Also…“It messes with your menses.” Menses–pure gold.
I was wondering that, too. “I got really attached and decided to keep it–and luckily the family didn’t sue my utuerus off”?
Then again, this is from someone who thought it was a good idea to tell the neighbors that her husband died in the first Gulf war.
He was in bed with one woman. We know he has multiple wives, but I don’t think we know how many. Nikki said to him something like: Why don’t your wives dress you better in last week’s episode.
Wow, I just noticed that when you click on reply to a post with a spoiler, you see the spoiler (unlike what happens with the quote function). Has it always been like that?
Yeah, but then she can say that the new baby was carried by someone else, as her surrogate mother. “After all”, she will shrug, “I can’t carry two babies at a time.” And after a moment’s thought she will add, “unless they’re twins. Which these aren’t.”
Didn’t Nicki say, “Go play house with your wives”? As in, he’s just playing because he’s really gay. (Though I wonder why he seems to enjoy caressing female relations–weird power trip thing he inherited from Daddy?)
I don’t remember that. The scene I was thinking of was when Nikki was hanging laundry, and Alby came out to warn her about the cops coming. He was not dressed in white like everyone else, so that was Nikki’s way of telling him to go change.
She hid it in the baby seat. It’s made of metal and plastic so it can’t go through the detecter. The guard didn’t have Wanda take the baby out so he could hand search it.
Last season she mentioned something about being “4th out of 14 wives”, but we haven’t seen the 3 wives that “outrank” her and she’s acting like a First Wife. Could Roman’s first 3 wives be dead (or “gone”) and Adaleen his First (& legal) Wife? Roman was about to reassign Nikki. Now, there is no way in hell that Bill would ever[ go along with that, but it clearly scared both Adaleen and Nikki.
Just what the hell is Juniper Creek? 
Last season I got the impression that it was just a bunch of land owed by the UEB, but apparently it’s an actual town complete with it’s own police and courts. :eek: Though it’s not hard to imagine how the UEB could control an entire local government. If it owns (nearly) all the land in the town then most voters would also live on the compound. “Elections” must consist of one candidate running for each position (who’s the mayor 
?) and everyone over 18 being bussed to a polling station to due their “duty as citizens”. It’s ironic that the local electorate consists overwhelmingly of women.
It’s based on several real life polygamous communities, most notably Colorado City/Hildale on the border of UT & AZ, formerly (and infamously) known as Short Creek. CC/Hildale was controlled by Warren Jeffs (now in custody for a number of tax and child molestation charges) and before him by his father Rulon (seen here with his two youngest wives- aren’t they a lovely triple?). Other polygamous communities are Bountiful, British Columbia and Colonia Juarez, Mexico (seat of the LeBaron communities), with smaller ones dotting the landscape as well. El Dorado, Texas, is in the process of being built (temple pic) almost from ground-up as a polygamy capitol, though now that its leader Jeffs is in prison it’s probably at least partly on hold.
Hildale/Col.City is indeed an incorporated city. Like fictional Juniper Creek, it receives state and federal funds for its schools and courthouses and post offices and tons of assistances in welfare/food stamps for all the “single parent” households, their way of “bleeding the beast”.
PS- Compared to Jeffs and LeBaron, Roman Grant is just a kindly old Mormon grandpappy. Ervil LeBaron, who led the Colonia Juarez compound and wanted control of all polygamous sects, used his wives as a personal hit-squad and his many murder victims included at least two of his brothers, one of his daughters (he had 65 children- the daughter he murdered was pregnant at the time), and several members of rival cults including Dr. Rulon Allred.
Allred’s daughter Dorothy Jeanne Allred Solomon is the author of several very good books on growing up in a polygamous family. (She herself is a monogamist.) An odd juxtaposition is her tales of being a teenager in the 60s with dozens of brothers, sisters, mothers, and a father she adored and hated. I think some of Nicky especially may be based on her writings. (Her father was a far more progressive leader than most “plygies”- he was a chiropracter and naturopath in SLC and actually a very loving father and husband, though his wives and 48 children were often in poverty due to the secrecy and of course the fact it’s hard to provide for five-dozen immediate family members.)
As I’ve probably mentioned several times before, this stuff absolutely fascinates me and has since I was a kid. In fact I’ve written several of the wiki and other online articles on the key places and figures. When I was a kid I was absolutely convinced I was the reincarnation of Orson Pratt, a contemporary of Smith and Young [hated and respected by both]. Ironic for a gay Southern WASP, but Mormon polygamy is the subject on which I’m nearest to being a mentat.
