Sister Wives (2010)

Name: Sister Wives
Genre: Reality-TV
Rating: 4.6
Cast: Kody Brown

Reality-TV

Husband Kody Brown, along with his four wives (only one of which is legally married to Kody) and their combined 18 children, attempts to navigate life as a "normal" family in a society that shuns their lifestyle.

IMDb rating: 4.6 (3,348 votes)
Episode average: 6.7 ↑ +2.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 20
Status: Still airing
Streaming (US): Hulu · Disney+ · HBO Max
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Kody Brown Self

Seasons

Season 1 (2010)

6.73 avg 9 episodes 6.9 → 6.3 29 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Meet Kody & the Wives	6.9	34
2	Courting a Fourth Wife	6.7	28
3	Wives on the Move	6.9	27
4	Third Wife in Labor	7.0	26
5	1st Wife's 20th Anniversary	6.9	25
6	A Fourth Wife to Be	6.7	25
7	Four Wives and Counting...	6.7	25
8	Sister Wives Special	6.5	15
9	Honeymoon Special	6.3	23

Season 2 (2011)

6.64 avg 11 episodes 6.8 → 6.8 30 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Browns Out of Hiding	6.8	24
2	Free Range Browns	6.9	22
3	The Price of Polygamy	6.1	22
4	Carving Into Polygamy	6.6	23
5	Wife #3 Hits Sin City	6.1	21
6	Polygamist Party	6.7	24
7	The Brown Family Decision	6.6	24
8	Sister Wives in Holiday Crisis	7.0	24
9	No Place for Home	6.7	24
10	Gambling on the Future	6.7	25
11	Sister Wives in the City of Sin	6.8	23

Season 3 (2011)

5.75 avg 12 episodes 6.1 → 6.6 31 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Announcement	6.1	23
2	Teen Sex Talk	6.6	24
3	4 Houses, 4 Relationships	6.0	21
4	The 4 Lives of Kody Brown	5.8	19
5	Defending Polygamy	5.6	22
6	The Wives Diet Woes	4.9	17
7	July 4th Rebellion	5.3	16
8	Another Wife	5.4	16
9	College-Bound Browns	5.1	17
10	Sister Wives on the Strip	5.7	17
11	Kody Climbs Into the Ring	5.9	12
12	Sisters' Special Delivery	6.6	11

Season 4 (2012)

5.25 avg 11 episodes 5.6 → 5.3 28 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Sister Wives Separated	5.6	18
2	Polygamist Date Nights	5.2	15
3	Brutal Honesty	5.3	16
4	You Asked, Browns Answered	5.0	13
5	Infertility & Nesting	5.0	16
6	4 Wives, 4 Valentines	6.0	21
7	Brown Boys Do Vegas	5.2	13
8	No Place Like Home	5.1	14
9	Meri's Baby Decision	5.1	12
10	Brown Family Confessions	5.0	15
11	Leaving the Nest	5.3	15

Season 5 (2012)

5.39 avg 9 episodes 5.3 → 6.0 39 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Polygamist Debt Threat	5.3	16
2	Kody Begs for an Answer	5.1	15
3	More Sister Wives!	5.5	18
4	Polygamist Cults	5.3	17
5	Mourning the Loss	5.7	17
6	Confronting Failure	5.3	14
7	Polygamist Pilgrimage Into the Past	4.8	14
8	Hard to Say Goodbye	5.5	16
15	Robyn: Behind the Scenes	6.0	8

Season 6 (2013)

5.60 avg 20 episodes 5.2 → 6.2 39 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Picking Up the Pieces	5.2	16
2	Four Lives of Kody's Wives	5.8	15
3	Big Boy Panties	5.5	15
4	Odd Wife Out	5.4	13
5	Christmas Surprise	5.7	14
6	Robyn's Secret	4.9	15
7	Polygamy Questions Answered	5.4	12
8	A Wife Decides	5.5	13
9	Sister Wives on the Ropes	5.5	13
10	Polygamist Marriage Therapy	5.2	14
11	Sister Wives Tell All	5.5	14
12	Mother-in-Law Invasion	6.2	13
13	Boys' Night Out	5.3	12
14	Polygamist Flash Mob	5.8	12
15	While the Wives Are Away...	5.7	12
16	Browns in Crisis	6.4	14
17	Tragedy in the Family	5.2	13
18	Celebration Countdown	5.8	12
19	The Commitment Celebration	5.8	12
20	Sister Wives Tell All 2	6.2	8

Season 7 (2014)

5.69 avg 9 episodes 6.0 → 6.3 38 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Meri Drops a Bomb	6.0	14
2	Polygamists in a Shark Tank	5.4	12
3	The Big Decision	5.5	13
4	Vegas Surprise	6.1	12
5	Growing Up Polygamist	6.2	13
6	Four Wives in Two RVs	4.8	12
7	From Monogamy to Polygamy	5.4	11
8	Every Brown Revealed	5.5	11
9	Tell All	6.3	10

Season 8 (2015)

