I pronounce you man and wife, wife, wife

CNN ^ | March 8th, 2006

[laney]

'Big Love's' big subject: polygamy Seen one way, it's a domestic comedy distorted by a lens that fleshes out one housewife into three.

Seen another, it's a male dream in full flower: one man presiding over three attractive women, each of whose beds he shares according to the schedule his wives draft at the dining room table.

"Three days can seem like such an eternity," sighs Margene, Bill Henrickson's newest and youngest, when her night comes around.

"Honey, I miss you, too," he consoles her. "If I don't say so, it's 'cause I don't want Nicki and Barb to think I miss them any less."

Or could this be a male nightmare: regimented bed-hopping, propelled by Viagra?

Hard to say. "Big Love," HBO's brash new drama series (premiering Sunday at 10 p.m. EST), is tricky to sum up. (HBO, like CNN, is a division of Time Warner.)

It's a meditation on the American dream. Henrickson (played to regular-guy perfection by Bill Paxton) has a family he's proud of (seven offspring between his trio of mates) and a prospering business: He owns two hardware superstores and is spoiling for a battle on his Salt Lake City home turf with the Goliath of Wal-Mart.

[laney]

Fall-out from the Homosexual Agenda...

[el_texicano]

Anyone want to take a stab at how long this lasts? I cannot see this lasting long - maybe one season. I could be wrong, but that's what I think

[martin_fierro]

it's a male dream in full flower

Dream? It's a friggin' NIGHTMARE!

[AbeKrieger]

Who needs a brain-bashing here? Isn;t one woman more than enough? Goodness.

[Tijeras_Slim]

it's a male dream in full flower

What every guy wants, 3 honey-do lists.

[el_texicano]

I knew years ago when the issue of women elders in conservative churches came up, I knew then from the arguments that next would be gays, then polygamist.

[Kozak]

Fall-out from the Homosexual Agenda...

So there IS a silver lining... (ducks)

[jbenedic2]

How about:

I pronounce you Man, and man, and man, and man

or

I pronounce you wife, and wife, and wife, and wife

or

I pronounce you Man, and wife, and man, and wife

[el_texicano]

Can you imagine the alimony/divorce arrangements??? Talk about a male nightmare.

[Ro_Thunder]

Worse, 3 mother-in-laws!

[ArrogantBustard]

You know, of course, that people are radioactive ... the Carbon-14, Potassium-41, etc. in our bodies (and our neighbours' bodies) contributes to our daily background dose of ionizing radiation.

But not very much.

So, you see, sleeping with one woman is perfectly safe.

But sleeping with two women at the same time can be very dangerous.

[AmishDude]

Nagging...in surround-sound.

[laney]

Well since it's a No hold barred relationships due to the Homosexual propoganda it can be:

Man Wife, Dolphin or Donkey, Man Sheep

[rightinthemiddle]

Three wives? Could be good.

Could be very bad.

[CT-Freeper]

Worse, 3 mother-in-laws!

Psst...that's mothers-in-law. Sorry, just had to say that. But yes, I have trouble sometimes managing just one.

[Kozak]

Or Man, wife, man, man, and Sheep.

[martin_fierro]

The Fantasy

The Reality.

[timsbella]

Where are the feminists now? I can't hear you???

[ElkGroveDan]

The 'mos are going to be upset over this. This agenda was supposed to wait until AFTER they had leglized marriage.