Day 45/16
In the fifth episode of The Wilds Season 2, Dean confronts Leah about her little stunt with Raf. He knows about the game she’s playing, including something stashed away in her room. He claims it’s a knife but in reality, it’s actually a phone she’s smuggled in, kept in the toilet basin. ..
Gretchen heads to the beach where she talks to Daniel Faber about failure. Specifically about her operative on the island. And who is that? Well, as we jump back in time we learn that it’s actually Seth.
Seth’s hidden camera feeds back to the operatives on the island what’s going on. In the office, the guys talk about how different they are from each other specifically in terms of food preservation.
This episode we see snapshots of all of them across the entire episode’s run-time.
Josh is upset after Kirin teases him about being a problem. He’s not the problem, and it falls to Seth to solve the issue.
Josh tells Kirin what happened and the latter is absolutely livid. He believes Josh and promises that if Seth comes near him again, bad things are going to happen. Josh doesn’t want to rock the boat though and pleads with him to stay quiet.
When Seth races over to Josh and tries to hug him on the beach, Kirin loses his temper and tackles him to the ground. The team end up divided over what happened, with Bo taking Josh’s side. He’s seen abuse before and knows what it looks like. ..
The guys all vote to kick Seth out of the group and it’s pretty unanimous, minus Raf who is the only one who believes him. With Seth gone, all the kids promise not to tell anyone else about the assault.
Rachel and Shelby hand over their crosses to each other as they say their goodbyes. Rachel asks for some time alone to process this.
The girls in the new camp discuss funerals in general. Dot admits she met with Gretchen prior to this and had doubts over whether she was a real doctor. Given they also saw her on the retreat video on the plane, the girls realize that something is wrong but can’t put their finger on it. ..
As the girls investigate the strange happenings around them, they come to realize that there’s more going on than they first thought. They spot Nora out on the beach and are excited to tell her about what they’ve found. But as they get closer, they realize that Nora is actually still alive. She’s just been hiding from them.
The Episode Review
Nora’s return to the world has once again put everything we’ve seen with the girls into perspective. All that grief, sorrow and reflection ultimately amounts to nothing because she’s still alive.
The film “The Fault in Our Stars” is split into two parts, with the boys and girls spending different amounts of time on-screen. This creates a problem because most people want to spend more time with the girls. ..
This episode only exemplifies the problems this second season has had, given we have no flashbacks and Kirin, Josh, Bo and Henry are all lumped together. Hopefully the upcoming episodes are an improvement.
