No Grace For Mormon Wives

But Plenty For Their Shitty Men

Eight months after we all spent a season of television agonizing over the future of MomTok, we're back for season two of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives to . . . agonize over the future of MomTok.¹

I wrote about girlboss feminism, garbage husbands, and the thing that most surprised me about the first season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives here. Many of these themes are repeated in season two, but as many have noted, this season hits differently. It's all fun, games, hair extensions², and ketamine therapy, until a woman bumps up against the limits of her oppression.

Screenshot from ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” via Youtube.

Of season two,

lyz

writes: “As the current administration rolls out plan after plan to get women to marry, have children, and stay out of the workforce, and as news stories reveal the depths and devastation of abortion bans and cuts to SNAP benefits, it’s become much more obvious that the strictures of patriarchal religion are closing in around all of our necks — whether we believe in them or not.”

And it's this sense of societal collapse that informed my viewing of season two. So many storylines this season served as bitter reminders that constrains on women's lives are becoming more and more normalized in mainstream society. So let's get into the most depressing ones, shall we?

TAYLOR AND HER TERRIBLE FAMILY