Key Takeaways
- Renewal Announcement: Netflix has confirmed the renewal of The Hunting Wives for a second season.
- Viewership Success: The series garnered over 20 million views in its first five weeks.
- Story Continuation: The upcoming season will explore the complex relationship between Sophie and Margo.
- Original Production: The show was initially developed for Starz, influencing its risqué content.
Netflix announced today that The Hunting Wives has been renewed for season 2. Despite only being available in the US, the drama series has been a big success for the streaming service, amassing over 20M views during its first five weeks of release.
“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 creator/writer/showrunner Rebecca Cutter. The series was originally produced for Starz before Netflix picked it up, but the second season will be released as a Netflix-branded series in all countries where the streaming service is available.
Based on the bestselling novel by May Cobb, The Hunting Wives follows Sophie (Brittany Snow), a young wife and mother who moves to the small Texas town of Maple Brook, where she’s drawn into the glamorous, dangerous world of a socialite named Margo (Malin Akerman) and her elite clique, the Hunting Wives. But as Sophie grows closer to Margo, she becomes swept up in a web of obsession, secrets, and ultimately, murder.
The second season will be a continuation of the storyline with Sophie and Margo 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? In addition to Snow and Akerman, the series also stars Jamie Ray Newman, Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit, and George Ferrier.
As the show was originally developed for Starz, it is a little more risque than typical Netflix fare. Cutter doesn’t think it would have been the same if it had been at Netflix from the start. “The tagline for Starz, to their great credit, is: ‘We’re all adults here,’” Cutter told THR earlier this month. “They have no problem with very sexual and violent content, and pushing the envelope on respectability, I think, is part of it. But it might have even gone too far for them because those were some of the notes we got in post, like ‘Hoping maybe it was a little more prestige-y.’ (Laughs.) So honestly, it ended up having the best life it could have, I think because it got to come into Netflix feeling really different than any other show on Netflix. That’s not a knock on any show on Netflix. I’ve watched Netflix shows for years. We all have. But it did feel like not quite something that they would have made.“
