It’s renewal season for the major networks and fans of NBC’s The Hunting Party are on edge as they wait to discover the show’s fate. For two seasons, former FBI profiler Bex Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) has worked tirelessly to track down the country’s most brutal and sadistic serial killers after a massive prison escape allowed them to return to the civilian masses. Unfortunately, the series has been on a bumpy path over its second season, with viewership numbers struggling to keep it afloat. And yet, as the show’s following already knows, there’s still plenty of story worth telling in the series that blends a dramatized true crime leaning with pulse-pounding action. Today, ahead of the April 16 episode, we at Collider are thrilled to give our readers a first look at the installment that follows a digital stalker who quickly escalates to killer behavior after he’s turned down by his target.
Our sneak peek at the next episode of The Hunting Party carries us back through time to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2013. In it, we see a back and forth between a customer eager to get his phone screen fixed and an associate behind the counter who tries to spark up a conversation after discovering that the man he’s talking to is a fan of the same game. After he’s promised that the screen will be fixed in a day’s time, the customer walks off, and we’re left with the employee, who almost immediately crosses the line by pouring over the customer’s private photos and text messages.
It all goes from weird to weirder when the salesperson purchases tickets to a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game for the customer and shows up at his apartment unannounced under the guise of a good samaritan returning his phone. Taken aback, the young man is rightly startled by the surprise visit and soon finds himself in a deadly situation after shutting down the phone fixer’s invite to the Pirates game.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Who Else Stars in ‘The Hunting Party’?
What makes The Hunting Party different from other similar procedurals is that its case-of-the-week oftentimes follows a different serial killer, which has helped it pull in a solid true crime following. In addition to the stories, the performances of the show’s primary ensemble have also helped it flourish. Along with Roxburgh in the leading role, the serial killer thriller also includes the likes of Josh McKenzie (La Brea), Sara Garcia (The Flash), Zabryna Guevara (Gotham), Kari Matchett (The Night Agent), Siobhan Williams (Billy the Kid) and more.
Check out Collider’s exclusive first look at this week’s episode of The Hunting Party above.
Release Date
January 19, 2025
Directors
Thor Freudenthal, Glen Winter, James Bamford, Nicole Rubio, Rod Hardy, Shana Stein, Blackhorse Lowe, Marcus Stokes, Kristin Windell
