With baddie Roman Grant (
Harry Dean Stanton) snuffed out, his wacko family will be branching out in Season 4 of HBO's
Big Love, premiering January 2010. His imprisoned sister Selma (
Sandy Martin) will be sprung from jail and wind up in Mexico. Later in the season, viewers will learn she has a pair of strapping, handsome, grown sons.
“My eggs are flowing!,” Sandy says. Roman’s widow Adaleen (
Mary Kay Place) has lost all her power in the clan but will begin entertaining suitors around the fifth episode. “The widow wives of a deceased prophet are like jewels in a crown that many want to obtain” exec producer Mark V. Olsen said at L.A.’s Outfest. And the latest on Roman’s closeted son, Alby (
Matt Ross): He’s got a new lover, Dale, who has been struggling with his homosexuality in the gay-reparative therapy group Evergreen. Happy for Alby? His family won’t be. “We want them to be a sexy couple you’ll root for,” says Olsen, “but it will not end well.”