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The Writers Panel

Rebecca Cutter (Hunting Wives)

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

Tv & Film, Movies, Writing, Screenwriting, Tv, Hollywood

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca Cutter (creator, The Hunting Wives and Hightown) returns to discuss why she thinks people have responded so positively to The Hunting Wives, hiring the writers' room, regulating tone by instinct, quality without "prestige," and more.


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0:00.0

They write, they talk, and talk about what they write.

0:03.1

Tune in, tonight, or whatever the time is right, it's the writer's battle with bad blacker,

0:08.6

and it's starting now.

0:10.8

Oh, yeah!

0:13.5

Rebecca Cutter is back.

0:15.3

Rebecca, I'm going to have you introduce yourself on the microphone, let folks know who you are,

0:20.2

where they've seen your name on their television screens in the past.

0:23.2

Hi, I'm Rebecca Cutter. I created Hightown for stars and hunting wives for Netflix.

0:30.8

I feel like every meeting I've had for the past six months, everyone is like, we want our hunting wives.

0:39.0

What do you think that is, why do you think this show is hitting?

0:43.8

What do you think it's doing to garner the reaction that it's getting and the love that it's

0:48.9

getting from both fans and in the industry?

0:52.8

I mean, there's a lot of behind the scenes court drama

0:57.2

about how it ended up on Netflix,

0:59.8

but I think it did end up there.

1:03.8

It was originally for stars.

1:05.8

And I think it just feels very different

1:08.2

from anything else that's on Netflix.

1:11.6

Partly, I think, just the sort of raunchiness of it.

1:15.3

And the sexuality, the humor, it's clearly not trying to be too prestigey, but like, sort of it is.

1:24.0

Like, it sort of finds a sweet spot.

1:25.7

And I think coming out of network TV for me myself

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