Hunting women is the latest success on Netflix, a dramatic series with Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman. The series follows Sophie, the character of Snow, while she moves to a small town and gets involved with the most influential people in the city, including Margo Banks, played by Akerman. This leads Sophie on a dangerous path as she begins to question the choices of her life and her feelings for Margo, but things take a much darker turn after a teenager was murdered. Hunting women is based on the book of the same name of May Cobb. However, although the show follows some of the biggest scenarios in the book, it has also changed a lot compared to source material.

Hunting women Follows a group of influential worldly with whom Sophie gets involved. The series is a mixture of theater and crime thriller, because the second half of the show sees Sophie’s life starting to be blurred while it becomes the main suspect of an investigation into the murder. And since Hunting women The book is written from Sophie’s point of view, the other characters in history do not have much development or background. The adaptation of the television series has corrected this, adding more background frame to each character and even by creating news for the show. But they are not the only changes Hunting women TV series produced in the original book.

Sophie’s accident and background are not in the book

One of the greatest scenarios of Hunting women revolves around an accident Sophie had. Two years ago, Sophie got drunk and got behind the wheel, hitting a girl and killing her. This accident makes a huge impact on Sophie and her relationship with Graham, and they find it difficult to pass through, Graham asking Sophie never to drink and never drive again.

Sophie’s accident is not part of the original Hunting wives book. In history, she has no major trauma and, in fact, is drinking a lot from the first moment. Its alcohol consumption also becomes a problem in the book, but it is never involved in a driving accident.

Graham is a much better husband for Sophie

Hunting women Sophie follows as she enters a relationship with one of the most influential women in the city, Margo Banks. And in the show, Sophie’s relationship with Graham is tense, and he does not treat it particularly well. This difference between the spectacle and the book depicts an entirely different story, because, in Source material, Sophie’s cheating is much worse, because she has a loving husband at the house she takes care of, instead of an already deteriorating relationship.

Graham is much more favorable to Sophie in May Cobb’s book, which is why it is so overwhelming to follow her to make terrible decisions again and again. Finally, Graham launches Sophie when she becomes suspect in the murder of Abby, but he never believes that Sophie killed her. Instead, he was upset after discovering that Sophie was drinking with Margo and two teenagers, Brad and Jamie.

Margo manipulates even more everyone around her

The television adaptation of Hunting women transformed Margo Banks into a much more sympathetic character than the book. In the show, the public can see more about Margo’s past and what she had to do to take care of herself as a young girl. The television series also shows a more vulnerable side of Margo because it seems to worry about Sophie, but its book version was much more manipulative and in a cold heart.

Margo Banks is not a nice person in the book, and she is not afraid to show it. She manipulates everyone around her, including Sophie, and she also asks Brad to get rid of Abby, Brad’s girlfriend. Margo likes to be the center of attention and gets angry whenever someone else steals her spotlight, and she never really cares about anyone, not even Sophie.

Sophie has a best friend who is not in the series

In Hunting women Series, Sophie is the new daughter of the city who does not know anyone. She meets Margo during an event, and the two succeeded, and she started hanging out with Margo and her group of friends. But in the original book, Sophie has a more important link with the city and a best friend that she treats badly.

In the book, Sophie was the daughter of a travel nurse who took her across the country, moving throughout her childhood and adolescence. And on one of these occasions, she lived in the city of Margo for a few years in her last two years of high school. This is where Sophie meets Erin, who becomes her best friend when Sophie returns to the city of which she remembered her adolescence, but Sophie finally begins to push Erin to spend more time with Margo and her friends.

A change that the television series has introduced is the political climate and the context of history. The first appearance of Jed and Margo Banks on the show even occurred during a NRA festival, a party with which Sophie feels uncomfortable, because she is not as pro-Gun as the inhabitants of the city. Hunting women Show also explores religion and abortion, the themes that the original book has never really addressed, except to speak very briefly about Abby having an abortion.

