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Before there was Yellowjackets, there was The Wilds, but without cannibalism. The Wilds was the first young adult series to premiere on Amazon Prime Video as part of a new initiative ushered in by Head of Amazon Studios, Jennifer Salke. Whereas the series found its footing in the first season, Season 2's underwhelming performance elicited a cancelation.

The Wilds is a tame mix between Lost and Yellowjackets with a social experiment twist. The series follows a group of teenage girls who crash-land on a deserted island, unaware that they're a part of a social experiment. The girls' long stay on the island opens a plethora of secrets about their pasts and inner selves that brings them together or pushes them apart. But as much as the girls' relationships and the greater mysteries kept fans...

Yellowjackets fans must wait until 2025 for season 3, but The Wilds on Amazon Prime Video is a great alternative. The Wilds, created by Sarah Streicher, has an intriguing storyline, complex characters, and a unique mystery that will keep viewers hooked. Unfortunately, The Wilds was canceled after two seasons, so fans should be prepared for unanswered questions after the season 2 finale.

Yellowjackets is on a long hiatus, and as fans patiently (or not so patiently) wait for the season 3 premiere, Amazon Prime Video has a show that contains similar themes and is the perfect replacement for the Showtime television series. Showtime's thriller drama premiered in late 2021 and immediately received acclaim from critics and audiences. It went on to receive numerous prestigious awards, leading to a season 2 renewal. The second season, which premiered in March 2023, performed as well as the first, and the network (unsurprisingly) ordered a third season, which won't arrive until 2025.

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“The Wilds” will be taking off from the runway for Season 3: Prime Video has canceled the popular YA survival series after two seasons, TheWrap has confirmed.

Season 2, which expanded the show’s narrative with the addition of an all-male high school “control group,” premiered on the streamer May 6, delayed by two-and-a-half years as a result of the pandemic.

Despite having premiered a year earlier, the series has drawn comparisons with the Emmy-nominated “Yellowjackets” (which began development and shooting on its pilot around the same time in 2020) for its focus on a group of girls who get stranded following a plane crash. That’s where the two shows’ similarities end: The misfortune the high schoolers in “The Wilds” face stems from a larger conspiracy experiment led by Dawn of Eve founder Gretchen Klein (Rachel Griffiths), who posits that women can run a better society against all obstacles. The girls are...

It's game over for The Wilds.

Deadline reports that Prime Video has canceled the buzzy drama after two seasons.

The series burst onto the screen in 2020, landing a speedy renewal and rave reviews.

As the first YA series on the streaming service, it broke through in a way many shows that followed it did not.

However, the second season premiered in May, failing to reach its predecessor's success.

Season 2 of The Wilds continued to follow the harrowing ordeal of a group of teenage girls stranded on a deserted island, and they didn't end up there by accident - they've secretly been recruited into an elaborate social experiment.

The season ratchets up the drama by revealing that the girls aren't the only ones being studied... there's a new set of subjects, an island of teenage boys, who must also fight for survival under the watchful eye of the experiment's puppet master.

For “The Wilds” writers, executive producers and showrunners Sarah Streicher and Amy B. Harris, the island on which a group of teen women — and in Season 2, a control group of adolescent boys — are trapped (as unwilling participants in a twisted sociological experiment) is a metaphor for coming of age, which, Harris told TheWrap, is “very dark for a lot of people.”

“And the idea that you can be seen and that a story that you relate to or feels like it’s a part of what you went through — even if it’s dark — deserves, I think, to be told,” she added.

When the Prime Video show premiered in late 2020, it unraveled a complex survivalist narrative featuring young women in hostile opposition to their surrounding environment, themselves and often each other. They were forced to learn how to hunt, build shelter and make peace with their horrifying newfound situation. Season...

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. In the case of "The Wilds," things get way worse, like comically bad. The second season of the teen survivalist story, which hit Prime Video on May 6, shows the group fighting extreme physical and mental exhaustion while gradually uncovering the Dawn of Eve experiment that's the cause of their suffering. There's also the introduction of male castaways, unknowing participants of the Twilight of Adam program. Though both groups collectively rebel by the end, escape is not yet earned.

The cast similarly experienced successes and obstacles while filming the challenging season. Sarah Pidgeon, who plays Leah Rilke, and Reign Edwards, who plays Rachel Reid, spoke to Popsugar about bonding with their costars, shaping their characters, and shooting their most difficult scenes.

Pidgeon continues to portray the group's relentless whistleblower, but in season two, Leah questions her judgment as she experiences vivid hallucinations.

Prime Video’s “The Wilds” is back for a second season of danger, island survival, and a social experiment none of the teen girls signed up for. This time around, though, we won’t just be following the stories of Toni, Shelby, Martha, Rachel, Leah and Dot. As we learned at the end of Season 1, Gretchen Klein is conducting the exact same experiment with a group of teen boys, leading to an expanded Season 2 world.

“I know a lot of people were worried we were just leaving the girls behind. That is 100 not happening,” executive producer Amy B. Harris told TheWrap. “We are going to be exploring some of the boys’ backstories, not all of them, some of them in tandem with each other, so that we can really split the – we really want to be with the girls and with the boys half and half and what was so...

