On we go to episode three of RHOSLC. On my first RHOSLC recaps, I had a different expectation of this show based on my investigation of their social media for this post. And then, right away on the night of the first episode, we discovered ALL OF THIS GOSSIP ABOUT MARY. And things just got weirder from there. Then on last week’s episode, Jen continued to be unlikeable. And middle school girl mean girls started to form. Tonight, Jen wants to be Regina George in this group and it’s all very juvenile. And just plain weird. Meanwhile, Lisa seems to think she is Mariah Carey when it comes to Heather and keeps saying, “I don’t know her” when clearly she does. So let’s see what the mean girls are up to this week!
We start with Heather, one of the more likeable ones, and she is having a baby shower for five of her employees from her beauty bar who are all pregnant with boys. You can’t tell me these women actually wear strappy stilettos in a snowstorm. I will never believe this is real. Some of the girls come over to help Heather get the decorations together for the little motorized land rovers or whatever they bought for the babies.
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Heather talks to the girls about her divorce and how devastated she was after eleven years of marriage. She really wasn’t into to him. She married him because he was Mormon and she wanted the perfect Mormon family. Heather wanted to stay married no matter what. Because, Mormon. She tells the producers she has never been in love. Her friends tell her that she is empowering her daughters by showing them you don’t have to stay in a miserable marriage.
Jen Is A Big Vat Of Attention Suckage
Meredith is happy that her two kids are home with her for the holidays. Jen is feeling lonely and needs camera time. She really is an attention whore. Jen is making Meredith’s gay son, Brooks, feels uncomfortable by threatening to flash her vagina in order to demonstrate what high kicks are. The kid says her vagina was in his face. It wasn’t. But she did do an entire monologue or two about her vagina. Later he tells his mother that Jen made him and his sister uncomfortable with her behavior and they saw parts of her they never want to see again. Brooks says that Jen is not to come for a sleepover on Chloe’s last night there.
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Lisa’s “good mommy teaching her son how to drive” scene is markedly less endearing after her behavior on the last episode. She’s awful. She’s also terrible at teaching her kid how to drive. She also has some sort of diet coke addiction.
Mary Talks About Her Marriage To PeePaw
Mary goes to lunch with one of the brunettes. I’m going to guess it is Meredith. I’m so distracted by Mary’s really bad wig to focus on the other person. It looks like a child got ahold of it and started cutting large hunks of it down to one inch from the scalp. She looks ridiculous. And her conversation is about her 17 year old son who has a girlfriend and is not into hanging out with her crazy ass anymore. Mary talks about taking her son all over the world for his birthday. She should have saved some of her congregations tithings for a decent wig.
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Mary says that her mother wanted the church because she is all about the money. Really now. She has gotten tens of thousands of dollars of plastic surgery and skin bleaching with the churches money, allegedly. Not to mention all the vacations, allegedly. She is the one announced the labels of the clothes she is wearing everytime she walks into a room. And now she is inviting Meredith to come to church with her and Whitney and her father this week. Oh, Lord. Mary talks to Peepaw about changing Robert Jr.’s school to a boarding school to get him away from his girlfriend. He’s 17. He has to be a senior. This seems contrived. He has no interest in going to boarding school.
And We Are Off To The Cult
Oh Jesus, here we go. Whitney and her dad haven’t been to church in ten years. This one is going to be a shocker. This is not a Mormon church. Meredith is there with her friend Jeff. Mary is the worst actress ever to be on a TV. Then Mary goes all Ernest Angley and “heals” Meredith’s father. Ernest Angley is 99 years old and still kicking. Clearly, Jesus is in no hurry to bring him home… or maybe the devil doesn’t want him either.
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From one stupidity to the other, we move over to Jen Shah in her rented for filming “chalet.” She’s surrounded by her assistants, who rumor has it are just people she knows that agreed to play a role on TV. This show should have been called the Real Housewives of Salt Lake Charlatans. Jen is mad that Meredith cancelled her sleepover because her daughter is home from college. This is just the most pathetic thing ever. What grown woman has to have sleepovers because her husband apparently can’t bear to be home with her?
A Baby Shower & A Prohibition Party
It’s an all white baby shower. Heather may be throwing it, but she’s not really excited for the pregnant guests. She thinks they don’t know what they are getting into. While the expectant ladies and their husbands play stupid baby shower games, Heather and Jen and Whitney talk about the prohibition party. Jen is furious that mary was invited to the party. She hates Mary and she wants everyone else to hate her too. Jen looks hideous in her talking heads. Whitney says that she took her dad to Mary’s church. Then she finds out that Meredith went to Mary’s church too. Jen is freaking out. You can’t be friends with Jen and with Mary. Jen says to pick a side.
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We barely make it to Whitney’s roaring twenties party on this episode. It will probably be the main event next week. Why are there stripper poles at the 1920s party? Whitney is chastising others for not being dressed for the party but she all about the strippers. Jen has her cousin or whoever this poor dude is that is carrying her train. She’s so over the top. Jen has a fit when she Meredith chatting up Mary at the party. Next week Jen loses her everloving mind at the public party. Because, Jen.
