The Hunting Wives is the newest TV obsession but is there a chance the scripted series is about to be developed into a reality show?
Some fans certainly think so after production company Ain’t That Something Entertainment put out a casting call on Tuesday, August 12, which read, “A major streaming service, in partnership with @spoke.studios and @aintthatsomethingentertainment, is casting a close-knit circle of Southern friends navigating faith, friendship, and life’s untold chapters for a major docuseries.”
The post called for “big personalities, big stories” while teasing the working show title: The Real Hunting Wives of the South. According to the official website for Ain’t That Something Entertainment, the company has been involved in casting for hit reality TV shows including The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, The Real Housewives of Orange County, Buying Beverly Hills, Below Deck Adventure and The Hills New Beginnings.
People flooded the comments section with excitement about a possible reality spin of May Cobb‘s novel.
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“That show was great, I’ll watch a reality version plus season 2 on Netflix 
,” read a response while someone else added, “What you’re looking for is in memphis + its suburbs. Big city, small-town stories 
.”
There were other replies that jokingly asked what the potential stars of the show would be “hunting for.” Meanwhile, Bravo fans were quick to point out that The Hunting Wives in reality form already existed with the network’s The Real Housewives of Dallas.
Netflix has not released any official statement about plans for a Hunting Wives reality show. Fans are currently still awaiting any updates on a second season of the hit series, which took the streaming service by storm when it debuted in July.
Based on Cobb’s book of the same name, The Hunting Wives follows Sophie (Brittany Snow), who moves from Boston to an East Texas town where she finds herself drawn to prominent socialite Margo (Malin Åkerman). What ensues is guns, (a lot of) drinking, intense chemistry between Sophie and Margo – and murder.
While The Hunting Wives is an adaptation, fans of the novel were in for a surprise when the show made several big narrative changes. The most noticeable ones included switching the identity of the killer and setting the season 1 finale up for more episodes.
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“[Creator] Rebecca [Cutter] and May Cobb have a really great relationship. They’ve been talking a lot and May was kind of like, ‘Go for it,’” Åkerman, 47, exclusively told Us Weekly in July about those onscreen changes. “She was on set and was really elated to see her characters come to life and really loved the direction that Rebecca went in with the characters and the changes.”
Cutter, for her part, recently teased plans for a second season while speaking to Variety about how there would be “a little bit of a time jump — not a year, but a time.” She also hinted that “it would be smart” to have a new murder mystery in the next season, adding, “I don’t know whodunit yet or who got done!”
Cobb also showed support for a continuation. “I feel like there is so much more story to be told,” Cobb told CBS 19 in July. “It ends on a cliffhanger, and also, the cast and crew were so wonderful. We all just want to get back together and work together again.”
The Hunting Wives is currently streaming on Netflix.
