I finally finished The Polygamist on Netflix, and I honestly think a lot of people are blaming the wrong person.

For me, Jonasi Gomora wasn’t just a cheating husband. He was a master manipulator.

He wanted the comfort of Joyce, the excitement of Matipa, the loyalty of Magesh, and the admiration of everyone around him, but he never wanted to deal with the consequences of his choices.

I know Joyce frustrated a lot of people. There were so many moments where I wanted her to walk away instead of trying to save a marriage that was already broken.

But the more I watched, the more I realized she wasn’t fighting for Jonasi. She was fighting for the life they had built together, the family, the business, and the identity she’d invested decades into.

As for Matipa, I couldn’t fully hate her either.

She made terrible decisions, but Jonasi had a pattern of telling every woman exactly what she needed to hear. He left behind a trail of people who believed they were the exception.

The character that surprised me the most was Magesh. He spent so much of the series cleaning up Jonasi’s mess that I started wondering whether loyalty becomes a weakness when it enables someone else’s bad behaviour.

What I loved about the show is that it isn’t really about polygamy.

It’s about ego, power and what happens when one person’s selfish decisions ripple through an entire family.

The ending didn’t leave me asking whether polygamy works.

It left me asking how different everyone’s lives would have been if Jonasi had simply been honest from the beginning.

One opinion I won’t change my mind on: Jonasi was the villain from the first episode to the last. Anyone defending him watched a completely different show. Agree or disagree?