The Wilds

The Wilds, an intense survival drama series on Prime Video, returns for season 2 on Friday, May 6. The Wilds features a diverse group of teenage girls.

Is The Wilds renewed for Season 3 on Prime Video? What we know about when it might be released, who's in the cast, when it starts filming, spoilers, ...

The announcement that there would be a Season 2 happened in December 2020, filming for that season began in April 2021 and wrapped in August, with the premiere on Prime Video in May 2022, or about nine months later. If our hypothetical (but surely happening, I mean, come on) Season 3 starts filming within the next several months, we might be seeing a premiere date of mid-to-late-2023. One of these operatives died as a result of the crash, and Leah discovers the identity of the second at the very end of the season.

Season 2 of the young adult thriller series, 'The Wilds,' arrived on Prime Video on Friday (May 6). Find out how to watch here.

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This drama-filled season follows the show's original characters as they continue to navigate the deserted island, while also taking viewers back to Day 1 for ...

He is an activist and aspiring playwright, and has a keen fashion sense that he refuses to let go of while stranded on an island. He is a team player and the island's only unproblematic fave. While the outcome isn't entirely good, it adds depth to his character and reveals that not everything is as it seems. He is a hypochondriac and takes homeopathic medicines to account for his stress, and various ills and allergies. Henry is the opposite of his step-brother Seth, he is an emo, solo-type who's never caught without his noise-canceling headphones. He's smart as a whip and is a natural-born leader, but is it all a facade?

Basically, when viewers last saw their sunburned island pals, Shelby and Toni were smooching, and Leah had just realized something was up with Nora, the sort of ...

At the end of season one, a part of me started to feel that the girls’ ordeal was getting almost a little too dark. When the gang strikes out and returns to their rendezvous, DJ is lying dead on the beach, leg and face brutally maimed by what we’re left to presume was a shark of some sort. Through flashes back and forth between the beach and the barracks, we come to learn a few things. Alexander seems to be trying to sum up some sort of Texas macho thing, and I don’t think it’s landing. This first episode was written by series creator Sarah Streicher, who wrote some of season one’s most brutal and brain-bending episodes, and the series-two premiere is no exception. When the group splits up to look for what they presume is some billionaire’s private island home, DJ struggles and is sent back. They, too, fell victim to the whole “free cake on a private jet” ploy, and now they’re screwed. At the same time, Leah is still rabidly searching for the pit, much to Fatin’s dismay, while Dot mainly helps prep the group for their move to a new inland camp. She blames herself for Nora’s disappearance — which is actually kind of apt, considering, if you remember from season one, it was Rachel’s dislike of Nora’s boyfriend, Quinn, that led to Nora eventually coming on board the evil Dawn of Eve study. She followed her into the woods only to be lured into a pit trap that Nora had set. Season two’s premiere is full of timeline twists and turns, new characters and personalities, and lots of bleak, empty staring out into a churning ocean, so it’s certainly helpful if you come into it having done a recent rewatch of the season-one finale. When The Wilds premiered in late 2020, it came out of left field.

Dot (Shannon Berry) and Martha (Jenna Clause) begin to emotionally isolate themselves from the group, and Toni (Erana James) and Shelby (Mia Healey) are trying ...

If you are interested in having your work highlighted contact [email protected] to be featured as a guest blogger on the site. In some ways, that is why The Wilds can feel so heavy and addictive, especially as the guys and gals wonder whether having rules is what is keeping them from freeing themselves. When we first meet the guys, they are about to be in a staged plane crash that was, initially, destined for a rehabilitative, correctional program funded by their parents and led by Gretchen Klein (played to the utmost villainy by Rachel Griffiths). Just on that tidbit alone, we know their smiling faces hide the disappointments and detractions they have had from their families. Even in 2022, there can still be a struggle to not portray women as bags of feelings and men as bags of “logic” — as if guys think more rationally because they don’t “feel.” As the pieces of their past sins and potential outcomes on the island are glued together, they wonder if something is truly wrong with them as people. Dot (Shannon Berry) and Martha (Jenna Clause) begin to emotionally isolate themselves from the group, and Toni (Erana James) and Shelby (Mia Healey) are trying to maneuver what it means to fall in love while on an abandoned island.

