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\n\t[This story contains major spoilers from the season finale of The Hunting Wives<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

\n\tUpper class Texan women who like to shoot guns, drink and hit the party circuit \u2014 and who maybe kill people \u2014 are having a moment thanks to The Hunting Wives.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Netflix<\/a> series from creator Rebecca Cutter that stars Malin Akerman<\/a> and Brittany Snow<\/a> needs little introduction by now. The Hunting Wives hit a new milestone last week<\/a> when it became the most-viewed streaming series in the U.S., after hanging out in the Netflix Top 10 for more than a month following its July 21 release.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the binge-y, erotic crime thriller wasn\u2019t always at Netflix. Cutter, who created Starz drama Hightown<\/a>, was initially making The Hunting Wives also for Starz. The cable network\u2019s tagline is \u201cWe\u2019re All Adults Here,\u201d which explains how the racy series \u2014\u00a0complete with more nudity, sex, violence and politics than you might expect from a typical Netflix offering \u2014 ended up at the streaming giant. Heading into Starz\u2019s split from Lionsgate in May (which became official this summer<\/a>), the TV studio behind The Hunting Wives pivoted and took Cutter\u2019s series to the open market. (Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter the show didn\u2019t fit Starz\u2019s go-forward programming strategy as a standalone network; Starz and Lionsgate agreed on the parting.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThere was buzz by then around The Hunting Wives, an adaptation of May Cobb\u2019s 2021 bestseller that is produced by Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment. Netflix was the most aggressive and quickly jumped, confirming a summer release for only weeks later and prompting Lionsgate to mobilize a grassroots marketing campaign around the acquisition. \u201cRebecca is a risk-taker. There\u2019s nothing tentative in her approach to these characters; it was a big and noisy idea that would really make you lean in,\u201d says Kevin Beggs,\u00a0Lionsgate Television Group chair and chief creative officer. \u201cWe were hopeful it would perform, but none of us could have imagined the instant reaction and then the staying power of the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hunting Wives became the sexed-up social commentary success of summer, tapping into the zeitgeist and flooding Cutter\u2019s social media feed with hot takes from both critics and viewers <\/a>about how The Hunting Wives brought both sex and the culture wars back to TV, as it centers on the East Texan clique of conservative wives. Some viewers were even questioning their sexuality<\/a> over the main romance between Akerman and Snow\u2019s characters, queen bee Margo and the new liberal in town, Sophie, respectively. The streamer is already in discussions with the Hunting Wives team for a second season, per a source.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve heard some people say that the show is part of this new mandate to make red-state content, and that wasn\u2019t what it was. I mean, it was for horny middle-aged women,\u201d Cutter tells THR of her \u201canti-prestige\u201d addictive series. \u201cIt got to come into Netflix feeling really different than any other show on Netflix.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, the creator, writer and showrunner shares more of The Hunting Wives\u2018 journey from Starz to Netflix while opening up about her multi-season plan and revealing some of her season two ideas as she awaits an official renewal following that very intentional and wild cliffhanger finale: \u201cThis was never, in my mind, a limited series,\u201d she says of more Margo and Sophie to come.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThere\u2019s no one in my social circle who hasn\u2019t binged The Hunting Wives by now.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s amazing. My husband watched it, and he was like, \u201cWell, it\u2019s not as good as your other show, but it\u2019s pretty good.\u201d I was like, OK, tough crowd!<\/p>\n

\n\tAll of these weeks later, the show is still topping the streaming charts. It\u2019s fun to speak with you after you\u2019ve been engaging with the viewer response all summer. What has this ride been like for you \u2014 is your social media feed nonstop?<\/p>\n

\n\tPretty much. It\u2019s starting to slow down a little bit, and I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be sad when it\u2019s over. For a little while I was like, \u201cThis is a full-time job.\u201d But it\u2019s amazing. Especially considering that this show was made for Starz. I\u2019ve had a show on Starz [Hightown, for three seasons]. It doesn\u2019t matter how good the show is, it just doesn\u2019t get this big of a response in my experience. And for a while, it was questionable if The Hunting Wives was even coming out at all. So then once I heard it was at Netflix, it was like, \u201cOK, that\u2019s the best possible outcome.\u201d And I started to feel like it could be a hit. But you don\u2019t know. No one called me from Netflix, they kind of threw it up there [when it released]. So really, who knows? I was thinking, maybe it\u2019ll be like Adolescence<\/a> and be popular, or maybe it will just come and go. Who knows?<\/p>\n

