Watching season three of Big Love, I'm enthralled, yet I keep asking Kenneth, "Is it good? Is it good tv?" He responds that it's good "in a Dynasty sort of way." Yes. These are big, robust episodes, filled with developments. I long for the first season, when nothing happened, when my longing for something to happen was part of the show's complicated pull, integral to its significance.

And yet. Images like this. Call to me. With a pull all their own.