Have you watched The Hunting Wives yet? I intend to ask this exact question in any social gathering I’m in for the foreseeable future. For the uninitiated, The Hunting Wives is a new Netflix thriller series about a bunch of Republican women in Texas who are fucking each other, and Brittany Snow as a northern outsider who enters their circle mainly due to lesbian reasons. It’s full of boots, bisexuality, booze, and…I can’t think of an alliterative synonym for murder, but there’s that too. To use a few more b-words, it’s bonkers and, furthermore, bananas. Everyone should watch it.
We published a full review, but if you’re still not sold, consider this: 16 stray thoughts I had while watching The Hunting Wives. This is not EVERY thought I had while watching The Hunting Wives, because that would yield a manifesto-length article. So please meet me in the comments when you’ve watched all eight episodes because I’m sure I have MORE I WANT TO SAY. (And on that note, there are spoilers for all eight episodes below.)
1. Why is she asking to borrow a pad when she’s in her own home?
I know Riese already covered this in her review, but it bears repeating.
2. They sure are talking about each other’s boobs a lot.
3. WHY ARE THE MARGARITAS THAT COLOR?
Again, covered by Riese but worth repeating. This was especially upsetting to my wife, who kept saying it looked like ectocooler.
4. This show would have ruined my life in 2011.
On that note, this show would have blown up on tumblr.
5. BODY SHOTS?
6. Brittany Snow with her specific blonde white woman appearance could easily look Southern but she indeed does look like she’s from Boston, and I have a theory. I think it’s because of the nondescript length of her hair. It would need to be much shorter or much longer to make her look Texan.
7. The least realistic part of this show is the idea that someone could learn to drive stick for the first time and then be doing donuts in the parking lot five seconds later.
8. Did they purposefully make Sophie’s husband annoying but not evil so we would not be too mad about her cheating on him but also still buy that she would be with him?
Sorry, I don’t feel like including a photo of him.
9. HEIGHT. DIFFERENCE.
10. I would also have a panic attack if I realized I was horny for a Republican.
11. Forget all the explicit sex. The kinkiest moment on this show is Sophie masturbating in the middle of the day on her couch just to regular Instagram selfies of Margo.
12. Katie Lowes actually deserves awards for her performance on this show.
13. DIRECTED BY CHERYL DUNYE????????
Yes, episodes five and six of The Hunting Wives were directed by Cheryl Dunye. This is the most shocking twist of the entire series.
14. Between post-Margo Callie and post-Margo Sophie…this series’ depiction of the Dyke Crashout is unparalleled.
15. “Flashback hair” is one of my favorite TV tropes.
Pink low lights! Barrel curls! These two women were Different People in 2014, and you can tell by their hair.
16. Sometimes you sleep with a woman who then frames you for murder but she says she’s really sorry so you keep on sleeping with her, you know? This show gets that. And representation is important.
Comments
I don’t want to watch this series, but gay Jaime Ray Newman.
yes the stick shift thing was INSANE, i’ve been taught to drive stick three (3) times and never did any of those times result in me being able to do literally anything, barely could i drive down the road or back out of a driveway after my stick lessons
i thought there would be a twist with the husband because i was like; what’s going on with this man? you know? like he seems vaguely controlling but you’re not entirely sure, apparently in the book he was a sweetheart?
I feel like this show is being sold incorrectly by comparing it to Big Little Lies and such. This is not prestige HBO television, the beating heart of The Hunting Wives is that it is what would happen if the Pretty Little Liars creative team (a stacked deck of TV veteran dykes and cinematic icon dykes) made their show about middle-aged MAGA Texans instead of teens in Pennsylvania, and didn’t have to concern themselves with being rated PG-14.
Like Margo Banks? Nawwww babe, that is Alison DiLaurentis!
Yes! I had this same thought. This is Pretty Little Liars for grown-ups, but somehow with much fewer predatory men than than PLL
The wigs. The wigs! The wiiiiiiigs!! Could they not have spent more money on the wigs? Also, I am so happy they did not spend more money on the wigs.
The wigs were ridiculous!
May I suggest “bonking” as your alliterative euphemism for murder? It has the bonus of possibly being a sex joke as well
boots, bisexuality, booze, and….. bumping off ?
bumping the bits?
Callie is my favourite because she’s very obviously a gay woman who has not internalized what that means, and instead thinks Margo is her God. If Margo is the only person that makes her feel anything, it’s not because Margo is so special, it’s because all of her other straight relationships won’t work for her and her conservatism is stopping her from seeing that.
I also love her outfits the most and the fact that she has the dykiest way of sitting and strutting.
Kayla I had these exact 16 thoughts if you could believe it or not
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