Sex and murder are everywhere in 'The Hunting Wives'

By Linda Holmes,

Christina Tucker, Kathryn VanArendonk, Carly Rubin, Liz Metzger, Mike Katzif, Jessica Reedy

Published July 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM EDT

Malin Åkerman and Brittany Snow in The Hunting Wives. — Malin Åkerman and Brittany Snow in *The Hunting Wives*.

The Netflix series The Hunting Wives is a soapy murder mystery full of nudity and intrigue, about a group of Texas women who are up to no good. It stars Brittany Snow as a woman who follows her husband from the East Coast to Texas for a job working for a rich businessman and budding politician (Dermot Mulroney). Sophie is immediately enchanted by his sultry wife, played by Malin Åkerman. If you always thought Desperate Housewives would be better if more of the housewives were having sex with each other, this might just be the show for you.

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Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.

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