Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Polygamist’ On Netflix, Where A CEO’s Personal Life Starts To Collapse When He Leaves His Wife For His Mistress

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Netflix's "The Polygamist" follows a CEO whose carefully balanced personal life implodes after he abandons his wife for his mistress, triggering a cascade of revenge plots and emotional chaos across 22 episodes. The series trades in the melodramatic staples of prestige television, infidelity, power plays, sexual intrigue, but packages them with the maximalist energy of a soap opera determined to overwhelm viewers with plot. Whether that approach entertains or exhausts depends on your tolerance for extreme emotional swings and the kind of narrative excess that treats restraint as a four-letter word.