The Hunting Wives has taken TikTok by storm, captivating audiences, sparking conversation and making previously straight women question their sexuality.
The erotic thriller series follows a young mum named Sophie (Brittany Snow) who moves to Texas for her husband Graham’s (Evan Jonikeit) work. While she’s nervous about the fresh start, she’s soon welcomed by a group of glamorous southern housewives and their unspoken leader, Margo (Malin Akerman). While their lives are glitzy and seductive, Sophie soon finds herself caught up in racy scandals and even murder.
Compelling, no?
For Katie Lowes — who plays the prudish pastor’s wife and Freudian-esque mama bear Jill — it’s not the first time one of her shows has taken the internet by storm. Back in 2012, she played Quinn Perkins in the beloved Shonda Rhimes series Scandal. In 2022, Katie starred in the hugely popular Netflix series Inventing Anna. While they were both huge hits, the 42-year-old actress says she’s never experienced a cultural response to a show like she has with The Hunting Wives.
“When people start making memes or doing imitations or sketches about them, you know you’ve made it because it’s in the zeitgeist and it’s in the culture,” Katie tells PEDESTRIAN.TV.
“But The Hunting Wives feels completely wild compared to the other two. It feels like it’s caught fire, you know? It keeps building on itself. I’m just psyched because everybody worked really hard on the show, and everybody’s really talented and very kind and deserves to have their work be seen.”
The Hunting Wives hasn’t just been a hit for its thrilling red-herring-laced plot. The series is filled to the brim with saucy sex scenes, romantic build-up, and tantalising queer romance — all of which feel perfectly tailored for the female gaze.
“The show is written by a woman. Every episode was directed by a woman. It’s starring a group of women with men as side characters… and it’s the best,” she shared.
“These are female-centric stories at the heart of the show. I was so proud to be part of that.”
This scene from THE HUNTING WIVES perfectly highlights the female gaze which focuses a lot on that slow build. The camera lingers on touch, the eyes, small moments of intimacy that create authenticity in the relationship’s growth. The power of women crews! pic.twitter.com/1Eq5U2spKf
— Sara Clements 2.0 (@mildredsfierce2) August 10, 2025
According to Katie, having a mostly female production team and only female directors was pivotal for the intimate scenes.
“These lesbian sex scenes to have a woman behind the camera, it’s like, yes, please. That is going to be what it needs to be,” she continued.
“Everyone’s going to feel safer, better, stronger, creative. Not to diss men, but I think this story, this love story, was handled so well because women were in a position of power down the entire line.”
Admittedly, Katie’s character Jill isn’t the one getting down to clown with her hot friends. Instead, she seems too focused on her teenage son, Brad (George Ferrier)… and when I say focused, I mean in an unhealthy, Oedipal way.
While this strange, implied incestuous attraction is particularly tough to watch on screen, the Scandal star loved embodying her creepy southern belle of a character.
“Oh, I love it,” she said with a laugh.
“[Brad is] like her obsession, and it was easy to tap into. I mean, I have a son who is seven. Obviously, this is nothing like our relationship, but I do see a lot of helicopter parenting going on, and I do see a lot of women who might not have fulfilling lives or relationships with their spouses, who get their wires crossed.
“Jill is an exaggerated version of that, a very campy version of that, and I was excited to be theatrical in that way, but I’ve definitely seen it to some extent.”
Despite previously starring in a show about the infamous scamming socialite, Anna Delvey, Katie still thinks she is “the scariest person of all time”.
“She’s terrifying to me,” Katie admits.
In the series — which was based on true events — Katie played a character called Rachel DeLoach Williams, who was scammed out of more than $62,000 USD (approximately $95,234.42 AUD). Now, she feels like she must have embodied her character so deeply that she has a bodily reaction whenever she hears of Anna Delvey or sees her pop up on screen.
“In the States, she was on a show called Dancing with the Stars. She didn’t make it very far, but they would do little interviews with her, and it’s almost like I have PTSD from playing Rachel DeLoach Williams,” she quipped.
“She has no empathy. She is sociopathic. I can’t handle her. I can’t even believe she’s a real person. To me, it’s Julia Garner [who played Delvey in Inventing Anna]. So, I don’t follow up on what she’s up to, but every few months, I’ll get a text from someone I know who has seen her out on the scene in New York or something like that, and I’m like, oh boy.
“I played that part. I was thrilled to play that story, but I stay far away. She terrifies me.”
You can watch The Hunting Wives on Stan.
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