\n\tSince it was an acquisition, there wasn\u2019t the typical pre-promotion with Malin Akerman or Brittany Snow hitting the talk show circuit, or a big press day.<\/p>\n

\n\tRight. There wasn\u2019t a premiere [event]. Lionsgate did a good job of creating a viral campaign, but otherwise it was pretty low key.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo let\u2019s go back to chart this Hunting Wives journey from Starz to Netflix. When did you first write the show?<\/p>\n

\n\tI pitched it in the spring of 2022. But literally, the same day I pitched it to Starz, they ordered a third season of Hightown. [President of original programming at Starz] Kathryn Busby called me like, \u201cHey, we\u2019re buying your pitch and we\u2019re picking up Hightown.\u201d I couldn\u2019t even start writing The Hunting Wives until after [Hightown season three]. So I think I wrote the pilot in fall of 2022, and then the writers room was early 2023 and then got interrupted by the strike, and then came back and finished fall 2023 <\/a>and we shot in 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo once your writers room was going, you were making this show for Starz.<\/p>\n

\n\tYes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen you finished filming and what happened?<\/p>\n

\n\tSo then we were in post[-production]. We\u2019re going along making a show for Starz, but they\u2019re just never giving us an airdate. This was all in the lead up to the divorce between Lionsgate and Starz<\/a>. And it was like, \u201cI think it would be best for everyone if we just sold it elsewhere.\u201d So again, all of the credit to Lionsgate, because they had a good handle on how to do that, also going through [the foreign market] and all of that. From my perspective, that\u2019s how it went down.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tBrittany Snow as Sophie (left) and Malin Akerman as Margo have an affair in The Hunting Wives.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWere you involved or aware of who they were shopping the show to after parting ways with Starz?<\/p>\n

\n\tI had a vague idea, but I wasn\u2019t totally up in it. They had a foreign screening first. They were going to sell the foreign rights anyway, because Starz doesn\u2019t have the foreign platform anymore. I think there was the idea of, \u201cThis is going to get a lot of attention, and it could fuel a domestic sale as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo once it landed at Netflix, how quickly did you get a release date?<\/p>\n

\n\tReally fast. That was the really surprising thing, too. I remember we were sitting around in late spring and I\u2019m thinking, \u201cI don\u2019t know where it\u2019s going to air, but whoever ends up with it, it\u2019s going to take months and months.\u201d And then it was like, \u201cNo, we want it for July 21.\u201d We didn\u2019t even have key art finished. Suzy Feldman at Lionsgate dove in and was like, \u201cOK, we have a week and a half.\u201d They made the trailer internally, which I thought was an awesome trailer<\/a>. It was all hands on deck \u2014 just like: go.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the big changes you made from the book was to pepper in more hot-button, timely politics into this murder mystery, including about abortion laws and the state of reproductive rights in Texas. I imagine you would have been bummed if the show didn\u2019t get a quick release.<\/p>\n

\n\tYes, although it\u2019s all stuff that I wrote in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tDo you think if you were making this show at Netflix initially, you could have made it as erotic?<\/p>\n

\n\tProbably not. The tagline for Starz, to their great credit, is: \u201cWe\u2019re all adults here.\u201d This is my second show for them. They have no problem with very sexual and violent content, and pushing the envelope on respectability, I think, is part of it. But it might have even gone too far for them, because those were some of the notes we got in post, like, \u201cHoping maybe it was a little more prestige-y.\u201d (Laughs.) So honestly, it ended up having the best life it could have, I think, because it got to come into Netflix feeling really different than any other show on Netflix. That\u2019s not a knock on any show on Netflix. I\u2019ve watched Netflix shows for years. We all have. But it did feel like not quite something that they would have made.<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve seen you reacting in interviews to the reception that The Hunting Wives is helping to bring sex back to TV. We can probably expect Netflix to order more content like this. What do you attribute to its resonance?<\/p>\n

