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There is a new reality show about a polygamous family and their story will be shared on TV.
Brady Williams and his five wives were worried that the show is about to be aired in September, but, now they are more confident to open up about who they are and what they believe.
The first of nine episodes of the show, "My Five Wives," airs Sunday on TLC. It is about the life of Brady Williams, his five wives and their 24 children living under one roof in a small rural community outside of Salt Lake City dominated by a branch of the fundamentalist Mormon Church.
The family was a Mormon before, but withdrew during the mid-2000s after re-evaluating their core beliefs. Now, they practice polygamy not because they believe that they can go to heaven with the way they live, but because that is their choice of lifestyle.
The show won’t be facing that much trouble in their state since polygamy is legal now. A federal judge in Utah ruled out the state's polygamy laws in December. In the said ruling, polygamy is not a crime anymore, bigamy — holding marriage licenses with multiple partners is a crime.
This is not the first time that Utah encountered this kind of reality show as there was Kody Brown and his four wives from TLC's "Sister Wives," whom brought the idea to their state. The show started in northern Utah, was ground-breaking because during that time there was a guy that was imprisoned due to polygamy.
The Williams family members believe that the show will not surprise other people who are non non-polygamous families. The family even joke about it, “It's normal times five.”
TLC hopes that viewers will be fascinated by the unique dynamics of a plural family: regular family sit-down meetings among the adults where Brady Williams stick to an agenda written on a notepad; side-by-side multi-plexes where they live; and there will be nightly family dinners with the kids lining up like they were in school cafeteria.
Then there is the daily trouble among the wives who share a husband. In the first episode, Brady Williams suggests the women must talk about their issue with one another.
One of the topics that they have been discussing on the first season is that they should move out of Utah.
It can be remembered that the Browns of "Sister Wives" fled Utah for Las Vegas following their show aired with a threat of prosecution from a county official. The Williams aren’t facing the same problem since there is a court ruling that legalize polygamy now. However, they felt like they aren’t welcome in the community.
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