Mormon wives win

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- Hein Kaiser

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There are few things as hatefully dreadful as the Housewives series. Whether it's the Housewives of Washingtons DC, Pretoria, Durban, Los Angeles or Timbuktu. It's a concept as far removed from pleasurable entertainment as sandpaper is to loo paper.

And yet, against all logic and good judgment, there is a show in this general orbit that somehow works. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives should, by all accounts, be unwatchable. Instead, it is oddly compelling.

Not good in a highbrow sense, but addictive in the way reality television occasionally gets it right, almost by accident.

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is streaming on Disney, originally a Hulu series. It follows a band of Utah, United States, moms who are all influencers on TikTok.

Their channel is creatively called MomTok and that's the glue that holds the collective together. It's the springboard for all the drama, complexities, joys and disappointments across their personal and professional lives.