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No, what you're getting when you sit down for 'The Hunting Wives' is misbehavior, shenanigans, and hot people getting caught doing both. The show is far more sexually explicit than I expected, and also does not shy away from making the subtext of Sophie's lust for her queen bee friend Margo (
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Graham and Sophie have moved to Texas so that Graham, an architect, can work for Margo's husband Jed (Dermot Mulroney), which is why Sophie gets absorbed into Margo's friend group. The friends call her Boston, and for at least part of an episode or so she resists their passion for drinking and hunting before succumbing. The series presents their conservative politics with shock value but minimal pushback from the allegedly more progressive Sophie, though arguably there's a lot of showing instead of telling regarding the importance of gun safety and the legality of abortion.
Margo's girl group is made up of Callie (Jaime Ray Newman), who has her own history with Margo (this small town in Texas has quite a lot of sapphic conflict), Jill (
'Hunting Wives' is stuffed with red herrings, plot holes, abundant nudity, a little boar hunting, and about three times as many deaths as you're going to expect going in, not to mention a violent crime rate in that small town that probably outpaces that of most major cities. The final episode is called, no joke, 'Sophie's Choice.'
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What I'm saying is that it's extremely silly, and yet this week, despite having a lot to do, I somehow watched all eight episodes. Enjoy.
Lisa Weidenfeld is an arts editor at the Globe.
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