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Chalk it as much as humor, to politics, to suspense or, let’s be sincere, to a bunch of girl-on-girl motion. However right here’s the underside line:
The Looking Wives is an enormous hit for Netflix.
Based mostly on Could Cobb‘s novel of the identical title, the hit soapy drama chronicles a lady named Sophie (Brittany Snow) as she finds herself wrapped up in socialite Margo’s (Malin Åkerman) considerably slimy and shady (and fascinating!) world.
Sophie befriends Margo’s circle of housewives, however their harmful secrets and techniques result in a surprising homicide with Sophie because the prime suspect.
Along with Åkerman and Snow, The Looking Wives Season 1 featured Katie Lowes, Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit, Chrissy Metz, Jaime Ray Newman and George Ferrier.
Trying forward, what can followers anticipate from Season 2?
For starters, John Stamos, Cam Gigandet and Dale Dickey will all be becoming a member of the solid.
Lowes, after all, is not going to be coming again as a result of (SPOILER ALERT!) her character was killed off final season.
Chrissy Metz, who appeared as Starr, doesn’t have a personality to embody both on Season 2, both; however Evan Jonigkeit will be returning as Sophie’s estranged husband, Graham.
Snow, for her half, has teased what she is hoping would get explored for Sophie — particularly after she killed somebody earlier than season 1 was over.
“I feel that that’s one thing that she in all probability hasn’t even wrestled with inside herself, so far as why she’s snug retaining herself in that field and likewise retaining secrets and techniques from herself. That’s a darkish evening of the soul scenario that we might solely be seeing in season 2,” the actress teased to Collider in July 2025.
“I don’t know the way she’s going to get there. Remedy? Perhaps a very good therapist and lots of time…
“The factor that I really like concerning the character of Sophie, and I really feel like what I cherished about studying all eight scripts, was that Sophie finally ends up, on the finish of episode 8, precisely the place she was in all probability within the flashback earlier than we even see her. She’s had this full circle transformation of discovering herself once more, and but right here we’re. Her true self is a large number.”
We additionally know that Season 2 kicks off with Sophie and Margo “on the outs.”
“However quickly sufficient, previous secrets and techniques and new foes drive them again collectively,” the official synopsis reads. “As they play their harmful video games the query arises. Are they the hunters or the hunted?”
Michael Aaron Milligan, in the meantime, portrayed Margo’s brother, Kyle, on Season 1. And was run over to wrap up the finale. Proper?!?
“I’m so grateful to have labored on this venture. Everybody was so wonderful, pretty and great to work with each day and no matter. So [I would love] to get a name [about season 2] — or possibly some spooky adventures with the ghost of Kyle,” Milligan joked to Us Weekly in August 2025.
“I’m certain they will get very, very artistic. I’m very a lot trying ahead to listening to from the crew and seeing what they [could] have in retailer concepts clever for Kyle.”
Netflix has not but introduced a premiere date for The Looking Wives Season 2.
