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
It's the characters, and the character development, that continually lift the show out of soap into true opera, in which things writ large resonate with pinpoint accuracy. |
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
There's lots of humor in "Big Love" this season, but it is all based in the characters and a new spin on familiar situations. |
| 70 |
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
Like the fledgling “John From Cincinnati” but with fewer side effects, “Big Love” derives suspense, humor and thrills from HBO’s signature insight: that Americans are profoundly anxious about how their families are different from other families. |
| 50 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The show feels cold, like it's holding the audience at arm's length. |
| 10 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
“Big Love” is a waste of time, and an excruciating waste of these actors’ talents. |
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