The Hunting Wives

Mark your calendars and cancel your post-turkey nap: The Hunting Wives returns to Netflix on Thursday, November 26, 2026. That's Thanksgiving Day, and two weeks from now. Season 1 turned Maple Brook, Texas, into the most dangerous zip code on streaming, and Season 2 will drop all eight episodes at once. Netflix hasn't held anything back in the run-up either. The trailer is full of guns, bubble baths and what the marketing keeps calling "Texas justice." The streamer has also renewed the series for a third season before the second has even aired, which tells you how much it's betting on Sophie and Margo.

If it's been a while since your Season 1 binge, here's what you need to remember. Sophie O'Neil (Brittany Snow) moved from New England to East Texas with her husband Graham (Evan Jonigkeit), who had taken a job with oil tycoon and gubernatorial hopeful Jed Banks (Dermot Mulroney). Sophie quickly fell under the spell of Jed's wife, Margo Banks (Malin Akerman), a magnetic socialite who leads the gun-toting, wine-soaked clique known as the Hunting Wives. Their affair got tangled up with a murder investigation after teenager Abby Jackson (Madison Wolfe) was found dead in the woods where the women gathered. By the finale, Abby and her mother Starr (Chrissy Metz) were both dead. Margo had been thrown out by her husband, and Sophie was no longer the outsider who got pulled into other people's crimes. She had blood on her own hands.

That's where Season 2 picks up. According to Netflix's official logline, Sophie and Margo start the new season on the outs, but "old secrets and new foes" soon force them back together. The logline then asks whether they are the hunters or the hunted. The trailer suggests the breakup won't last. Sophie sits in couples therapy with Graham, swearing she can change, and Graham asks whether she's still dreaming about Margo. A few scenes later the two women are sharing a bubble bath. Malin Akerman has teased that Margo "always has an agenda," but that Sophie has turned her world upside down. Brittany Snow plays Sophie's mix of guilt and hunger well, and Season 2 gives her a lot more of both.

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