The 12 scenes selected below from The murder of Bill Henrickson is easily the series finale's most shocking, senseless, and unexpected moment.
After Margene offers Barb her support, Barb's voice cracks as she says that she'll be fine on her own. While she's meant to be acting for the sake of the neighbors, her words are actually truer than she dare admit in that moment. Big Love concluded its five-season run last night, with a bang and then a whimper. But while the wolves have been prowling around the Henricksons for five seasons now, Bill's killer isn't Albert Grant ( Relishing in her new role following her divorce from Bill (and Bill's subsequent legal marriage to Nicki), Barb impulsively buys a new car to replace the old hauler she's been driving for the past nine years. The Hollywood Reporter, LLC is a subsidiary of Prometheus Global Media, LLC. With Aleksandra Hamkalo, Antoni Pawlicki, Robert Gonera, Dobromir Dymecki. There's a tangible sense here that this is the calm before the storm and that the small moment of happiness they shared is possibly also the last.Amid the confusion of her polygamist family, Sarah ( With her ex-communication from the Mormon Church imminent, Barb attends the Temple so she can undergo the Throughout Season 3, Nicki's behavior goes from unsympathetic to truly abhorrent as she steals Margene's identity and gets a job in the district attorney's office in order to feed information to her mother Adaleen ( This episode, set smack in the middle of the superlative third season, remains one of the all-time greatest episodes of Margene has often seemed the most immature of Bill's three wives, little more than a child herself. Jace Lacob has the best moments from the last five seasons, but be forewarned: SPOILER ALERT AHEAD!Over the course of the show's groundbreaking run, the family was besieged by both external and internal threats as the four main characters—Bill ( Or he would have—if his life hadn't been so brutally taken from him by a former friend. But the saddest moment occurs when Margene suggests they just pick up Bill and keep driving—a dream of denial that befits her young age. It's the first selfless action Nicki had undertaken at that point on the show, and a true symbol of family unity. In her rumination on the finale, Ginia Bellafante of The New York Times noted that "[Big Love] was always at its most compelling as an indictment of the mindless spiritual avidity and the bizarre displays of self-exoneration that can go on in the name of faith," and celebrated the finale for committing to that theme. While Nicki is secretly betraying both the family and the course of justice (by aiding her guilty father), she does stick up for them when it seems as though Bill and a neighbor might actually come to blows at the neighborhood block party. Big Love went off the air Sunday night after five seasons. 89 Ending or Cancelled TV Shows for the 2010-11 TV Season [part 1] May 17, 2011; Big Love: Stars & Creators Reflect on TV Series and Finale March 20, 2011; Big Love December 12, 2010 But Bill's death accomplishes something that Barb, Nicki, and Margene had struggled with for the past five seasons: it finally unifies the three sister wives in an unbreakable bond. In the final minutes of the show—11 months after Bill's shooting—these three find the common ground they've been fighting for throughout the entire series. Related Articles. God only knows what we'll be without you, It arrives just after Bill becomes the prophet of the Principle and its reformer and brings the discussion of the legality of plural marriage to the floor of the Utah State Senate. It's this moment that reverberates throughout the final season, providing both a parallel for the inappropriate sexual relationship between 15-year-old Cara Lynn ( The family's fears of persecution and exposure are at their height in the third season opener, which finds the family grappling with suspicion from the neighbors as the national crackdown on polygamy intensifies and Roman Grant's trial looms. In its final episode, Big Love pushes the Henrickson clan to their breaking point, as Bill faces both a lengthy prison sentence for statutory rape charges and the loss of the family's business.