Amy B. Harris & Sarah Streicher Interview: The Wilds Season 2
The Wilds season 2 has landed on Amazon Prime Video this week, and the cast has doubled in size along with the problems being faced by each character. The teen adventure series follows a group of girls whose plane crashed in the wilderness, forcing them to unite despite their differences in order to survive. But season 2 upped the stakes by going from one stranded set of teens to two.
While watching The Wilds, viewers quickly realized that the crash and its aftermath had been orchestrated by the sociopathic scientist Gretchen Klein (Rachel Griffiths, Saving Mr. Banks), in order to prove that women could create a better society that men. Which means, of course, that there is a male control group — something survivor Leah (Sarah Pidgeon) discovered in the finale. This time around, audiences get to compare the two groups along with Gretchen.
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Executive Producers Sarah Streicher (who also created the series) and Amy B. Harris (who serves as its showrunner) spoke to Screen Rant about how the approach to writing season 2 differed, and which of the boys they connect with the most.
Screen Rant: How much did the creative process or the conversations in the writers room change with the addition of a whole second group of survivors?
Sarah Streicher: The truth is it didn't change that much. We wanted to apply the same depth, the same humanity, and the same complexity to this new cast of characters that we've brought in as we did to the first season.
If they had felt thinner or less rich, I think it would have been a stumbling block for everyone. And it wouldn't have felt like our show, which cares so deeply about the teenage experience. So, it didn't change in that
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