Hit new streaming show's graphic sex scene shocks viewers

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3 days ago

The new streaming series The Hunting Wives has quickly joined the ranks of shows that fans devour in one sitting, only to have to wait one year or longer for another season.
Sexy, twisted, and filled with secrets, the show sees reserved New Englander Sophie O'Neill (Brittany Snow) moving down to East Texas and getting trapped in the web of Margo Banks (Malin Akerman).
While the series is predicated on the juxtaposition between so-called good Christian Southerners like Margo and Jed Banks (Dermot Mulroney) and godless liberals like Sophie and Graham (Evan Jonigkeit), the entire premise is really an exploration of facades. If you need proof of that, look no further than Callie (Jaime Ray Newman) and Sheriff Jonny (Branton Box).
The moment people started knocking (cowboy) boots in The Hunting Wives, which streams locally on Stan, it was bound to make its way to TikTok. What fans may not have expected to see, however, is all of the different kinds of sex the show displays, including... pegging.
Yup, they go there.
In Episode 7, 'Shooting Star,' the straight-laced, no-nonsense Sheriff Jonnyis 'pegged' by his wife, Callie. For those of you not in the know, the sexual act involves a woman wearing a strap-on dildo and having anal sex with a man.
During the short but unforgettable scene, Callie — who has her own romantic scenes throughout the series with Margo — also hypes up her lawman husband to 'lock her up,' referencing Sophie being suspected in the murder of Abby (Madison Wolfe).
Over on TikTok, viewers could not help but talk about that shocking Episode 7 scene, for obvious reasons, as everyone is speechless at how far the show is willing to go. But my personal takeaway is that it's all in service of taking down false narratives surrounding public personas and how the idea of the 'perfect couple' or the embodiment of the nuclear family is all false.
Just to be clear: this is not kink-shaming, it's simply a statement on how fake these couples are, especially ones that pretend to be the face of conservative Christian values.
If you don't believe me, all you need to remember is that just a few episodes earlier, Callie and Jonny had another scene where they played right into that messaging. In Episode 4, 'Cheat Day,' Callie stops by his office under the guise of dropping off a freshly ironed shirt and tie, only to have him pull his pants down and bend over. No, not for sexy things, but so that she can inject him straight in the butt. The exact medication is unspecified, but we can only assume that since she calls it his 'muscle juice,' it's probably some type of anabolic steroid.
The pegging scene and the steroid shot both serve as commentary on the need for Jonny to feel like a man in order to do his job — which he does pretty poorly, by the way — and Callie's insistence on being the helpful and seemingly subservient wife who is really the one pulling the strings.
Honestly, it's a point well made, albeit a graphically made one that left us (and the entire internet) without words for a few minutes. Things are not always as they seem.
Overall, the show is in no short supply of sex scenes and shocking moments — Episode 1, 'Strange and Unfamiliar Places,' literally ends with Sophie watching a full nude Margo get it on with the 18-year-old son of Jill (Katie Lowes) and Reverand Clint (Jason Davis) — but this one absolutely sticks out. If this is what they pulled out for Season 1, can you even imagine what might be in store for Season 2?