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If your social feed is blowing up about a wild Netflix show that feels like Big Little Lies with extra bite, you’ve just stumbled onto The Hunting Wives—the series that’s turning up the heat, stirring culture-war debates, and leaving plenty of jaws on the floor. With twisted sisterhood, dangerous secrets, and more plot turns than you can count, this drama is officially the summer’s most addictive binge.

The Hunting Wives Netflix Craze: What’s the Show Actually About?

The Hunting Wives plunges viewers straight into the high-drama lives of a not-so-perfect Texas social circle where alliances are forged over target practice and the line between fun and deadly is crossed fast. At the heart of the story is Sophie O’Neill, played brilliantly by Malin Akerman, whose move to a small town embroils her in the magnetic and manipulative world of Margot—the group’s ringleader. One wild night leads to another,...

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“The Hunting Wives” has captivated Netflix audiences with its salacious Texas women and twisty, addictive murder mystery plot, boosting the series to the No. 1 spot on the platform’s viewership charts. But believe it or not, creator Rebecca Cutter told TheWrap that the road to the show’s success was not so clear cut.

Based on the novel of the same name, “The Hunting Wives” follows fish-out-of-water East Coaster Sophie O’Neill (Brittany Snow) as she attempts to find her footing when her husband moves her family to East Texas. Cutter made several changes from the book – one being upping the political undertones within the Texas town of Maple Brook.

The outspoken “Hunting Wives” are pro-gun and anti-abortion. They attend the local mega church on Sundays, but they are not inclusive of the church women from the other side of town. Cutter...

Summer might be blockbuster movie season, but just because “The Fantastic Four” and “Superman” are duking it out at the box office doesn’t mean Netflix stops delivering binge-worthy new shows, and July is no different.

From “The Hunting Wives,” the addictive new murder mystery soaring up the TV Top 10, to the 2010s throwback hacker thriller “Mr. Robot,” here’s a hand-picked list of the best new shows streaming on Netflix.

Margo (Malin Akerman) and Sophie (Brittany Snow) in “The Hunting Wives” (Credit: Lionsgate) “The Hunting Wives”

In the mood for a twisty, sexy thriller? “The Hunting Wives” delivers. When progressive Bostonian Sophie O’Neill (Brittany Snow) lands in East Texas, she is taken aback by the rough-and-tough party crowd of the Maple Brook housewives. Her husband’s billionaire boss’ wife, Margo (Malin Akerman) shows her the ropes and pulls Sophie out of her comfort zone. But when a murder takes place in the town,...

The Hunting Wives has added four to its cast as production on the upcoming Starz series begins in North Carolina. Chrissy Metz (This Is Us), Jaime Ray Newman (Dopesick), Katie Lowes (Scandal), and George Ferrier (One of Us Is Lying) are joining the previously announced Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit, Malin Akerman, and Brittany Snow in the upcoming thriller.

Based on the novel by May Cobb, The Hunting Wives series follows Sophie O’Neill (Snow) after she moves to Texas and succumbs to a socialite’s charms.

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Starz is adding to the cast of its forthcoming thriller The Hunting Wives.

Chrissy Metz, Jaime Ray Newman, Katie Lowes and George Ferrier have joined the ensemble for the drama series, based on May Cobb’s novel. The cast for the series from Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment also includes Malin Akerman, Brittany Snow, Dermot Mulroney, and Evan Jonigkeit.

The Hunting Wives, which has started production in Charlotte, North Carolina, follows Sophie O’Neill (Snow), who moves with her family from the East Coast to deep East Texas, where she succumbs to socialite Margo Bank’s (Akerman) irresistible charms — and finds her life consumed by obsession, seduction, and murder.

This Is Us star Metz will play Starr, a proud working-class woman who’s active in her church and whose daughter, Abby, is dating the star point guard Brad (Ferrier, Netflix’s Sweet Tooth), but who isn’t welcome in the...

The Hunting Wives has added two more to its cast. Dermot Mulroney (Four Weddings and a Funeral series) and Evan Jonigkeit (Archive 81) have joined the Starz series, which already stars Malin Akerman (Billions) and Brittany Snow (Almost Family).

The series, based on the novel by May Cobb, follows Sophie O’Neill (Snow) after she moves from the East Coast to Texas, where she succumbs to a socialite's charms.

