Netflix is heading back to Texas for another round of The Hunting Wives.
The original cast led by Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman will reprise their roles.
Netflix released The Hunting Wives weeks later, on July 21, and it became the most-viewed streaming series in the U.S. after spending five weeks in the Top 10.
While the first season was a Netflix U.S. offering, season two will release exclusively as a Netflix branded series in nearly all countries the streamer is available.
“Even when it was at Starz, it was never, in my mind, a limited series,” said Cutter of her plan for more Hunting Wives.
Netflix will return to Texas for a new season of The Hunting Wives.
At the streamer, the sexy summer sensation from Lionsgate has been extended for a second season. Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman, who led the original cast, will return to their roles.
According to creator, writer, and showrunner Rebecca Cutter, “I can’t wait to take the audience on another sexy, twisted, batshit crazy ride through Maple Brook, and I’m so excited to write these amazing characters again.”.
Cutter created the show, The Hunting Wives, which was based on May Cobb’s best-selling novel. After Netflix acquired the twisted murder drama that was originally produced for Starz, where Cutter had her three-season series Hightown, the show became a streaming success. The series was redirected to Netflix by producers Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment prior to Starz’s May separation from Lionsgate, which was formally announced this summer. Weeks later, on July 21, Netflix debuted The Hunting Wives, which quickly rose to the top of the U.S. streaming series rankings. A. following five weeks of being in the Top 10.
On Netflix, however, the first season was a U. A. Season two will be released exclusively as a Netflix-branded series in almost every country where the streaming service is accessible. George Ferrier, Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit, and Jaime Ray Newman are among the returning cast members.
Cobb’s 2021 best-seller sales also soared as a result of the buzzy drama’s success. Since the premiere week, publisher Berkley has reprinted the trade paperback twice, and after the show’s release, weekly sales across all formats increased by 5,000 percent year over year, according to publisher and executive vice president Christine Ball.
While waiting for the renewal, Cutter talked to The Hollywood Reporter about the show’s future and how Cobb backed the significant changes she made from the book, which allowed the series to continue after a cliffhanger finale that called into question the main relationship between Snow and Akerman’s characters, Sophie, the new girl in town, and Margo, the queen bee. “I never thought of it as a limited series, even when it was at Starz,” Cutter said in reference to her intention to produce more Hunting Wives. According to what I understand, three seasons is a great number because doing more than three is difficult. I could, however, do it indefinitely. It’s really enjoyable. The ladies are a lot of fun. We adore it. “”.
Cutter also discussed The Hunting Wives effect, which included reviving sex and culture wars on television by having a Democrat (Sophie) arrive in town and focusing the erotic main plot on a conservative clique in East Texas. “Some people have claimed that the show is a part of the new mandate to create content for the Red State, but that wasn’t the case. It was for lustful middle-aged women, after all,” she remarked.
According to Cutter’s original script, the second season will carry on the plot and characters from the first. The official logline is as follows: “Sophie and Margo are out at the beginning of season two.”. However, new enemies and old secrets eventually drive them back together. As they engage in their risky games, the question comes up. “Are they the hunted or the hunters?”.
When Snow and Akerman announced the news on social media on Friday, they capitalized on the cliffhanger ending and the viral viewer reactions. Watch below. ).
In addition to Cobb and Cutter, Erwin Stoff is an executive producer for 3 Arts Entertainment. Netflix is now offering Cutter’s crime drama Hightown for streaming. She is currently working with Jerry Bruckheimer Television on another project for Netflix. CAA, Artists Collective, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman, Wertheimer, Mandelbaum, Morris, Bernstein, Trattner, Auerbach, Hynick, Jaime LeVine, and Jackoway are her representatives.
