Polygamists, Unite!
They used to live quietly, but now they're making noise.
By Daphne Merkin

So, you thought you'd seen everything those alienated types who create hit TV series had up their hipster sleeves. We were all fascinated with the Six Feet Under clan, dragging their twisted inner lives and even more meshugeneh realities all over their widowed mother's spotless linoleum kitchen floor, leading her to take up smoking pot. Now Tony Soprano and his stewpot of gangland cronies are back, beguiling us with their vulgar blood-spilling and messy coke-snorting ways. And, as if that weren't enough, right after The Sopranos there's Big Love, featuring Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), a guy with multiple wives and seven children who's moved across the street into three adjacent households that share a single backyard, pretending to be the head of a normal American family under the very noses of the law-abiding folk who live in his Salt Lake City suburb. The rest