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Starz has a new series on the way. The Hunting Wives is in pre-production, and the series has a promising cast to boot. 

The Hunting Wives is a suspenseful drama that follows a group of elite housewives as they find themselves embroiled in obsession, seduction, and murder. 

Let's take a look at what we know about The Hunting Wives series and what information we're still waiting to receive. 

The Hunting Wives Cast

The cast for The Hunting Wives has been slowly released over the past few weeks as more information about the show is revealed. 

First announced as part of the cast was Malin Akerman, who's taking on the role of Margo Banks, a charming socialite. 

Playing opposite Akerman is Brittany Snow in the role of Sophie O'Neill. Sophie moves with her family from the East Coast to the depths of East Texas, where she finds herself utterly charmed by Margo.

Brittany Snow has been cast in “The Hunting Wives,” an upcoming drama series at Starz adapted from the May Cobb novel of the same name. She will play Sophie O’Neill, and joins previously announced star Malin Åkerman.

“The Hunting Wives” follows Sophie, who moves with her family from the East Coast to deep East Texas. There, she succumbs to socialite Margo’s (Åkerman) irresistible charms and finds her life consumed by obsession, seduction and murder.

Snow began her career on the CBS soap opera “Guiding Light” before rising to prominence with roles such as Amber Von Tussle in the 2007 “Hairspray” film and Chloe Beale in the “Pitch Perfect” films. More recently, she has appeared in the A24 horror film “X,” the Fox drama “Almost Family” and the short film “Red White & Blue,” which is nominated for a 2024 Oscar. Up next, she will be seen opposite Nick Jonas in...

The Hunting Wives has one of its stars. Malin Åkerman (Billions) has been cast in the new thriller that's headed to Starz. Rebecca Cutter will executive produce, write, and serve as showrunner for the series.

Based on the novel by May Cobb, the series will follow Sophie O’Neill and her family’s move from the East Coast to Deep Texas. Once there, Sophie meets socialite Margo Banks (Åkerman) and her life is changed forever.

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The Hunting Wives is headed to the small screen. Starz has ordered an eight-episode season of the new thriller series based on the bestselling novel by May Cobb.

The series will tell the story of Sophie O’Neill, a successful big-city career woman from Chicago who moves with her husband and young son to a small town in Texas. It's not long before she's feeling bored and restless. She soon meets socialite Margo Banks, a socialite who's part of an elite group called the Hunting Wives. Sophie is drawn into Margo's world and finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation.

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Steel yourselves for something saucy because a series adaptation of the May Cobb novel, The Hunting Wives, is coming to Starz. The network gave the project an eight-episode order, with Hightown creator Rebecca Cutter writing, executive producing, and showrunning the adaptation with 3 Arts Entertainment’s Erwin Stoff. The Hunting Wives is the first new series coming to Starz since the end of the WGA strike last week. The network recently canceled shows, including Heels, Run the World, and Blindspotting, much to the dismay of fans.

Here’s the synopsis for Cobb’s novel via Amazon:

Sophie O’Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet,...

“Emily” star Emma Mackey has joined the cast of “Hot Milk,” the adaptation of the bestselling novel by Deborah Levy.

The BAFTA winner will lead the cast alongside Fiona Shaw (“Killing Eve”), Vicky Krieps (“Corsage”), Vincent Perez (“Shantaram”) and Patsy Ferran (“Living”). HanWay Films has worldwide sales rights and will shop the pic to buyers in Cannes next week.

“Hot Milk” marks the directorial debut of award-winning writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It will start shooting in July in Greece in co-production with Heretic Films.

The film explores the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship against the hot and atmospheric backdrop of Almería in Spain.

The story centers on Rose (Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Mackey), who travel to a seaside resort in Spain, to consult with the shamanic Dr Gomez (Perez), a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a wheelchair.

IFC Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights from HanWay Films on Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s “Hot Milk,” starring Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley, Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps.

Streaming service Mubi has also agreed a multi-territory deal for the film in the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Latin America and Turkey. Meanwhile, HanWay has also sold the pic into Metropolitan Films (France), The Searchers (Benelux), Scanbox (Scandinavia), M2 (Eastern Europe), A-One (Baltics), Front Row (Middle East) and Shaw (Singapore).

