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July 19 – July 25, 2025

East coast to East Texas: ‘The Hunting Wives’ welcome a new member BY SARAH PASSINGHAM A pot of small-town secrets boils over in the sticky southern summer heat in a new murder mystery streaming series. “The Hunting Wives,” an adaptation of the May Cobb novel, premieres Monday, July 21, on Netflix. Starring Brittany Snow (“Almost Family”) as Sophie O’Neil, a relative newcomer to a cozy East Texas town, the series follows Sophie as she settles into her new, slower life and gains entry to a glamorous local social circle. New friends spice up Sophie’s quiet new life, but they also bring something dark close to her — it is a thriller, after all. Someone will die and someone in the town is responsible for their death. Leaving behind an established career in Chicago in hopes of leading a more family-centric life with her husband, Graham (Evan Jonigkeit, “Archive 81”), and young son, Jack (Emmett Moss, “Hazard,” 2024), Sophie said goodbye to magazine publishing in the big city and hello to the kind of family stability that she craved growing up. After the charm of her new hometown and her abundance of free time become less exciting and more routine, Sophie finds a new source of entertainment — the social media feed of one of the town’s splashiest residents. The Banks family is a generationally wealthy dynasty that amassed its riches in the East Texas oil boom. Socialite Margo

Banks (Malin Akerman, “Dollface”), who married into the legacy name through her husband, Jed (Dermot Mulroney, “Chicago Fire”), is queen bee of the town’s social scene, throwing lavish galas, looking down her nose at her many admirers and generally living a fully staffed life of luxury. Margo’s social feed catches Sophie’s eye, and that ambition that got her into the lifestyle magazine industry awakens. Soon enough, Sophie is plotting to use her connections to get closer to this bewitching woman who stands out against the monotony of small town Texas life. “The Hunting Wives” also stars Chrissy Metz (“This Is Us”) as dedicated churchgoer and mother to a teenage girl, Starr; Jaime Ray Newman (“Little Fires Everywhere”) as Margo’s best friend, Callie; Katie Lowes (“Scandal”) as another mom friend of Margo’s, Jill; George Ferrier (“One of Us Is Lying”) as Brad, Jill’s doted-on son; Karen Rodriguez (“Swarm”) as Deputy Sheriff Wanda Salazar; Michael Aaron Milligan (“Outer Banks”) as Kyle; and Hunter Emery (“Orange Is the New Black”) as Deputy Walter Flynn. Netflix is keeping details of the show under wraps for now, but the novel itself gives us something to go on in the meantime. After getting her first, coveted invite to one of Margo’s fabulous parties hosted at her in-laws’ estate, Sophie dances

around cater waiters and other guests to locate her target. When she finally makes a grand first impression on Margo, Sophie lands a second invitation, this time to a secret Friday night shooting club. Her number is added to the titular hunting wives’ group text chain and suddenly Sophie is entrusted with the knowledge of their get-togethers. What starts as skeet shooting at dusk on Margo’s lake house property turns into the ladies patronizing an out-of-the-way bar to all but cheat on their husbands. They all have their reasons for finding solace in cowboys on the dance floor, whether it be revenge or boredom, and keeping Friday night shooting club a secret is just the price of admission to the hunting wives’ exclusive status. With everyone incriminated, the hunting wives’ private lives are as good as confidential, even Margo’s dalliances, which tend to push the boundaries of what they all get up to away from home. With barely concealed secrets, affairs and grudges hanging in the humid Texas air, it is no surprise that the weight of it all will cause someone to snap. Last April, Snow spoke to MovieWeb while filming the upcoming series in North Carolina, saying, “I think that people are going to be really surprised at how silky and salacious and sexy this show is.”

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