In the great tradition of shows with “wives” in the title, Netflix’s new drama “The Hunting Wives” is a Salaz soap focused on women behaving badly. But something is remarkably different in this city in East Texas, where the wives of a candidate for conservative governor, the Sheriff of County and the local Megachurch Reverend carry weapons in their bags. And despite its supposed traditional and political values of Maga, several of these women are dedicated to extramarital issues, among themselves.
Based on May Cobb’s novel, the creator and executive producer of “The Hunting Wives” by Rebecca Cutter, expands in the premise of “Single White White Female” of the original, transplating the Sophie de Brittany Snow Snow of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a meeting of NRA upon arrival of State Red State (Evan Jonigkeit). A former “political publicist” on the democratic side, Sophie immediately escapes to the bathroom for an Xanax and meets Banks from Margo (Malin Akerman), the captivating wife and uninhibited of the new Chief of Graham and possible politician, Jed Banks (Dermot Mulroney).
Moral position is the name of the game in this city of Texas, where everything is larger, including the charradas. The majority of the headlines about “The Hunting Wives” revolve around the Margo larger than Akerman’s life, who, even with a bad wig, Sophie tickets along with the rest of his begrest with his female tricks and his flirtatious attention. She and Jed have an “agreement” (“open marriages are for the liberals,” he tells Sophie). “I don’t sleep with other men, and if Jed and I see a girl we like, we do it.”
But Mrs. Banks is not that of the rules, so she is having dallians with something more than just whom her husband accepts, and Sophie leaves her liberal convictions to be with Margo faster than her bra can unless. Very soon, Sophie keeps her husband’s secrets, like the rest of the wives, until the murder of a local cheerleader threatens to blow the carefully careful covers. Of course, the non-monogamy and sexual fluidity exist in Texas (the Bi-Curious Skirt Club based on membership has regular events in Houston, Dallas and Austin), but unlike the “deplorable” coastal elites, the residents of the fictional city of Maple Brook would not dare to mention that type of educated conversation.
Hypocrisy abounds in “The Hunting Wives”, which debuted at number 3 in Netflix last week with 5.2 million visits and went up to number 1 on the list of the 10 best on the platform. With all the attention that the program receives, the spectators reactions have proven feverish, with fans in all party lines questioning their sexuality after witnessing Margo’s effects on Sophie (as well as Callie, another friend and lover of the zapatic that moves once Sophie arrives in the city). The bisexual nature (emphasis on sexual nature) of the program has been a central focus of most of the criticisms and comments of fans, but, curiously, there is much less homophobic reaction than criticism of Margo’s secret matter with the 18 -year -old son of his friend and the local reverend. The spectators, both conservative and liberals, are mainly invested in the world of “hunting wives.” It’s Margo’s World, from Reddit Threads to Tiktok Hot Takes, and we all live for it.
Akerman has been feeling the love for his characterly duplication and said he finds that Margo’s contradictions are representative of humanity more widely.
“I think people have a certain vision of how society works and marriage works and how we should be and what it asks,” he told NBC News. “This [show] Try those limits. Absolutely, I feel that humans are fluid people. We do not need to put us in a category, and I think that scale is well to slide and ask and be whatever feels, instead of what people tell you to be. “
Cutter, the creator and showrunner, said he wanted to play with paradoxes, dedicating the line of satirizing the conservative culture of “hunting wives” without vilifying the characters, a difficult situation in some way achieved even when they are killing people. Cutter points to Sophie as the liberal resident who broke his own moral code to be with Margo.
“She is not exactly someone who defends what she believes in anyone,” said Cutter. “So there is hypocrisy and bad behavior on both sides.”
In “The Hunting Wives”, women who have romantic and sexual relationships among themselves is a bad tacit behavior. Although Jed does not care about the inclinations with his wife’s bush, his decision to run for governor requires a new type of discretion and restriction that imposes more sanctions on Margo than for his predilection for the trios. Margo is key to his public personality as a good child with a classic Christian wife, and although no anti-gay pronouncements are made together with derogatory mentions of abortion and immigration, Cutter said that homophobia was intentionally indicated but implicit.
“In the Christian world, there will be a level of ‘that’s not right’, which everyone is transgressing,” said Cutter. “I think that in that line, ‘open marriages are for liberals’, it is as if we were encoding it differently, even if the actions are the same.”
As high as it is, “The Hunting Wives” reflects a very real population, which can be uncomfortable for some spectators who struggle to find fun in interacting with characters whose personal lives differ from their political motivations. On the other hand, men have been rewarded several times for playing antiheroes on the screen without the same type of scrutiny that some reviewers have Calling the “vulgar” series or challenging its ability to be referred to as a “queer show.” It can be frustrating to recognize that people’s sexual lives do not always align with their public characters and voting habits, but “hunting wives” confronts the ways in which holy is often a cover for self -destructive secrets, and none of the political parties has a monopoly on that.
Texas conservative and with firearms provides a solid scenario for a series such as “The Hunting Wives” to play with conventions, which finally makes most spectators enter for eight fun and sexy episodes.
“We are as polarized as a nation,” said Cutter, “and it is not a serious show. So I think, ultimately, people simply enjoy the trip.”
After enjoying success only two weeks after their debut, fans expect a second season to be imminent. Would there be a world where a “hunting wife” openly gay joins the ranks? Cutter said he hadn’t thought about it: “That is a great idea.”
