Viewers’ next television obsession is about to arrive with Netflix’s new series, The Hunting Wives. A new trailer has just dropped for the streaming platform, starring Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman. The series is adapted from the book of the same name by May Cobb and is due to fill the void that the scandalous and female-fronted HBO series, Big Little Lies, left behind.

Instead of the coastal town of Monterey, The Hunting Wives will instead set the scene in an affluent East Texas town, comparable to the world of Friday Night Lights. Snow stars as Sophie, an East Coast transplant who is a fish out of water in the South. Hailing from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sophie befriends Margo (Akerman) and her group of female friends, aptly dubbed the Hunting Wives. However, what starts as simple bonding turns deadly in the series’ new trailer released by PEOPLE.

The Hunting Wives trailer showcases the typical fare of wealthy women with little to do, as they indulge in drinking, flirtation, and skeet shooting. Things suddenly get out of hand, however, when one night, violence erupts. Sophie and Margo get involved in a murder, and they scurry to cover their tracks in a town full of secrets where anyone could double-cross them — even each other.

Privilege Is At the Center of ‘The Hunting Wives’

Long gone are the Gossip Girl days when privilege is widely accepted and even aspired to. While Sophie becomes enraptured with Margo and her hold over her clique of rich women, there is always the undertone of social commentary. As soon as things go haywire, other characters are quick to point out the system that allowed this to happen in the first place.

“You think you people can just do whatever you want,” townsperson Starr (Chrissy Metz) says, confronting the privileged women in the police station. “The truth is gonna come out.” This is the crux of the issue which has gotten more popular in recent television shows. Instead of aspiring to obtain wealth and the lifestyle that comes along with it, series such as We Were Liars shows just how dangerous such a lifestyle affords those involved. The Amazon Prime series similarly shows how, on the surface, a beautiful family can appear one way, but privilege turns them into a clan devoid of empathy.

Wealth may literally allow Margo and her friends to get away with murder, if the trailer is any indication. But to truly know, viewers will have to tune into Netflix when The Hunting Wives premieres on July 21.

via Collider