Big love

This article covers the television series. For the music album see Big Love (album) .

Television series
German title	Big love
Original title	Big love
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2006-2011
length	50 minutes
Episodes	53 in 5 seasons
genre	drama
idea	Mark V. Olsen Will Scheffer
First broadcast	March 12, 2006 on HBO
German-language first broadcast	June 4, 2009 on TNT Series
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Big Love is an American television series about the life of a polygamist family who see their ideological roots in Mormonism . A total of five seasons were produced between 2006 and 2011. The final season aired in the United States from January 16 through March 20, 2011 on HBO . In German-speaking countries, it was first broadcast on the TNT series , where the last season was shown from January 3, 2012. The series was produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's company Playtone .

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Bill Henrickson runs a thriving home improvement store in Salt Lake City . Since polygamy is both illegal in present-day Utah and officially rejected according to the teaching of the dominant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , he has to go to great lengths to keep this aspect of his private belief a secret. Bill is married to three women: the well-organized "main wife" Barbara ( Jeanne Tripplehorn ), the insincere and shopaholic Nicki ( Chloë Sevigny ) and the cheerful and somewhat naive Margene ( Ginnifer Goodwin ). The women live in three neighboring houses, the properties of which are connected at the rear. There are seven children in the family.

Bill's second wife Nicki is the daughter of the self-proclaimed prophet Roman Grant ( Harry Dean Stanton ), who heads a sect-like Mormon splinter church and is involved in various dubious machinations. Bill grew up in a gated area called Juniper Creek but was chased away by Grant when he was 14. His younger brother and parents (played by Grace Zabriskie and Bruce Dern ) still live there. Time and again there are conflicts between the “modern” polygamist Bill, who lives successfully in the outside world, and his fundamentalist community of origin.

Season 3 is about the death of Roman Grant and the fact that his son and Nicki's brother Albert Grant will succeed him as prophet, as well as the planning and opening of a joint Native American casino. This casino is designed to provide the Henrickson family with a livelihood in the event the home improvement stores fail. You will lose it later, however.

In season 4, after receiving testimony, Bill is running for a senatorial seat. He wins this by keeping his lifestyle secret. After becoming a Senator, he tries to use his position to legalize polygamy and to break up Juniper Creeks.

In the 5th and final season, Margene confesses to the rest of the family that she was only 16 when she married Bill and therefore not yet of legal age. Since she became the 3rd wife, her marriage to Bill is not legally legitimized, but only ecclesiastical, which means that they were only sealed. The family plans to keep this a secret. However, this does not succeed. Police investigations then begin, with Bill being accused of rape and his 1st wife, Barbara, pomposity. At the same time, Bill and Barbara get divorced so that Bill can officially marry his 2nd wife Nicki so that the family can adopt their daughter from their 1st marriage. In the series finale, Bill shoots Albert Grant, who survives and is then arrested. The family bridges their differences and Bill learns that he has lost the home improvement store because the banks deny him further credit. In the newly built church, the former members of Juniper Creek gather on Easter Sunday and Bill takes the role of the new prophet. During his sermon he has a vision and seems to have reached his goal. At the end of the episode, he meets his neighbor, whose life has slipped away. In a seemingly psychotic madness, the neighbor shoots Bill. His three wives run out of the house and Bill asks Barbara to give him a blessing. He is conferring priesthood on her in his last hour. The last sequences show the family 11 months later. Barbara's and Bill's daughter had a child with her husband. Nicki is still very sad about Bill's death and Margene is going abroad for 3 months to do charitable work.

