History Series / TheWilds

The show was renewed for a second season on December 19, 2020, eight days after its premiere. It's set to begin airing on May 6, 2022.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Four words: [[spoiler: "Shark week for Rachel."]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Realistically averted, with the girls having mussy hair, sunburns and grimy skin after days living on the island. The lack of shampoo is even discussed at one point.

* TheyDo: After much {{belligerent sexual tension}}, Shelby kisses Toni, and then has sex with her offscreen. Later it's implied the two are now a couple.

* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Toni and Shelby in episode 10 seem become a couple. They date in the second season, and although they keep it secret first the rest soon learn.]]

* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Toni and Shelby in episode 10 seem to become a couple.]]

* OneHeadTaller: Toni is the shortest among the island girls. Shelby by contrast is pretty tall. This becomes noticeable after they involved, and especially while kissing.

* AnArmAndALeg: Rachel has lost a hand in the future.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Shelby, while comforting Rachel over losing Nora (so she thinks) empathizes with her guilt over this through relating how she left her friend Becca to suicide, partly blaming herself over it.

* LoveConfession: Shelby tells Toni she loves her after they start dating. At first Toni is quite anxious over this and doesn't say it back, due to implied fear of abandonment by loved ones (since [[ParentalAbandonment both her parents were AWOL]]). She masters her anxiety though and tells Shelby she does love her in turn though.

* {{Hallucinations}}:
** Leah experiences a series of lengthy hallucinations featuring musician Ben Fold, who encourages her.

** Rachel thinks she sees Nora out in the water after her apparent death. Unbeknownst to her, the real Nora is actually watching this on a monitor.

** Leah experiences a series of lengthy hallucinations featuring Music/BenFold, who encourages her.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Gretchen claims to be a feminist, but the entire premise of the series is that she's using the girls as unknowing lab rats. It's basically the opposite of feminist to run an experiment on people without their consent, even if it wasn't also regularly putting them in mortal danger.]]

* InternalizedCategorism: Toni confesses to Martha that (seemingly due to her parents abandoning her) she doesn't feel worthy of love. Martha, despite having her parents, replies she feels the same.

* LingerieScene: Fatin is seen wearing only her underwear in flasbacks after having sex with a guy. Later all the girls are seen stripping down to underwear or in swimsuits to frolick in the ocean and bathe.
* LoveConfession: Shelby tells Toni she loves her after they start dating. At first Toni is anxious over this and doesn't say it back, due to implied fear of abandonment by loved ones (since [[ParentalAbandonment both her parents were AWOL]]). She masters her anxiety though and tells Shelby she does love her in turn though.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Mildly {{butch lesbian}} Toni and feminine Shelby officially get together in Season 2.

* NobodyPoops: Played with. Obviously relieving yourself outdoors is a reality of being castaways but Fatin promises herself she won't shit until they return to civilization. Needless to say, she does not keep this promise.

** Nora is on her own a lot, provides a lot of necessary information that the girls need to survive, and often shows up at the last minute when needed.

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: While most of the girls are seen in off-island interviews, Nora and Martha are noticeably missing from these scenes. In episode 2, the way Rachel and the “agents” talk about Nora indicates ''something'' happened to her, but it’s currently unclear ''what''.]] Then the second season subverts this [[spoiler:by revealing that both are still alive——Nora is revealed to have faked her death with the help of Dawn of Eve and Martha was rescued off the island in a catatonic state]].

* ForegoneConclusion: Leah, one of the castaways, survived and was rescued from the island with flashforwards showing the aftermath and federal investigation into the crash. [[spoiler: Throughout the season, we also learn that Rachel, Dot, Toni, Fatin, and Shelby make it off the island alive, with Nora and Martha's fates remain unknown until the second season (they’re both alive, though the group assumes Nora is a case of NeverFoundTheBody).]]

En route to Hawaii, nine teenage girls from different backgrounds suddenly find themselves fighting for survival when their plane fails and crashes on a deserted, remote island. Together, the castaways clash and bond as they learn more about each other, including the secrets they bare and the traumas they endured. Amongst them is Leah, who survives to share their story as evidence mounts that their crash was not an accident but by design...

* {{Hypocrite}}: Gretchen claims to be a feminist, but the entire premise of the series is that she's using the girls as unknowing lab rats. It's basically the opposite of feminist to run an experiment on people without their consent, even if it wasn't also regularly putting them in mortal danger. By the end of Season Two, she’s also [[spoiler:still choosing to work with Seth, even putting him in a position of control over the two groups, despite knowing that Seth physically abused his ex-girlfriend and sexually assaulted Josh.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: While preparing a speech, Gretchen [[HighHeelHurt gripes about her heels]], giving a diatribe about how patriarchy has told women to fit into narrow fashion standards in order to oppress them and the negative effects they have on the body. When asked why she still wears them, Gretchen replies that her legs look good in them.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Shelby pushes Toni’s buttons by saying some unintentionally offensive things (including asking Martha “How do you say “thank you” in Native American?”), which drives their conflict for the first half of the season.

* {{Matriarchy}}: Gretchen wants to create what she calls a "gynocracy", where women lead instead of men, as she thinks patriarchy is ruining human civilization. [[spoiler:She placed the girls on the island to prove they were more capable, with a male control group that would show the opposite.]]

* NoControlGroup: {{Downplayed}}. There ''is'' a control group in [[spoiler: Gretchen's experiment]], but they are rather obviously chosen in such a way as to bias the results.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Gretchen claims to be a feminist, but the entire premise of the series is that she's using the girls as unknowing lab rats. It's basically the opposite of feminist to run an experiment on people without their consent, even if it wasn't also regularly putting them in mortal danger.

* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Averted. [[spoiler: When Josh reveals to Kirin that Seth sexually assaulted him, Kirin is horrified and threatens to kill Seth then and there. The rest of the group is similarly horrified when they learn of the news, though some such as Raf (who views Seth as his closest ally) and Henry (Seth’s stepbrother), find it hard to believe that Seth would do something like that because of their previous relationship with Seth rather than the fact that boy was assaulted by another boy. Heartbreakingly, Josh himself initially tries to minimize the rape by blaming himself, a common trait amongst victims of sexual abuse, but this proves to be damaging to his emotional state]].

* ForegoneConclusion: Leah, one of the castaways, survived and was rescued from the island with flashforwards showing the aftermath and federal investigation into the crash. [[spoiler: Throughout the season, we also learn that Rachel, Dot, Toni, Fatin, and Shelby make it off the island alive, with Nora and Martha's fates still unknown.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Pretty much all the girls have their moments, but particularly Toni, Dot, and Fatin.

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: While most of the girls are seen in off-island interviews, Nora and Martha are noticeably missing from these scenes. In episode 2, the way Rachel and the “agents” talk about Nora indicates ''something'' happened to her, but it’s currently unclear ''what''.]] Then the second season premiere subverts this [[spoiler:with Nora by revealing she drowned saving Rachel from the shark attack…until it’s revealed in episode 15, that she didn’t actually die]].

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: While most of the girls are seen in off-island interviews, Nora and Martha are noticeably missing from these scenes. In episode 2, the way Rachel and the “agents” talk about Nora indicates ''something'' happened to her, but it’s currently unclear ''what''.]] Then the second season premiere subverts this [[spoiler:with Nora by revealing she drowned saving Rachel from the shark attack]].