The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives review — not one moment feels authentic
Where to begin with the coiffured car crash that is The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Disney+)?Perhaps with the title. 'Secret'? Ha! Chance would be a fine thing. You can't get some of these women to stop oversharing every detail of their carefully contrived and marketed existences. Worse, most do it in the whiney, self-obsessed tones of princessy prom girls even though most have children and are in their twenties and thirties.
I once watched a fascinating documentary about Mormons in Utah called Three Wives, One Husband. Spoiler alert: this is nothing like that. Anyone who saw the first series of TSLOMW will also know that you will not see any barefoot trad wives gathering eggs in their gingham pinnies in this show. It
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