In season 2, survival hangs in the balance for the group of teenage girls stranded on a deserted island, after the explosive discovery that what’s happening to them is an elaborate social experiment. This season ups the drama and keeps you guessing, with the introduction of more test subjects—another island of teenage boys—who must also fight for survival under the watchful eye of the experiment’s puppet master.
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The Wilds Has Been Compared to Lost
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There are some similarities between The Wilds and Lost, so it’s hard for the show’s creators to avoid the comparisons. Watching both shows, however, feel very different from one another, as explained by Harris in a Collider interview touching on the differences between them.
Harris added, “And we talked very honestly about how much we love those shows and then it was like, “Okay, we’re going to tell our stories, and how are those stories different because of the ensemble of women that we are writing about and for?”
“I think initially, as Sarah likes to say, ‘We stand on the shoulders of that giant,’ and wouldn’t deny that to anybody,” Harris said. “That is a show that broke a lot of ways of telling a story. What we always talked about and sort of what I’ve always been interested in as a writer, you can tell a story, but it’s like, why is it a Sex and the City story versus a Friends story? Why are these stories so different? And I think it’s because we are telling it through the lens of teenage girls. It’s inherently sort of different. So, we can sort of celebrate the things that are obviously sort of an homage to Cast Away as well as My So-Called Life, in terms of talking about the teenage experience in a really authentic, specific, grounded way.”
The Wilds can be found streaming on Prime Video, with the highly anticipated second season set to debut all eight episodes on Friday, May 6, 2022.
