Here is the question splitting our Sister Wives group right down the middle this week: now that Season 21 belongs to the ex-wives, whose new life are you rooting for hardest? Not who had the best edit. Not who won the last argument. Whose fresh start makes you smile every time she comes on screen?
One group post asking fans if they are ready to see them back next season pulled in 155 comments. Another asked whether fans would watch a season built around Christine, Janelle and Meri without Kody and Robyn. The answer was a loud yes — followed by a fight over which woman deserves the crown. So let us settle it the only fair way. Pick one. Just one.
The Season That Changed the Question
Season 21, which premiered on October 4, 2026, is the first season in the show’s 16-year run without Kody and Robyn Brown taking part, according to USA Today. The spotlight moved to the three women who left the plural marriage: Christine (November 2021), Janelle (December 2022) and Meri (a month after that).
That shift changed what fans argue about. For years the debate was who Kody treated worst. Now it is which of these three women built the best life after him. Episode 4, “The Pink Elephant in the Room,” aired October 25, and gave each of them a scene that sums up her case — Janelle line dancing, Christine and David playing a risqué board game, and Meri sitting down one-on-one with Christine. Here are your options.
Option 1: Christine — The Married Life
Vote 1 if you believe the best revenge is a happy marriage. Christine was the first to leave, and she is the furthest along into a second act: she married David Woolley in October 2023, and Season 21 shows them settled and at ease. The board game scene in Episode 4 was peak Christine-and-David — a couple comfortable enough to laugh at the awkward questions.
Her fans make a simple case: Christine did the hardest thing first, when leaving still looked impossible, and she got the soft landing she spent decades being told she did not deserve. The counter-argument is that her story is already complete. Try telling a Christine fan that a finished love story is less worthy of a vote.
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Vote 2 if you are here for the reinvention arc. Janelle’s new chapter is the most visibly different from her old life: a new home in North Carolina, a flower farm in the works with her daughter Madison and son-in-law Caleb, and a new boyfriend, Pete, whom she describes in the Season 21 trailer as having “no red flags.” Then there is the line dancing — fans who watched her spend years as the family’s backbone are not used to seeing her do something purely for fun.
Her supporters say Janelle is the one actually becoming someone new, not just swapping one household for another. The skeptics say this vote should reward the woman with the furthest left to go. Either way, Janelle’s camp is loud in the group right now.
Option 3: Meri — The Slow, Solo Rebuild
Vote 3 if you respect the hardest road. Meri was the first wife, the one who stayed longest, and her Season 21 story is the quietest: celebrating her birthday with a chosen family of friends in Episode 3, then facing Christine alone in Episode 4 and admitting she regretted not standing up for her when Kody lashed out. According to reports, she has also been quietly seeing Ron, a man she met at a speed-dating event in Season 20, with the two taking things slowly.
Meri’s fans argue she is doing the bravest thing of all three: rebuilding without a ready-made partner, and doing the repair work with Christine face to face. Her critics say slow is just another word for stuck. But Episode 4 showed a woman who used to go silent finally saying the uncomfortable thing out loud. That is not stuck. That is a start.
So, Pick One — and Tell Us Why
Here are the rules, and they are strict: one number, one name, one reason. 1 for Christine and the married life. 2 for Janelle and the fresh start. 3 for Meri and the slow, solo rebuild. No “all three,” no “it depends.” Now prove which comeback you are actually watching for.
Drop your number in the comments and tell us the moment that won you over — Christine laughing through the board game, Janelle stepping onto the dance floor, or Meri finally saying the thing she held back for years? We will count the votes and crown a winner.
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