Big Love and Sister Wives: A Brief Comparison Between Matriarchs

Here's a brief comparison of the grandmothers of Big Love and Sister Wives.

Yes, I know Lois and Adaleen are fictional characters, but they do present some common characteristics with  Genielle; mainly hospitality and love of family. Well, perhaps Lois not so much on the hospitality.

Anyway, one thing for sure, they certainly love their children, although I don't think Adaleen nor Lois would be as kind as Genielle if their son tried to eat half of her breakfast.

Genielle Brown	Lois Henrickson	Adaleen Grant
First wife of Winn Brown, mother of Kody Brown. Has 2 other sister wives.	Second* wife of Frank Harlow, mother of Bill Henrickson. Had 5 other sister wives (one deceased).	Sixth wife of Juniper Creek’s prophet Roman Grant, mother of Nicolette and Alby Grant. Had 13 other sister wives.
According to Kody, his mother would “fall on her sword for me.”	Sliced off the right arm of Hollis Greene with a large serrated knife when he dared to put a hand on her son Bill.	Conspired to have son Alby murdered in a rest stop men’s room. (Tap...Tap...Tap)
Was LDS, and converted to fundamentalism when Kody was in his teens. Was later excommunicated from the LDS church while Kody was on his LDS mission. Her sister wife Sheryl is Kody’s wife Janelle’s mother.	Lois’ father Orville Henrickson was prophet of Juniper Creek who died under mysterious circumstances. He was succeeded by his accountant, Roman Grant.	Adaleen has a complicated family tree. As she explains:“I'm 32 out of 56 children. And when I married Roman, I became my own step grandma as my father married Roman's daughter Faylene.   When I had Alby, he became my great uncle and I became his great great grandmother. Which of course makes me my own grandmother." Not to mention she also married her daughter’s ex-husband J.J.
Had problems with jealousy when Sheryl joined the family. As she puts it “I took care of kids and Sheryl took care of Winn.” Later, she got to know Sheryl better, and now considers her one of her very best friends.	Was notorious for her ill treatment of her sister wives. Of the concussions her sister wives suffered at her hands, she explained  "The Principle brings up our jealousies for the purposes of healing."	When Adaleen was asked how she could stand a particularly loathsome sister wife, she replied “I love her, and we are all equals. But last night I did dream I was trying to push her out the car  while driving along at a pretty quick clip.”

Big Love and Sister Wives: Comparing Bill H. with Kody B.

Since Sister Wives is on hiatus, I thought it would be fun to take a look at HBO's Big Love - the series that literally put polygamy on the prime time TV map.

So here's the first installment, a general comparison between Bill Henrickson and Kody Brown.
I know a lot of you were fans of Big Love, so feel free to add your own comparisons.

And for those of you who are in the process of watching Big Love, unfortunately, it would be difficult to prevent spoilers, so be warned...

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KODY BROWN…	BILL HENRICKSON…
Is a reality show polygamist with 4 wives.	Was a fictional polygamist with 4 wives (one wife left him)
Use to live in a big house. wives now live separately in 4 houses on 4 different streets, but hope to purchase 4 adjacent homes in a cul-de-sac that will share a common backyard.	His wives live separately in 3 adjacent houses that share a common back yard, but hopes someday to move all his wives and children into a big house.
Was a sign salesman. Currently works in an unknown capacity for a MLM company.	Was a businessman, owned 2 retail stores called HomePlus.
Third wife Christine Allred is the granddaughter and grandniece of 2 leaders of the AUB, a polygamous religious group.	Second wife Nicolette Grant was a daughter of the prophet of the UEP, a polygamous religious group.
Refuses to discuss the subject of his sex drive or if he has to use Viagra to keep up with his wives sexual  needs.	Has to use viagra to keep up with wives sex drive.
Extremely autocratic in his approach to his family and wives.	Extremely autocratic in his approach to his family and wives.
Wives gave him a gun for Christmas. Right after giving birth to his 17th child Sol, Kody's wife Robyn offers to be a surrogate for Meri.	Gave his wives guns for Christmas (season 5) When Nicki discovers she has unexplained infertility, 3rd wife Margene offers her eggs to be implanted into Nicki. Nicki declines, saying (among other things) she didn't want to give birth to one of Margene's big headed babies.
Drives a $60K Lexus sports car while his wives drive clunkers that were falling apart (seasons 1-3). Kody's Chevy Suburban blew an engine on the way to Wyoming in season 2.	Drives a $60K GMC Denali while his wife Barb drives a well maintained but extremely ancient Ford LTD station wagon.