After a week essentially devoid of good news, I’m not ashamed to say I am beaming and fist-pumping at the announcement that Netflix has renewed its steamy, conservative-queer-chic drama The Hunting Wives for a second season. While not every prestige TV show needs a multi-season follow-up—I’m looking at you, Season 3 of Big Little Lies, although I will, of course, be seated when it finally comes out—and the plot of The Hunting Wives Season 1 did resolve rather neatly, its mere eight episodes didn’t provide me with nearly enough of Malin Ackerman and her array of bronde wigs.
According to Deadline, Season 2 of the Rebecca Cutter-created show, based on May Cobb’s bestselling novel of the same name, will find Ackerman’s devious Margo and Brittany Snow’s less-innocent-than-she-seems Sophie on the outs, when “soon enough, old secrets and new foes force them back together. As they play their dangerous games the question arises. Are they the hunters or the hunted?”
I have no idea what any of that means, but if it leads us to more Margo-and-Sophie sex scenes in which we get to experience the marvel of Sophie as a femme top, I’m on board! (When I posited that the return of The Hunting Wives might augur the start of “Femme Top Fall,” Vogue’s fashion news editor José Criales-Unzueta responded: “A blouse fall, if you will. Get it? Because blouses are feminine tops…” Well, yes!)
When I asked another Vogue colleague, Elise Taylor, what she wanted to see from Season 2 of The Hunting Wives, her answer was immediate: “More denim and diamonds, baby. I want LOGOMANIA! We know Texas women spend, and I want them in the flashiest outfits possible.” I share Taylor’s desire wholeheartedly. The women of The Hunting Wives don’t actually have to dress well—and, in fact, like the hotel guests on the most recent season of The White Lotus, it’s realistic that they wouldn’t—but they do have to dress capital-B Big. Personally, I’m counting down the days until Netflix once again plunges us deep into the heart of Texas.
