Will the hunt continue for Margo Banks (Malin Åkerman), Sophie O'Neil (Brittany Snow) and the rest of "The Hunting Wives"?
Ever since the saucy drama series premiered on Netflix on Monday, July 21, demand for a second season has been high. "The Hunting Wives" was the most-streamed series in the U.S. last week and racked up more than 2 billion minutes viewed on the streaming service, as reported by Deadline.
Based on May Cobb’s 2021 bestselling novel, this eight-part thriller follows Brittany Snow as Sophie, a Cambridge transplant whose family’s fresh start in small-town Texas takes a dark turn. After falling in with the local high society crowd, Sophie’s world becomes tangled in secrets, temptation and a deadly game that leaves her squarely in the crosshairs of a murder investigation involving a teenage girl.
Malin Åkerman co-stars as Margo Banks, the leader of the so-called "Hunting Wives." She is married to older husband Jed (played by Dermot Mulroney), an oil tycoon whose gubernatorial campaign means that the couple has to keep their secrets close.
There's certainly enough scandal and story to fuel a second season, but as of now, Netflix hasn't made any official announcements about "The Hunting Wives" season 2. That could be because there are behind-the-scenes logistics adding a little more complication than usual to a next-season pick-up.
'Hunting Wives' creator and star share plans for the show's future
Though it premiered on Netflix last month, "The Hunting Wives" was originally conceived as a Starz drama back in October 2023, with Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment producing the series. When Starz and Lionsgate split into two separate entities this May, the latter acquired the rights to "The Hunting Wives" and licenesed it to Netflix in the U.S. for a year.
It's a unique production situation, but the cast could opt for more seasons, per Deadline. And it sounds like the powers that be are as interested in more "The Hunting Wives" as fans.
In a July 2025 interview with Variety, series creator Rebecca Cutter teased plans for a potential second season. “I think we’d do a little bit of a time jump — not a year, but a time," she said. "By the end of shooting, I realized that the two engines of the show are the whodunit and the Margo/Sophie relationship, and tracking how those spines intersect with each other."
And star Brittany Snow also recently shared how she would want to see Sophie's story played out in future episodes, telling Collider in July," I think the end is really interesting and I know that we would deal with it in season 2. There are a lot of questions that didn’t get answered because Rebecca wants to answer them in the next season if we get one ...
"It’s really a big blow to her that, no matter what she was doing, even when she was blacked out, she’s always been trying to protect Margo in this way, and then Margo just completely turned around and lied. I think that’ll be a really big question for the next season."
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