Voice Note: The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S06E06)

A tv scholar newsletter / We Must Discuss collab on one of the best shows on television.

It’s a cool fall evening in Vancouver, I’m seated across from my friend Brittany with a magnet-attached mic on my sweater, and we both agree: It’s difficult to capture our love for The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in the written word—despite both being writers.

Brittany writes We Must Discuss on Substack and I write this TV newsletter, but there’s something about the verbosity of the housewives themselves — through confessionals, arguments, gossip — that lends itself much better to conversation than it does to the written word. At least, for now…a deep-dive academic analysis is brewing. There’s so much to critically unpack in such a meaty franchise.

For tonight on this couch, I just wanted to yap and giggle about everything that happened in this incredible, farty sixth episode of the sixth season. We’re not calling this a podcast. Perhaps an unedited voice note. Just a friendly chat between friends. Interested in more? Let us know and we’ll make it happen.

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• My recaps of The Morning Show for Elle continue, with a big Greta Lee shocker this week.

• I reviewed Boots for TheWrap, which I enjoyed but had conflicted feelings about.