The Wilds Season 1 Ending Explained
Warning! Major spoilers for The Wilds.
The Wilds ended on an explosive note, providing little-to-no answers to the mysteries it teased all season long. From the very beginning, the Amazon Prime series revealed that the girls made it off the island, but the hows and whys to everything that happened remained a mystery. Here's The Wilds'season finale explained.
The YA thriller follows a group of girls stranded on a deserted island after surviving a plane crash. Everything that happens on the island is a flashback as the girls are currently being held in a bunker, completely separated from one another. They're each recounting their events of what happened on the island after being interrogated by two men.
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The Wilds' season finale shows their final day on the island. The girls are still being heavily monitored by Gretchen and everyone else back at the Dawn of Eve. After a full season of heavy paranoia, Leah realizes she was right all along and Nora was the one who had something to do with their crash. Their final scene on the island shows Rachel being attacked by a shark, explaining her missing hand during her interrogation scene. What happened between the shark attack and their rescue is a mystery.
Gretchen is the mastermind behind everything the girls have experienced. Throughout its first season, The Wilds sheds a little light on Gretchen's motives. Rachel Griffith's Gretchen wants to prove women are capable of being better leaders than men. And so, the girls were placed in a chaotic situation to prove that women are capable of rising above and coming together to work through the problem. But the real kicker is that stranding and saving them from the island
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