TLC The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City exploded into the mainstream amid the federal indictment of a main Housewife, the rise of Mormon media, and allegations that Housewife Mary Cosby’s church is actually a cult. TLC’s new docuseries The Cult of the Real Housewife —premiering Jan. 1 at 8 p.m. ET on TLC and streaming the next day on HBO Max and discovery+— dives headfirst into the allegations, interviewing former members of the church. It includes sit-downs with Cosby’s sister and cousin, who claim Faith Temple church is a cult in which Cosby encourages congregants to treat her as God. “She’s got these people terrified. That woman is the most evil thing that ever walked this Earth. You have no idea, all those smiles and s--t—that is not real,” a former member of the church told the Daily Beast in 2021, when allegations first rose to the surface. Read more at The Daily Beast.