Jake and Taija recap Season 5, Episode 9 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, answering questions absolutely no one has asked, e.g., is Lisa Barlow the second coming of the Marquis de Sade? (Probably not.) Also: Meredith and Seth's cyclical marital woes, the art of motherly deflection, Bronwyn's shade-throwing pièce de résistance, and the linguistics of being rrrrrrrrich, honey.

In this episode of Not Above It!, Jake and Taija cover Season 5, Episode 8 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City — a poolside perturbance in Palm Springs! Topics include Lisa Barlow's psycho-emotional failure to launch, the paternalistic force of Todd, Angie K.'s physical-comedy genius (and hairdressser's intuition), white Housewives taking liberties with Black vernacular, and Heather Gay's neverending search for meaning in frenemies.

Escape from reality with more "reality" this Election Day, 2024! On this week's episode of Not Above It!, Taija and Jake cover The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 5, Episode 7. Topics of discussion include strategic deployment of the husband defense, a horseshoe theory of Mary Cosby's weirdness, the Newports' dynastic anxiety, the unexorcised spectre of Jen Shah, and Heather Gay's stank-faced flight response.

In this episode of Not Above It! Jake and Taija cover Season 5, Episode 6 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Bravo goes to London! La Cosa Nostra comes to Utah! We delve into obliterating power of the bullsh*t apology, Lisa Barlow's fantasy cybersecurity team, the pure libidinal language of Mary Cosby, the dormant wrath of Heather Gay, and how homoerotic threats of violence might just be the straightest thing ever.

On this week's episode of Not Above It!, strategic psychiatric diagnoses have entered the chat! Also, Taija and Jake discuss the major-league sportsification of Bravo, the glorious return of the family psychodrama, Housewives as the gothic horror revival we've all been waiting for, and a demonological taxonomy of the "where my hug at?" guy. Come into our metaphorical (medically dubious) salt cave!

On this week's episode Jake and Taija discuss Season 5, Episode 4 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: Mary Cosby as the Shakespearean fool archetype, the tactical vocabulary of Meredith Marks, and Lisa Barlow's narrative anxiety. And for dessert, a historian's defense of being a gold-digging hussie!

On this jumbo-sized episode of Not Above It! Jake is joined by cultural theorist and historian of consciousness Taija Mars McDougall. Together they cover Season 5, Episode 3 of Bravo's The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City — working toward a reality TV theory of interpassivity, examining Mary Cosby's shocking (charming?) Jeffrey Dahmer connection, and wading knee-deep in the apologetics of Lisa Barlow's cafeteria Mormonism. Also: Whitney Rose, the Kantian ideal? Or is there such a thing as toxic authenticity? Whither Heather Gay's god-shaped hole? And hath Brownyn Newport wrought the Housewives apocalypse!? All this and more!!!