Ep 353: Big Love S1:E1
Surviving Sister Wives
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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"Pilot"
Polygamist Bill Henrickson struggles to meet the needs of his three wives and seven children in suburban Salt Lake City.
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| 0:00.0 | Surviving Sister Wives contains adult content that may not be suitable for Latter-day Saints or |
| 0:04.5 | sinners. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello and welcome to Surviving Sister Wives. I'm Corey. And I'm Carly, and this is our first |
| 0:20.0 | ever episode covering Big Love. |
| 0:23.4 | Big Love, we're kicking it off. |
| 0:25.3 | Season 1, episode 1, it's just called Pilot, because this is back in the day when TV shows used to make pilots to figure out if there was going to be an audience interested enough to continue the series. |
| 0:37.6 | This is from 2006. |
| 0:40.0 | So old, you guys. |
| 0:41.5 | This is 20 years old at this point. |
| 0:44.9 | It predates sister wives. |
| 0:46.7 | Yes. |
| 0:47.7 | Yes. |
| 0:48.6 | So we've never seen Big Love. |
| 0:50.3 | Like we watched one, two episodes maybe. |
| 0:53.4 | We tried to jump in. But it was like 10 years ago. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah. And we hadn't really watched sister. Well, I had been watching Sister Wives. You hadn't |
| 1:01.6 | watched it at all. And I definitely wasn't watching it to the point that like I knew as much about |
| 1:07.7 | sister wives as I do now. Well, clearly. Yeah. So this was kind of lost on us and we just |
| 1:12.7 | never continued watching more. Miss the mark. Didn't really hit. This was interesting to watch it this |
| 1:18.8 | time through where it's like, okay, like I would continue watching now. Well, yeah, because things are |
| 1:23.8 | funny to us now. It's, yeah. That I think we're probably lost on us before. There's, |
| 1:27.0 | yeah, there's a connection point here. But I'm wondering as well, because like as part of the pitch for Sister Wives, the TLC documentary series, they were referencing Big Love. It's like Big Love, but in real life, it's a real life application of that. So how much of their, the Brown family, you know, sort of hierarchy and just those elements, how much of that was- |
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