The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

They just made it a supersized hour and 15 minute episode to hae time to introduce everyone and get things started.

I haven't watched it yet, but from what I read in their bios, I don't think any of them who are still Mormons are very strict about practicing their religion. They seem to be among those who pick and choose which rules to follow, if they follow any at all, but still feel connected to church socially and maybe even spiritually. They just do it on their own terms. I won't be surprised if some of them drink.

The two blondes are related somehow (maybe through marriage) and both claimed to be Mormon royalty. As a former Mormon who grew up in Utah, I'm curious to know what family they're from so I can decide for myself if they're actually royalty. LOL

It's very OTT, but I didn't  mind it, ill see how it goes. My aunt and uncle joined the mormon  church, and both my cousins did missionary  work for a year. One is a motivational  speaker, the other a top notch lawyer. 
The two I like on the show, are Heather, who seems down to earth,and Whitney who resembles  Jenny McCarthy. Of course this is subject to change,.
This might help..Mary married her step grandfather 

.https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2558619/the-real-housewives-of-salt-lake-city-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-bravo-cast

EDITED TO ADD:
So I'm watching the show, and I was wrong in what I wrote earlier, but I'll leave so as not to confuse anyone who already read what's below the line here. I grew up Mormon (all of my ancestors were original Mormon Pioneers, too, so maybe I'm Mormon royalty and don't know it. LOL). I've never heard of Whitney's ancestor, Shadrach Roundy. The only bodyguard to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young that anyone outside her family has ever heard of is the guy I talked about below. I'm not saying she shouldn't be proud of her heritage, but she's way overexaggerating this guy's importance to Mormons in general. (I read his Wikipedia entry, and he was involved in a bunch of things that were important to Mormon history. I'm just saying that he's not a name most people would know.)

Her cousin Heather's claim to fame is that her ex-father in law was the head of Howard Hughes' Mormon Mafia and oversaw several of Hughes's companies, which left him very rich when Hughes died. So she married into a rich Mormon family, but again, their name isn't a household name among Utah Mormons, though most Mormons around my age (69) would have certainly have heard of the Mormon Mafia.

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Interesting. I'll have to watch, but I'm assuming it was Porter Rockwell, which is nothing to be proud of in my opinion, though he is a well-known and popular Mormon folk hero. If you separate him from all of the sanitized Mormon versions of things, I'd say he was a murderer and a bully and likely more than a little bit crazy. It's kind of like saying you're descended from Wyatt Earp or Pat Garrett, which would be an interesting bit of history but would hardly make you American royalty. (But I'm guessing the Mormon Royalty thing was something Bravo came up with.) 

Here's the Wikipedia entry on him if you're interested. In following the Bear River Massacre link at the bottom of the article, I discovered he was the guide who led the US Army in 1863 to find the Northwest Band of the Shoshone tribe at their winter camp--near what is now Preston, Idaho--where the army proceeded to slaughter over 250 men, women, and children. (Some say it was as many as 500.) It was the largest massacre of Native Americans on US soil, and the fact that he was part of that, endears him to me even less.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Rockwell

Who hates the "smell of a hospital" on one of her dear friends so she insulted her.  Did I mention that same woman is a pastor & wore white pantyhose to a party.  White pantyhose...don't nurses wear white pantyhose  .

I will try to give this show another week but IMHO it was awful.  They are trying to extra already existing franchises and doing it poorly.

They are all trying  too hard, that's my take. I'll watch a couple  more, and see if it gets better, I'm doubtful  it will

I really liked it as an intro episode. I think their religion was a big part of the first episode because so many are tuning in because of or with questions about them being Mormon (read back through this thread when we all heard it was coming for an example) The first few of any franchise I sort of have to 'wade through' because I don't know any of them and there's no real story yet, but I thought this was a good first episode. I'm pretty sure that even as I get to know it, the brunettes will stay 'the brunettes', ha!

They are all trashy and I like it, lol!

I agree...makes me want to visit Salt Lake City..and take up skiing!

You should come (once we're not a COVID hotspot)! It's beautiful here. Come in the winter to ski and then come back in the late spring or early fall to see all of the beautiful red rock national parks: Arches, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef. They are so beautiful in an entirely different way. If you like outdoor activities, Utah definitely doesn't suck on that front.   

Plus, we now have an alien monolith.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/23/helicopter-pilot-finds-strange-monolith-in-remote-part-of-utah

P.S. I'm really bummed, because I wanted to watch the new episodes on the Bravo website, and they are now making you log in with your television provider. Rude! :D  

Eeeeeeeek! I hate the very idea of SNOW! It's freaking cold! Who could like that?

Me!

I always get so excited when I see my first snowflakes of the year!


But I totally support you in not liking it, and I hope you live somewhere very warm!  

San Francisco Bay Area, MissGriss! We don't allow snow!

Yeah as really Salt Lake City or Utah for that matter is the Mormon Capital of the World!