Cast and dubbing

The German dubbing was carried out by the dubbing company TV + Synchron Berlin under the dialogue direction by Karin Lehmann, who was also responsible for the dubbing .

main actor

actor	Role name	Main role (season)	Supporting role (season)	Voice actor
Bill Paxton	Bill Henrickson	1-5		Jörg Hengstler
Jeanne Tripplehorn	Barb Henrickson	1-5		Anke Reitzenstein
Chloë Sevigny	Nicolette Grant	1-5		Antje von der Ahe
Ginnifer Goodwin	Margene Heffman	1-5		Dascha Lehmann
Amanda Seyfried	Sarah Henrickson	1-4		Julia Stoepel
Douglas Smith	Ben Henrickson	1-5		Tino Hillebrand
Shawn Doyle	Joey Henrikson	1-4		Viktor Neumann
Melora Walters	Wanda Henrickson	1-4		Daniela Reidies
Grace Zabriskie	Lois Henrickson	1-5		Marianne Lutz
Joel McKinnon Miller	Don Embry	1-5		Lutz Schnell
Daveigh Chase	Rhonda Volmer	1-3	5	Shalin-Tanita Rogall
Bruce Dern	Frank Harlow	1-4	5	Horst lamp
Harry Dean Stanton	Roman Grant	1-4		Joachim Siebenschuh
Mary Kay Place	Adaleen Grant	1-5		Sonja German
Mireille Enos	Kathy Marquart	2-4		Petra Barthel
Matt Ross	Alby Grant	1-5		Alexander Doering

supporting cast

actor	Role name	Season	Voice actor
Tina Majorino	Heather Tuttle	1-3; 5	Jill Schulz
Keegan Holst	Wayne Henrickson	1-5
Kyle Gallner	Jason Embry	1-2	Dirk Petrick
Carlos Jacott	Carl Martin	1-2; 5	Rainer Doering
Renee Albert	Julep embry	1-2
Jenny O'Hara	Nita	1; 3
Audrey Wasilewski	Pam Martin	1-5	Peggy Sander
Jim Beaver	Carter Reese	2
Anne Dudek	Laura Grant	2-5	Ulrike Stürzbecher
Sandy Martin	Selma Greene	2-4	Santiago Ziesmer
Branka Katić	Ana	2-5	Gjulnas Schuch
Kate Norby	Glory	3
Melinda Page Hamilton	Malinda	3-4
Charles Esten	Ray Henry	3-4	Robin Kahnmeyer
Patrick Fabian	Ted Price	3-4	Uwe Büschken
Robert Beltran	Jerry Flute	3-4
Željko Ivanek	JJ Percy Walker	3-4	Matti Klemm
Cassi Thomson	Cara Lynn Walker	3-5	Oona Plany
Eric Ladin	Dr. Roquet Walker	4th	Karlo Hackenberger
Adam Beach	Tommy Flute	4th	Daniel Fehlow
Steve Bacic	Goran	4-5
Kevin Rankin	Verlan Walker	5	Konrad Bösherz
Christopher Hanke	Stuart	5	Arne Stephan
Gregory Itzin	Senator Dwyer	5	Axel Lutter
Aaron Paul	Scott Quittman	2-5	Tobias Nath (seasons 1 to 3) Wanja Gerick (seasons 4 to 5)

Charisma

Season	Episodes	Broadcast (HBO)	Broadcast (TNT series)
season 1	12	March 12, 2006 to June 4, 2006	June 4, 2009 to July 9, 2009
season 2	12	June 11, 2007 to August 26, 2007	July 16, 2009 to August 20, 2009
season 3	10	January 18, 2009 to March 22, 2009	November 19, 2009 to January 7, 2010
Season 4	9	January 10, 2010 to March 7, 2010	October 5, 2010 to November 30, 2010
Season 5	10	January 16, 2011 to March 20, 2011	January 3, 2012 to March 6, 2012

Episode list

Awards

Big Love was nominated a total of 9 times for the Emmy Awards in different categories, but was never able to take home a trophy. The series has been nominated four times for the Golden Globes since 2007, including best drama series in 2010. However, only Chloë Sevigny was able to win a Golden Globe in 2010 in the category "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television".

German production

The German version was produced by TV + Synchron Berlin .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Big Love: Season 5 in January marks the end of the series . Serial junkies . October 28, 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
2. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Big Love: TNT series shows season 5 from January . Serienjunkies.de . November 20, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Big Love. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on October 6, 2012 . 

Web links

• Big Love at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website of the series at the producing broadcaster HBO
• Big Love in TNT series ( memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) - with episode guide and picture gallery