6.60 avg 8 episodes 6.2 → 6.6 47 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Growing Up and Moving Out	6.2	13
2	A Family Meltdown	6.4	13
3	Courting Another Wife	6.8	12
4	One More Woman in Kody's Life	6.9	11
5	Anthropologists Move In	6.9	11
6	First a Verdict, Then a Lawyer	6.1	15
8	Tell All	6.9	9
9	Divorce	6.6	13

Season 9 (2015)

6.38 avg 14 episodes 5.9 → 6.0 49 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Secret Marriage	5.9	12
2	Best of Tell All	5.7	9
3	Wrestling with Adoption	6.3	15
4	All About Janelle	5.9	9
5	Marriage Counseling Texas Style	5.4	11
6	All About Christine	5.5	10
7	Just Trying to Stay Afloat	6.7	9
8	More Girls Than Kody Can Handle?	7.0	10
9	Robyn's Big Announcement	7.0	9
10	A Judge Decides	7.3	9
11	Chaos in the Cul-De-Sac	7.1	9
12	A Boy or A Girl?	7.0	9
13	Meri Catfished	6.5	14
14	Tell All	6.0	9

Season 10 (2016)

6.07 avg 9 episodes 6.9 → 5.0 56 min avg

Bad finale

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Catfishing Fallout	6.9	17
2	Confessions and Polygamy Perks	6.5	11
3	Thanksgiving: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly	6.0	15
4	Unforgiven	5.6	14
5	Baby Sister Is Born	6.1	12
6	Meri Makes Amends	5.9	12
7	Kody: Behind the Scenes	5.8	8
8	Hawaiian Vacation Erupts	6.8	17
9	Sister Wives Tell All (II)	5.0	8

Season 11 (2016)

6.38 avg 9 episodes 6.0 → 6.1 61 min avg

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	It's Worse Than We Thought	6.0	12
2	Kody Takes Responsibility	5.7	11
3	He Pops the Question	6.0	10
4	Embarrassing the Sister Wives	6.4	11
5	The Dress Doesn't Fit	6.4	11
6	Maddie Gets Married	7.3	12
7	Another Catfishing	6.4	11
8	A Shocking Revelation	7.1	12
9	The Newlyweds Vs the Browns	6.1	11

Season 12 (2018)

7.50 avg 22 episodes 7.4 → 8.3 45 min avg

Rebound

Season 12 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Meri Moving Part 1	7.4	11
2	Meri Moving Part 2	7.4	9
3	Groomzilla Part 1	6.9	12
4	Groomzilla Part 2	6.8	12
5	I Will Survive Part 1	7.4	11
6	I Will Survive Part 2	7.7	12
7	Meri's Crazy Idea Part 1	7.1	9
8	Meri's Crazy Idea Part 2	7.1	9
9	PolygaMexicamist Wedding Part 1	7.7	11
10	PolygaMexicamist Wedding Part 2	7.5	10
11	Meeting Mariah's Girlfriend Part 1	6.7	9
12	Meeting Mariah's Girlfriend Part 2	6.9	9
13	Risking Arrest Part 1	7.4	9
14	Risking Arrest Part 2	7.4	9
15	The Truth Comes Out Part 1	7.6	9
16	The Truth Comes Out Part 2	7.7	8
17	The Longest Labor Part 1	7.6	7
18	The Longest Labor Part 2	8.3	8
19	Confronting Meri Part 1	8.0	9
20	Confronting Meri Part 2	8.0	9
21	Tell All: Part 1	8.1	9
22	Tell All: Part 2	8.3	8

Season 13 (2019)

7.05 avg 13 episodes 7.3 → 7.7 72 min avg

Season 13 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Meri, on Her Own	7.3	13
2	Sister Wives Secrets	6.7	12
3	Kody Wants Out	7.2	10
4	Kody's Shocking Move	7.0	11
5	Mariah's Big Announcement	7.3	9
6	Flagstaff Flirtation	7.1	10
7	Divided We Move	7.1	11
8	Aspyn's Royal Wedding	6.6	11
9	Kody's Secret Plans	7.0	9
10	Moving Meltdowns	6.6	10
11	Leaving Las Vegas	6.5	8
12	Tell All: Part 1	7.5	8
13	Tell All: Part 2	7.7	8

Season 14 (2020)

6.74 avg 15 episodes 7.3 → 7.6 42 min avg

Season 14 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Kicked Out	7.3	9
2	Happier Alone?	6.5	8
3	Lonely in Flagstaff	6.7	8
4	Four Wives, One House?	6.3	8
5	A Not So Merry Christmas	6.6	9
6	An Awkward Valentine's Day	6.7	9
7	Why Not One House?	6.4	9
8	Doubting Polygamy	7.2	8
9	This Land Is Your Land... or Hers?	6.3	9
10	A Breaking Point	6.6	9
11	Being Gay and Religious	6.9	9
12	Robyn vs. Kody	6.7	9
13	The Heat Is On	6.6	9
14	Baby Steps	6.7	9
15	Two Moms, Their Daughter, and a Baby	7.6	9

Season 15 (2021)

