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Everyone Knows #MomTok Is a Lie
That’s what makes The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives such compelling reality TV.
To the Mormon Wives cast, #MomTok is just an idea of a thing they’re all sort of doing together sometimes, yet it binds them to an imagined community they’re participating in, and a system of socially constructed self-identification that exists in alignment with, but not quite identical to, the reality show. In October, after the first season of Mormon Wives appeared on Hulu, cast member Whitney Leavitt posted a video of a TikTok dance she and her colleagues (friends? Talking endlessly about #MomTok lets Mormon Wives include a delicious layer of meta discussion that most other series have to siphon off into social-media feuds and reunion-episode battles.
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