To be honest, I never really got into HBO’s drama Big Love. Sure, it features some good actors in Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Chloë Sevigny and that Ginnifer Goodwin is pretty easy on the eyes (and can also act), but the story of a Mormon family’s trials and tribulations just never resonated with me.

Of course, that hasn’t stopped the show from becoming a big hit for HBO and going several seasons on the network. A milestone and a testament to its obvious quality and supportive fan base. That also won’t stop us from promoting the show as it’s about to begin its fifth and final season.

So, to get that going, we’ve got a bunch of video to share with you today that will give you pretty much everything you need to know to get ready for season five and the revelations to come. Even if you’ve never seen the show and want to start watching it now, these videos — especially the “catch up” one — will help.

Check out all the videos after the jump. Big Love returns to HBO for its final season on Sunday January 16th at 9/8C.

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I have a real appreciation for natural disaster flicks. Volcano, Dante’s Peak, 2012, I love them all and it doesn’t matter how absurd they may be.  One personal favorite is Twister. This film came with a whole bunch of destruction with a baked in love story between Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt.  Because nothing says I love you better then sharing the moment of running scared from a category five tornado.

Even with the success of his show Big Love, Paxton wants another Twister film.  Some may scoff at the idea but I’d love to see a sequel. Paxton said the inspiration for the the film came to him while retracing the path of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. This massive tornado left a path of destruction 219 miles wide and killed 700 people. Paxton said:

“There’s actually footage that I found in Murphysboro at their historical society. They had footage from a biplane that the government sent down, just to do aerial footage of all of the destruction and the damage. So we just did that to kind of get some ideas, and from that I kind of extrapolated an idea for a sequel. And I kind of put that together into a format, and now we’re kind of waiting to see if that’s going to move forward.”

One thing to consider about doing a film like this is how it would be accepted by audiences. Until 2012, the disaster film genre kind of disappeared (Cloverfield doesn’t count, it was a monster after all). In that time the real world has suffered some major disasters of its own (e.g. Hurricane Katrina). This is not to say we didn’t have major disasters when Twister was originally released, but I feel there’s a higher social awareness surrounding the tragedy of the events rather than the sensational nature of them.

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