For most audiences, a show featuring a salacious stew of sex, scandal, and murder would be more than enough to warrant a days-long Netflix binge. Enter The Hunting Wives, a new series—based on the 2021 novel of the same name, by May Cobb—that has all of the above, with a healthy dose of political turmoil added to the mix. The result is a gossipmonger’s fever dream of high-stakes drama. The eight-episode series, adapted for the screen by Rebecca Cutter, follows Sophie O’Neil (played by Pitch Perfect’s Brittany Snow), an East Coaster who moves down to the East Texas town of Maple Brook, a fictionalized version of Longview. She becomes ensconced in a crew of affluent housewives and gets sucked into their lavish, booze-fueled, sexually promiscuous lifestyle…
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