Is this Netflix's sexiest show ever? The Hunting Wives - a murder mystery featuring MAGA women having lesbian romps - leaves viewers hot and bothered
Like last year's surprise hit, The Hunting Wives is also adapted from a bestselling book and features several sex scenes that are guaranteed to set pulses racing - and probably best enjoyed alone.
The eight-part series is based on American author May Cobb's erotic thriller of the same name and adapted by Rebecca Cutler, who revealed she was in 'awe of its flagrant horniness'.
This has translated into a show that doesn't shy away from full-frontal nudity, messy, no-holds-barred sex, and steamy makeout sessions that have earned The Hunting Wives comparisons to Big Little Lies and Desperate Housewives, as well as Disney's smash hit Rivals.
The Hunting Wives premiered in the US on July 21 as viewers were introduced to its protagonist Sophie O'Neill (Brittany Snow) as she relocates to deep red Texas from Boston with her husband Graham (Evan Jonigkeit).
She finds herself embroiled in the lives of a mysterious and exclusive group of gun-toting MAGA women dubbed The Hunting Wives.
Among them is Margo (Malin Ackerman) who lures Sophie into their world of sex, scandal, and salacious gossip.
Margo and her husband, Texas governor hopeful Jed, have an open relationship that allows the high-flying socialite room to have flings with inappropriately younger guys such as the barely-legal Brad (George Ferrier) and also women like her friend Callie (Jaime Ray Newman).
Soon then, she sets her sights on Sophie as the duo come together for one of the series's most graphic scenes.
In the third episode, Margo and Sophie strip off for a very raunchy, lesbian love-making scene as Brittany's character performs oral sex on Margo.
Malin previously spoke about her 'wild' role in the series, admitting: 'I love roles like this.'
'Women who are just big and free and wild', she told The Post.
The 27 Dresses star added: 'This show is saucy and fun, and I love veering away from who I am in real life, which is a people pleaser, and stepping into something that's a bit more queen bee, leader of the pack. It was amazing.'
Speaking about the steamy sex scenes with Brittany, Malin said the atmosphere was 'playful'.
'I'm so glad it was with her, and we felt so comfortable with each other. We'd become really good friends — and how lucky that we did end up getting along', she added.
In her review, Forbes critic Dana Feldman noted there hasn't been a 'book-to-screen adaptation this salacious' since British author E.L. James's erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
Discussing the show on Reddit after it premiered stateside, one Netflix viewer compared it to a '90s soft core' porn film but with 'incredible actors and production value'.
Another wrote: 'I just started this series. Seeing Malin Akerman naked in the first 5 minutes was an unexpected surprise. I'm locked in now! And so is my husband LOL!'
A third added that the TV show is even 'more erotic' than Cobb's book because it gives Sophie 'more agency in her relationship with Margo'.
One Reddit user confessed she felt like a 'creep for watching it on my tablet' so that her children wouldn't catch her 'watching porn'.
'As I recall in the book the only sexual encounter between the two comes near the end and occurs only because Sophie's drink was spiked,' they explained.
'In the series, when Margot initiates intimacy, Sophie responds in the affirmative and enthusiastically so. I found that depiction far more erotic than in the novel.
The book's official synopsis reads: 'Sophie O'Neill left behind the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town.
'It seems like the perfect life but Sophie soon becomes bored and restless. Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives.
'Sophie finds herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target practice and dangerous partying.
'As Sophie's curiosity gives way to full-blown obsession, she slips farther away from the safety of her family and deeper into this nest of vipers.
'When the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet, Sophie finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation and her life spiralling out of control.'
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