Nope, I wasn’t expecting it to be a twist so I fully fell for the trap they were setting, thinking it’d be Dot. In hindsight that doesn’t make sense, I guess, since Dot actually tried to be a leader from the start, while you’d imagine the mole to take more of a backseat approach, which, rewatching, she absolutely did.
A few other field notes, this one is spot on especially Shelby (poor girl). Field Note #61 – How each girl learned to swim: Martha took a class with her mom; Toni would sneak into her neighbor’s above-ground pool by night until she kind of just taught herself; Rachel and Nora had private lessons; Fatin’s grandparents had an infinity pool; Leah learned in Lake Tahoe at a family reunion; Dot went to the quarry; and Shelby’s dad threw her into the country club pool sink-or-swim style.
Aww, both Toni and Shelby. Their particular dynamic really is this clash of opposites so extreme they come around and meet on the other side. Is it better to have effectively no parents or ones that are so present they become controlling and scary? Trick question, neither is better, both suck. Which they’re now realizing, people who have what you thought you wanted can still be suffering. They have a lot more common than they might have expected.
Thanks for sharing these! They’re interesting and enlightening.
it is impossible they fix on the boys when this show is about girls and when clearly there is still a lot to tell with them and follow relationships and developement with the girls, and now what happen between the shark atck until they are rescued/kidnap fr the lunatic bitch, and also how they will expose them, they didnt start to create this friendships, romance and family dynamics to throw it away without continuation i know is hard to trust tv shows lately but comn all the crew are woman.
I don’t think anybody’s expecting them to fully throw away the girls, the hypothetical is that the focus will shift.
Now that the bulk of the island story and their individual background eps are over, with the post-shark, rescue, and whatever resulted in Shelby as she is now parts not enough to be a full show, especially one that satisfies the premise (stuck on a deserted island), they may shift over to the boys and perhaps contrast how they handle specific obstacles to how the girls did, while also focusing on continuing the girls’ story, both wrapping up what happened on the island and what happens now in the bunker.
Or, they may simply…oof, they may escape the bunker and realize they now have to get off a different remote island. I would prefer that, screw the boys, lol.
Ugh I just finished watching the wilds and that cliffhanger!!! (I really hope we don’t get a repeat of tbh and that’s where the show ends :/ ) Gotta say all the characters ended up growing on me, even the ones I thought wouldnt like Fatin, speaking of Fatin her storyline pissed me off the most, in the sense that I felt SO bad for her I mean her dad screwed up royally and yet….
Ugh, I know, TBH is still the one cancellation I’m mourning hardest from this year. I’m not sure of the chances for s2 for this one, I feel like Prime has more money to play with than other networks at the moment and it’s gotten good reviews but maybe not that buzz~? It’s their first YA so they may decide to stick with it for now, instead of trying with another, Netflix’s approach.
What, you didn’t think you’d like–well, remembering Fatin in the very first ep, on the plane…okay, she did put across a certain aggressively clueless vibe, but I adored her soon enough. And yeah, the unfairness of her backstory rankled, but that’s desi culture for you. >_> Well, really, any image-first culture.
Did you watch The Wilds on Amazon Prime? If not, they have these x-ray trivia for a few scenes and the one where Regan picks Toni up while walking: Field Note #46- Toni’s jacket was her mom’s. It’s taken her a few years to grow into it.
Oh, I had not, and awwww. Toni. 😡 This kid. I’m glad at least she has the Blackburns in her life.
I dont really think the boys will be very important to the plot. I feel like they are simply the comparison group that suposed to prove that in the exact same situation boys will act out while girls will raise up to the challenge and show how much more equiped they are to handle hard situations. So i think maybe they may show a few scenes with them just to compare but i dont count on much more. Btw at this point i feel like they are treating the girls as a failed experiment
Oh, hmm, a failed experiment…well, heh. I dunno, I feel like what they wanted to prove…but did they get enough data. Actually, until the control group finishes, they can’t really verify anything.
The thing about the boys is that I do absolutely think they can deliver a group of relatable, likable boys with their own issues, some similar, some diametrically opposite (e.g., how the patriarchy handles prom), but the issue with that is they’re always going to be considered replacements for the girls. It won’t be an entirely new show with this setting, which, that’s it’s own thing, but at least you’d know what you’re getting into with that, in this case it’ll be a deliberate choice to shift focus and priority away from the girls on this female-centric show.
Especially because I don’t think the boys will fail, I think the point of the show is that, maybe they’ll get into more physical fights, but overall they’ll ultimately end up similarly. So…I dunno, will we start on the boys and then slowly integrate what’s going on with the girls, have them be rescued and them meeting? Once the groups mix, that changes the dynamic of the show completely.