I have now watched the first episode ("Winter") of Big Love's final season (missed when I was in the hospital), and I found it a solid return to the series I loved in its first three outings.
Joyce and I disagreed strongly on S4. I thought it was an unqualified disaster and was not alone in my opinion. Even Chloë Sevigny (Nicki Hendrickson) apologized for the year's waywardness.
So I obviously found the penultimate scene, in which Don Embry (sporting a radically different hairdo) shows up at Senator Hendrickson's open house and demands an apology, revealing indeed. Bill, normally obstinancy's poster child, does apologize--eloquently, and his mea culpa is not just about how he has misused his Hendrickson's Home Plus assistant manager and fellow polygamist but concerns his wives who stand behind him listening in amazement.
It's a brilliant scene in which I, of course, detected more than a touch of the meta. I heard in it--wanted to hear in it--Olsen and Scheffer apologizing to Big Love-ers as well, announcing that the series, once one of TV's best, is back.
If only they had restored the original masterful credit sequence.
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