The Wilds Season 2 Review

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In the time of Lost and Yellowjackets, what does The Wilds add to the scene? Created by Sarah Streicher, the show’s debut season premiered in December 2020 (almost a year before the first episode of fan-crazed thriller series Yellowjackets) and follows a group of teenage girls who, on their way to an empowerment retreat in Hawaii, find themselves stranded on a desert island after their plane crashes. While playing out the disaster, the show jumps to the past and future, intertwining scenes of the character’s personal lives and recovery process.

It is easy to dismiss any comparisons of the Amazon Studios series with its predecessors and successors as it carries an unwavering theme of sisterhood, one that is seldom seen as genuinely as portrayed in the series. It introduced conversations of grief and death, and the desperation to be loved, bringing forth characters who lost their parents and other loved ones, and ones who are suffering from heartbreak, be it from another person or from the loss of their lifestyle. The series is chaotic and doesn’t shy away from the ugly, showing the teens with their hands covered in blood and their faces burnt red from sunburn. Being beautifully diverse, it showcases characters of different sizes, sexualites, ethnicities, and backgrounds, which doesn’t change in its second season. Still carrying its consistent tone, the new season is a major shift from what viewers are used to.

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The general premise of The Wilds expands beyond the “a group of people are stranded on an island” trope. It has a clear instigator and antagonist in Gretchen Klein, a former professor who helms the “Dawn of Eve”