Which The Hunting Wives Character Are You?

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The Hunting Wives is the soapy Netflix thriller that turned an East Texas social club into one of 2025’s most binge-watched guilty pleasures. Adapted from May Cobb’s bestselling novel and developed for television by Rebecca Cutter, the series follows Sophie O’Neil (Brittany Snow), a former political strategist who moves from Boston to the small town of Maple Brook with her husband Graham and their young son, hoping for a quieter life.

Quiet doesn’t last. Sophie is quickly drawn into the orbit of Margo Banks (Malin Akerman), the glamorous, gun-toting ringleader of a clique of wealthy women who call themselves the Hunting Wives. Their gatherings mix target practice, cocktails and plenty of secrets, and Sophie finds herself both seduced by and terrified of Margo’s world — especially once a local teenager, Abby, is found dead and suspicion starts swirling through town.

The rest of the circle is just as memorable. Katie Lowes plays Jill, the pastor’s wife whose devout public image hides plenty of private chaos, while Jaime Ray Newman is Callie, the sheriff’s wife and Margo’s fiercely protective right hand. Chrissy Metz plays Starr, Abby’s mother, whose grief and fury give the show its emotional backbone. Dermot Mulroney rounds out the core cast as Margo’s politically ambitious husband, Jed Banks.

Part of the fun of the show is how it plays with Southern Gothic clichés: the Friday-night football, the church potlucks, the lake houses and the big hair all sit on top of a twisty murder mystery full of affairs, blackmail and shifting loyalties. Every character is hiding something, and the series delights in letting viewers guess who is genuinely dangerous and who is just very good at looking it.

Netflix renewed the show quickly after its debut, and Season 2 premieres on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2026. First-look photos tease more trouble in Maple Brook, with new faces including John Stamos and Dale Dickey joining Snow, Akerman and Mulroney. The streamer has already renewed the series for a third season too, so the Hunting Wives aren’t going anywhere.

Our quiz above matches you with one of the five women at the heart of the story: Sophie, Margo, Jill, Callie or Starr. There are no wrong answers — just questions about how you handle a new town, a juicy secret and a threat to the people you love. Your result might say a lot about how long you’d last in Margo’s inner circle.

If you love a sun-drenched suburban mystery, try our Big Little Lies quiz and Desperate Housewives quiz. For more women-behaving-badly drama, take our Yellowjackets quiz, our All’s Fair quiz or our The Good Daughter quiz.

And if it’s the Southern social scene that hooked you, our Southern Charm quiz and Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County quiz are the reality-TV cousins of Maple Brook — fewer rifles, just as much gossip.