“The Looking Wives” will return for an additional twisted Texas journey. The drama sequence from Lionsgate Tv and three Arts Leisure was renewed for Season 2 by Netflix, which launched the sequence within the U.S. in July and have become a summer season sensation, gathering over 20 million views in its first 5 weeks.
Season 2 will comply with up on the chaotic occasions of the Season 1 finale, which put Sophie O’Neill (Brittany Snow) and Margo Banks (Malin Akerman) at odds with one another, after an enormous reveal about Margo’s previous led to a different tragic dying. Together with Snow and Ackerman, Season 2 will see the return of solid members Jamie Ray Newman, Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit and George Ferrier.
“I’m so excited to write down these superb characters once more, and I can’t wait to take the viewers on one other horny, twisted, batshit loopy journey by Maple Brook,” creator and showrunner Rebecca Cutter mentioned in a press release.
Season 2 will debut as a Netflix branded unique sequence and premiere in almost all international locations the place the streamer is on the market worldwide. That’s in distinction with Season 1, which was initially produced by Lionsgate for Starz, earlier than the studio took again the rights to the sequence and offered it to Netflix for distribution within the U.S.
“The Looking Wives” grew to become a cultural phenomenon, inspiring numerous memes in addition to a dialog about viewers urge for food steering away from woke themes. The sequence follows fish-out-of-water East Coaster Sophie as she makes an attempt to search out her footing when her husband strikes her household to East Texas. Getting entangled with Margo slowly pushes her down a rabbit gap of homicide, looking and right-wing rhetoric, in addition to a romantic entanglement along with her mysterious new good friend.
A logline for Season 2 supplied by Netflix reads: “Initially of Season 2, Sophie and Margo are on the outs. However quickly sufficient, previous secrets and techniques and new foes drive them again collectively. As they play their harmful video games the query arises: Are they the hunters or the hunted?”
Government producers embody Cutter and Erwin Stoff for 3 Arts Leisure and Cobb. Cutter beforehand created the Starz sequence “Hightown,” which ran for 3 seasons. She is presently in improvement on one other mission for Netflix with Jerry Bruckheimer Tv. Cutter is repped by CAA, Artists Collective, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Pattern & Klein.