6.63 avg 11 episodes 6.0 → 7.0 43 min avg

Season 15 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Being Strong or Being a Bitch	6.0	11
2	Felons No More	6.6	10
3	Robyn the Peacemaker	6.5	10
4	The Basement Wife	7.1	10
5	Polygamists in a Pandemic	6.7	8
6	Different Wives, Different Rules	6.8	11
7	Birthday Breakdown	6.3	9
8	Can I Light You Up?	6.8	10
9	A Family Stuck	6.5	8
10	Polygamy Hell	6.6	9
11	Everything's Upside Down	7.0	9

Season 16 (2021)

7.13 avg 13 episodes 6.6 → 7.3 43 min avg

Season 16 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	There's No Me in Polgamy	6.6	17
2	Four Wives, Three Fires	6.9	10
3	Not Social But Very Distant	7.4	11
4	Cistern Wives	7.0	11
5	Sad Sorry Lonely Little People	7.3	12
6	No Head Wife	7.5	10
7	Choosing Kids Over Kody	7.9	9
8	Two Cliques	6.7	11
9	The Teflon Queen	7.7	11
10	The Beginning of the End	7.6	10
11	One on One: Part 1	5.7	8
12	One on One: Part 2	7.1	9
13	One on One: Part 3	7.3	9

Season 17 (2022)

7.51 avg 17 episodes 8.1 → 5.4 43 min avg

Season 17 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	It's Over	8.1	14
2	Is There a Favorite Wife?	7.8	13
3	The Labors of Life	8.1	14
4	And Then There Were Three	7.2	13
5	The Last Family Gathering	7.3	13
6	Telling Truely	7.8	13
7	The Failed Priest	7.0	14
8	Hang on with Me	7.3	11
9	A Polygamist Divorce	7.8	13
10	The Knife in the Kidneys	7.3	19
11	The Worst Goodbye	8.1	15
12	Life After Polygamy	8.4	14
13	Coronapocalypse	8.4	12
14	Which Wife Is Next?	7.6	11
15	One on One: Part 1	6.7	11
16	One on One: Part 2	7.3	7
17	One on One: Part 3	5.4	9

Season 18 (2023)

7.20 avg 20 episodes 8.1 → 8.0 44 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 18 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	No Such Thing as a Free Lunch	8.1	17
2	Thanks for Nothing	7.5	16
3	Throwing Stones in Glass Houses	8.1	17
4	A Deal with the Devil	7.4	15
5	When the Going Gets Tough	6.9	16
6	The Understatement of the Year	6.9	16
7	Throwing in the Towel	7.5	17
8	The Writing Is on the Wall	7.0	15
9	Battle Lines Are Drawn	6.9	15
10	Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket	7.2	11
11	Airing the Dirty Laundry	6.8	12
12	Can't See the Forest for the Trees	6.4	13
13	The Elephant in the Room	7.1	12
14	It's Always Darkest Before Dawn	7.8	14
15	One on One: Part 1	6.5	13
16	One on One: Part 2	6.4	12
17	One on One: Part 3	6.3	12
18	One on One: Part 4	7.3	11
19	Christine and David's Wedding Part 1	7.8	9
20	Christine and David's Wedding Part 2	8.0	9

Season 19 (2024)

7.70 avg 28 episodes 7.4 → 8.0 43 min avg

Season 19 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A House Divided Cannot Stand	7.4	14
2	Let There Be Light	7.0	10
3	Am I My Brother's Keeper?	7.9	9
4	How the Mighty Have Fallen	7.4	11
5	The Year of Release	7.6	9
6	He Delivered Me from All My Fears	7.6	9
7	Labor of Love	7.9	8
8	A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing	7.2	10
9	Baptism by Fire	8.5	11
10	A Man After My Own Heart	7.4	8
11	The Eleventh Hour	8.1	9
12	Put Your House in Order	7.9	8
13	Give Up the Ghost	7.6	9
14	The Truth Will Set You Free	7.2	10
15	Faith Can Move Mountains	5.3	12
16	A Time to Weep, a Time to Laugh	7.0	9
17	Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind	6.9	9
18	Money Is the Root of All Evil	7.2	11
19	Behold I Come Like a Thief	7.3	9
20	For Everything There Is a Season	7.3	12
21	The Land of Milk and Honey?	8.2	10
22	Love Covers All Wrongs	8.7	6
23	The Stars Will Fall from the Sky	9.1	7
24	Blessed Are Those Who Mourn	9.1	8
25	He Heals the Brokenhearted	9.4	8
26	One-on-One: Part 1	7.8	8
27	One-on-One: Part 2	7.7	7
28	One-on-One: Part 3	8.0	7

Season 20 (2025)

7.84 avg 10 episodes Still airing 7.5 → 8.2 42 min avg

Season 20 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Why I Want to Be a Monogamist	7.5	11
2	Welcome to Speed Dating	8.1	9
3	All About Eggplants	7.7	7
4	You Need to Shut Up	7.9	7
5	Kissing Another Man's Wife	7.8	8
6	We're Not Brother Husbands	7.8	5
7	You're Like a Stripper, I'm Like the Pole	8.0	6
8	Making Out Like Teenagers	6.8	6
9	Standoff at Coyote Pass	8.6	5
15	No Brain, No Pain	8.2	5

Sister Wives (2010)

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