Amazon Prime Video s survival coming-of-age drama The Wilds deals with the most terrifying business of all: being a teenage girl. Hailed as
Lord of the Flies meets
Mean Girls, the series focuses on a group of teens stranded on a deserted island as part of a controversial experiment. Sent off to what they believe will be a luxury Hawaiian all-female retreat, eight girls from different backgrounds will need to cooperate in order to survive after their plane crashes.
Native American, fiery and openly gay basketball player Toni (Erana James) almost immediately clashes with religious Shelby (Mia Healey). The latter is an impossibly peppy Texan beauty queen. Her accepting approach, however, wavers when confronted with queerness. Bothered by Toni s out-and-proud attitude, the closeted pageant star can no longer hide her discomfort. When the lesbian athlete simulates oral sex on a mussel to entertain the group in Day Twelve, Shelby cracks.