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The Hunting Wives is Netflix’s new murder mystery drama starring Brittany Snow, Malin Akerman, Katie Lowes, Dermot Mulroney and more
The hit Netflix show has the internet abuzz for just how chaotic it is and I have to agree
The show debuted on the streaming platform on July 21 and is available to stream now
If you’re not sure whether or not you should be watching Netflix’s new hit drama The Hunting Wives, consider this your sign to do so. It’s impossible to start that show and not binge all eight episodes in one sitting.
I started watching The Hunting Wives because everyone around me was watching it and my timelines across TikTok and Threads wouldn’t let me live. Suffice it to say, it’s the most chaotic eight hours I have spent on a show all summer. By the time the killer was revealed, I had scratched my head, cringed, covered my eyes and yelled at my TV 10 times over. The show is truly as unhinged as the internet says it is.
Based on the May Cobb book of the same name, The Hunting Wives follows Sophie O’Neil (Brittany Snow), a soft-spoken Bostonite who moves to Texas with her family after her husband Graham (Evan Jonigkeit) gets a new job.
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Evan Jonigkeit, Dermot Mulroney and Brittany Snow in ‘The Hunting Wives’.
While she is hesitant at first, Sophie makes friends with Margo Banks (played by Malin Akerman), the ringleader for a conservative group of women in Dallas, who’s married to Graham’s boss, Jed Banks (Dermot Mulroney). And though Margo and Jed are not exactly your cookie-cutter couple, it turns out their marriage is riddled with so many other nefarious activities one wouldn’t expect for a couple of their standing.
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But that’s hardly the biggest of Sophie’s problems. During a wild night at Margo’s lake house, Sophie — who had been sober following a drunken driving incident back in Boston — gets so drunk and high she blacks out. At some point during that night, Abby, one of the local teens, is shot dead in the woods nearby.
Sophie’s gun — which was an impulse buy just a few days back — is found and identified as the weapon that killed Abby. Sophie’s quest to vindicate herself then leads to the unraveling of dark secrets, sketchy relationships, twisted small-town politics and more.
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Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow ‘The Hunting Wives’.
In full transparency, this summary doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what happens in The Hunting Wives. It was chaos I couldn’t peel my eyes away from. While the murder is a pivotal point in the overarching narrative, I have to be honest and say that by the time I finished watching, it wasn’t even top of mind anymore. Solving the crime was almost inconsequential to the story because the road it took us to get there was a spiraling one.
The Hunting Wives makes no bones about the type of show it is and it immediately lets us know that modesty is not one of its offerings from the get-go.
In episode 1, Graham takes Sophie to Margo and Jed’s for their first outing in Texas. The event turns out to be an NRA party and Sophie immediately feels like an outsider. Trying to catch her breath as the new environment is a bit overwhelming, she heads to the bathroom, where she barges into Margo.
Completely unfazed by the stranger who walked in on her, Margo proceeds to ask for a pad. Sophie reveals she doesn’t have one and Margo strips down to her undies as she cleans herself up, which is flabbergasting to Sophie … and me.
Barely five minutes in, and I was put on high alert that there would be a lot of pearl-clutching in this show.
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Katie Lowes, Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman in ‘The Hunting Wives’.
The Hunting Wives has a lot of sex. Like, so much of it. From everywhere and everyone — teenage lovers, married people with their spouses, married people with other married people who are not their spouses; married people with non-married people, married people with their best friend’s teenage kids and then there’s an uncomfortable scene involving a youth pastor, which, really, is better if you watch for yourself than have me explain. It’s a lot.
There are so many twists and turns in this show, I wasn’t sure if I was silent or silenced by the time I was done watching. The main killer is exactly who you think it’s going to be. But then there are several other murders and murderers who are revealed and are somehow pivotal to the main storyline, but also … not really.
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The Hunting Wives cast
What’s great about this series is that, unlike shows such as Game of Thrones, for example, that can at times be hard to track how one thread ties into the other, Hunting Wives makes sure to hold your hand and usher you to your next “WTF!” moment so you’re an active participant in your own bewilderment.
Viewers have praised the show for how well it depicts the hypocrisy in certain political sectors and how openly provocative it is. I, however, am just impressed by how the writers were able to put its pieces together. With as many moving parts as the show had, not once did I feel like the plot was losing me. It was hard to look away, and not just because of the suspense that comes with crime dramas, but because I felt compelled to unravel whatever side stories had been revealed in the previous episode.
If you’re traveling, looking for something to opine about on social media or simply looking for a new way to kill eight hours this weekend, trust me when I say, The Hunting Wives has got you covered.
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