Tuesday, January 29, 2008

2-10: "The Happiest Girl" 2007.08.13 - Big Love TWoP Forums p1 :
-Could there be a creepier choice of song for Rhonda to sing, than 'The Happiest Girl'? I remember that song when it first came out; it's the song of an ecstatic young wife who loves her husband and her marriage and her life. To see Rhonda singing it, with a note of desperation, even pain, in her voice and face, was horrifying.
...When Bill suddenly came clean about the polygamy, when there were no more secrets to protect with lies, Barb seemed disoriented. That's her wheelhouse wheelhouse, and suddenly it wasn't needed anymore.

-Sad and powerful: Rhonda sings "Now you be careful, gotta go, I love you" and it cuts to Sarah.

-Who knew that a song about a happy girl could be so damn creepy?
Personally, I thought that song was creepy when Donna Fargo originally sang it.

-I have to agree with everyone who found the song to be perfect. Perfectly horrifying, but still perfect. I can't recall an hour of television that has filled me with more sadness and dread than this hour. Just a stellar episode. Absolutely unsettling and amazing.

-And that "Happiest Girl" was a creepy song even when it came out, in the 1970's, as an answer to the feminist movement.

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