A New Update About ‘The Hunting Wives’ Season 2 On Netflix

We seem to have another sticky show hanging around Netflix’s top 10 list, The Hunting Wives, a murder-based comedy thriller that stars Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman. Season 1 has racked up solid viewership, and at #2 on Netflix right now, it’s only behind huge hit Untamed, the not-comedic murder mystery.

Now, questions turn toward season 2 of The Hunting Wives, which Netflix has not announced, though mercifully, it has not said it’s canceled either. Rather, things seem to be looking up.

We have a new update from The Hunting Wives’ showrunner Rebecca Cutter, speaking to Variety, about the prospects of season 2:

“I think we’d do a little bit of a time jump — not a year, but a time. By the end of shooting, I realized that the two engines of the show are the whodunit and the Margo/Sophie relationship, and tracking how those spines intersect with each other,” said Cutter. “The first thing I’m thinking about is, where are these two women at the start? Where are they at the end? What are the peaks and valleys of their individual power, of their relationship? So it’s tracking a course for that, and then figuring out what the crime engine is.”

“I think it would be smart” to introduce a new murder mystery. But it’s early stages. “I don’t know whodunit yet or who got done!”

So, not making this an anthology or anything, even with a new murder, keeping the current cast. One issue here is that this first season was adapted from a May Cobb book, a single May Cobb book, so it would have to be forging a new path forward from here. But with Cobb heavily involved in the show and working with the team, perhaps that would help move things along if she had another idea to keep things moving. This seemed like this may have been the plan from the start, given that The Hunting Wives is not listed as a limited series.

Past that, we have the four pillars of Netflix renewal:

• Viewership – It’s high on the top 10 list, it’s doing well. It may not hit #1, but this is still a solid performance, and it’s only gone up in time.
• Cost – No big blockbuster effects, no huge movie stars to pay millions to, even if Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman may be familiar to some viewers (in Snow’s case, some Pitch Perfect fans, to be sure).
• Reviews – Decent enough, a 75% critic score but, weirdly, there are not actually reviews in for an audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, despite it being clearly well-watched.
• Completion – One of Netflix’s biggest metrics is one we don’t have access to: whether or not people start a show and finish it. Murder mysteries tend to have an advantage in that department, given that people want to stick around to see whodunit.

It’s almost certainly going to happen. We’ll keep an eye on viewership, but I don’t think there will be a problem landing a second season. The real challenge will be figuring out what it should be.

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