“The Hunting Wives” is one of those rare shows where nothing makes much sense, but it still somehow works. Thanks to her very middling husband, coastal liberal Sophie O’Neill (Brittany Snow) gets dropped into the gun-toting world of East Texas socialites, led by Queen Bee Margo Banks (Malin Åkerman). Longing glances are exchanged, handguns are casually purchased, dark secrets are uncovered, and a local teen girl ends up dead.
It’s an absurd, sudsy, romp through MAGA-land — with a healthy dose of murder and an even healthier dose of illicit sexual encounters. Before you can say “bless your heart,” Sophie — who is initially disgusted when she and her husband show up at his new boss’ NRA party — is buying a gun she doesn’t know how to load and blacking out at honky tonks with her new girlfriends and their teen sons/paramours.
As Judy Berman points out in Time, “The Hunting Wives” falls beautifully into the grand tradition of “wives” pop culture. Stories abou…