Let's hope the boys smarten up soon and start asking themselves crucial questions like who 'abandons' a shelter full of food?

Of course, the boys are just happy to have the food, and so they don’t seem to question why in the world that would even exist or the fortunate timing of the whole affair. Behind the glass, Gretchen breathes on the glass and draws a smiley face to indicate her acceptance, which, frankly, I kind of doubt works, but let’s say it does because we’re already accepting so much with this show. I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt and say she’s just over him as a person and not because he’s not in her tax bracket. On Girl Island, Martha tells Toni that she’d rather Shelby not hear anything about her secondhand, and Toni tells her that she’s proud of her, admiring the warrior she’s become. It seems that Toni has told Shelby to go with Martha during one of their heart-to-hearts, saying that Martha truly loves animals and that it’s a shame that she’s not having to resort to catching and killing them for the rest of the group to survive. Leah — who totally did not kill herself last episode — and Rachel arrive back from gathering seaweed at the beach (?) with a tote full of retirement supplies they’ve found (?), including a pinata that reminds Leah of her dad’s friend Top Ramen, who once got really drunk on a ski vacation and snorted ten lines of Top Ramen seasoning. Instead, he hops in his car and heads for the border, where he finds himself stuck in traffic. After losing a game of two truths and a lie on Boy Island, Raf has retreated into the woods, where he loses his sad bracelet and is subsequently bitten alive by a swarm of fire ants. He tries to wiggle out of it, but his parents are firm — and a little harsh. It’s there that he met his girlfriend Marisol, who (this is not a lie) is also the heir to the Veracruz Salsa fortune. Hungry and bored, you use a rock to break open the lock, and boom, it’s full of 16-year-old food, dusty water, and a bunch of old boxes of files. Ever been out walking in the woods and just stumble on a hidden hatch sticking out of the ground?

Though Amazon has yet to announce a renewal for the survivalist teen drama 'The Wilds,' the shocking Season 2 cliffhanger left several unanswered questions.

After premiering in December 2020, the second installment dropped on Prime Video roughly another year and a half later on May 5, 2022. As “Phase 3” had just officially begun on screen — and a shocking mole was revealed — it only seems natural that The Wilds Season 3 would follow as well. The inaugural season of The Wilds debuted about a year and a half after Amazon gave the series a 10-episode order in May 2019.

Warning: spoilers ahead! 'The Wilds' showrunners break down episode 4's shocking assault and the traumatic aftermath.

I wouldn't want to necessarily speak to the actual medical terminology of it, but I think he really is a strange combination of a child trying to do better and then becoming a man who may not be capable of that. I think the assumption is Gretchen might have made it a little less traumatic-looking for the parents, but we'll reveal more of that in season 3. That scene when he is breaking apart all the microphones and he has that moment where he's rocking back-and-forth, I do think he feels deep remorse in that moment but he doesn't know how to... You said that Seth is a product of his environment and his upbringing, but is there also a sociopathic tendency to him? I think, in a strange way, a lot of what this season is about is there's nothing that's black and white, there's nothing that's binary. Seth was mishandled several times, lastly by Gretchen, and that was, in a lot of ways, the straw that broke the camel's back. The next morning, it's revealed that Seth is the Nora (Helena Howard) of the group and is working for Gretchen from the inside. We started gravitating toward this story where we would have one of our male participants who was not redeemable the way all of our other characters have been and who would be a bit of a bad seed in an otherwise really promising and supportive community. While Gretchen and her team are still in the dark at the end of episode 4, the audience finally learned what horrible event caused the group of guys to fall apart: Seth (Alex Fitzalan) sexually assaulted Josh (Nicholas Coombe) that night while the rest of the guys were unaware less than 30 ft. But then — and we talk about this a lot with Alex, who plays Seth, the difference between a human being who experiences that lack of love and, yes, is damaged, but then doesn't damage others, what happens when the person is somebody who either repeats a violent cycle or even extends it past that? But so far, none of the teen guys are talking about it during their interrogations after their "rescue" from the island. Throughout the first half of The Wilds season 2, Gretchen (Rachel Griffiths) and the rest of her team have been dying to know what mysterious event happened on day 15 for the Twilight of Adam "control group" in her experiment.