It’s hard to believe that by the Season 1 finale of “The Wilds” two years ago, the eight teenage girls left to fend for themselves on a remote island after a plane crash had only been stranded for three weeks. The Amazon Prime Video series creator Sarah Streicher’s well-written script and excellent casting made this series one of the most talked-about in 2020, and its second season is has been hotly anticipated ever since. Although we’ve seen versions of this premise before, what makes “The Wilds” unique is that it’s clear from the start that what we’re witnessing is an experiment.

Social scientist Gretchen Klein (Rachel Griffiths) has one goal: to prove that a matriarchal-led society is more efficient and less violent than our current Western male-dominated one. So she sets out to prove her hypothesis with a ridiculously well-funded and carefully orchestrated social experiment disguised as...

Amazon’s Prime Video has released the official trailer for Season 2 of “The Wilds,” the popular teen survival series returning this spring.

Created by Sarah Streicher, “The Wilds” focuses on a group of teenage girls who survive a plane crash and are forced to work together to survive on a strange deserted island. Unbeknownst to them, the eight teenagers are subject to a strange social experiment engineered by Gretchen Klein (Rachel Griffiths), the head of a women’s empowerment program Dawn of Eve. Sophia Ali, Shannon Berry, Jenna Clause, Reign Edwards, Mia Healey, Helena Howard, Erana James and Sarah Pidgeon star as the girls stranded on the island, while David Sullivan and Troy Winbush star as FBI agents who appear in flashforwards after the group is rescued from the island.

Season 2 of “The Wilds” will see the girls learn of the existence of another island, where another crash was staged,...

The Wilds Season 2 is almost ready for its close-up.

Prime Video has revealed the hit YA drama series premieres its second season on May 6, 2022.

The series will drop in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on that date.

Season 2 of The Wilds will continue to follow the harrowing ordeal of a group of teenage girls stranded on a deserted island, and they didn't end up there by accident - they've secretly been recruited into an elaborate social experiment.

The new season ratchets up the drama by revealing that the girls aren't the only ones being studied... there's a new set of subjects, an island of teenage boys, who must also fight for survival under the watchful eye of the experiment's puppet master.

The series was a huge hit for Prime Video when it launched in 2020.

New cast members for The Wilds Season 2 include Alex Fitzalan (The Society) as Seth Novak,...

The Wilds‘ dystopian slumber party is going co-ed.

Prime Video on Tuesday announced that the YA series will return on Friday, May 6 — a full 17 months (!) after the release of Season 1 — and revealed 16 photos of the eight teenage boys being added to Season 2.

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New episodes of The Wilds “will continue to follow the harrowing ordeal of a group of teenage girls stranded on a deserted island,...

The double agent we never saw coming. Just when we thought The Wilds couldn't surprise viewers more, the last two episodes revealed that soft-spoken Nora (played by Helena Howard) was the second mole teased throughout the season. For those unfamiliar with the Prime Video series, The Wilds follows a group of teenage girls who are deserted on an island after their plane crashed while heading to an empowerment retreat. However, the girls survived for a reason as they're actually a part of a social experiment, the Dawn of Eve. When the initial mole (Chi Nguyen), whose undercover name was Jeanette Dao, died from internal bleeding, organizer Gretchen Klein (Rachel Griffiths) chose to move forward with the experiment...

There could easily be a debate after watching Amazon Prime Video original series The Wilds about Gretchen Klein: is she the series' hero or the villain? While she is clearly intelligent and passionate about her work and has good intentions with her research, her methods are unorthodox, to say the least.

There are clear-cut reasons why she should be considered a villain, but one could argue that in order to come to truly revolutionary discoveries, there has to be some sacrifice. In that sense, maybe Gretchen is a hero after all, despite her willingness to move on in the face of terrible tragedy.

Related: Amazon's The Wilds: The Main Characters Arcs, Ranked 

It all comes down to how fans viewed the 10 episodes of The Wilds' first season and the character at the center of it all.

“The Wilds” has been renewed for Season 2 at Amazon Prime Video, the platform said Saturday.

The YA series, which premiered Dec. 11, is described by the streaming service as “part survival drama, part dystopic slumber party.”

“The Wilds,” Amazon Prime Video’s first real venture into young-adult programming, follows a group of teen girls from different backgrounds who must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island, per Amazon. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep and the traumas they’ve all endured. There’s just one twist to this thrilling drama… these girls did not end up on this island by accident.

There’s no word yet on when Season 2 will go into production or when Amazon expects to launch the episodes.

“The Wilds” stars Sophia Ali as Fatin Jadmani, Shannon Berry as Dot Campbell,...

Amazon has renewed “The Wilds” for a second season.

The show’s official Twitter account broke the news on Saturday with a video of the cast celebrating, captioned “did someone say season 2??”

did someone say season 2?? #TheWilds pic.twitter.com/ZVDe1sFfx0

— The Wilds (@thewildsonprime) December 19, 2020

“The Wilds” follows a group of young girls who become stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. The first season consisted of 10 episodes, which all released on Amazon Prime Video Dec. 11.

