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Is Secret Lives of Mormon Wives coming for RHOSLC’s snowflake?

Yes, Mormon Wives shares some broad qualities with RHOSLC — a cast that is involved with the church, women squabbling about their place in a joint enterprise, a troublemaker named Whitney who is the only one in the group with a bob — but it looks, acts, and feels like a very different show. Fans love tojoke that it’s impossible to tell the Mormon Wives apart; I especially enjoyed the episode where they wore matching sweatshirts at a sleepover with their names emblazoned on the front, perhaps the only scene where I could actively tell the difference between Demi Engemann and Jessi Ngatikaura. Bravo did this very thing ages ago when it turned the vague idea of a “Real Housewife” into a phenomenon, and I have faith that Mormon Wives can get there too, but the question of why it exists both as a program and for the women inside it still needs to be answered.

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