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\n If this is the face she makes when you\u2019re joking around, fellas, don\u2019t be surprised when your wife comes out as bisexual.
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This contains spoilers for the end of The Hunting Wives.<\/p>\n
Being a husband on a streaming service\u2019s murdery-wives show is a thankless part. The concept of a \u201cgood\u201d husband doesn\u2019t really exist in this space. Sorry \u2014 but if these murdering wives had good husbands, then they probably wouldn\u2019t be murdering in the first place. There are few shows where this is more apparent than Netflix\u2019s The Hunting Wives, a Big Little Lies\u2013esque murder mystery based on a novel of the same name by May Cobb. There are all sorts of bad husbands in The Hunting Wives: Jed (Dermot Mulroney) is a horny oil tycoon with his eyes set on the governor\u2019s mansion, Clint (Jason Davis) is a snobby reverend, and Jonny (Branton Box) is a crooked sheriff. In Maple Brook, Texas \u2014 a small town full of these bad husbands along with several mysterious deaths \u2014 there is one husband who takes the cake as the worst of the worst. Sophie\u2019s (Brittany Snow) needling and useless husband Graham (Evan Jonigkeit), an architect \u2014 although it rarely comes up \u2014 may not be the most evil, or even the most conniving, but he\u2019s the most annoying.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Graham\u2019s fault, really, that Sophie gets into her Maple Brook mess with the rootin\u2019 shootin\u2019 titular hunting wives. He moves her and their son Jack down to Texas so he can work on a big project for Jed. Rather than assuage his wife\u2019s anxieties as they roll up to what winds up being a surprise NRA fundraiser, Graham sells her out by lying that they\u2019re trying for another child. Every time Sophie tries to assert anything about herself, Graham is quick to correct the record for his career. It\u2019s no wonder, then, that Sophie winds up transfixed by Margo (Malin \u00c5kerman): Even at her worst, she\u2019s far more dynamic and fun than hanging out with Graham. When the two later go to have dinner with Margo and Jed, Graham sells Sophie out once again, joking that for how smart and good of a mom she is, they still employ a cleaning lady for some reason. He laughs \u2014 this is just a part of networking for him.<\/p>\n
To be clear, this is no knock on Jonigkeit\u2019s performance: He lends Graham a steady snideness that lets him and Snow butt heads with perfect friction. Graham\u2019s at his worst, however, when he\u2019s not even in the frame. As Maple Brook reels from the murder of a local teenage girl and all evidence points to Sophie, Graham all but vanishes from her life. He doesn\u2019t visit her in jail. He doesn\u2019t try to defend her. He\u2019s back home with Jack, sure, but he\u2019s content to move on with his life like nothing happened. Did Graham ever like Sophie in the first place? When we see their flashback meet-cute in the show\u2019s finale, he doesn\u2019t even turn on the charm. Sophie is just looking to get out of a strange situationship with her roommate, and Graham happens to appear.<\/p>\n
Sophie and Graham reckon with their marriage in the finale, leaving space for a fruitful conversation about the people they were in Boston compared to the people they are now. We learn that Sophie\u2019s drinking \u2014 that led to her accidentally killing a pedestrian back in Boston \u2014 was born out of her grieving a failed pregnancy and emergency hysterectomy. Though Graham is clear that he doesn\u2019t blame her for her hysterectomy \u2014 generous \u2014 he still can\u2019t bring himself to support her in their new Texas life. When she tries to approach him about her affair with Margo, he flips out. \u201cYou are not always the victim,\u201d he protests. While that may be true, Graham\u2019s no hero either.<\/p>\n
Graham\u2019s loserdom is part of what makes The Hunting Wives so fun. No one can come away rooting for Sophie to wind up back at home with her peaceful heteronormative life. She might be better off with Margo, murders and all, because at least they know how to have fun together. It\u2019ll be thrilling to see what these mistresses of murderers\u2019 row cook up for themselves should the show get a renewal. As for Graham, we can only hope he has a good time back in Boston.<\/p>\n
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