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Chalk it as much as humor, to politics, to suspense or, let’s be trustworthy, to a bunch of girl-on-girl motion. However right here’s the underside line:
The Looking Wives is a large hit for Netflix.
Based mostly on Might Cobb‘s novel of the same name, the hit soapy drama chronicles a woman named Sophie (Brittany Snow) as she finds herself wrapped up in socialite Margo’s (Malin Åkerman) considerably slimy and shady (and attention-grabbing!) world.
Sophie befriends Margo’s circle of housewives, however their harmful secrets and techniques result in a shocking homicide with Sophie because the prime suspect.
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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.
Wanting 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, in fact, won’t 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 probably be returning as Sophie’s estranged husband, Graham.
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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 think that that’s something that she probably hasn’t even wrestled with within herself, as far as why she’s comfortable keeping herself in that box and also keeping secrets from herself. That’s a dark night of the soul situation that we would only 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 extremely good therapist and quite a lot of time…
“The thing that I love about the character of Sophie, and I feel like what I loved about reading all eight scripts, was that Sophie ends up, at the end of episode 8, exactly where she was probably in the flashback before we even see her. She’s had this full circle transformation of finding herself again, and yet here we are. Her true self is a mess.”
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We additionally know that Season 2 kicks off with Sophie and Margo “on the outs.”
“But soon enough, old secrets and new foes force them back together,” the official synopsis reads. “As they play their dangerous games the question 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 worked on this project. Everyone was so amazing, lovely and wonderful to work with on a daily basis and whatever. So [I would love] to get a call [about season 2] — or maybe some spooky adventures with the ghost of Kyle,” Milligan joked to Us Weekly in August 2025.
“I’m sure they can get very, very creative. I am very much looking forward to hearing from the team and seeing what they [could] have in store ideas wise for Kyle.”
Netflix has not but introduced a premiere date for The Looking Wives Season 2.