I just can’t get into this one…. they all seem so extra. Designer everything, plastic surgery galore, fake this, fake that, that church scene. Dear God what a shitshow…. thanks for recapping cuz I couldn’t get thru it…… Meanwhile who is the killer on Undoing???
My opinion, it’s the dad. I think he gave Henry the hammer to hide.
Ooooh! The Undoing is everything! It’s that snake blonde of a best friend, Sylvia, for me! Sylvia definitely is sleeping with Grace’s husband, Johnathon AND I believe that the cow advised Johnathon of what to do after he murdered Elena. I also believe that Jonathan is a psychopath who intentionally killed his little sister by opening the door to his boyhood home, leading her out, and then going back inside house to make a sandwich. The POS probably continued eating when he heard the accident happen.
Cupcake, I thought the exact same thing…it’s the BFF, but the hammer in the violin case threw me off. I think the BFF is sleeping with the husband too. She is too invested in his case and she has odd eye exchanges with the husband.
I find it fascinating that Grace is a therapist and never picked up on his sociopath tendencies. This show is fascinating to me.
Yeah this is a hard pass for me. I caught the part about the one saying shes in it for God when it’s about the properties, holdings, etc. Then I went back to watching Gilmore girls.
Annabelle – I am happily enjoying Gilmore the Merrier myself!
Thank you TT for recapping this. I watched part of one episode and couldn’t take the fakery and terrible acting. Usually season 1 is decent, SLC not so much. So, I don’t watch but wait for the recaps,
I suspect I owe TT wine + treats for Banjo for sitting through this drivel on my behalf.
I am not that into SLC either. Some of them are downright mean. I haven’t even watched this episode yet.
Great TT! Heather is definitely MVP of this show. The others bring the crazy, but she brings the real. Overall its a fun show. It will be interesting to see what we think of all these people at the end. And the bird’s eye view into the Mormon church is super interesting. There is a really great book “leaving the saints” is a less glamorous view of the church!
They need to balance out the crew with 1 or 2 more genuine people like Heather, and lose 1 or 2 of the over-produced?, over-styled? Over-botoxed? What is it? These shows should be what’s going behind the instagram photo. Right now, it seems as if we are getting just the over-filtered photos and over-filtered lives with a lot of them.
TT, have you heard any scoop on Bravo’s reaction to SLC? Who knows what we will all think by the end. Many of us have some around to like Karen Huger this season!!
Know word from anyone who matters. Andy is trying to talk it up on social media, so that’s a bad sign. I think it would do much better on Tuesday nights at 8 pm when there isn’t anything else on Bravo. They may try moving it to Sundays after RHOA. Ratings are bad for RHOSLC and RHOC.
I don’t like the cold…the coats…the snow…trying to wear cute shoes…fear of falling down because of ice. Next time they need to film in the summer. I love Below Deck because of the sunshine and warm weather.
Most people who live in snowy climates do not wear stilettos out in the ice and snow. These people are idiots.
What the hell with meredith’s son? I was so annoyed. Not that Jen behaved appropriately but the way he exaggerated what happened and how he talked to his mom was ridiculous. I have to FF through Mary’s scenes and I’m getting to the point of doing that with Jen. My favs are Heather and Whitney but I think I’m not long for this fakery. I appreciate the recaps TT and will continue to read.
Guess I’m the minority but this show cracks me up! It’s FIRST season ppl! They are always extra the first year and if they miss that boat they show up season 2 all heavy makeup, nipped and tucked! Thanks for the recap and happy thanksgiving!
Actually, the first seasons used to be good when they were dumb and nervous. Now they all watch the other CURRENT seasons and come in pretending to be rich and brawling with each other. Just about all of Jen and Mary’s lines have been lifted verbatim from other shows.
And I didn’t mean to sound snarky, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
I’m still liking it, it’s pretty unique world. But I agree that Jen chick watched all the Housewives and is performing a weird amalgamation of every over-the-top Housewife.
And yet it’s so transparent and obvious, it’s kind of fun watching her be so desperate.
Or maybe I’m just desperate for pandemic entertainment. But either way, I’m still in.
I’m still in too. But I just didn’t expect this kind of crazy. I expected Whitney, Merideth, Heather crazy… But no cults or shipped in from Chicago for filming crazy.
For the life of me, I can’t keep most of these women straight. They look weirdly alike except for Whitney and the cult leader. Am feeling a bit desperate for tv. My husband tested positive for COVID last week(luckily, very mild) but haven’t left the house in a while except to get my own test wed(still waiting) and trying to steer clear of him. Have watched A LOT of tv!
I am so confused. I feel like swinging underlies everything but I don’t understand the lingo. Like come on – clearly the sleepover wasn’t just to hang out. Something is being said without being said and it’s odd and uncomfortable to watch.
