Mormon-Controlled Television in 2024: Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and More

Reality TV was at its best in 2024, and Us there is only one request going into the new year: more Mormons, please.

Hulu is The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives debuted with a bang in September, joining Dancing With The Stars a The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City while representing Utah on the small screen. Viewers were quickly captivated by the featured MomTok influencers The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, including Taylor Frankie Paulwho had previously sparked an interest with his soft rocking scandal long before cameras started rolling on the Hulu series.

“We’re not all swingers,” costar Whitney Leavitt just say Us Weekly in September, joking that she “just took the influence” of the Taylor scandal even though she wasn’t directly involved.

MomTok Fellow Personality Maycie Neely doubled down on the swinger denial but pointed out that there is more to Mormon culture than meets the eye. “You can be Mormon and wear a crop top and leggings too,” she said. “You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to be the stereotypical Mormon that people think we’re all supposed to be.”

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives certainly shows a different side of women in Salt Lake City – but it’s not the only reality show to put the LDS lifestyle front and center. Scroll down for a look at how Mormons stole the show in 2024:

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

ROSLC has brought his A-game since the beginning, but something changed at the end of season 4. The bombshell finale was broadcast in January and showed what could go down in history as the Housewives dinner to end all dinners. Heather Gay planned her own Bermuda Triangle as the girls ended their tropical vacation with a dramatic confrontation. “Receipts, proof, timelines, screenshots. Everything was brought to the table, revealingly Monica Garcia was one of the master minds behind the Reality Von Tease social media account.

The drama continued in a special three-part reunion program – which even included a Mean Women-inspired Burn Book — and keep Us on the edge of our seats before the show returns for season 5 in September. Monica didn’t come back with her fellow housewives, but a few new faces joined the ranks: Bronwyn Newport a Brittany Bateman.

The stakes have been higher than ever throughout season 5 – and even the husbands are getting involved in fighting their spouses’ battles. Heather he gave Us some unique insight into how the season ends, teasing in December that the finale was “better than Bermuda.” Sign Us up.

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

Hulu introduced Us to MomTok in September, and our lives have never been the same. This show has it all – TikTok dances, soft rockingA devout Mormon threatens to divorce his wife if she goes to a Chippendales performance. One Mormon influencer considers taking a sponsorship deal for a vibrator, while another admits to trying ketamine therapy. And yes, the “Utah curls” are basically a character in themselves.

The series was quickly renewed for a second season and caught the attention of some other famous Mormons. “If you’re wondering what the blue coat (from the opening credits) is in the Mormon Church, it literally has nothing to do with it,” Lindsay Arnolda DWTS pro from Utah, joked in a TikTok video in September sharing her reaction to the reality show.

Sister Wives a star Janelle Brownwho was also born into a Mormon family, say Us in October that she did a “deep dive” into the mythology of the Hulu series. “The Mormons I know, they are so conservative,” she explained Us. “They’re very down to earth, very traditional. These women are not traditional.”

Dancing With The Stars

Mormons have always had a prominent presence on ABC’s ballroom dance competition, but the Utah connection was even more powerful during season 33, which began in September. Two months later, there were still eight dancers representing Utah at the pro and troupe levels. “Utah gang in THE ballroom❤️‍🔥,” a member of the group Stephanie Sosa caption and TikTok video in November alongside her brother Ezra Sosa and more DWTS benefits, incl Jenna Johnson, Rylee Arnold a Brandon Armstrong.

Us before digging into why there are so many DWTS pros with a Mormon background, and for Armstrong, the answer is simple. “There’s nothing else to do,” he joked during a podcast interview in October. “What else do you do? You talk about our biggest cities, like Salt Lake, there’s nothing there. … You play sports, go to school, date very young — these guys are getting married when they’re 19, 20 — and then you’re dancing.”

Sold on SLC

The Sunset Sale-esque reality show is new to the Bravo rotation, having premiered in December, but it’s already packed. The first episode alone featured a cameo from ROSLC a star Lisa Barlow (complete with a joke about swingers) and a fight between coworkers about who does or doesn’t respect Mormons enough. While the real estate world turns bleak in Salt Lake City, the tension is offset by footage of agents reading scripture with their children and the network’s classic tongue-in-cheek editing. In some ways, Sold on SLC it could even qualify as educational programming – who knew Mormon clients won’t show their homes to potential buyers on Sundays?

How Sold on SLC stacking up against other Mormon-inspired heavy hitters remains to be seen, but there’s definitely plenty of drama to spare Us tune in.