If you’re reading this wondering “will there be a second season of The Hunting Wives?” we have good news for you. Netflix has confirmed a second season of unholy matrimony is coming our way.
“I’m so excited to write these amazing characters again, and I can’t wait to take the audience on another sexy, twisted, batshit crazy ride through Maple Brook,” said series creator and writer, Rebecca Cutter.
In Australia, though, you can stream The Hunting Wives on Stan. The second season of the show will be a Netflix Original, though.
Fans of May Cobbs’ novel The Hunting Wives will notice some changes in the wild new TV adaptation that follows a group of gun-toting Texan socialites who share more than drinks and target practice. But the secrets, seduction and murderously obsessive characters who made Cobbs’ story a bestseller are still here, ensuring the eight-episode series is a bingeable hit.
“I thought it was so freaking juicy,” says Katie Lowes, 42, who plays God-fearing Southern conservative Jill. “I love that the characters are very theatrical.”
Headliner Malin Åkerman, 47, who portrays mysterious queen bee Margot, echoes this sentiment, adding, “There are a few surprises that will blow your mind.”
Meanwhile, Malin’s on-screen husband, Dermot Mulroney, 61, teases: “It’s like if you lift a rock, sometimes you’re surprised by what you find under it!”
The Hunting Wives follows Sophie (Brittany Snow) as she moves from Boston, Massachusetts, to Maple Brook, Texas, looking for a fresh start after a harrowing accident. There, she is entranced by Margot and the frenemy wives: Jill, Callie (Jaime Ray Newman), Monae (Joyce Glenn) and Taylor (Alexandria DeBerry).
These women are sharp shooters with even sharper tongues and a sassy style that intrigues the anxiety-ridden Sophie. But beneath their extravagant and beautiful exteriors lies an ugliness that unravels after the shocking death of a local teenager.
“[The response] has been bigger than any of us expected,” Katie says of the show’s immediate cult status. “I’ve talked to so many people who say: ‘I was up till four in the morning, I couldn’t stop watching.’”
Jill is the prim and proper wife of Clint (Jason Davis), the pastor of Holy Horizon church. While he preaches, she sits in the front row, regally basking in her community standing.
But Katie, who got her start on the equally salacious long-running series Scandal, reveals she originally wanted to play Callie, the alpha female, expert marksman wife of Jonny (Branton Box), the town sheriff.
“I auditioned for Callie and then I read the script and thought, ‘Uh oh, I’m a Jill. I’m such a Jill,’” she says.“I made the Callie tape, and I was proud of it, but [showrunner] Rebecca Cutter called and asked, ‘Will she make another tape as Jill?’ And I was like,‘I knew it!’ I knew I was gonna be Jill.”
The demure Jilly Bean, as she’s affectionately known, believes herself to be charitable, but all the while she is saying one thing, she is usually thinking another (less charitable) thing. She’s a loyal member of the Hunting Wives, unless there is something her son, Brad (George Ferrier), needs.
“All of her hard work has been put on her son, and I think she’s literally obsessed with him,” Katie says.
With a cliffhanger ending that leaves viewers reeling, we can’t wait to see where season two picks up.
“There’s so much more story to tell. Rebecca Cutter is so capable of continuing this madness and I think people are insatiable for it,” Katie said on the impending season.
Netflix is keeping the secrets of season two close to their chest, leaving us to scour over the series’ summary: “Sophie and Margo are on the outs. But soon enough, old secrets and new foes force them back together. As they play their dangerous games, the question arises: are they the hunters or the hunted?”
With the last season ending in more body bags than we can keep count of, we can’t wait to see what drama unfolds in season two. Brittney Snow and Malin Akerman will be back to reprise their roles.
The first season began filming in Autumn 2024 and was released in winter the following year. So, we can most likely expect the next season to drop in 2026.
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