The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is a soap opera. It’s a melodramatic mystery. It’s an avant garde prestige series, a shape-shifting show of the utmost beauty. One week, they’re Pretty Little Liars uncovering the identity of Reality Von Tease , and the next, they’re residents of Wisteria Lane questioning the new Housewife.
This week, they’re Mob Wives , inheriting the spirit of Drita and Big Ang to fight hard in the name of nastiness and rheumurs . The furs are big, the secrets even bigger, and the drama’s so explosive that it causes even the most demure of characters to engage in a tussle. Never doubt the raw ability of the Greek Mafia.
Always on the cutting edge of the franchise, RHOSLC has tested the waters with some unique cold opens this year. We’ve only heard the taglines once, and the “previously on…” segment has been put out to pasture for gimmicks like the ’70s sitcom Laverne & Shirley ’s Milwaukee intro and this week’s mafia mania, a gambit that teeters right on the edge of campy and over-indulgent…