American drama television series
The Wilds
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Genre
| Drama
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Created by
| Sarah Streicher
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Starring
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Music by
| Cliff Martinez
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Country of origin
| United States
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Original language
| English
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No.
of seasons
| 2
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No.
of episodes
| 18
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Executive producers
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Producers
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Production locations
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Cinematography
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- Ed Wild
- Rob Marsh
- Peter Field
- Matt Toll
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Editors
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- Sophie Corra
- Brad Katz
- Susan J. Vinci
- Steve Edwards
- Phillip J. Bartell
- Tuan Quoc Le
- Joanna Phillips
- Mark Gasparo
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Running time
| 42?61 minutes
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Production companies
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Network
| Amazon Prime Video
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Release
| December 11, 2020
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2020-12-11
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May 6, 2022
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2022-05-06
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The Wilds
is an American
drama
television series created by Sarah Streicher for
Amazon Prime Video
. The series revolves around a group of teenage girls who are left stranded on a
deserted island
after a plane crash, but are unaware they are the subjects of a social experiment. The cast features
Sophia Ali
,
Reign Edwards
,
Shannon Berry
,
Jenna Clause
, Mia Healey,
Helena Howard
,
Erana James
,
Sarah Pidgeon
,
David Sullivan
,
Troy Winbush
, and
Rachel Griffiths
. The first season was released on
Amazon Prime Video
on December 11, 2020, and received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances, writing, and plot. In December 2020, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on May 6, 2022. In July 2022, the series was canceled after two seasons.
Plot
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A group of teenage girls from different backgrounds ? Fatin Jadmani, Dot Campbell, Martha Blackburn, Rachel Reid, Shelby Goodkind, Nora Reid, Toni Shalifoe, and Leah Rilke ? are on an airplane when it crashes into the ocean while en route to
Hawaii
for the Dawn of Eve program, a young women's empowerment retreat. They survive the crash and find themselves stranded on a deserted island. As the girls work to survive as
castaways
and learn about each other, they are unaware that they are subjects of a social experiment; the plane crash was staged and their stranding orchestrated by Gretchen Klein, the head of the Dawn of Eve program. The girls' adventures on the island are intercut with flashbacks scenes about their lives before the crash, and flashforward scenes to an underground bunker where two men claiming to be FBI agents, Daniel Faber and Dean Young, interview the survivors after their supposed rescue.
The second season introduces a group of teenage boys: Kirin O’Conner, Rafael Garcia, Josh Herbert, Seth Novak, Ivan Taylor, Henry Tanaka, Bo Leonard and Scotty Simms. They find themselves in Klein’s second orchestrated crash as part of the Twilight of Adam program. Flashing between their past, their lives on the island, and questioning by Faber and Young, the boys’ stories come to light. Meanwhile, the girls (still being held in the bunker) begin to discover the truth behind their situation and attempt to reach the boys.
Cast and characters
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Main
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- Sophia Ali
as Fatin Jadmani,
[1]
one of the crash survivors, a rich and promiscuous
cellist
from
Berkeley, California
- Shannon Berry
as Dorothy "Dot" Campbell,
[1]
one of the crash survivors, a tough Texan girl with wilderness survival skills who cared for her dying father
- Jenna Clause
as Martha Blackburn,
[1]
one of the crash survivors, a kind and optimistic animal lover from an
Ojibwe
reservation in Minnesota
- Reign Edwards
as Rachel Reid,
[1]
one of the crash survivors, an uptight competitive diver from New York who later loses her right hand in a shark attack
- Mia Healey as Shelby Goodkind,
[1]
one of the crash survivors, a
closeted
beauty pageant queen from a conservative Christian family in Texas.
- Helena Howard
as Nora Reid,
[1]
one of the crash survivors, Rachel's fraternal twin sister, a quiet and intelligent girl from New York
- Erana James
as Toni Shalifoe,
[1]
one of the crash survivors, Martha's hot-headed and openly lesbian best friend from Minnesota
- Sarah Pidgeon
as Leah Rilke,
[1]
one of the crash survivors, a romantic and obsessive loner from Berkeley, California
- David Sullivan
as Daniel Faber,
[1]
a trauma psychologist who interviews the survivors after they are rescued from the island
- Troy Winbush
as Dean Young,
[1]
ostensibly an FBI agent, also interviewing the survivors after they are rescued, he is more sympathetic towards the girls
- Rachel Griffiths
as Gretchen Klein,
[1]
the head of the Dawn of Eve and Twilight of Adam programs.
- Charles Alexander as Kirin O'Conner (season 2),
[2]
one of the Twilight of Adam crash survivors, a macho lacrosse player
- Zack Calderon as Rafael Garcia (season 2),
[2]
one of the Twilight of Adam crash survivors, a love-obsessed introvert from Tijuana who goes to school in San Diego
- Nicholas Coombe as Josh Herbert (season 2),
[2]
one of the Twilight of Adam crash survivors, a dorky and optimistic
hypochondriac
from San Diego
- Alex Fitzalan as Seth Novak (season 2),
[2]
one of the Twilight of Adam crash survivors, the friendly and intelligent step-brother to Henry who harbors a dark side
- Miles Gutierrez-Riley as Ivan Taylor (season 2),
[2]
one of the Twilight of Adam crash survivors, a bold and witty but self-centered gay teen
- Aidan Laprete
as Henry Tanaka (season 2),
[2]
one of the Twilight of Adam crash survivors, the goth and pessimistic ex-
boy scout
and step-brother of Seth
- Tanner Ray Rook as Bo Leonard (season 2),
[2]
one of the Twilight of Adam crash survivors, a sweet and orderly victim of child abuse from Florida
- Reed Shannon as Scotty Simms (season 2),
[2]
Bo’s protective and entrepreneurial best friend from Florida
Recurring
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- James Fraser as Ian Murnen, a friend of Leah’s who has a crush on her
- Jarred Blakiston
as Alex, a member of Gretchen's team who is hesitant of her methods
- Jen Huang as Susan, a member of Gretchen's team
- Joe Witkowski as Thom, a member of Gretchen's team
- Barbara Eve Harris
as Audrey, a member of Gretchen's team
- Elliott Giarola as Devon Klein (season 2), Gretchen's son who poses as DJ Keating, one of the crash survivors on the boys island
Guest
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- Chi Nguyen as Linh Bach, Gretchen's research assistant, who poses as Jeanette Dao, one of the crash survivors, but dies on the first day
- Carter Hudson as Jeffrey Galanis (season 1), an author who Leah has a brief relationship with due to his attraction to younger women. He breaks things off after discovering that Leah lied to him about being 18.