The film marks the directorial debut for acclaimed screenwriter Lenkiewicz, whose writing credits include Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning “Ida,” Keira Knightley-led biopic “Colette” and the forthcoming Harvey Weinstein drama “She Said.”

“Hot Milk” is based on the bestselling novel by Deborah Levy and centers on the relationship between single mother Rose (Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Buckley), who travel to southern Spain in order to see a medical consultant that might...

Director Graham Moore was adamant about wanting to nail down the authenticity of what a tailoring shop looked like and what a cutter does in the process of making clothes for his new film “The Outfit.” He recruited fashion designer Zac Posen to take audiences inside the world of tailoring. Says Posen, “He was interested in close-ups of the texture of clothing material, the dust when you cut, or how threads rapidly fly up.”

Mark Rylance stars as Leonard, a master ex-Savile Row tailor, who winds up in post-ww II Chicago where he stitches together suits, while the local mob uses his store as a front.

To build Leonard’s costumes, the filmmakers found the perfect collaborator in Savile Row tailor Huntsman & Son who custom-made the shirts and suits in the film.

During that process, the pandemic threw a wrench in the works leaving Posen to hire a co-costume designer.

On the south side of Chicago, there’s a small shop at the end of a quiet, snowy street. Its proprietor, a man named Leonard Burling (Mark Rylance), makes suits. Please don’t refer to this courtly English gentleman as a tailor, however — he spent many years apprenticing on Savile Row as a “cutter,” which is a very different skill set, indeed. When Burling eventually left his native country, he set up shop in the Windy City and made a name for himself as a provider of beautiful suits for a discerning clientele.

It’s hard to imagine anyone better suited to the lead role of Graham Moore’s “The Outfit” than Mark Rylance — the story of a Savile Row tailor who works more or less exclusively for an Irish mobster in 1956 Chicago. Rylance’s character, Leonard Burling, knows the rules: You keep your head down and your mouth shut, and in return, you’re treated almost like family by the Boyle clan. And if you don’t, well, we’ve all seen enough gangster pictures to know the consequences.

Leonard hardly ever leaves his workshop, and neither do we, in “The Outfit,” a contained, almost play-like film noir the likes of which John Huston and Nicholas Ray were making in the early ’50s.

Today, of course, this is yet another example of the Covid-era trend of drawing a handful of characters into a single location where some kind of crime takes place.

Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance’s special gift is an appearance of unspoiled authenticity, as if someone from real life had wandered into the frame, or — considering his extensive, legend-status background — onto the stage, his very presence ready either to blend in, or to shake things up.

It’s a talent that puts him in good stead to rivet our attention in establishing his role as a dedicated tailor facing dire circumstances in Graham Moore’s “The Outfit.” But it’s not enough to offset what’s questionably designed and ill-fitting about this claustrophobic, one-night-in-one-location thriller.

Moore, who wrote the film adaptation of the Alan Turing biopic “The Imitation Game,” directs for the first time from an original screenplay (co-written with Johnathan McClain). He was inspired by the alluring family detail that a beloved doctor grandfather of Moore’s had regularly treated a New Jersey mobster. In this case, the unassuming...

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to “The Outfit,” a crime film that will star Mark Rylance, Dylan O’Brien, Zoey Deutch and Johnny Flynn.

Graham Moore, who wrote the Oscar-nominated film “The Imitation Game,” will make his directorial debut on the drama based on a screenplay he co-wrote with “Mad Men” writer Jonathan McClain. Production is expected to begin next month in London.

The film follows Leonard (Rylance), an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

Producing “The Outfit” are Scoop Wasserstein, Ben Browning and Amy Jackson. FilmNation Entertainment will finance the film and has sold rights to Focus Features to distribute the film worldwide,...

Exclusive: In a hot under-the-radar package, we can reveal that Oscar-winner Mark Rylance (The Trial Of The Chicago 7), Maze Runner star Dylan O’Brien, Set It Up star Zoey Deutch and The Dig actor Johnny Flynn are set to star in Oscar-winning writer Graham Moore’s (The Imitation Game) directorial debut The Outfit.

Focus Features has struck a deal to pre-buy world rights to the crime-drama from FilmNation Entertainment with shoot set to begin in March in London.

The film follows Leonard (Rylance), an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

Moore will direct from his own screenplay which is co-written with actor-writer...