“The Wilds” is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. (Matt Klitscher/Amazon Studios)
It’s impossible not to draw comparisons to “Lost” and “The Lord of the Flies” and even “The Truman Show” when watching the ambitious and cutting-edge series “The Wilds,” a 10-part survivalist soap opera on Amazon Prime Video.
• A plane flying over the Pacific Ocean crashes, with a diverse group of passengers miraculously surviving and finding themselves stranded on a remote island that looks like paradise but contains dark secrets. We learn the backstories of the survivors in flashbacks to their lives before the crash.
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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