The Hunting Wives Season 2 Trailer Is Here: Dale Dickey and John Stamos Join the Hunt, and Netflix Sets November 26

Maple Brook is open for business again. Netflix has released the first trailer for Season 2 of The Hunting Wives, its soapy Texas thriller starring Brittany Snow and Malin Åkerman, and Cynopsis reported the drop on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. The trailer is the season's first real look in motion: Sophie and Margo circling each other again, a shooting range full of socialites, police pulling a body out of the woods — and, threaded through all of it, the two new faces this season is counting on to raise the temperature, played by Dale Dickey and John Stamos.

The date matters as much as the footage. According to Netflix, the full second season premieres on November 26, 2026 — Thanksgiving Day — with all eight episodes arriving at once. That is a deliberate piece of scheduling. A glossy, argument-starting thriller landing on the one long weekend when half the country is on a couch is not an accident, and Netflix is treating the show like a holiday event rather than a quiet catalogue drop. TV Guide had already flagged the series as one of October's notable renewals before the trailer arrived; the trailer is Netflix converting that renewal news into an appointment.

What the trailer actually shows

The A.V. Club, in its breakdown of the trailer, notes that it opens in an unlikely place for this show: a therapy session. Sophie, played by Snow, sits with her husband Graham, played by Evan Jonigkeit, and says she wants Graham to know that she can change — a line the A.V. Club reads, reasonably, as a reference to her Season 1 affair with Margo. Graham asks whether she is still dreaming about Margo. The trailer, pointedly, cuts away before she answers.

From there, according to TheWrap's account of the footage, the season's machinery assembles quickly. Sophie and Margo begin the season on the outs — that is the official logline's own framing, reported by Netflix: at the start of Season 2, Sophie and Margo are estranged, but old secrets and new foes force them back together, and the question becomes whether they are the hunters or the hunted. TheWrap reports that the trailer shows the women of Maple Brook back at the shooting range, investigators uncovering another dead body, and Margo held at gunpoint in a compromising moment with Sophie. The A.V. Club adds the bathtub scene in which Margo suggests the two wash off the previous night's sins, and a toast from Stamos's character that is very much in keeping with the show's register.

None of that is a departure, and that is the point. The trailer is selling continuity with escalation: the same affair, the same clique, the same body-count energy, with the central relationship now carrying the damage of Season 1 into every scene.

The new faces: Dickey and Stamos

The casting is the trailer's genuine news. Cynopsis reported that the preview gives viewers their first look at the new characters played by Dale Dickey and John Stamos. TheWrap identifies Dickey's character as Zelda, shown armed with a bandana wrapped around her head, and Stamos's as Chase Brylan; the A.V. Club likewise highlights Stamos's arrival in the trailer. Further reporting on the season, including The Playlist's trailer coverage, describes Stamos's Chase Brylan as an eccentric country singer — the kind of charming outsider a show like this introduces precisely because charm is its most useful weapon.

Dickey is the more intriguing fit. She is one of the most recognisable character actors in American film and television, and dropping her into Maple Brook's polished, performative world sets up a friction the show can mine all season: someone who does not play by the clique's rules, arriving in a town where the rules are the whole game. Stamos, meanwhile, brings instant marquee value and a public persona — smooth, funny, slightly dangerous at the edges — that the trailer is already using as a tonal signal.

They are not the only additions. The Playlist reports that the new season also adds Kim Matula, Cam Gigandet, Alex FitzAlan and WNBA star Angel Reese, with Reese playing a college basketball trainer. The returning ensemble, per Netflix's season materials as reported by TheWrap and the A.V. Club, includes Snow, Åkerman, Jonigkeit, Dermot Mulroney, Jaime Ray Newman, George Ferrier, Karen Rodriguez and Hunter Emery.

What Season 1 established

For viewers coming in cold: The Hunting Wives is adapted from May Cobb's 2021 novel, and was created for television by Rebecca Cutter, who continues as showrunner, writer and executive producer, according to reporting on the new season. Season 1, which landed on Netflix in July 2025, followed Sophie, an East Coast transplant, as she was pulled into the orbit of Margo Banks, the queen bee of an elite circle of wealthy Texas socialites — a world of shooting outings, secrets and an affair that detonated Sophie's marriage and the town's polished surface alike.

The numbers explain the confidence behind this rollout. Reporting on the trailer from Comic Basics, citing the show's first-season performance, notes that Season 1 drew 5.2 million views in its premiere week, spent five weeks on Netflix's Global Top 10 for English-language television and peaked at No. 2 globally in its second week — and MovieWeb reports that the season logged nearly 1.6 billion viewing minutes in its first week. A show that performs like that does not get a tentative second season. It gets Thanksgiving.

Season 2 also marks a creative threshold. Both The Playlist and MovieWeb note that the new season moves beyond the plot of Cobb's novel, making this the first chapter written entirely for television. And the runway is already longer than one season: Netflix has renewed the series for a third season, a decision reported ahead of the Season 2 trailer's release. You can revisit the show's catalogue entry on our title page for The Hunting Wives before the new episodes land.

Why November 26 is the story

Streamers announce trailers every day. What makes this one worth marking is the combination: a proven hit, a holiday-weekend drop of all eight episodes at once, new cast members with genuine pull, and a third season already secured behind it. Netflix is not testing whether The Hunting Wives has an audience. It is scheduling like a service that knows it has one, and wants the show talked about at every Thanksgiving table in America.

All eight episodes of The Hunting Wives Season 2 premiere on Netflix on November 26, 2026, according to Netflix. Until then, the trailer is the whole conversation — and on the evidence of the therapy-session opening alone, Sophie's promise that she can change is the least believable line in it.

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