- Greg Bryk
as Tim Campbell (season 1), Dot's ailing father
- Shane Callahan
as James Reid (season 1), Nora and Rachel's father
- Dde Dionne Gipson as Angela Reid (season 1), Nora and Rachel's mother
- Jose Velazquez as Mateo (season 1), a nurse who looks after Dot's father and starts developing feelings for her
- Bella Shepard as Regan (season 1), Toni's ex-girlfriend
- Poorna Jagannathan
as Rana Jadmani, Fatin's mother
- Alireza Ghadiri as Ahmad Jadmani, Fatin's father
- Warren Kole
as Dave Goodkind, Shelby's father. He runs bible study sessions and a Christian-themed spin cycle studio.
- Stefania LaVie Owen
as Becca Gilroy, Shelby's best friend who she secretly has romantic feelings for
- Bonnie Soper
as JoBeth Goodkind, Shelby's mother
- Kimberly Guerrero
as Bernice Blackburn, Martha's mother
- Lewis Fitz-Gerald
as Dr. Ted Wolchak, a doctor who sexually abused Martha, and several other girls, when she was a child
- Johnny Berchtold as Quinn, Nora's ex-boyfriend who she meets during summer session at a college campus
- Victoria Moroles
as Marisol Nunez (season 2), Rafael’s girlfriend
- Ben Folds
as himself (season 2), who appears in Leah’s hallucinations
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Episodes
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Series overview
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Season 1 (2020)
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Season 2 (2022)
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Production
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Development
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On June 28, 2018,
Amazon Studios
gave production a pilot order.
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On August 3, 2018, it was announced that
Susanna Fogel
had signed on to direct the pilot and serve as executive producer.
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On May 28, 2019, it was announced that Amazon Studios had given the production a series order for a first season consisting of ten episodes. The series was developed by Sarah Streicher who is also expected to executive produce alongside Jamie Tarses from Fanfare; and Dylan Clark and Brian Williams of Dylan Clark Productions. It was also announced that Amy B. Harris would be acting as showrunner and executive producer.
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On December 19, 2020, Amazon Studios renewed the series for a second season.
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On July 28, 2022, Amazon canceled the series after two seasons.
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Casting
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On July 31, 2018, Mia Healey,
Helena Howard
,
Reign Edwards
, and Shannon Berry were cast as series regulars.
[9]
On November 7, 2019,
Rachel Griffiths
,
David Sullivan
,
Troy Winbush
,
Sophia Ali
, Sarah Pidgeon, Jenna Clause, and
Erana James
joined the main cast.
[10]
On May 3, 2021, Zack Calderon,
Aidan Laprete
, Nicholas Coombe, Charles Alexander, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Reed Shannon, Tanner Ray Rook and Alex Fitzalan were cast in starring roles for the second season.
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Filming
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Filming for the first season began in October 2019 in
New Zealand
.
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Most of the outdoor scenes for the first season were filmed in
Bethells Beach
, New Zealand,
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with indoor studio scenes filmed at
Studio West
in
West Auckland
.
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Filming for the second season would relocate from New Zealand to
Queensland
,
Australia
and began filming in April 2021.
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Filming for the second season wrapped in August 2021.
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Release
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The series's first season was released on December 11, 2020, on
Amazon Prime Video
.
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The second season was released on May 6, 2022.
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Reception
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Critical response
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On review aggregator
Rotten Tomatoes
, the first season received an approval rating of 93% based on 27 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "An addictive thriller that also captures the complex lives of teenage girls,
The Wilds
is worth getting lost in."
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Metacritic
gave the first season a weighted average score of 76 out of 100 based on 11 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Kristen Baldwin of
Entertainment Weekly
gave the series a B+ and wrote, "Here, the mystery isn't so much why these girls are on the island as how being there will change them?and I, for one, want to go back."
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Richard Roeper
of
Chicago Sun-Times
gave the series 3.5 out of 4 stars and said, "What's so impressive about
The Wilds
is how creator Sarah Streicher and the deeply talented young cast members immerse us in this world so quickly and create an almost instant interest and empathy for these eight teenage girls."
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The show has received praise from critics and advocacy groups for its diverse cast, which includes indigenous and queer characters, and its "front-and-center" depiction of
same-sex relationships
.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season holds an approval rating of 86% based on 28 critic reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's critics consensus states, "
The Wilds
gets a little lost after expanding its ensemble at the expense of its original hook, but the core cast remains as watchable as ever."
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The second season received a score of 62 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Accolades
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The Wilds
was nominated for the
Outstanding Drama Series
category for the
GLAAD Media Awards
in 2021.
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The Wilds
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2024
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The Wilds
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