Big Love: The Justifiable Travelling.

Abstract

In 2006, the American Premium channel of cable television, HBO (Home Box Office), greatly responsible for the qualitative renewal of serialised fiction in television in the new millennium, premiered a new show: Big Love (Mark V. Olsen, Will Scheffer, HBO: 2006-), a bold bet —unequivocal constant feature in its affront to offer differentiated products of cinematic quality— which tackles the controversial issue of polygamy in a Mormon family located in the state of Utah. This article provides a succinct approach to the narrative keys that help decode the setting whereby the rupture is sutured with social convention and the spectator is placed in an active and critical position to interpret the way in which narration is built throughout the twelve episodes of its first season.