\n\tI think it just works. It\u2019s fun, and it is sort of anti-prestige. I like to think there\u2019s a Shonda Rhimes-level of, \u201cLet\u2019s burn story, baby. Every episode, multiple twists and turns.\u201d But then it has a Game of Thrones-level of sexuality and nudity, and also being not afraid to go there in terms of queer sex. I think all of that felt fresh, but hopefully because the actors are so good and the chemistry is so good that it also doesn\u2019t feel exploitative or just sex for sex\u2019s sake. The girls aren\u2019t in the background naked, weaving a basket. There\u2019s a purpose to everything.<\/p>\n

\n\tHow did you first get involved with author May Cobb in adapting this? I know you eventually went and visited her and spent time with her in Texas.<\/p>\n

\n\tI had a deal at Lionsgate at that time, and [The Hunting Wives executive producer] Erwin Stoff at 3 Arts [Entertainment], who optioned the book, is involved with Lionsgate a lot, because now they own 3 Arts. I think he originally called Jeffrey Hirsch [President and CEO of Starz] and told him he had this book. Jeff was very excited and said, \u201cThat\u2019s perfect for us.\u201d I think it was then Scott Herbst at Lionsgate who said, \u201cYou should send it to Rebecca Cutter. She\u2019s a crime writer who does Hightown, and see if she responds to the book.\u201d We talked when I was in the airport. He sent it to me, and I read the PDF on the airplane. I was like, \u201cHere we go, baby.\u201d It\u2019s so horny, it\u2019s so fun.<\/p>\n

\n\tSB8 [the state senate bill also known as the \u201cTexas Heartbeat Act\u201d] had just passed the day before in Texas. This is 2021 and pre-Roe v. Wade falling, but it was one of the first super restrictive abortion bills in Texas. I heard about that one day, then read this book that has this abortion plot in Texas the next day. I was like, \u201cIf we\u2019re going to do it, let\u2019s do it.\u201d I was thinking, \u201cWell, if I said I want to do culture war stuff, they\u2019re not going to let me, but let me just see.\u201d And instead they were actually like, \u201cGreat, yeah, let\u2019s do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI was pretty clear about wanting to do that, because that wasn\u2019t in the book. I wanted to make [Sophie, Snow\u2019s character] a fish out of water and lean into it. [Writer\u2019s note: In the show, she\u2019s a Northeast Democratic operative who relocates to Texas with her family.] In the book, she\u2019s from Texas and going back home. But I\u2019m not a Texan. My entr\u00e9e is as a liberal elite. That\u2019s how I would be more interested in seeing this. But I didn\u2019t make that change to make the show more political. It was more to make it feel more specific. Like, who are these women? Who are the upper middle class white ladies shooting guns and drinking who don\u2019t work? Who would the \u201chunting wives\u201d be? Well, they would be conservatives, obviously.<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve heard some people say that the show is part of this new mandate to make red-state content, and that wasn\u2019t what it was. I mean, it was for horny middle-aged women. The politics were to try and make it more specific, and maybe some part of my belief system is in there too, but I was trying very hard to be fair to all the characters. I don\u2019t want to make a show where I\u2019m despising half the characters. That\u2019s not fun as a writer.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe \u201chunting wives\u201d are played by (left to right) Alexandria DeBerry, Joyce Glenn, Jaime Ray Newman, Brittany Snow, Malin Akerman and Katie Lowes.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHow do you feel Texans are responding to the show?<\/p>\n

