Winters in South Bend are long, and there's something especially long and depressing about a Sunday night in winter.You need distractions. And one of the best distractions this particularly long winter has been Big Love, a series on HBO about a polygamous Mormon family trying to make it away from the compound and in the Salt Lake City suburbs. It's very entertaining--a well-done soap opera. But it also contains some interesting insights about contemporary life, especially contemporary family life.I have a half-completed essay on the show, which I'm planning on putting together eventually in a volume of collected essays on theology and popular culture, which will hopefully include my articles on the Sopranos and Buffy from Commonweal.Anyone else watch Big Love?

Cathleen Kaveny is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor in the Theology Department and Law School at Boston College.

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