I just finished the second season of Big Love, and I am giving up. I don’t need to watch the other three seasons.

I’m not sure the people who made the show really knew what they wanted it to be. At the times the show seems to be an attempt at making a less profound, polygamist version of Six Feet Under, but at other times the show feels like a farcical dark comedy or dramedy. And the tone seems to swing wildly from episode to episode, or even within individual episodes.

But the other issue is the excess of characters and plot: there is so much going on in the show and I’m not sure to what purpose. Bill is unlikeable, but it’s almost as if they try extra hard to make him unlikeable by involving him in all sorts of polygamist mafia type stuff that I’m sure doesn’t actually happen.

It just got repetitive and not very interesting. I finished this season because of my insane completeness impulse and not out of any interest to find out what happened, I simply didn’t care any more. I didn’t care enough about any of the characters in part because there are too many characters for the scope of the show.

Anyway, I’m done with it.