In the great tradition of shows with “wives” in the title, Netflix's new drama “The Hunting Wives” is a radiant soap that focuses on women who behave poorly. But in this city of East Texas it is a little different where the women of a conservative governor candidate, the district of Sheriff and the local megach extensions carry reverend weapons in their handbags. And despite their supposed traditional values and Maga policy, some of these women are involved in extramarital matters.
Based on the novel by May Cobb, Creator and executing producer Rebecca Cutter's “The Hunting Wives”, extends the premise of the “Single White Female” of the original, the Sophie by Brittany Snow from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a NRA meeting with her architect's husband, Graham (Evan Jontigitit). As a former “political publicist” on the democratic side, Sophie immediately escapes into the bathroom and meets Margo Banks (Malin Akerman), the fascinating, uninhibited wife of Graham's new boss and potential politician of Jed Banks (Dermot Mulroney).
Moral attitude is the name of the game in this Texas city, where everything is larger – including the crowd. Most headlines about “The Hunting Wives” are about Akersman's -sized Margo, who intervenes Sophie in a bad wig next to the rest of her legion with her female Wiles and her coquettes. She and Jed have an “arrangement” (“Open marriages are for liberals,” she says Sophie). “I don't sleep with other men, and when Jed and I see a girl we like, we'll do it.”
But Mrs. Banks is not for rules, so she has more than who her husband agrees, and Sophie drops her liberal beliefs to be faster with Margo than she can exhaust her bra. Soon Sophie keeps secrets from her husband, just like the rest of the women until the murder of a local cheerleader threatens to blow all carefully neat ceilings. Of course there is ethical non-monogamy and sexual fluidity (bi-curiosis, membership base is based Rock club Has regular events in Houston, Dallas and Austin), but in contrast to the “unfortunate” coastal elites, the inhabitants of the fictional city of Maple Brook would not dare to tell something like this in a polite conversation.
The hypocrisy in “The Hunting Wives”, who made third place on Netflix last week, ranked 3rd with 5.2 million views and rose to 1st place in the US Daily Top 10 charts. With all the attention that the show receives, the reactions of the audience have proven to be feverish. The fans about party lines questioned their sexuality after Margo's impact on Sophie (as well as Callie, a different friend and a saphical lover who becomes Jilted as soon as Sophie has come into the city). The bisexual (emphasis on the sexual) nature of the show was a central focus of most reviews and the fan comments, but interestingly, there is much less homophobic reaction as a criticism of Margo's secret affair with her friend's 18-year-old son and the local reverend. Conservative and liberal spectators are mainly invested in the world of “hunting women”. It is Margo's world, from Reddit threads To Tikok takes hotAnd we all live for it.
Akerman felt the love for her deliciously double character and said she thinks that Margo's contradictions are ultimately representative of humanity in the broader sense.
“I think we humans have a certain vision about how society works and how we should be and what is asked by us,” she told NBC News. “The [show] tests these limits. I have the feeling that people are flowing people. We don't have to be put in a category, and I think it's okay to push this scale and ask yourself and be what you feel instead of telling you. “
Cutter, the creator and show runner, said she wanted to play with paradoxes and contest the line of satirizing the conservative culture of the “hunting women” without slandering the characters, an emergency that is reached even if they murder people. Cutter refers to Sophie as the local liberal, who breaks her own moral code to be with Margo.
“She is not exactly someone who is committed to what she believes,” said Cutter. “So there is hypocrisy and bad behavior on both sides.”
On “The Hunting Wives”, women who have romantic and sexual relationships with each other is unspoken bad behavior. Although Jed does not mind, his wife's sapphic tendencies, his decision to run for the governor requires a new kind of discretion and reluctance that Margo sets more sanctions than for his preference for three. Margo is the key to his public person as a good old boy with a classic Christian woman, and although in addition to derogatory mentions of abortion and immigration, no direct anti-homosexual expressions are made, said cutter that homophobia is deliberately unspoken, but implied.
“In the Christian world there will be a measure of” This is not okay “, which everyone then exceeds,” said Cutter. “I think in this line are open marriages for liberals.” It is as if we are encountering it differently, even if the actions are the same. “
It is also increased that “the hunting women” reflect a very real population who, for some spectators, who have difficulty finding fun, dealing with characters whose personal life is different from their political motivations. On the other hand, men were rewarded several times Name the series “Vulgar” or In question, that his ability can be referred to as a “queer show”. It may be frustrating to recognize that people's sexual life does not always match their public personas and voting habits, but that “the hunting women” confronts the way in which healing is often covered for self-destructive secrets-and no political party has a monopoly.
Conservative, weapon toing texas offers a solid backdrop for a series like “The Hunting Wives” in order to play with congresses with congresses-what is ultimately possible for most spectators to enter eight funny and sexy episodes.
“We are as polarized as a nation,” said Cutter, “and it's not a serious show. I think people ultimately just enjoy the trip.”
After the fans are successful only two weeks after the beginning of his debut, a second season is imminent. Would there be a world in which an open gay “hunting wife” joins the ranks? Cutter said she didn't think about it: “It's a great idea.”