Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County live stream: where to watch — Thursday, November 12 at 12am ET / 5am GMT / 4pm AEDT on Hulu and Disney+

No free tier, ad-supported option, or limited-time trial is mentioned for either service.

Free options

There are no confirmed free streaming options. Neither Hulu nor Disney+ offers the series without subscription in any market cited. TechRadar notes that viewers with existing subscriptions can access the show remotely using a VPN, but stresses this is only for legal, recreational use such as accessing services from abroad, not for circumventing paywalls or accessing pirated content.

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What to expect from the event

This is not a live broadcast, it’s a streaming debut. No red carpet, no press conference, no real-time host. All eight episodes land at once, unedited and uncut. The season centers on Jen Affleck’s move into an Orange County social circle that self-identifies as “a little bit more lenient” than the original Utah-based cast.

McCall DaPron, a jewellery business owner and sister of Mayci Neeley, confirms the contrast, noting she, Affleck, and actor-producer Madison Bontempo are the three practicing members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the new group. Aspyn Ovard has left the church. Salomé Andrea’s faith has lapsed.

Bobbi Althoff does not appear to have ever been a member, and Avery Woods has publicly stated her opposition to Mormonism. That ideological mix fuels the season’s narrative engine: Jen’s attempts to unite two warring factions, group outings to Palm Springs and Las Vegas, a tense jewellery launch, and open conversations about polyamory.

The sources describe the show as deliberately aiming to “one-up” the original Secret Lives of Mormon Wives at every turn. Taylor Frankie Paul, the influencer who launched the franchise, is absent from this spin-off. She is not listed in the cast. Her absence follows controversy around her tenure as lead of The Bachelorette season 22, which was pulled from air after footage emerged showing her throwing chairs at her ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen, one striking her five-year-old daughter.

Paul is, however, expected to appear in Season 6 of the original Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. The rollout is complete. The show is available now, as of Thursday, November 12.