bonding

(S01E05) Can a man with three wives love them all equally? From what I gathered in this episode, it doesn't seem so. Bill and Barb definitely spent a lot of time getting busy with each other. One now begins to wonder why exactly does Bill have three wives anyway? He has made a few "Scripture-ish" references over the last few weeks, but it doesn't seem to make any sense.

It isn't a stretch to say that both Nicki and Margene are both major pains in the a**, are very needy, and don't seem very mature or capable of any independent thought. Again, after viewing what has been going on so far in these first five episodes, it seems that many of the "sister-wives" of the other polygamists we've come to know (Roman, Don, etc.) are extremely subservient to their husbands and are either "brainwashed" or just haven't been exposed to any other way of life.

This whole situation becomes even stranger when Bill and Don decide to call the Utah Attorney General's "Polygamy Czar" to alert him of Roman's suspicious activities vis-a-vis some shady real estate deals to unsuspecting senior citizens. As Bill said in the last episode, he's taking his fight to Roman, and things are going to get a lot heavier as the season moves forward. Seems a bit hypocritical when a polygamist tattles on another one?

It would not be a stretch to say that fathers and sons have complicated relationships, Yes, I know, so do mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters and mothers and sons. For the purposes of this discussion, let's agree to accept that first premise.

As we've seen during the season, Earl Hickey's past has disappointed many people, not too mention his parents, especially his father Carl (played by the great Beau Bridges). We saw in an earlier episode the many times Carl had to bail his son out of jail for his petty crimes, so it would be fair to say that Carl is not that enamored of his oldest son. (Randy isn't exactly the star of the family either, but he seems to have a longer leash than Earl.)