Big Love Time line

[southernsong]

I think I have figured out the timeline using season finales and openers are a guide.

Season one - three years after Bill's marriage to Margene. Not sure how long he had been married to Nicki, He had been married to Barb for 18 years (that was said somewhere).

Season one and two - two weeks pass here. Bill explains that it has been two weeks and that Barb needs to get over being "outed".

Season two and three - just a few weeks. This was when Roman was shot. He was still recovering when season three started, but still quite weak. No more than weeks has gone by.

Season three and four - six weeks. Season three ends with Roman being killed by Joey. In season four, Adalene tells the police officers that they (the sister wives) have not seen Roman in six weeks. Adalene would lie about this, but the other wives would not. Plus the rest of the compound also know when he went away.

Season four and five - a month tops. Bill gets elected in November, as this is when elections are, and they just celebrated Christmas.


Basically, by my calculations, we are looking at about a year and a half passing since season one and where we currently are. Too bad that the children age in real life which makes them older on the show. I enjoy going back and looking at how Ben looked in season one and how he looks now. He is clearly 5 or 6 years older, but is only supposed to be about a year older.

[BigLoveRocks!]

I think you are right about the timeline... Too bad the writers didn't take that into consideration making it always summer in Utah until now lol!

[albertaleon]

Does this make Margene 20 now?

Can you remember how old Nikki said she was when she had CL? If Nikki was 16 & CL is 16 now then Nikki would be about 32. If knew how long it had been since Barb had gotten sick I think we could figure out how old Nikki was when she was sealed & left The Creek.

Was it explained how Nikki got away from JJ? To me it seemed like Nikki really didn't know CL when she went back for her -- which made me think Nikki had CL & left JJ shortly after that - so as long as CL had been alive would be how long Nikki had been away from JJ. It didn't seem like to me Nikki had been with Bill as long as CL had been alive - but I could be wrong.

Has anyone heard anyone say how long Nikki was sealed until Margene came into the picture?

There was a webisode once that showed Margene, Nikki & Barb in the house Barb & Bill had. This is the house all the wives lived in before getting three separate houses. In this webisode Margene has home to the house to babysit - so I guess Nikki already had the boys & Nikki was coming to babysit.

I need to get Big Love on DVD because I think these webisodes would be on them - does anyone have these webisodes? There are just a few but they show life for The Henricksons before moving into the three separate houses & all of the webisodes are very short. I remember in one - Margene is pregnant & is in the kitchen with Barb & Nikki - all the wives are telling Bill they need their own house - or a bigger house.

Southernsong, thanks for doing this timeline. You did a great job!

[withay]

Southernsong, The problem is that the writers are not consistant on the time line. For example, At the end of season 2 (I think) Margene is pregnant but is not even showing. By the start of the next season, Nell has been born and is already eating some solid food so obviously at least a year has passed. And Margene's blog is dated and starts in April 2006. She mentions meeting Lois which happened in the first or second episode. Her entries have closely followed what is happening on the show and 5 years have passed on the Blog!
Please note that I am not saying that you are wrong but that we have been given such inconsistant information that it is impossible to coordinate all of the info into a timeline that makes sense.

[Imaajen]

Marlene was barely showing pregnant for so long. Is Nell that baby? Did they skip over her being very pregnant and giving birth and having a newborn and went right to a 6 month old baby? Or is she just pregnant forever, never showing, never gonna give birth?