Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (which dropped its fourth season on March 12th) is many things. A reality show about women in Salt Lake City estates who built six-figure influencer empires via choreographed TikTok dances? Yes. But it’s also a kind of social experiment, a religious unfettering, a plastic surgery PSA, and the reason “soft swinging” has become part of our cultural lexicon. This is a show that began with a cheating scandal and a dream: to proselytize so hard that the temple garment industry would be forced to churn out more modern (read: sleeveless) designs. Since its premiere in 2024, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was a bless-this-mess mix of artificially-manufactured chaos, sincere feminist awakening, and clout chasing dressed in bronde extensions and wildly puffy peasant dresses.
But here’s what The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has, unfortunately, also become about: the husbands.