“The Wilds” was created by Sarah Streicher and stars Rachel Griffiths (Gretchen Klein), Sophia Taylor Ali (Fatin Jadmani), Shannon Berry (Dot Campbell), Sarah Pidgeon (Leah Rilke), Erana James (Toni Shalifoe), Jenna Clause (Martha Blackburn), David Sullivan (Daniel Faber), Troy Winbush (Dean Young), Helena Howard (Nora Reid), Reign Edwards (Rachel Reid) and Mia Healey (Shelby Goodkind).

The show is executive produced by Streicher, Amy B. Harris, Dylan Clark and Jamie Tarses.

Harris...

[Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers for Season 1 of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Wilds,” including the ending. For a spoiler-free review, click here.]

Now, I’m sure you all did what I suggested in my spoiler-free review of “The Wilds” and refrained from blowing through all 10 episodes in two days, right?

Of course you didn’t. So welcome to the review with spoilers.

On the surface, “The Wilds” is about a group of troubled teenage girls who are en route to a female empowerment retreat in Kona, Hawaii, when their plane crashes. They wind up on a deserted tropical island in the middle of nowhere and are forced to join together to survive, despite their disparate backgrounds and personalities.

That is, in fact, about 30 percent of what “The Wilds” is about. But creator Sarah Streicher’s work is more “Euphoria” than “Lost,” and more “The Usual Suspects” than “Lord of the Flies.”

I kept a list of the...

Amazon’s new female-centric castaway series The Wilds doesn’t hold back when it comes to throwing mysteries at its characters (and the audience) and, following its first ten episodes, the two timelines we’ve been following both conclude with cliffhangers of differing kinds.

One, which has been following the girls as they try to survive on a seemingly uninhabited island, cuts out just as Rachel is attacked by a shark and Nora runs into the water to save her. The second, taking place in the present after the girls have been transferred to a facility 150 miles away, leaves the audience just as baffled as Leah with the reveal of what the Dawn of Eve may actually be up to.

But after ten hours of patchwork backstory, interviews and watching the drama unfold on-island, fans are still somewhat in the dark about why the girls were on the island in the first place,...

Not long after they’ve crash landed on a remote beach with no help in sight, the teen girl castaways of “The Wilds” put their situation into a perspective they can understand. Brainstorming a way to signal for help, pragmatic leader Dot (Shannon Berry) tosses surly athlete Rachel (Reign Edwards) a makeup mirror from one of their sea-drenched suitcases, insisting that she take it on their hike to reflect the sunlight back into the sky. “I saw them do it on ‘Bear Grylls,'” Dot shrugs, which is good enough for Rachel. As “The Wilds” likes to remind us at every given opportunity, these girls may be resilient, but they’re also just teenagers who were busy dealing with angst and trauma until they stumbled into this bizarre and terrifying new reality. If making it through this experience alive means recalling some bit of expertise from marathoning “Survivor” back home,...

“There’s something wrong when the figure you most identify with when you’re 12 — in terms of thoughts, feelings and ideas — is Anne Frank,” Rachel Griffiths said, speaking in Auckland on the set of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Wilds.” “There’s a fucking problem that you’re a Catholic girl in Melbourne and you have to go to Anne Frank to find a view of a girl wrestling with the huge questions of humanity, fear, and anxiety.”

“The Wilds,” the commerce and streaming giant’s first move into young adult series programming, debuts December 11, and it’s a big, risky, sprawling cross-genre project. In addition to Griffiths, it has a huge cast and a tricky narrative, one that shows the lengths young women have to go to in order to regain their agency under the pressures of modern life.

The logline for “The Wilds” is simple: It’s “Lost” meets “Lord of the Flies,...

Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters alumna Rachel Griffiths, David Sullivan, Troy Winbush (The Goldbergs), Sophia Ali, Sarah Pidgeon (Gotham), Jenna Clause and Erana James (Golden Boy) are set as series regulars in Amazon’s young adult drama series The Wilds from writer-executive producer Sarah Streicher (Daredevil) and ABC Signature Studios, part of Disney Television Studios. They join previously announced cast Mia Healey, Helena Howard, Reign Edwards and Shannon Berry. Production began last month in New Zealand.

Part survival drama, part dystopic slumber party, The Wilds follows a group of teenage girls from radically different backgrounds after an airplane crash strands them on a deserted island.

Griffiths will play Gretchen Klein, an ambitious intellectual who runs an all-girls empowerment retreat.

Sullivan will portray Dr. Daniel Faber, an FBI trauma specialist. He’s a pro at putting his interviewees at ease and extracting valuable information from them.

Rachel Griffiths (Brothers & Sisters, Six Feet Under) has signed on to chaperone star in The Wilds, Amazon’s forthcoming Ya series that’s described as “part survival drama, part dystopic slumber party,” TVLine has learned.

The series — from Daredevil writer/Ep Sarah Streicher — follows, per the logline, “a group of teenage girls from radically different backgrounds after an airplane crash strands them on a deserted island. The show explores the past and present struggles of these young women, offering up a vivid portrayal of what it means to grow up female in our time — whether you are lost in the wilderness or not.