How many episodes are in The Hunting Wives?

The Hunting Wives has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does The Hunting Wives premiere?

The Hunting Wives premieres on 2025-07-21.

Is The Hunting Wives a new series?

The Hunting Wives is a new series (Season 1).

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The Hunting Wives(2025)

Archived · Netflix

16+8 eps

S01

DramaMysteryThriller

ON AIR: JUL 21Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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The Hunting Wives mixes a soapy murder mystery with sultry, campy suspense. Country-club glamour, rural land, and guns give its East Texas setting a polished surface with danger close by. Flirtation and jealousy turn friendship into something more threatening, while steamy scenes, scheming, and violence push the mood from heady temptation toward dread.

Sophie’s fascination with Margo carries consequences beyond their relationship. Marriages, mother-and-son bonds, and close friendships become tangled in the fallout as secrets give way to betrayals. The season unfolds as one brisk, twisty story, with each episode adding a revelation or another breach of trust. A good life comes apart through escalating personal entanglements, with murder hanging over it all.

Best for

sultry small-town secrets, dangerous female friendships and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Mystery

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Sophie O'Neil moves to deep East Texas and succumbs to socialite Margo's charms. Her life is soon consumed by obsession, seduction, and murder.

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Strongest Match

The Hunting Wives makes small-town friendliness feel dangerous, and The 'Burbs turns neighborly small talk into a funny, uneasy game of suspicion. Sophie’s glamorous new circle hides jealousy and secrets, while a cul-de-sac’s awkward social encounters and family history keep its mystery twisting; this one is more comic than sultry.

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Why this pick

The Hunting Wives and Tell Me Lies both make seductive relationships feel thrilling and unsafe, with secrets turning flirtation into betrayal. Sophie’s friendships grow tangled with jealousy and murder, while a campus romance leaves a trail of lies through a friend group and into adult life; Tell Me Lies is more intimate and emotionally bruising.

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Why this pick

The Hunting Wives keeps you watching as secrets and betrayals turn ordinary relationships dangerous, and Down Cemetery Road brings that same uneasy suspense to a missing-child mystery. Sophie’s social circle is full of flirtation and hidden motives, while a determined neighbor and a wry investigator face lies and growing danger; this one is drier and more investigative.

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