But even if the book has a script where Abby is forced to have an abortion, which she does not pass through at the end, Hunting women The book does not develop the position of the characters on the question. In many ways, the book is much more superficial and more focused on Sophie’s feelings and actions and her relationship with Margo, ignoring everything else. And in this case, the addition of the political and religious context to the show made it an even better history.

Jed does not have a big role in the original story

The adaptation of the television series of Hunting women I chose to give more important development to most characters, including Margo’s husband, Jed, played by Dermot Mulroney. Jed is an oil magnate and a popular man in the city who wants to become the next Governor in Texas. He and Margo have a kind of arrangement within their marriage, where they are free to sleep with other women, as long as she stays under the Wraps, especially after announcing his campaign.

But Jed does not play a big role in Hunting women book. He only mentioned a few times like Margo’s “cheating husband”, since Margo found Jed flowing with his secretary once, then hunted her from the city. Apart from that, Jed is only a background character, and Sophie does not interact with him at all, because she always visits Margo every time Jed is not there.

Pastor Pete is not a character in the book

One of the greatest scenarios in the television series is the disappearance of a teenager, Kaycee Krummel, who occurs before the start of the show. His disappearance becomes more important for history after the murder of Abby, Brad’s girlfriend. MP Wanda Salazar finally finds Kaycee’s kidnapper, a young pastor who helps adolescents at the city church, Pastor Pete.

Pastor Pete also has a link with Abby because he is clearly obsessed with her, and she confides in him, believing that he is a good man since he is a pastor. And while Wanda first believes that Pastor Pete could have been the one who also killed Abby, this is soon rejected after discovering that he has an alibi for the night that Abby was killed. All this scenario is not part of the book, because Pastor Pete is not a character in the story of Cobb Original May.

Sophie is obsessed with Margo before she even met her

Sophie’s character in Hunting women The television series is very different from source material, because Sophie’s obsession for Margo is not as great in television adaptation. In the show, she is clearly in love with Margo Banks, and she falls more and more deeply each time she is with her. Sophie seems to fall in love with Margo and finds it difficult to stay far from her or to resist her charms, but Sophie’s obsession for Margo is much larger in the book.

In Hunting women Book, Sophie becomes obsessed with Margo Banks before he even met her. Sophie sees photos of Margo on social networks and obtains Erin to invite her to an event where she knows that Margo will be present, to finally meet her in person. And as she gets closer to Margo, she begins to obsess her even more, tracking her on social networks and trying to spend more and more time alone with her, even if Margo is not as interested in her as he is in the show.

Margo did not kill Abby; Jill did

Probably one of the greatest things Hunting women The show changed the book is who killed Abby. There are several suspects on the show, including Brad and Brad’s mother, Jill, as well as Pastor Pete. But Sophie finally realizes that it was Margo from the start, that she was she who killed Abby, with the help of her brother, then framed Jill for that.

But in the book, Jill was the killer throughout. She killed Abby because she was pregnant and she refused to have an abortion, and I feared that a pregnancy ruined Brad’s bright future. Jill was obsessed with the control of Brad’s life and career, and expected him to go in a good college and obtained a sports scholarship, but everything would be ruined if Brad became father and had to put his plans aside.

Margo dies at the end of the book of hunting women

Changing Abby’s killer’s identity in the television series was a big change, but it was not as big as Margo’s fate. In the show, Margo kills Abby after Abby learned that Margo was sleeping with Brad, and she was going to tell everyone. Margo accidentally used Sophie’s Gun, this is how Sophie became the main suspect in the murder of Abby until Margo decides to frame Jill for the murder of Abby.

But the fate of Margo Banks is very different from the original book, as Hunting women The book reveals that Margo dies at the start before going back in timeleading to his murder and the events that occurred before that. Jill not only kills Abby in the book, but she also kills Margo, because she knows that Margo sleeps with her son. Jill’s initial plan was to kill Abby and frame Margo for murder, but she accidentally took a weapon with Sophie’s impressions instead of that of Margo, so Jill had to improvise and finally killed Margo too.

Hunting women

Release date

July 21, 2025

Network

Netflix

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  Brittany Snow

  Sophie O’Neill

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  Malin Akerman

  Margo Banks

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