After five seasons, the show about America’s favorite polygamist family ‘Big Love’ has come to an end with a shocking finale airing yesterday.

Although the actual ending of the series won’t be exposed in this article, readers can go to the New York Times and read all about it. However, it can safely be said that Bill Henrickson, the polygamist patriarch of a big family close to Salt Lake City, becomes the spiritual leader and father of a Mormon church which promotes plural marriage. His first wife, Barb, incarnated by Jeanne Tripplehorn, is given the religious independence and leadership she craved. Margene, played by Ginnifer Goodwin realizes her dream of helping others out on missions, and Nicki played by Chloe Sevigny finally becomes nice, even if for just a moment, reports E! Online.

Goodwin told New York Magazine that the final day of ‘Big Love’ shooting was overwhelming for the cast and had a lot of crying. She said that doing the show taught her a lot about marriage, saying, “I feel more open than I used to be. Through the show, I learned how important empathy is in a marriage. Everyone is different and has different needs.” She also added that she was more open to polygamist marriages, but not in its “fundamentalist compounds.”

When talking about the ending, she said, “I am devastated. I am only comforted by the knowledge that if we had ended things vaguely, in order to set ourselves up for another possible season, we would not have been able to go out with such a bang.”

As for the main protagonist, Bill Paxton, he told TV Line, “I’m very proud of the show and I always will be. I’m proud of HBO, and I’m proud of the creators. We did five great seasons.” He added, however, that he was ready to move on to something else, “I feel like it’s a Herculean responsibility to be the lead in a television series and for right now I’m being offered a lot of stuff, but I’m taking a back seat for a while.”