The Searching Wives is coming again for season 2 — however is everybody returning after these ebook adjustments?
Primarily based on Might Cobb‘s novel of the identical identify, the hit Netflix collection follows Sophie (Brittany Snow) as she finds herself wrapped up in socialite Margo's (Malin Åkerman) orbit. Sophie befriends Margo's circle of housewives, however their harmful secrets and techniques result in a stunning homicide with Sophie because the prime suspect.
Along with Åkerman and Snow, the present starred Katie Lowes, Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit, Chrissy Metz, Jaime Ray Newman and George Ferrier. After the present premiered in July 2025, showrunner Rebecca Cutter and the forged addressed why The Searching Wives didn't absolutely follow the supply materials.
“Rebecca and Might Cobb have a very nice relationship. They've been speaking by means of rather a lot, and Might was type of like, ‘Go for it.' She was on set and was actually elated to see her characters come to life and actually cherished the course that Rebecca went in with the characters and the adjustments,” Åkerman solely informed 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 stunned 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 could be the opposite method 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.”
Netflix formally renewed the present in September 2025 and teased who would — and wouldn't — be coming again. Maintain scrolling to see the total forged checklist:
Brittany Snow
Snow 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 comfy protecting herself in that field and likewise protecting secrets and techniques from herself. That's a darkish evening of the soul state of affairs that we might solely be seeing in season 2,” Snow teased to Collider in July 2025. “I don't know the way she's going to get there. Remedy? Possibly a very good therapist and a variety of time.”
Snow was curious how Sophie would dig herself out of the state of affairs, including, “The factor that I like in regards to 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.”
Malin Åkerman
Season 2 kicks off with Sophie and Margo “on the outs.”
“However quickly sufficient, previous secrets and techniques and new foes power them again collectively,” the official synopsis teased. “As they play their harmful video games the query arises. Are they the hunters or the hunted?”
Jaime Ray Newman
Newman's character, Callie, is returning in season 2 as nicely after it was revealed that she killed Jill (Lowes) — who killed Starr (Metz).
Dermot Mulroney
The Searching Wives wouldn't be what it's with out Mulroney's Jed Banks operating for workplace and inflicting chaos.
Evan Jonigkeit
Regardless of Sophie's marriage coming to an finish, her estranged husband, Graham, is coming again in season 2.
George Ferrier
After The Searching Wives launched a secret affair between Margo and her good friend Jill's 18-year-old son, Brad (Ferrier), who was in highschool within the ebook, Netflix introduced Ferrier again for season 2.
Åkerman, in the meantime, beforehand defined why it was necessary to age Brad up within the present.
“That [underage] aspect wasn't thrown in there. That may be a very totally different dialog. So he's of age — technically — however he's very younger,” she informed Us in March 2025. “He's simply of age. He additionally occurs to be her greatest good friend's son.”
She continued: “That — for me — is extra of the controversy. However I'm not making an attempt to inform a narrative by means of Margo the place I hope individuals aspire to grow to be her in any respect. As we proceed to look at, you would possibly change your thoughts on how you're feeling about her. However I like all of these items, and something that's plot-driven and that strikes the plot ahead, I'm glad to discover even it's gratuitous.”
Chrissy Metz
After Starr's onscreen dying, the one method she might return is in potential flashbacks.
Katie Lowes
Lowes knew going into the present that she wouldn't return as Jill.
“I knew once I auditioned that Jill was going to die, so I actually leaned into it,” Lowes informed Us in August 2025. “I've gotten to die a bunch of occasions, so I simply was psyched. I used to be like, ‘I [gotta] go huge or go house.' I [got] to have one wonderful season of Jill being as unhinged as I might do it and I cherished it.”
She added: “Figuring out that Margo was 1757791083 going to be the killer and Jill was going to die, I used to be like, ‘OK, let's simply give attention to the TV present and get that executed in order that my mind doesn't get confused.'”
Michael Aaron Milligan
Sophie killed Margo's brother, Kyle (Milligan), on the finish of the primary season — or did she?
“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 quipped to Us in August 2025. “I'm certain they will get very, very inventive. I'm very a lot trying ahead to listening to from the workforce and seeing what they [could] have in retailer concepts sensible for Kyle.”