\n\tI never was a TikTok person, but I started to watch all the videos and it\u2019s been so amazing. Every kind of person digs the show. I mean, there\u2019s plenty of people who don\u2019t dig it. I have seen some videos of people turning it off. I don\u2019t make a video every time I turn something off! But it seems like Southern women, Christian women, Black women, white women, lesbians, gay men [all like it] \u2014\u00a0it feels like the show has hit a large vein of people that like it for whatever reason and maybe for all different reasons. I\u2019ve seen a few people saying it\u2019s not realistic. And then a few other people will be like, \u201cOh, no, I\u2019m from here. It\u2019s kind of realistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYou said you thought you might have something big when you were making the show, but you couldn\u2019t predict how long it would stay in Netflix\u2019s Top 10. Do you feel like it\u2019s a perfect formula for right now?<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m really blown away. Who knows what\u2019s going to be a hit? I try really hard not hedge my bets or chase the market. I always feel like I\u2019m my best when I do what I\u2019m good at, and I can\u2019t really focus on the results. But me and Erwin would sit in post \u2014 I\u2019ve seen these episodes 100 times \u2014 and you can\u2019t really stop watching once you start. I did know that. I didn\u2019t know how big of an audience we were going to get, but I did think people would finish the show. It\u2019s a tight little murder mystery with a ton of shocking stuff.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat feedback were you getting from Netflix, and what feedback are you getting now that everyone is, I\u2019m sure, eyeing a second season?<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen they bought it, there were no changes [so we didn\u2019t have conversations]. I have spoken to them now. I heard early on that the show was having a really good finishing rate, but nothing so concrete. Just nice conversations.<\/p>\n

\n\tHave you had any chats about season two?<\/p>\n

\n\tNothing official, but I feel like everybody wants that! [Writer\u2019s note: Netflix is in talks for a season two, per a source.]<\/p>\n

\n\tThe biggest change you made is the ending, and I want to dive into that, but I also bring that up because your ending very clearly sets up a second season. Were you feeling really confident when you wrote the show, to end it in a way where we need more?<\/p>\n

\n\tEven when it was at Starz, it was never, in my mind, a limited series. From what I gather, doing more than three [seasons] is hard, so three is a great number. But I could do it forever. It\u2019s so fun. The girls are so fun. We love it.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a bummer that Katie Lowes can\u2019t be back. [Writer\u2019s note: A change from the book was that Lowes\u2019 character, Jill, dies. In the book, Jill kills her son\u2019s girlfriend, Abby, along with Margo, to protect her son after Abby had an abortion. In the series, Margo is the killer and is left alive.]<\/p>\n

\n\tOr Chrissy Metz [who played Abby\u2019s mom] \u2014 so many deaths!<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat was your casting process for finding Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow as Margo and Sophie, respectively? Did you see a lot of people for the main roles?<\/p>\n

\n\tNo. We cast Malin first. We had a casting director that Erwin had worked with a lot in L.A., Jeanne McCarthy. It was that early process of making lists, but she said, \u201cMay I recommend Malin Akerman? I think she\u2019s exceedingly talented, and as an actress she\u2019s fearless, and I think that\u2019s what you need.\u201d And that was enough. I said, \u201cYes, I know her work. Great idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWe sent her all the scripts over Christmas. She was in Sweden. She read all eight scripts in three days and emailed, \u201cI love this. Let\u2019s meet.\u201d We had lunch with Malin, along with director Julie Anne Robinson, me and Erwin, and it was a lovefest. That was the most important character to cast first, because she is the linchpin. Margo isn\u2019t necessarily the biggest part. We certainly see everything through Sophie\u2019s eyes, so Brittany Snow is the star of the show. But the Margo character needs to work, because you need to believe that Sophie is going to get swept up in like four hours. Like, in a day and a half, she\u2019s going to be a lesbian. Who\u2019s going to do that for you? Malin Akerman is going to do that for you.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen it was back to a list again [for Sophie], and it was Brittany Snow. We have incredible trust in this casting director and we love Brittany. I love that she can do comedy. She can come off really vulnerable. She\u2019s incredibly smart. Just everything about her, and all of her questions were the right ones. So we had those two off the bat, and then Dermot [Mulroney] also did not audition. We had breakfast with him. He is having so much fun [with the show]. I love his Jed Banks [Margo\u2019s husband]. Jed is barely a character in the book, and then this guy just comes on in.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt seems Jed also can come back for season two. [Writer\u2019s note: The season ended with Jed kicking Margo out as he moves along with his campaign for governor of Texas.]<\/p>\n

\n\tOh, yes. He will!<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMargo (Akerman) and Sophie (Snow), here earlier in their romance, end the first season with a cliffhanger for their relationship when Sophie kills Margo\u2019s brother and after Sophie figured out that Margo was the one who killed Abby (after Margo got an abortion when carrying high schooler Brad\u2019s baby and Abby found out).<\/p>\n

