Saturday Night Live did not hold back when lampooning Netflix’s raunchy soap-style drama, The Hunting Wives, in a fake Season 2 trailer for the show that gained quite a reputation during its first season on the streamer. Joining this week’s host, Amy Poehler, was Chloe Fineman (the star of another horny Netflix hit, Summer of 69), and guest Aubrey Plaza, who all did their best lusty lesbian acting while sending up the series.
The trailer, which can be seen below, begins as it means to go on, announcing the series as “the straight but lesbian horny Republican murder drama,” with Poehler appearing as the character played by Malin Akerman in the real series, dropping her top (with full pixellation for modesty) and breathing “look what the cat dragged in” or Fineman’s character.
As well as delivering a bunch of fake reviews of the show, including one calling the series “the show that healed our nation,” and what it would be like if “The L Word took place in Yellowstone,” the action took familiar scenes from the series and amped up the guns, female on female clinches, and the over-the-top acting that was, in actual fact, not that dissimilar from the real version.
Towards the end of the “trailer,” Plaza arrives to join in the fun as a character coming in from California, who becomes the final joke of the sketch, when it is revealed her character is actually a lesbian, and the rest of the group are shocked and pull guns on her in disgust.
‘The Hunting Wives’ Is Almost a Parody of Itself
There are some TV shows that are just begging to be lampooned, but in many ways, The Hunting Wives is almost a parody itself, delivering something very close to the corny, sex-obsessed soap operas of the 1980s like Dallas and Dynasty. The over-the-top storylines and excessive raunchy overtures are almost too much to take…and that has ensured the first season was a huge hit for Netflix, and it will be returning for a second season.
The first season was licensed by Netflix from Lionsgate, but they will be producing the second season after its 20 million views gathered over five weeks in the streamer’s Top 10. Although the first season was adapted by Rebecca Cutter from May Cobb’s 2021 novel of the same name, the second season will be continuing the story beyond the book.
In a statement, Cutter said, “I’m so excited to write these amazing characters again, and I can’t wait to take the audience on another sexy, twisted, batsh-t crazy ride through Maple Brook.”
The story for The Hunting Wives’ next season is something that has yet to be revealed, but it is hard to imagine that the show will be taking a step back from the excess that made the first season such a hit. Expect Season 2 to arrive on Netflix sometime in 2026.
- Release Date
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July 21, 2025
- Network
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Netflix
- Directors
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Julie Anne Robinson
This story originally appeared on Movieweb
