The Wilds 2 - Review no spoiler
The second season puts a lot of meat on fire, complicating relationships on the island and keeping the viewer’s attention high.
Plot:
A group of nine teenage girls, of different origins, find themselves leaving for a program called “the Dawn of Eve” in Hawaii but something happens and the plane crashes into the ocean and they find themselves on a desert island.
At the end of the first season of The Wilds, it was discovered that the experiment was also part of a group of boys, left on another island: now let’s see how they did to move forward.
Cast:
- Sophia Ali as Fatin Jadmani
- Sarah Pidgeon as Leah Rilke
- Jenna Clause as Martha Blackburn
- Erana James as Toni Shalifoe
- Mia Healey as Shelby
- Reign Edwards as Rachel
- Shannon Berry as Dot
- Helena Howard as Nora
- Rachel Griffiths as Gretchen Klein
- Jarred Blakiston as Alex
- Joe Witkowski as Thom
- Alex Fitzalan as Seth Novak
- Tanner Ray Rook as Bo Leonard
- Aidan Laprete as Henry Tanaka
- Reed Shannon as Scotty Simms
- Nicholas Coombe as Josh Herbert
- Miles Gutierrez-Riley as Ivan Taylor
- Charles Alexander as Kirin O’Connor
- Zack Calderon as Rafael Garcia
Thoughts:
The Wilds 2, seems to have to face even before starting a big obstacle, the risk of being repetitive compared to the first season. Despite the first episodes that seem to confirm this weakness in proposing a new version of events to the viewer, the good quality of the writing reappears. On the boys island, similar dynamics are created, but not the same as those of girls, while in the female group the situations become complicated. The Wilds 2, offers constant and well-balanced twists, which create the right conditions for a good marathon.
The balance between what can be revealed and the charge of mystery that must be maintained to tease the interest of the public doesn’t always manage to escape some of the same problems encountered in the first season. The focus placed on the dramatic component of this series sometimes risks taking away some space from the survival one, whose references create good moments of tension that deserve to be further explored.
Lost has taught us this in its complex six seasons: psychological and group dynamics are an excellent subject for build a narrative, even if they do not take for granted the success of a TV series.
The construction and characterization of the characters is the fundamental part and the choice to make the characters known gradually is not always well balanced: some emerge more, others would deserve more exploration, but the overall result is the creation of two credible groups, characterized by alliances and tensions. As the second season also unfolds, the viewer forms their own opinion on the socio-psychological experiment on which the survival of the protagonists of The Wilds is based.
In support of this valid second season is a well-structured video editing that constantly emphasizes flashbacks, memories, ambiguities and revelations, discreet acting by the full-bodied cast and a good musical choice balance intimate reflections, dynamic moments and dramatic situations. Finally, the choice of setting does not hurt: New Zealand for the first season and the landscapes of Queensland for the second season.
As for the first season, this finale also leaves us with many questions… We just have to wait for news on the third season.
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