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\n\tDid you do any chemistry reads with Brittany and Malin?<\/p>\n

\n\tNo, we didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat was their first intimate scene that you shot?<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two big lake house scenes in episodes three and four \u2014 when they play spin the bottle and then their first sex scenes \u2014 were filmed in the same block with director Melanie Mayron. So we were holed up in that lake house, and that was the same week. I was there for that. They had the scene where Sophie sees Margo and Brad [Jill\u2019s high school son played by George Ferrier] having sex through the window that I wasn\u2019t there for earlier.<\/p>\n

\n\tTheir first meeting was also an intimate one, when Sophie walks in on Margo and Margo drops her dress and exposes herself in the bathroom.<\/p>\n

\n\tYes, it all happened quick. That\u2019s what\u2019s so great about Malin, she\u2019s just so game. She was so ready. There was never a question of, \u201cIs this gratuitous?\u201d That scene was the first one I ever pictured in my head. When I started to pitch the show, that was the moment. Because it had the tampon \u2014 the clue that was eventually going to pay off [that makes Sophie realize later that Margo was the killer]. There was a scene that was cut from the show before the bathroom scene, but in the script, Sophie came in with a new dress and Graham [Sophie\u2019s husband played by Evan Jonigkeit] is like, \u201cYou should wear this sluttier dress.\u201d And she\u2019s like, \u201cNo, I can\u2019t.\u201d So you could tell there\u2019s this weird repression going on with her and with the husband and sexuality. So here is this woman, Sophie, having a panic attack, and then she walks in on this woman [Margo], who, thirty seconds later, drops her dress. It was scripted as a jumpsuit. But you have to take the whole thing off; I was trying to be realistic. We just could not find a jumpsuit that came off elegantly, so we went with the dress.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt works because it was like, who does that? Margo does that.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a power play. This woman is so comfortable in herself, but she\u2019s putting it in your face. Are you going to look away? Who are you as a person? That was a perfect character moment that also had a plot function.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou said they got the whole script, so they knew what they were signing on for, and I know you had an intimacy coordinator on set. But was there anything they blushed at?<\/p>\n

\n\tI wouldn\u2019t say they blushed at it. I think they just wanted it to look really good and sexy and real. Our intimacy coordinator, Lizzy Talbot, is amazing. We have very frank meetings, but also, \u201cHow do we make this look sexy? How do you make it look better? How do you make it look real? What is the choreography?\u201d Everyone just wanted it to come out great. I don\u2019t think anybody felt like they were being pushed to do something they didn\u2019t want to do or didn\u2019t believe in.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo the twisty ending is a huge change. Since you had this collaborative relationship with May, how did she react to you changing so much, including Sophie driving drunk, again, and killing Margo\u2019s brother, and that Margo doesn\u2019t die in the end?<\/p>\n

\n\tI had already pitched the show by the time I met her, and had pretty much broken the season. Before I went to Texas to meet her, I was like, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to tell her anything.\u201d Then we became best friends in two seconds. We were at her sister\u2019s house on the lake and I was like, \u201cOh, fuck it. I\u2019m just going to do it.\u201d I was like, \u201cMay, I have to tell you. I kind of know everything that I want to happen, and a lot of it is really different than the book.\u201d She was like, \u201cI want to hear!\u201d I loosely pitched it to her and she was like, \u201cIt\u2019s brilliant. I love it. Do whatever you want. I wish you\u2019d been there when I was writing the book!\u201d She was so sweet and supportive, and wasn\u2019t precious about it. What I\u2019m so stoked about is that the book is doing so well now on Amazon<\/a>. People who love the show are buying the book and reading it and they love it too, and they\u2019re very different. Everyone\u2019s happy.<\/p>\n

