HBO Defends Big Love’s Glimpse Behind Mormon Temple Walls

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If you’re not watching Big Love, then shame on you! It’s hands down the best show on TV right now…

HBO is so unlike TV it can’t even limit its drama to the screen.

The pay-cable network was busy Tuesday defending the depiction of a traditional Mormon temple ceremony in an upcoming episode of Big Love, a creative choice the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has interpreted as disrespect.

“Obviously, it was not our intention to do anything disrespectful to the church, but to those who may be offended, we offer our sincere apology,” HBO said in a statement today.

Jeanne Tripplehorn’s polygamy-favoring Barb is slated to participate in an endowment ceremony, in which church members perform symbolic acts to prepare themselves for admittance to heaven. HBO has deemed it a key plot point.

Big Love creators and executives producers Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer also said experts on temple ceremonies were consulted to ensure an accurate depiction.

On Monday, church leaders called the scene a clear indication of HBO’s insensitivity toward the church’s sacred practices. Members who are privy to such rituals take vows the details of their activities outside the temple.

“In approaching the dramatization of the endowment ceremony, we knew we had a responsibility to be completely accurate and to show the ceremony in the proper context and with respect,” Olsen and Scheffer said in an additional statement issued by HBO today.

“We therefore took great pains to depict the ceremony with the dignity and reverence it is due.”

Some individual members are calling for a boycott, but in dissing Big Love, church leaders also acknowledged their lack of overall concern, stating that even “extreme misrepresentations” of Mormonism in the media weren’t likely to have a “long-term negative effect on the church.”

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3 Responses to “HBO Defends Big Love’s Glimpse Behind Mormon Temple Walls”

  1. me Says:

    this is one of my fave shows and now i’m even more excited to watch on sunday!

  2. MS CUTE PANTS Says:

    LOVE this show! Yes it is hands down the best show out there. I don’t even watch Primetime tv anymore. HBO is it!

    Can’t wait for next week’s episode. It just keeps getting better and better.

  3. Chino Blanco Says:

    Tom Hanks puts this brouhaha into perspective (and waxes prophetic) at the 3rd season premiere of Big Love:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7JgK_mmEBk

    “There’s gonna be lies, and secrets, and discoveries, and problems. Television!”

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