As the show went on and we started to explore the abuses on the compound, certainly we were making a statement about that kind of polygamy. And the poetry of that is that in that episode, Bill realized that his mother was the ultimate victim of this patriarchal and polygamist lifestyle on the compound. Bill Henrickson. Olsen: They loved it. The documentary runs just short of one hour, and is available to other public television networks who may want to air it. We always knew the family would stay together in the end. Michael Ausiello / She had issues with her father's polygamy.