\n\tWriters have done crazier things, but of course you couldn\u2019t kill Margo off. Did you make that change to keep the surprise element and also give you more runway to keep telling this story?<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, it was both. When I was reading the book, there\u2019s a period of time where Sophie is infatuated with Margo and at the same time, she thinks that Margot is framing her for the murder of Abby [the high school victim played by Madison Wolfe in the show]. And the reader is also thinking Margo is framing her. I love doing two things at once. I love a toxic love affair where it\u2019s like, \u201cWe\u2019re fucking, but maybe you\u2019re framing me for murder.\u201d That\u2019s my wheelhouse. So, that\u2019s what I want to do and what I wanted the whole season to be. How do I do that? When Margo dies in the book, you realize she wasn\u2019t framing Sophie. I was like, \u201cHow do I keep that tension up all the way until the end of the show?\u201d So that was really the impetus for the change and not wanting to kill that character. But it wasn\u2019t really so much about how many seasons. I just thought it was more delicious that way.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tExpect more Sophie and Margo in a second season, says Cutter: \u201cThey\u2019re the two leads of the show, of course you\u2019re getting more Sophie and Margo.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tDoes that mean you\u2019ll keep that tension for this entire Margo-Sophie relationship? We\u2019ll always be questioning true motives?<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s definitely part of it. Margo is a classic femme fatal, so you\u2019re always going to question exactly what\u2019s going on, and it will always be a crime story. There will always be plot twists that are going to surprise. If I do my job right, the idea is to always have a lot going on that is surprising and unexpected and hopefully really satisfying. And that\u2019s between them and in their relationship, but also in the things they do separately and in the way they both have to navigate their new lives after everything that\u2019s now happened.<\/p>\n

\n\tAre you thinking you would pick up right where you left off or would you do a time jump for a season two?<\/p>\n

\n\tI think a little time jump. I like there to be a little bit of a new status quo, but you don\u2019t want to miss too much.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ending sets them up to either be against each other \u2014 either overtly or deceitfully \u2014 or it could bind them since they\u2019re really all each other has now. What do you want us to think \u2014 will we get more Margo and Sophie in season two?<\/p>\n

\n\tYou are good at trying to get me to spill! I mean, they\u2019re the two leads of the show, of course you\u2019re getting more Sophie and Margo. Just, what does that mean? And where does it end up? I\u2019m not going to tell you! But they will have many scenes together. I can say that.<\/p>\n

\n\tSophie threw away everything in the finale, which was kind of astounding but also heartbreaking that she would come so full circle in her spiral. What were you wanting to say and explore about trauma and recovery?<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, I\u2019m sober for a long time. Hightown was a lot about addiction and recovery. I really didn\u2019t want to do that again. Obviously, in Hunting Wives they drink a lot, and it\u2019s not good. It\u2019s not helping them make good decisions, especially for Sophie. But I was hoping not to get into the weeds of a 12-step story again, only because I\u2019ve done it. So to me, Sophie drinking and driving again was probably the soapiest thing in the whole show, in terms of: \u201cThis is a little bit ridiculous, but I think we can get away with it.\u201d And I\u2019m not 100 percent sure we did! Because a lot of people were like, \u201cBut the Tesla has a camera.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cOK, I hear you! But this is the story. You enjoyed the whole thing, just go with it!\u201d (Laughs.) My husband goes, \u201cCouldn\u2019t she just throw the [alcohol] bottles out the window?\u201d But then you wouldn\u2019t have that final shot.<\/p>\n

\n\tAre there any season two ideas that aren\u2019t spoilery that you would share? Maybe in terms of expanding the show or bringing in different characters?<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, there is no season two, yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tHypothetically.<\/p>\n

\n\tI love the response to Wanda Salazar [played by Karen Rodriguez], who\u2019s our deputy. She is a very interesting and very fresh character, so I always want to make sure she has plenty to do. I definitely think that more trouble will come from the bowels of Alba, Texas, which is Margo and [her brother played by Michael Aaron Milligan] Kyle\u2019s hometown. Obviously Jed\u2019s campaign [for governor] brings in another class of people. There was also talk of a reality show for Callie and John [played by Jaime Ray Newman and Branton Box, respectively]. So there\u2019s a lot of world building that can be done.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd now the tone of the show is set; you can\u2019t go back. So, no notes from Netflix for season two? <\/p>\n

\n\tFrom your lips to God\u2019s ears!<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

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