Will Scheffer is an American playwright and co-creator and executive producer of Big Love with longtime life-partner Mark V. Olsen... (wikipedia)
There are feminist analogies in the material. They find their power with and in each other.
We didn't want it to be too tract-home-like, we wanted this very charming and very sparsely populated neighborhood.
There is a kind of sweetness to Harry Dean that we didn't consider part of his character until Harry was saying the words.
I think there was a conscious decision to give our show a spare look.
They tore down the walls that separated the houses. It is very much in a state of limbo They have gotten to the point of tearing it apart and putting it back together. It is very much like their lives.
It's the subversive nature of how we deal with family values. I think what's really exciting about the show is the nonjudgmental look we have on our characters. It enables us to dramatize the way a family works without being cynical.