Vanity Fair | September 10, 2026

Even in an era rife with twisty true crime stories, and predominantly female audiences eager to consume them, the women behind The Good Daughter know their show’s opening is a tough watch. Like the best-selling 2017 Karin Slaughter novel on which it is based, the Peacock series starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy as Southern sisters begins decades earlier, on the day a childhood home invasion ends in their mother’s (Olivia Williams) murder. Several years on from that fateful attack, another shocking act of gun violence forces the estranged sisters back together at the insistence of their defense attorney father (Brendan Gleeson). And that’s just in the first 15 minutes.

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Entertainment Weekly | August 31, 2026

If you love investigative procedurals as much as we do, you already know many of the greats. One of fiction’s most enduring genres, detective stories are built to thrill, tantalize, and confuse us.

At their best, they immerse audiences in twisted webs of intrigue and give us a ringside seat to detectives doing what they do best. Many reliable snoops have graced our living rooms for so long that they’ve become a sort of macabre second family.

#7 Will Trent (2023–present)

Based on Karin Slaughter’s gritty series of books, this likable ABC procedural stars Ramón Rodriguez as the titular Special Agent, a dyslexic former foster kid who just so happens to have the highest clearance rate among his peers at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

A throwback tone and terrific casting boost this consistently entertaining adaptation, which takes the material in enough of its own direction that you could easily read Slaughter’s books without knowing the plot’s every turn. In addition to sharp writing, Will Trent boasts a wonderful turn from Erika Christensen (as Will’s childhood pal and fellow foster kid, now a homicide cop) and a very cute tag-along puppy dog.

Where to watch Will Trent: Hulu

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Hollywood Reporter | December 30, 2025

Last season’s Emmy darlings The Pitt and The Studio are both set to run their second seasons in the next 12 months, as are watercooler shows The Hunting Wives and Paradise.

Netflix’s shocking erotic thriller is preparing to stir up more trouble. The series follows Sophie (Brittany Snow), who gets close — maybe too close — to socialite Margo (Malin Akerman) after her family moves from Boston to Texas and she becomes consumed by obsession, seduction and murder.

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The Guardian | December 27, 2025

Blackmail! Murder! Horny Republicans! This starry bonkbuster is about as good as nonsense television gets.

This is it. This is your reward. For getting through Christmas, for getting through the crisis-laden sorrowfest that was 2025, the gods of television have vouchsafed us all The Hunting Wives, eight episodes of the most perfect trash to fill our screens since – well, I don’t even know when.

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Deadline | September 12, 2025

Created by Rebecca Cutter, The Hunting Wives’ first season was based on the bestselling novel by May Cobb. Season 2 will be an original concept-based continuation of the story, using the Season 1 finale as a jumping-off point. At the start of Season 2, Sophie (Snow) and Margo (Åkerman) are on the outs. But soon enough, old secrets and new foes force them back together. As they play their dangerous games the question arises. Are they the hunters or the hunted?

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NYT | August 8, 2025

The drama has all the ingredients of a binge-watch: culture wars, murder and sex.

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LA Times | August 8, 2025

As Karin Slaughter talks about her new thriller book series, We Are All Guilty Here, she’s equally wry, reflective and ready to take off on a whole new level.

Her success is formidable: 24 novels have sold more than 40 million copies and been translated into 120 languages. They include the Grant County series featuring Sara Linton, a small-town pediatrician and medical examiner, which was followed by another centering on the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Will Trent. The Will Trent series is the basis for the hit ABC TV series starring Ramón Rodriguez that was recently renewed for Season 4.

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People | August 7, 2025

If it feels like everyone and their mother is watching The Hunting Wives, it’s because they are. Literally. My mom just texted me that she’s watching the show. (I knew those gals in her canasta group were a bad influence on her.)

The Netflix series, which is based on the May Cobb book of the same name, makes those other “wives” shows (Desperate Housewives, Real Housewives, Mormon Wives) look like Bluey.

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Deadline | August 5, 2025

The Hunting Wives was the most-streamed series in the U.S. last week, racking up more than 2B minutes viewed on Netflix, per a new report from Luminate.

This is a pretty big win for Lionsgate Television, which produced the series that up until around two months ago was set for release on Starz. As of now, The Hunting Wives is only licensed to Netflix for U.S. distribution — not that that seems to have impacted its performance very much. In fact, the title is doing particularly well for a U.S.-only streaming series, more than doubling its viewership from the week prior, when it managed 811M minutes viewed in its debut week on Netflix, according to Luminate.

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People | August 2, 2025

The Hunting Wives author May Cobb didn’t know where grocery money was going to come from when a phone call changed her life.

Cobb started her writing journey 25 years ago, with a nonfiction book about a jazz musician she admits she “still has to finish,” but after loving books like Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, decided to try her hand at thrillers. Her debut, Big Woods, came out in 2018 and while it was well reviewed, sales weren’t enough to make a dent in their finances.

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Forbes | July 25, 2025

We seem to have another sticky show hanging around Netflix’s top 10 list, The Hunting Wives, a murder-based comedy thriller that stars Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman. Season 1 has racked up solid viewership, and at #2 on Netflix right now, it’s only behind huge hit Untamed, the not-comedic murder mystery.

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New York Times | July 24, 2025

“The Hunting Wives,” the first season of which is now on Netflix, is ideal summer TV. This lustful, proudly silly drama is just the kind of thing you can be seduced by on a hot day when all you want to do is sit inside and binge. Based on the novel by May Cobb.

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Variety | July 22, 2025

Author May Cobb never expected that her twisty 2021 thriller would be reimagined on screen. But when she met showrunner Rebecca Cutter and brought her to where she’d grown up in Texas, they immediately clicked.

Cobb says they took Cutter on a tour around Dallas to see the “Beverly Hills of Texas,” which she says is “where hunting wives might hang out.”

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People | July 9, 2025

The series, based on May Cobb's book of the same name, premieres Monday, July 21, on Netflix.

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People | May 13, 2025

There are a lot of good TV shows on air right now, but ABC's Will Trent may just be the best — and not just because the cast includes a tiny, scene-stealing Chihuahua named Betty.

Set in a version of Atlanta where people can wear three-piece suits, sweater vests and neck scarves all year round without dying of heat exhaustion, the series focuses on Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI). As played by Ramón Rodríguez, Will is guarded, even haunted at times, but always searching for a way to make the world a safer place.

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Deadline | April 3, 2025

Based on Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling “Will Trent” series, Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. Now, he uses his unique point of view in the pursuit of justice and has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.

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The Hollywood Reporter | march 4, 2025

Starz will have an eight-episode series adaptation of May Cobb’s The Hunting Wives. Rebecca Cutter wrote the adaptation and will serve as showrunner. The book, published in 2021, centers on Sophie O’Neill, who settles down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. Things change when she meets socialite Margot Banks, who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Tensions escalate and danger lurks after the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet.

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DEADLINE | February 19, 2025

Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Harper Steele (Will & Harper) have joined the cast of the Peacock limited series The Good Daughter in series regular roles alongside Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy.

Writer / Executive Producer: Karin Slaughter (Pieces of Her, Will Trent).

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