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Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Keeps the Transgressions Coming
Breaking the rules is so much more thrilling when you actually believe in them.
(Some have also become TikTok famous for a 2022 scandal in which Paul revealed that several couples were “soft swinging.”) This dramatic setting is less like looking into a cult and more like visiting a historical reenactment village.Standard LDS traditions likewearing sacred undergarments, banning alcohol and caffeine, dressing modestly, having large families, andobeying one’s husband can look goofy, quaint, or oddly retrograde on paper. When those pressures are sharp and palpable (Jenna Lyons has a specifically New York form of celebrity that flummoxes the more traditional housewife models on the RHONY reboot), the show is fun. Secret Wives benefits from the social pressures of Mormonism without making “look at this unusual religion!” the primary thrust of the story, and the rigid rules in turn supercharge the show’s Real Housewives DNA.
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