‘The Wilds’ Producers on Balancing the Stories of the 2 Groups of Teen Survivors in Season 2

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Prime Video’s “The Wilds” is back for a second season of danger, island survival, and a social experiment none of the teen girls signed up for.

This time around, though, we won’t just be following the stories of Toni, Shelby, Martha, Rachel, Leah and Dot. As we learned at the end of Season 1, Gretchen Klein is conducting the exact same experiment with a group of teen boys, leading to an expanded Season 2 world.“I know a lot of people were worried we were just leaving the girls behind.

That is 100% not happening,” executive producer Amy B. Harris told TheWrap. “We are going to be exploring some of the boys’ backstories, not all of them, some of them in tandem with each other, so that we can really split the – we really want to be with the girls and with the boys half and half and what was so important to us about the boys as we brought them in, and we know some of our fandom was not as excited about seeing this new group come in, is Gretchen’s really using them as a counterpoint to her main group.

So, even when we’re watching the boys, it’s like, ‘Oh, we’re watching them in comparison to how the girls did finding water or how the girls put their shelter up.’She continued: “Even when we’re with the boys, we very strongly feel like the girls are always sort of informing that experience.