Meri Brown had already done speed dating once before — in Salt Lake City, where each woman carried a pouch of beads and, if she liked a man, dropped a bead into his pouch and touched his chest. She still walked into a tantra yoga event in San Francisco. Season 21 is the first in 16 years without Kody and Robyn Brown — and the women are doing things they never would have done on camera while the plural marriage lasted. Here are the five boldest moves so far, ranked.
No. 5 – Janelle Goes Public With Pete
After nearly four years insisting she was happy single, Janelle Brown hard-launched a boyfriend on Instagram on August 18, 2026: “Everyone please meet Pete.” They had met on a blind date in Las Vegas, set up by a mutual friend named Alice — and Pete had never seen Sister Wives and never Googled her. In October, Pete joked about them rocking on a porch in five years; Janelle shot back, “Let’s say 30,” and he captioned it, “This is forever.” They are long distance — North Carolina versus Las Vegas — and working on moving him east. Janelle, who learned Kody and Robyn were leaving the show by email, has not spoken to them since.
No. 4 – Christine Tells Meri the Divorce Was Planted
On the November 1 episode, Christine sat down with Meri for their first one-on-one since Christine left — and said out loud what fans had whispered for years. Christine told Meri the 2014 legal divorce felt “kind of planted” by Kody and Robyn, recalling Robyn raising it back in Lehi, Utah. Janelle backed her up: “I think there was way more going on whether they were willing to admit it or not.” Meri said the outcome worked in Kody’s favor — and that his talk of a “new beginning” had kept her hoping, because she believed he wanted her to leave so he could look like “the innocent party.”
No. 3 – David Asks the Question Nobody Wanted at the Campfire
Tonight’s episode, “What Did I Get Myself Into?”, takes the family camping in Moab, where Hunter sees the trails where David proposed to Christine. Around the campfire, David asks how Janelle’s family reacted when she entered plural marriage with Kody — and the easy night turns tense. Christine tells Janelle she “defended it super strong.” Janelle fires back, “I wasn’t defending polygamy,” and says stereotypes are her “hot button.” David has spent the season speaking his mind, from the me-or-them line he drew in therapy to his claim that men in polygamy enjoy the competition between women. Janelle still refuses to let one bad experience condemn a whole group.
No. 2 – Three Women, One Torch: The Ring Burning
On “Therapy by Fire” on November 8, Meri, Janelle and Christine walked into a jeweler together and melted down the jewelry from their marriages to Kody. Meri’s line landed like the epitaph of the whole plural marriage: “It took as long to melt as it took me to leave.” Christine said the best part was watching her ring break. It was the first thing the three did as a trio that had nothing to do with Kody — except burning what he gave them.
No. 1 – Meri Walks Into Tantra Speed Dating at 55
Meri flew to San Francisco — the city where she was born and lived until her family moved to Utah when she was 5 — with her sister Rebekah. They ate clam chowder by the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset. “When I think of tantra yoga, I think of very sexualized yoga, and positions and closeness,” she said, calling the whole idea “really, really, really super inappropriate” at first. Dating, she admitted, “was not something that was really promoted in our church.” She had spent most of her life hiding, and at 55 she walked in anyway. Tonight we see inside: the staring, the “uncomfortable hugging,” and the man she connected with. It is the latest chapter in her dating timeline, which started with “I do” at 19.
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