{"id":221321,"date":"2025-09-12T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221321\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:36:11","slug":"the-hunting-wives-renewed-as-season-2-plot-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221321\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Hunting Wives’ Renewed As Season 2 Plot Is Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNetflix has renewed breakout hit series The Hunting Wives<\/a> starring Malin \u00c5kerman and Brittany Snow for a second season. As expected, the racy Texas drama, from Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment, will become a Netflix-branded series<\/a> that will stream exclusively on the platform in all but four countries Netflix is available, Deadline has learned. Like Season 1, the second season will consist of 8 episodes, sources said, with the main cast set to return. <\/p>\n

\n\tCreated by Rebecca Cutter, The Hunting Wives\u2019 first season was based on the bestselling novel by May Cobb. Season 2 will be an original concept-based continuation of the story, using the Season 1 finale as a jumping-off point. At the start of Season 2, Sophie (Snow) and Margo (\u00c5kerman) are on the outs. But soon enough, old secrets and new foes force them back together. As they play their dangerous games the question arises. Are they the hunters or the hunted?<\/p>\n

\n\tSnow and \u00c5kerman channel the Sophie-Margo dynamic from Season 1 in a video announcing the renewal, which you can watch below. It ends with \u00c5kerman, in Margo\u2019s wig, saying, \u201cPack your boots and load your guns. We\u2019re going back to Maple Brook for Season 2, baby.\u201d (The line, which reflects the show\u2019s fun vibe, lands a little different in the wake of this week\u2019s tragic event.)<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Hunting Wives \u2014 originally developed and produced for Lionsgate TV\u2019s then-sibling Starz before the studio acquired back the rights in the two companies\u2019 May split \u2014 started off as a Netflix U.S.-only acquisition in a one-year domestic licensing deal,<\/a> with its first season launching on Netflix July 21 without the streamer\u2019s \u201cN\u201d branding at the start of each episode.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time, The Hunting Wives already had launched on Stan in Australia, Crave in Canada, OSN in the Middle East and HOT in Israel, and the show had been sold in at least 10 more territories. As Deadline reported last week<\/a>, amid The Hunting Wives\u2018 outsized success on Netflix in the U.S., Lionsgate TV put further international rollout on hold as the studio entered renewal conversations with the global streamer. <\/p>\n

\n\tA Netflix pickup requires global rights, leading to Lionsgate reworking their existing international distribution deals. In the end, The Hunting Wives Season 2 will be available in all Netflix markets except four, Canada, Australia and two other European territories, sources said. Conversations are underway for Season 1, which also is expected to become available on Netflix exclusively in most countries. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hunting Wives\u2018 renewal follows an impressive ratings performance for Season 1. <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter launching with little fanfare and no formal promotional campaign on a Monday, the steamy drama became a staple on Netflix\u2019s U.S. Top 10 for six weeks running, including a stint at No.1, and also spent its first five weeks in the global English Top 10, amassing over 20M views, despite only being available in the US.<\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate TV had options on the cast, which have been exercised, with all Season 1 series regulars whose characters\u2019 fate allows them to return back, including Snow, Akerman, Jaime Ray Newman, Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit and George Ferrier.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so excited to write these amazing characters again, and I can\u2019t wait to take the audience on another sexy, twisted, batshit crazy ride through Maple Brook,\u201d Cutler said.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe executive produces the series alongside Erwin Stoff for 3 Arts Entertainment and Cobb.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe success of The Hunting Wives on Netflix also buoyed sales of Cobb\u2019s book, originally published in 2021. In one week following the show\u2019s release, the publisher went back to press twice on the trade paperback and saw a +5,000% increase across all formats in the same one-week period year over year.<\/p>\n

\n\tCutter, who also was the creator, showrunner and executive producer of Starz\u2019s Hightown, is repped by CAA, Artists Collective, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix has renewed breakout hit series The Hunting Wives starring Malin \u00c5kerman and Brittany Snow for a second…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[120426,171,57199,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-221321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cancelations-renewals","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-the-hunting-wives","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115192305252311457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}