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A drama about teen girls fighting to survive after their plane crashes on a deserted island? No thanks 2020 is dark enough. But a drama about a group of teen girls lured into a fempowerment retreat by an eccentric academic who uses words like gynotopia ? Yes, please,
The Wilds. Inject that nonsense right into my weary eyeballs.
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The Wilds begins in the present an injured young woman named Leah (Sarah Pidgeon) is interviewed by two official-looking investigators (Troy Winbush and David Sullivan) before flashing back to the events that led to her middle-of-nowhere marooning with seven other young women. (Ah, the present-day debrief as framing device the cause of, and solution to, so many TV storytelling problems.) The first five minutes of the premiere, a meet-the-characters montage, tells us exactly what to expect from this survi