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The Hunting Wives premiered on Netflix in July 2025, starring Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman
The show was adapted from May Cobb's 2021 book The Hunting Wives
Showrunner Rebecca Cutter made multiple changes to the series' storyline, including who killed Abby Jackson
Netflix’s The Hunting Wives offers just one version of the story.
The salacious show starring Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman was based on May Cobb’s 2021 novel of the same name. Though the premise — an exclusive Texas skeet-shooting club where a circle of wives bound by secrets becomes engulfed in scandal and murder — remained the same, major elements of the original plot were reimagined for the TV adaptation.
“My jaw dropped when [showrunner Rebecca Cutter ] told me,” Cobb said of the show’s cha