The Mormon TikTok Moms Are All of Us [Video]

It makes a lot of sense that the lives of popular TikTok stars would serve as irresistible fodder for reality television. The combination of attention-courting, attractive-looking subjects experiencing sudden, tenuous fame, and the tensions that arise from the panopticon-like social-media showground in which they operate, tends to make for diverting drama. (The fact that these figures are already I.P. with a proven track record doesn’t hurt.) In recent years, we’ve had Netflix’s “Hype House,” which followed a gang of content-creating youth, beefing and gyrating day in and day out in a Ventura County McMansion share, and Hulu’s “The D’Amelio Show,” which charted the challenges that the influencer sisters Charli and Dixie D’Amelio faced after moving to Los Angeles to pursue new heights of social-media success.

And now we have the eight-part series “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” also on Hulu, which focusses on a clutch of Utah women who are, …