‘Secrets & Sisterhood: The Sozahdahs’ Executive Producers Unpack Cast Drama, Islam Controversy and Season 2 Hopes

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Katcy Stephan Wrangling 10 busy sisters in one room is already a herculean task — try planning a production schedule around them.

That’s just what the team behind “Secrets & Sisterhood: The Sozahdahs” had to do. The reality series, which premiered June 7 on Hulu, follows the ten siblings of the Sozahdah family: Shaista, Halimah, Khadija, Rabya, Shakur, Muzlefa, Jamila, Siddiqa, Nooreya and Hamida. “The Sozahdahs have both a complicated past as well as an often complex present that makes for an abundance of story possibilities.

These run the emotional spectrum from super heartfelt to hilarious to heated at times,” says Dane Joseph, Vice President of Unscripted Series for Hulu Originals. “Each of their interactions are rooted in love, but are genuinely unpredictable, which is what makes unscripted content so exciting to work on.” The sisters have also stirred up some controversy online due to their portrayal of the Islamic faith on the show.

There’s a clear divide between the so-called “elders” and their younger “wolf pack” siblings. “The sisters themselves have different belief systems and ways they relate to their culture, but at the end of the day, they still love each other despite their differences,” Joseph says. “It’s great that people recognize that and hopefully it’s a larger discourse that can travel beyond our screens and into our everyday lives.” Executive producers Erika Bryant, San Heng and Nicole Sorrenti (who also serves as Chief Creative Officer of Half Yard Productions), spoke with Variety to break down the series’ most dramatic storylines and their hopes for a potential second season. How do you feel about the inevitable Kardashian comparison that comes about when you tell a story about a group of