What is MomTok? A business? A friend group? A sisterhood? A vehicle for TV drama? A tool for dismantling the patriarchal forces undergirding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? In season 2 of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” the ladies of MomTok are back — and they have very different answers to that big question.
For Demi and Whitney, MomTok is a buttoned-up business where cosplays friendship — or at least practices loyalty — which means that there’s no room for chaotic colleagues like Taylor Frankie Paul. For Taylor, Mayci, Mikayla, Layla, Jen and newcomer Miranda, it’s more of a group of friends who also happen to make very lucrative content together. For all of them, it’s a way to push back (in a limited and often personally convenient way) on the oppressive boundaries of their conservative upbringings.
If season 1 of SLOMW was an Intro to MomTok course, season 2 throws us right into an advanced seminar, full of carefully performed rituals…
