The Polygamists Come Out

The first thing we see in Sister Wives, a reality television show about a polygamous family, is the Brown family house. It is a “typical polygamous home,” we’re told by a polygamous architect. The U-Shaped structure sits on a patch of lawn in Lehi, Utah, the mountain town where the Browns, members of the Apostolic United Brethren (a fundamentalist Mormon church), live. From the outside, it appears boxy and drab, like a cheap attempt at a McMansion. It is not much to look at.