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Topics: Film and TV, Netflix, Streaming, Social Media
Callum Jones
Netflix fans are 'begging' the streaming platform to make a second season for a new drama with episodes that shock viewers 'every single time'.
Typically, the streamer will announce a second season of a popular show shortly after its initial release if it has hit the viewing targets Netflix have set.
Well, The Hunting Wives, which released on Netflix last month, has certainly impressed viewers so far.
The eight-episode series follows a woman named Sophie who moves from the city life of Boston to rural Texas for a fresh start.
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But the story soon takes a dark turn as Sophie grows close to a socialite, to the point where she becomes consumed by obsession, seduction, and even murder.
Brittany Snow, Malin Åkerman, Dermot Mulroney, Chrissy Metz, Jaime Ray Newman, Evan Jonigkeit and Katie Lowes appear in the Netflix series, and the show is produced by Rebecca Perry Cutter and Erwin Stoff.
As The Hunting Wives is based off a book of the same name, the author of the novel, May Cobb, is involved with the project as a producer.
The Hunting Wives has become the hot topic of conversation on social media, with the vast majority already demanding a second season a mere weeks after it debuted on Netflix.
One person on Twitter said: "Everyone needs to watch The Hunting Wives on Netflix. I need it to have more seasons. More than anything. @RebeccaCutter_ I love your work!"
A second added: "Every single episode of #TheHuntingWivesNetflix shocks me every single time like wtf this s*** keeps getting crazier," while a third remarked: "Please renew the hunting wives pls I am begging @netflix."
The Hunting Wives sits at an impressive 81 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, with the vast majority of industry critics impressed by the series.
Vulture's Roxana Hadadi wrote: "Whichever way The Hunting Wives goes in a second season, though, it’ll be building on a rock-solid foundation of soap-opera plotting and a strong grasp of tone."
Robert Lloyd penned in the Los Angeles Times: "The characters are types, but the actors fill them out well, and the dynamic between Margo and Sophie really is … dynamic."
While Joel Keller, from the Decider, said in his review: "The Hunting Wives is a show you know is going to be ridiculous going in, and it doesn’t try to hide its sexy, at times campy personality under the sheen of a prestige drama."