I can’t keep their names straight either but this first season doesn’t come off as first season-y as the other shows. You’re right, TT, they did their research. You’re also right with that charlatan reference!! I’m thinking Jen is just as bad as Mary. I was even (gasp) googling her husbands salary! How can they afford all that! She is living large…. and desperate for this to work out for her.
I think Brooks, the son, may have taken that college semester off to get himself on a reality show and become an influencer or whatever the kids are calling it. He’s also got that desperation air.
Thanks for recapping ❤️
I think that about Brooks also. The way he talks to his mother reminds me of how awful Jeanna Keough’s sons talked to her. I really don’t care for Brooks at all. You can tell he runs that house.
Being raised in a Pentecostal church, I can say that Mary should not be considered a representative for the denomination. She is wacky and attention seeking. I’ve seen some weird stuff, but nothing like her crazy. Cult leader for sure, I don’t feel a genuine God connection. She wants the glory. Also, her wigs are terrible.
Speaking of the Pentecostal church, I have family that are Pentecostal. They do not cut their hair, they do not wear makeup or jewelry. While they do all of the “holy roller” stuff in the church muchlike what you see here, it’s more talking in tongues by members of the congregation and less focused on the church leader. That is the old school way. Some of the younger generations do wear makeup and modest jewelry and get their hair done. But it is sort of their self modifications of the rules… if that makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is Mary have a million plastic surgeries, extreme full body skin lightening, and where outrageously expensive clothes. ALLEGEDLY.
I could be wrong, but I didnt even think her preaching was very good. Does she prepare?
Not to speak for the Pentecostal religion, but in my limited experience at family members churches… it seem like there was not a sermon like more mainstream pastors have where they are moved to preach from a particular chapter and verse(s) it’s more like a possession that overcomes them in the moment supposedly. Again. Just speaking from my experience. I was quite young and it was terrifying actually.
Yeah agreed when I was a kid about seven years old I went to a Pentecostal church and the lady sitting next to me broke out and started speaking in tongues it scared the holy living crap out of me.
I feel like I have mention this before but I was probably a teenager when we went to my favorite Aunt’s church. For some reason we were late. And from the parking lot, I heard my dad say, “It sounds like a barn dance or something in there.” It was really loud and chaotic. Multiple people speaking in tongues. It was then I learned that someone else would jump up to interpret. And all of this was in screaming loud voices. It was kind of scary at the time. But she remains my favorite aunt. And while her kids moved on to less Pentacostally churches, I am pretty sure she is still in the same one. And many of her kids went to Liberty (Baptist?) college. It’s kind of a strange place too.
Park City is very fancy and someone owns those fancy ski mansions. I’m disappointed if it’s just a rental.
I remember thinking Camille’s from BH was the most beautiful place I’d seen on film.
This first season is weird because it seems like none of these women would even interact with each other in the wild. We don’t have anything to even half ass connect these people like, oh, we filmed this reality show together last year. Or, oh, I know Marlo. Maybe we can spice this up with some ex Mormon gays!
When RHOSLC was first announced I TOTALLY thought we were being punked. When I was sure we were not I began looking into all the ladies suspending my disbelief that they all actually lived there. And not…. you know, Chicago. lol. I was really excited for the show! And then we got this mess…. I’m hoping my expectations were just too high and we will get into it …eventually.
I kind of like SLC! I’m still confused where the money is coming from except for Mary. Whitney is stunning! Reminds me of Charlize Theron. Most of the others must goto the same surgeons because they have have a masculine jawline. I agree, Jen is obnoxious and cringe worthy. I like Heather, Whitney and Meredith. I do find the religion aspect to be interesting. SLC makeup, wardrobe and lifestyle is so drastically different than many of the other franchises. There is no glam or jaw dropping moments.
The more I watch, the more I’m convinced that Reddit piece about Mary the cult leader is true.
Yeah I read a comment from one of her former parishioners and he says that she goes around saying that she’s God incarnate. Literally the living embodiment of God. If true that’s just nuts.
It’s really hard to get into this show. I started watching this last episode and I couldn’t get through half of it before turning it off.
I think where this gets really interesting is when one of the ladies confronts Mary about her church cuz I think there’s a lot going on in that church and when it comes out it’s probably going to be really good episodes but I doubt it’s going to happen this season but if she sticks around for the next season I got a feeling Jen’s going to challenge her on it.
Thanks so much for the recaps TT. I really like this franchise so far but absolutely cannot keep their names in my head. Not sure why I’m so into it, lol. Blame 2020? Or that I’m binge watching Leah Remini Scientology? I just love the location, the weird religion, the bad outfits….all of it. Like all franchises, my favorite part is the ones who think they are smarter than production but aren’t, lol.
Not much to add except I really felt so sorry for the Housewife with the drug addict Dad. That seemed very real. I was actually hoping that the Pentacostal holy ghost would bring him something he could latch onto, even if it is a cult, ya know?