Netflix renews sapphic murder mystery The Hunting Wives for a second season
Brittany Snow (R), Malin Åkerman (L) and .Jaime Ray Newman star in Netflix’s The Hunting Wives. (Netflix)
Brittany Snow (R), Malin Åkerman (L) and .Jaime Ray Newman star in Netflix's The Hunting Wives. (Netflix)
Netflix has renewed The Hunting Wives, the murder mystery drama about gun-toting, MAGA-coded lesbians. The show, set in the fictional Texas town of Maple Brook, will return for an eight-part second series, Deadline reports.
Adapted from May Cobb’s novel, first published in 2021, the show follows Brittany Snow as Sophie O’Neil, a woman who moves from Boston to Texas after her husband gets a job there. She quickly grows close to socialite Margo Banks (Malin Akerman) and, according to Netflix, becomes “consumed by obsession, seduction and murder”.
The series also dives into a series of raunchy lesbian affairs behind the backs of the characters’ husbands, which has led Akerman to be lauded as a “lesbian icon”.
Appearing on the Shut Up Evan podcast, Akerman said: “I love it. I’ve gotten a nickname: ‘Mother’. The highest respect. Thank you. Thank you very much.”
Despite positive reviews, The Hunting Wives has been criticised for being too “outrageous” and raunchy.
Showrunner Rebecca Perry Cutter responded by telling the New York Post: “It’s so fun, juicy and sexy. I wanted to do an exploration of women behaving badly, unapologetic sexual conquest running rampant, and just something fun.”
She also touched on the criticism of the depiction of Margo sleeping with a younger man, adding that there was a “fantasy of freedom or power that maybe we don’t feel so much as middle-aged women”, adding: “I have single friends, women of a certain age [and] young men always are interested in them. That is a very real thing. I think that that’s cool to show.”
The first season of The Hunting Wives is streaming now on Netflix in the US.
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