Well, if the next season is no better than the last then good riddance.

Liked the show, but it jumped the shark so hard in Season 4 that this doesn't surprise me a bit.

That show started alright and got dull in a hurry.

/Plus I stopped holding out for the 3 wife orgy.
/Ever happen?

I was a fan until this season where Bill actually turned into the full time villain of the show. This thing went completely off the rails, still mostly enjoyable thouh.

Good. Now Bill Paxton can go back to doing what he does best: playing craven douche-bags in science fiction films!

While we were in the writers' room this year shaping our fifth season, we discovered that we were approaching the culmination of that story

By "culmination of the story," I assume they mean "Ginnifer Goodwin develops an incessant, compulsive masturbation habit."

Uzzah: While we were in the writers' room this year shaping our fifth season, we discovered that we were approaching the culmination of that story

By "culmination of the story," I assume they mean "Ginnifer Goodwin develops an incessant, compulsive masturbation habit."

I haven't had HBO since the second season, but I'd resubscribe for that. (er, wait... no I had HBO for the third season, I just didn't watch)

1) The joke is "Mormans", not "Mormons"
2) These aren't portraying Mormons.

Double fail by submitter.

Submitter also fails for calling it a cancellation.

The story has run its course, and they're wrapping it up by choice.

Calling that "cancelled" is like saying someone contracted to do a job is "fired" when he finishes.

gawd damn i farking hated that show

If only there was a phase Bil Paxton has said in the past that conveys the notion that something has ended.

helix400: 2) These aren't portraying Mormons.

They live in Utah, they are members of a church that has a big white temple in the center of Salt Lake City, they are members of a church with a history of polygamy.

I know the LDS church likes to say polygamists aren't Mormons anymore, but it's kind of like the Catholic Church saying there isn't a problem with priests touching boys.

Shows like this tend to have about a five-year shelf life. So. Yeah. Not really a big shocker here.

I'm glad they could admit they were out of ideas.

Vegan T-Rex: Submitter also fails for calling it a cancellation.

The story has run its course, and they're wrapping it up by choice.

Calling that "cancelled" is like saying someone contracted to do a job is "fired" when he finishes.

I had the same issue when everybody was saying 24 got canceled. Argh.

Everything has to die someday just so that new and better things can come about.

Hint hint Matt Groening and MacFarlane.

Oh, and also to everyone else doing a remake.

/I have a great screenplay for "The last, honestly the last, remake of Beau Jeste"
//Go read the original if you wanna see bad writing.

I hope the final 10 minutes of the last episode, Bill Paxton just lines up the wives and poops on their chests, one by one

GET A BRAIN, MORMONS MORMANS !!!

/Sorry, pet peeve

Wii.Tard: If only there was a phase Bil Paxton has said in the past that conveys the notion that something has ended.

"You're stewed, buttwad!"?

Wii.Tard: If only there was a phase Bil Paxton has said in the past that conveys the notion that something has ended.

"I'm Bill Paxton, now get the hell out of my house."

clovis69: helix400: 2) These aren't portraying Mormons.

They live in Utah, they are members of a church that has a big white temple in the center of Salt Lake City, they are members of a church with a history of polygamy.

I know the LDS church likes to say polygamists aren't Mormons anymore, but it's kind of like the Catholic Church saying there isn't a problem with priests touching boys.

And since you live in Anchorage, that makes you a Sarah Palin supporter, which makes you a Tea Party member, which makes you guilty of stomping on a woman's head.

Shame on you.

I admit the show eventually got horribly bizarre, but I always loved it for the many great character actors who had secondary parts: Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Kay Place, Bruce Dern, Grace Zabriski. I would've been happy watching a whole show just about the community of Juniper Creek.

angrygrizzly: And since you live in Anchorage, that makes you a Sarah Palin supporter, which makes you a Tea Party member, which makes you guilty of stomping on a woman's head.

Shame on you.

That's not even close to a valid rebuttal. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's pretty safe to call it a duck. If it just lives in the same state as a duck, uh...

Go look up "association fallacies" and see if you can work out where you went wrong.

"Game over, man! Game over!"

I'm rooting for Margene paying Bill back the loan money and then leaving him to continue building her empire and rolling in it.

propasaurus: Vegan T-Rex: Submitter also fails for calling it a cancellation.

The story has run its course, and they're wrapping it up by choice.

Calling that "cancelled" is like saying someone contracted to do a job is "fired" when he finishes.

Yeah... no. It got cancelled. The fact that the network pulled the plug in a way that lets them wrap up the storylines doesn't mean it wasn't cancelled. If the network had picked it up for another season, the producers already had storylines geared up for another season. It's not their 'choice'. HBO cancelled it.

That's an interesting and convoluted way of misusing a word and being indignant about it.

Not impressed.

This was actually a pretty cool show.
Everyone keeps saying the 4th season sucked.. I don't get it.
I like how it played out.
I'm curious how the 5th will also.
Sounds like coming 'out' so to speak... is not going to work out well for the family. Who knew ?

He will be Chet forever for me. He is great at douche bag alien feed too.

I just hope we get one appearance by a one-armed Hollis Green this season. He was by far my favorite secondary character in the series.

With Big Love and Entourage out the door I guess that leaves Boardwalk Empire to carry the awesome show torch. So far of what I have seen of Boardwalk Empire I think it will do just fine. Of course you also have True Blood and if it doesn't get better than last season you will be seeing Bill Compton getting staked before too long.

I couldn't stand the fourth season, but that's only because i hate the fact that Bill constantly thinks he has to prove himself. He has his lifestyle, and has 3 pain in the *ss wifes. He also had a successful business (now i said had) and a good start with a casino. The political run is/was stupid, and now the show has no where to go.

\best scene was when Nikki's dad was sitting in a hole outside of casino when the inspectors where coming. Dead. In a lawn chair. Wearing pajamas's and his damn cowboy hat.

I have to completely disagree with the haters of seasons 3 and 4.

In seasons 1 & 2 the writers were too cautious about passing judgment on Bill. They were trying too hard to be neutral with the intent of leaving it to the audience to judge him. In season 3 they dropped that and just came out with the fact that part of the appeal of plural marriage is the sex. It made Bill less sympathetic, but also more interesting. And after committing to that, everything came unhinged in season 4, as it should. Bill is incredibly selfish, and his wives are finally taking a stand.

Also, in seasons 1 & 2 there would be a conflict that would build for three episodes and then be unexpectedly resolved in 30 seconds. It became quite formulaic. The writers stopped doing this in season 3.

stlbluez: This was actually a pretty cool show.
Everyone keeps saying the 4th season sucked.. I don't get it.
I like how it played out.
I'm curious how the 5th will also.
Sounds like coming 'out' so to speak... is not going to work out well for the family. Who knew ?

I'm going with the they tried to do too much in too few episodes.
If they wiped out a couple of stories: Barbara & the Casino, the bird smuggling, Sissy Spacek, that eastern european chick, the artificial insemination & Nicki's daughter, the daughter moving to portland.

I don't blame the producers, there's just too much talent on the show, and you want everybody to get their part.

Bill turning into a raging asshole makes perfect sense to me in the Fundie tradition, absolute authority corrupts.

I heard Bill Paxton say in an interview (about five years ago), that if you were to total the gross earnings of all the films that he's been in, that figure would be greater than any other actor's total.

He might just be correct.