The Hunting Wives is an American drama television series based on the novel by May Cobb. It stars Brittany Snow, Malin Akerman, Evan Jonigkeit, Katie Lowes, George Ferrier, Dermot Mulroney, Jaime Ray Newman, and Chrissy Metz. The series premiered on Netflix on July 21, 2025 in the USA and other streaming services elsewhere. In September 2025, the series was renewed for a second season. Premise Sophie (Brittany Snow), a wife and mother who moves from Massachusetts to the fictional East Texas town of Maple Brook with her husband, Graham (Evan Jonigkeit), is drawn into the glamorous, dangerous world of a socialite named Margo (Malin Akerman) and her elite clique, the "Hunting Wives." As Sophie gets closer to Margo, she becomes entangled in a web of obsession, secrets, and ultimately murder, when a teenage girl, Abby (Madison Wolfe), is found dead in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet. Cast and characters Main Brittany Snow as Sophie O'Neil, a young woman from Cambridge, Massachusetts, who recently moved with her husband to Maple Brook, Texas, after she killed a pedestrian in Cambridge while driving under the influence, and becomes captivated with Margo, the wife of her husband's boss Malin Akerman as Margo Banks, the leader of an elite socialite group of wives (known as the "Hunting Wives"), who takes an interest in Sophie Evan Jonigkeit as Graham O'Neil, Sophie's husband, an architect Katie Lowes as Jill, Brad's mother, the wife of Reverend Clint and a member of the Hunting Wives George Ferrier as Brad, Jill's teenage son Dermot Mulroney as Jed Banks, Margo's older, wealthy husband and Graham's boss, who is an oil tycoon and Texas gubernatorial candidate Jaime Ray Newman as Callie, the number two of the Hunting Wives and the town sheriff's wife Chrissy Metz as Starr, a working-class single mother who is not part of the elite socialite group. Her daughter, Abby, is dating Brad Recurring Chosen Jacobs as Jamie, Brad's friend Branton Box as Sheriff Jonny, Callie's husband Madison Wolfe as Abby, Brad's girlfriend and Starr's teenage daughter Jason Davis as Reverend Clint, Jill's husband, Brad's father, and the megachurch Holy Horizon's reverend Michael Aaron Milligan as Kyle, Margo's brother, who lives in a trailer in Alba, Texas Abigail Rhyne as Nina, Abby's friend who is a teen mother Paul Teal as Pastor Pete, Holy Horizon's youth pastor Hunter Emery as Deputy Walter Flynn, a Sheriff's Department officer who is investigating the murder of Abby with his partner, Deputy Salazar Karen Rodriguez as Deputy Wanda Salazar, Deputy Flynn's partner at the Sheriff's Department, who is investigating the murder of Abby with him