Secret Lives of Sister Wives (2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Jazzlyn Rea, Randy Spence, Clark Sarullo
Director: Doug Campbell
Writer(s): Bryan Dick, Ken Sanders
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlySynopsis (via Lifetime)
Calli is a young woman living in a strict, polygamous religious community. When Nicholas Freeman sets his sights on making Calli his next wife, she is drawn deeper into his world but begins to uncover the darkness beneath his charm.
Recap/Wine Thoughts
Inspired by true events
The movie begins as most Lifetime movies do: a woman, this time named Leah, is running through the woods. She trips on a rock, and her husband, Nicolas, chases after her and tells Leah she could have been his favorite. He tells her to be a “good girl” and come with him, but she elbows him in the face and tells him that if he comes after her, he will get so much worse.
Five years later, Nicolas is looking for his next wife at a wedding. He is a total creeper. He breaks up a budding young romance between Callie (Leah’s niece) and a guy named Trent, but cuts in for a dance and tells her Trent is a bad guy. The age gap is disturbing, but that is the least of Callie’s worries. She tells him she can’t kiss him because they aren’t married and gives him her landline to KIT. (Callie tells her mother about Nicolas’ advances and how she is disappointed that she won’t be a “first wife.”
Nicolas is already married, of course, to multiple women. The first wife, Mary, does the dishes, while Abby plays cards. Oh, and there is a pregnant one, Beth. The wives interview Callie and ask her when she will be ready to have babies and what her views on parenting are. The wives all share their “love” stories with Nicolas, but they sound like grooming and/or arranged marriages.
Callie is next introduced to the daughters, who say they don’t need a babysitter. The kids are annoyed that they will have a new mother in an attempt to get Nicolas a son. Callie isn’t on board, but the family wants her. Nicolas submits Callie to a fertility specialist to check her reproductive viability. Once that checks out, Nicolas proposes. (Callie’s mother asks for a dowry in the form of a new house.)
Leah writes Calli a letter and sends a photo, encouraging Calli to keep in touch. When Callie’s mother finds the letter, she burns it and searches her daughter’s room. Callie memorizes the address and plans her escape, but Nicolas’s men are watching her.
The wedding happens, and it is not very romantic. The wedding night isn’t much better. Nicolas is insistent that Callie sleep in his bed every night until she bears a child, which doesn’t sit well with the first wife, who is jealous AF.
While cleaning the house, Cassie catches Abby having an affair with a HOT AF man named Jacob, who she was in love with before Nicolas told her lies about Jacob to break them up. Similar to what he did to Callie and Trent. Callie agrees to keep it a secret, but only if Abby and Jacob stop sleeping together.
Callie finally gets pregnant, but keeps it a secret for some reason. Mary follows her and fishes the test out of the trash, learning the truth. Mary gloats at dinner and throws Callie under the bus. Nicolas is angry that Callie kept it from him, but he is hopeful for a son. Mary’s trickery doesn’t stop there; she orchestrates a return home early, leading Nicolas to catch Abby and Jacob having an affair. (Nicolas’s men get rid of Jacob, if you know what I mean. It seems like Nicolas is running the mob instead of just being a polygamist.)
None of her work keeps Mary in the first-wife role. Nicolas tells Mary he will have to legally divorce Mary and marry Callie to protect the legal rights to his unborn son. Callie pretends to be sick and tries to escape, but Mary keeps a watchful eye on her nemesis.
Callie escapes with her mother’s help and goes into hiding with her Aunt Leah. They change her name (To Carrie White? Like from Carrie?!) and stay off the grid, but it isn’t enough. Nicolas finds Cassie and accuses her of stealing his son from him. Cassie knows he won’t hurt her because he needs his son from her belly. Which is smart of her.
Nicolas puts Callie in the attic and locks her in. The wives ignore her, but Callie tries to convince them to let her out. She also tries to turn them against one another, but it doesn’t work. Mary gives Callie some tea to make her sick and possibly cause a miscarriage. Callie tells Nicolas about Mary’s tea, and he drinks it to test it out. (Later, he finds a deadly plant, Hemwood, in the shed.) Mary insists that she is the first wife and the most important. They get into an argument, and Nicolas stabs Mary with pruning shears. He calls his men to get rid of the body.
Leah and her sister stake out the house and see them moving the body. (Which they just think is a rolled-up tarp. Thinking the coast is clear, bust into the home and try to break Callie out. Nicolas sees them on his camera and gets an alert on his phone.
Beth and Abby come home first and catch Callie and her family trying to escape. Callie tries to convince them to come with her, but Nicolas comes back with Mary’s body still in the trunk. The women hide from him, but eventually have to fight him off. Abby hits him with a belt, and Cassie knocks Nicolas out. He tries to convince them to untie him, but they refuse and know he killed Mary. It is time to call the cops, ladies!!!!
Cassie, her mother, and Aunt Leah all look forward to the baby and not being in a cult anymore! Good for them!
STRAY Thoughts
Mary really didn’t understand she was in a plural marriage.
This is not anything new or particularly interesting.
Having seen Sister Wives, I’m not sure this movie is entirely off base.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪(2 knives)
Lifetime Tropes:
🍷🍷 (Glass of Wine)
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Ooh it’s Jazlyn from Dhar Mann. This should be good
This entire issue makes me so pissed off that I could SCREAM!!! Treating women like theyre chattle, baby making, incubators. Slaves and women to rape whenever the man feels like it.it’s disgusting, immoral, illegal, vile, despicable, evil. And someone should tell the men that if theyre wives/victims dont get pregnant with boys, its HIS fault. The male DNA is responsible for making the fetus a boy vs a girl. Of course the men refuse to believe that. They’d rather believe its the women at fault and that gives him excuses to rape more women. This entire issue makes my blood boil. Every single man who does this belongs in jail, along with every other rapist. Its well past time that these archaic, supposedly Christian, illegal actions be completely done away with. In America and everywhere else. Women are NOT chattle, incubators, treated like whores by their husbands, 2nd class citizens who should be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. And we definitely shouldn’t be able to vote, marry who we want etc. After all, we dont have enuf intelligence to make ANY decisions, choices on their own. They need to be controlled by men at all times. Otherwise whi knows what trouble they’ll get into?!!? .BTW ANYONE who believes that are the ones who shouldn’t be able to vote, make any decisions on their own etc. We have all seen what bad things their decisions have done. Its time to give women a chance. Lord knows we couldn’t screw things up any worse than what some of the men have done. Just take a look at what’s going on now. And the horrible things to come. Sorry for turning this political but these things MUST be said discussed etc before its too late(if it isn’t already?!)
Agree 💯