The Looking Wives took loads of inspiration from Might Cobb's novel — however there have been additionally some stunning adjustments.
Netflix launched the primary season in July 2025, which adopted Sophie (Brittany Snow) after she relocated from Boston to an East Texas city. Sophie in the end discovered herself drawn to distinguished socialite Margo (Malin Åkerman) and joined a clique of rich, conservative housewives with a ardour for weapons and cocktails earlier than turning into a suspect in a homicide.
Along with Åkerman and Snow, the present additionally starred Katie Lowes, Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit, Chrissy Metz, Jaime Ray Newman and George Ferrier. After the present premiered, showrunner Rebecca Cutter and the solid addressed why The Looking Wives didn't totally persist with the supply materials.
“[Creator] Rebecca [Cutter] and Might Cobb have a extremely nice relationship. They've been speaking by way of quite a bit and Might was form of like, ‘Go for it.' She was on set and was actually elated to see her characters come to life and actually beloved the course that Rebecca went in with the characters and the adjustments,” Åkerman completely instructed Us Weekly that very same month. “It's enjoyable to have among the adjustments from the ebook in order that people who find themselves followers of the story can go alongside and be shocked as nicely. Hopefully it's not too far gone the place it doesn't veer too far off the ebook in order that they know the characters.”
Åkerman continued: “I learn the scripts earlier than I learn the ebook so my bias is perhaps the opposite means round. However once more, I simply really feel like we get the essence of the characters. We get the world and I hope that followers will prefer it who've learn the ebook.”
Hold scrolling to see what the present's solid and showrunner stated concerning the onscreen shakeups:
Shaking Up the Onscreen Deaths — And the Killer
Lowes, whose character killed Abby within the ebook, teased the adjustments earlier than the present revealed that Margo was the assassin.
“There are loads of similarities to the ebook, after which not,” Lowes shared with Us in June 2025. “However Might Cobb — the author of the ebook — was on set with us on a regular basis.”
Lowes recalled getting Cobb's “blessing each which means,” including, “She's so psyched about it. In case you learn the ebook, you recognize it's the excellent greeting floor for simply wonderful water cooler drama. It's nice.”
Controversial Romance
Throughout an unique interview with Us, Åkerman defined why her character's love curiosity, Brad, was 18 within the present after the ebook was extra ambiguous about the highschool pupil's age.
“The controversy is what appealed to me. [But] the boy that [my character] has moments with is eighteen. He's imagined to be of age in order that we don't cross into that border,” she defined in July about how the present was chopping it “actual” shut. “That [underage] ingredient wasn't thrown in there. That may be a extremely totally different dialog. So he's of age — technically — however he's very younger. He's simply of age. He additionally occurs to be her greatest good friend's son.”
Åkerman continued: “That — for me — is extra of the controversy. However I'm not attempting to inform a narrative by way of Margo the place I hope individuals aspire to grow to be her in any respect. As we proceed to observe, you may change your thoughts on how you're feeling about her. However I really like all of these things and something that's plot pushed and that strikes the plot ahead, I'm blissful to discover even it's gratuitous.”
Sophie's Ingesting
“There are some adjustments for positive in Sophie's character and of who she is. Within the ebook, she drinks quite a bit,” Åkerman instructed Us about how the present provided extra context to Sophie's preliminary sobriety. “In our present, she doesn't drink as a lot and there's a plot to that and there's a motive for that.”
Netflix's The Looking Wives made loads of adjustments from Might Cobb‘s ebook — particularly when it got here to the ending. The present, which premiered on Monday, July 21, adopted Sophie (Brittany Snow) who moved from Boston to an East Texas city the place she discovered herself drawn to distinguished socialite Margo (Malin Åkerman). However whereas […]
Making a Assertion
Cutter defined to Selection why The Looking Wives offered a bigger dialog round abortion, saying, “I believed, ‘OK, nicely, if we're gonna do that, let's deal with among the realities. Plus, that is form of a fish-out-of-water story. Within the ebook, Sophie's from Texas, however on this model, she's by no means been there, so we needed to see if we are able to put it in a contemporary political setting and nonetheless get away with it.”
Cutter continued: “I feel the conversations have been extra simply concerning the sensitivity of all of it, and never attempting to select a aspect. We needed to indicate the nuance of all the pieces as nicely, as a result of there actually isn't any black and white. It's all grey, particularly for somebody who lives in Texas. It's an astonishing spectrum right here. It was the general feeling of being delicate, not mocking something, not drawing some laborious line within the sand, but in addition not shying away from it.”
Maintaining Margo Alive
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Present followers is perhaps shocked to know that Åkerman's character wasn't meant to outlive.
“My jaw dropped when she instructed me. It makes a lot sense,” Cobbs instructed Selection of Cutter's ending the place Margo survived. “My greatest good friend was mad at me after I killed Margo within the ebook, and she or he's nonetheless mad at me about it. She's like, ‘Rebecca is the MVP.' I get it. I wanted one other twist within the ebook, and that's the one I got here up with. However I believed it was genius. It's an excellent twist.”
