“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” has become a hit on Hulu seemingly overnight. This reality TV drama offers a new perspective on what women in this religion can act and look like.
This top-five show on Hulu showcases TikTok stars like Taylor Frankie Paul and Whitney Leavitt who gained their popularity by showing their unconventional lives as Mormon mothers. It focuses around eight different women that are all a part of a “friend group” that started by posting videos together. I found it to be very engaging with its classic reality TV drama and plot twists.
Personally, I was one of the people who binge watched this show in just a few days. The amount of drama that is in every single episode drew me in and kept me entertained. At the same time, it can be a little over stimulating and confusing because the first issue does not get fully resolved and shown when the second one is introduced and so on. It feels like an overload of useless information just to make things more dramatic. Between a swinger scandal, arrests and possible affairs, it gets a little confusing. It is almost like you keep watching because it does not make any sense and you cannot believe that it is real (probably because it is staged).
It is like watching high-school-girl drama when everyone is talking about everyone behind their backs — so the entire season you are trying to understand where friendships truly lie. The group basically split themselves into two sections that were separated based on how many religious rules they followed. These groups called themselves “The Sinners” and “The Saints” and that is where the line of true friendships are.
I enjoyed learning a little more about the Mormon religion and how people perceive it from the inside and the outside. The girls on the show are very real and explain some of the things that they do not do that the church usually requires — things like drinking, having sex before marriage and wearing the required Mormon garments. Unlike shows like The Bachelor where if religion is mentioned it is very generic. But these girls still do things like getting botox just for the pure enjoyment of getting high off of the laughing gas. So, it looks like all of them have their own way of interpreting their religion which I find refreshing.
Overall, I enjoyed the show and would watch it again, as I am eagerly waiting for them to announce a second season. If you are someone that likes reality TV, the chances that you would enjoy “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” are high, but, if you are not a fan of the genre, this would not be the show to change your mind.
