The flashbacks throughout each episode endeavour to show us the struggles the Unsinkable Eight faced in the lives they’re stranded from. From drug dealing, to suicide, to sexual repression and assault, to carrying burdens meant for those much older, and scandalous affairs with older men- the flashbacks bolster the show’s central tenet surmised perfectly in a line from the opening scene.
“So, if we’re talking about what happened out there? Then, yeah there was trauma. But being a teenage girl in normal-ass America, that was the real living hell.”
No one issues a burn quite like a teenage girl. #TheWilds streams TOMORROW on Prime Video. pic.twitter.com/vHEXNnGeQh
Oscar Winner Taika Waititi Is Producing A TV Show About Native American Teenagers
The hilarious director Taika Waititi has joined forces with Native American filmmaker Sterlin Harjo to bring the first mainstream show about Native teens to American television.
ByVersha Sharma
Published on 12/15/2020 at 4:44 PM
New art unveiled for the FX show Reservation Dogs, to be released in 2021, at Disney s Investor Day in December 2020. | Walt Disney Company
New art unveiled for the FX show Reservation Dogs, to be released in 2021, at Disney s Investor Day in December 2020. | Walt Disney Company
The first show about Native Americans produced by Native American and Indigenous people is coming to FX in 2021 and its writers room is going to be “entirely composed of Indigenous writers,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
ABC s Big Sky has drawn claims of exclusion and misrepresentation.
Activists and leaders in the industry say that Hollywood has significant outreach work to do: There s not parity in terms of the Native community getting an equal amount of support with what the other communities are getting.
On Dec. 2, Indigenous groups protesting the lack of Native and Indigenous female representation on the ABC procedural
Big Sky sent a message that they won t be backing down anytime soon. Not long after the show s executive producers responded for the first time to the weeks-long protest saying that their eyes had been opened and they had started working with Indigenous groups dozens more tribes joined the anti-
Amazon s The Wilds Cast: Meet the Characters and Who Plays Them P. Claire Dodson
The Wilds is officially here, and the survival thriller slash coming-of-age story has a lot to unpack: namely, why and how did this group of teen girls end up stranded on a deserted island? And will they survive it?
The show, out December 11 on Amazon Prime Video, focuses on eight main characters which, yes, is a lot but that number means we get eight well-rounded women leads, each with her own detailed backstory and deep-dive character development. Created by Sarah Streicher (
Daredevil) and executive produced by Amy B. Harris