REVIEW: Mommy Club Season 3 flops as viewers slam show's direction
Where are the kids?
Where are the nannies?
Where are the play dates?
With every episode of The Mommy Club season 3, these are questions that a lot of people have been asking themselves.
For a minute, one could mistake it for any of The Real Housewives franchises.
This season we didn't see the mommies playing together with their kids, the nannies forming a group as per usual. It was just fights after fights and gossip #TheMommyClub please do better next time this isn't Housewives ?? #TheMommyClubS3 #showmax pic.twitter.com/NjP5TyEGDN
— MaSibeko_Gembe (@samukelisiwesib) April 27, 2025
If the ladies were not on each other's necks, they were gossiping about each other, causing divisions or even hurling slurs at each other.
'Mogwanthi wa pitori' was definitely the highlight slur.
Meaning 'a promiscuous girl from Pretoria', the slur was hurled at Pheladi by Mrs J during a heated exchange at a restaurant where Pheladi confronted Mrs J for lobbying Her Majesty to call out Pheladi on dating married men.
According to her, not doing this would be 'enabling' Pheladi in her home wrecking ways.
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This lobbying happened at a charity event hosted by Mrs J at an orphanage home in Hammanskraal. This was also the last place that any of the ladies' kids were seen.
Initially, one would've thought that Pheladi and Mrs J were going to get along like a house on fire because they're both from Pretoria but unfortunately, it went on a downward spiral.
'That's why your husband took your kids away from you. I don't drink alcohol, I'm not under any influence of any alcohol so there's no way you're going to come to me and tell me about facts when you're always under the influence,' was the lowest Mrs J could've gone and she shot straight for it.
A big thing missing from this season was seeing the nannies make their own connections and hangout, it was what made #mommyclubshowmax different from the other formats out there. #MommyClubShowmaxS3 #themommyclub pic.twitter.com/W3N66sveXJ
— TVFanatic (@TVFanatic247) April 26, 2025
Even after she came for all the ladies, some of them justified her actions for having been under a spiritual trance of some sort which she rode on by saying ancestors sometimes take over her life.
Instead of being a safe space for a fellow mother who took years to recover from a divorce and extending grace to Pheladi who confided in the group about her ugly divorce settlement in which her ex-husband won custody over their children, she thought it best to use that as a knife to stab her with. And shaming the other ladies for drinking alcohol and implying that they're always drunk, unlike her? Very low and disappointing, Mrs J.
Even though she eventually asked for forgiveness for taking it that far, her apology was loaded with a lot of dis-ingenuity, no remorse and some bit of arrogance even after failing to follow through with her apology when Pheladi needed it the most on their last getaway.
On this getaway, she staged a farewell note to the group that read, 'Thank you for reminding me that I do not need friends in my life. Thank you for being God-sent and reminding me that my life is perfectly fine the way it is and that I do not need new people to spice it up'. She might as well have given them a middle finger after they took time out from their lives for her Dullstroom trip.
Not Mrs J dragging them all the way to Mpumalanga to thank them for showing her she doesn't need friends! I'm finished #TheMommyClubShowmax #themommyclub pic.twitter.com/I0GvhsmJMI
— nthabi (@nthabeemosh) April 19, 2025
Not only did she tell the other mommies that she wouldn't call Pheladi after she rejected her apology and left on the first night but Mrs J, ironically, did pick up the phone to ask her out on an apology date where she placed greater importance on herself more than Pheladi's feelings.
All this, from someone who's a spiritual healer meant to be a haven for troubled souls.
As exciting as it was to meet the new ladies, Mrs J, Noksie, Pheladi, and Vuyi who were joining Hermajesty and Mrs Sande, it all took a sharp curve by the third episode of the season when Pheladi confronted Noksie for having insinuated that she looks different which she received as 'you look ugly'.
As it spiralled out of control, the group's first division was evident with Mrs J standing up for Noksie and becoming a voice of reason, something that was clearly selective and short-lived.
The division sliced deeper with each episode as Mrs J, Noksie and Rosette formed one camp and Vuyi, Pheladi, Her Majesty formed another camp. As for Mrs Sande, always caught in between!
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Like Mrs Sande and Pheladi though, Noksie was quite misunderstood and honestly, there was nothing to her storyline except for her interracial marriage, hence everyone charged at it in the beginning of the season to introduce her to the screen.
We are on episode 8, we still have not seen where Pheladi stays. Wat is she doing here? Beside her dating a married
man, there's really nothing #TheMommyclub pic.twitter.com/uewr2PYCYE
— Ouma Komape (@Mamatheboys13) April 5, 2025
However, she had a few scenes with her nanny and child just as Vuyi did with the grieving journey of her husband with her kids– the true essence of what The Mommy Club is about.
Mrs Sande also made an effort by allowing herself to be vulnerable, digging deeper into her childhood trauma with her sister-in-law but Rosette, Mrs J, Pheladi did not barge. If they had boundaries on showing their kids to the world, then why did they agree to be part of a Mommy Club production?
Please get Happy, Vuyi , Pheladi and Sande off my screens @ShowmaxOnline #themommyclub
— A Stranger (@Astranger_girl1) April 27, 2025
Of course, though, Her Majesty gave it her all and even had her health decline on camera after battling through raising a teenager, Tiisetso, who went to a night club in Soweto without her permission. She also took us on the journey of finding a new nanny and training her. That's what we signed up for, not constant squabbles amongst grown women about petty irrelevant things. It's a pity that she also had to take on a mommy role to some of the mommies as well by being a mediator, lawyer and comforter.
Rosette might have won people's hearts initially as well, but she really got distasteful for being quick to chase people away at events that she wasn't even hosting. She was really trying too much to bring chaos. Maybe she was already auditioning to return for the fourth season of the reality show and not as a friend of the show. Could she have scored a place in the next season?
Mrs J was my fave
Pheladi is a mean girl who met her match
Vuyi disappointed me sana
They bullied Noksie for idek what because she is so sweet
Happy needs better friends and therapy
Rosette was rude but the show needed her
Sande was there #themommyclub
— Sunflower (@VeeMaumela) April 27, 2025
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