Amy B. Harris and Sarah Streicher dish on the shocking reveal and what their plans are for a potential third season.

But that'll be the fun of season 3 is seeing where we can take that and who is a mole and who is loyal to the team. But I was certainly blown away by how much it seemed to touch the fandom in a way that -- I hoped of course it would -- I was beyond thrilled and stunned by it. Harris: I don't know if it surprised us as we were building it, but I think we were surprised by how much it touched the audience -- the creation of Toni and Shelby's relationship. From the beginning of the pilot, it was a priority for me, and I did research trips, and I selected these characters almost more meticulously than Gretchen did. If the Amazon gods are kind to us, we have some very wonderful ideas for season 3 and we're very excited where we could take the show. I went to an all-girls school for high school and it was the reason I became uninhibited. And in terms of the moles, look, I think Gretchen tries to convince Leah to her side. If we're lucky enough to get a season 3, we really want to play in the world of -- Faber says it in episode five, "Was it because all your needs were met, things started to blow apart?" The final episode of the season culminated in a dramatic reveal, that the girls -- and now, boys -- were back on the island they thought they had been freed from. So when all your needs are met -- the survivalist needs -- what other parts of you come out to make that survival equally as challenging? Sarah Streicher: As Amy mentioned, it was really exciting and intriguing to me that we established the women in season 1 as this baseline. We've invited the men into this space we've created and the lens that we did create to examine adolescence in season 1, this empathetic lens where you're examining teenagers under pressure, but then also examining their lives preceding this very pressurized situation.

Her character Grechen Klein is "a slightly evil clown," the actor said. "You can really suck as an older actor," Griffiths said, adding actors don't benefit ...

"Actually you can really suck as an older actor. "I remember saying, the thing about acting is you can be in the business for 30 years and someone walks in on their first job and blows you off the screen and grabs the Oscar," she said. "The Wilds" star Rachel Griffiths plays Gretchen Klein in the hit drama. "Everyone is like, 'The box isn't working.' She's like, 'It's working, it's working perfectly,'" Griffiths said. An investigative report by the Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou later uncovered that the technology was flawed. The "Muriel's Wedding" actor explained that "Gretchen is a true sociopath, in that she justifies all the collateral impact on any other humans for this greater cause," which is to prove that women are the stronger sex.

We would love to see a renewal announcement soon. We're still waiting for a few shows from 2022 to be renewed, though. One of those is Upload, so we might have ...

The best way to do that is to get your friends to binge-watch the series on Prime Video, too! Of course, now you need to know about The Wilds Season 3. One of those is Upload, so we might have to wait a while as Prime Video figures out what it wants to do.

Let's break down each new character. Kirin. Kirin is the typical high school athlete jockey with a temper. The Toni-equivalent if you will.

However, apart from Henry coming across as the “nerd” of the group, little about what he represents is said. On the island, he struggles to fit in, and he clashes with Kirin early on. Throughout season 2 he tries to be the leader of the boys, but he has many confrontations on the way. On the island, Ivan has a couple of clashes with Kirin, as they navigate their unresolved issues with each other. On the island, their friendship is tested, especially because sticking together “as a two” isn’t the greatest strategy. Season 1 brought the girls, so season 2 brings the boys.

The first season of the twisty, often confusing series revealed that there was an entire operation behind the plane crash that brought them to the island, and ...

The level of darkness might not be easy for everyone to stomach, but for those who like to escape towards the pitch black instead of the light, The Wilds might be just the ticket. The show might not always hit the mark, but you have to appreciate that it’s willing to swing and miss, because some of the bigger swings are its most interesting. The addition of the boys this season is interesting in theory, but when we already have so many girls (who have each been depicted with so much love and care), it’s difficult to imagine a show on which the boys are going to get the same treatment. Shelby and Toni, meanwhile, continue their romantic rendezvous in the jungle, while the rest of the group starts to catch on to their relationship. Flashbacks reveal that the boys only wind up making it 34 days (while the girls made it the “full 50”), though what that really means remains to be seen. The first season of the twisty, often confusing series revealed that there was an entire operation behind the plane crash that brought them to the island, and Season 2 quickly reveals that these girls aren’t the only victims of this sick experiment.