Day 46/26
Gretchen is upset after her group of scientists lost control of the experiment and their ship sunk. She believes that the experiment was a complete failure and that she and her team are to blame. Gretchen is not happy with her situation and wants to get back on the ship and leave this place.
Ivan and Luc’s kiss in the flashback is a key moment in the episode. Ivan wants to share this moment with the world, but Luc isn’t so keen on it. This shows how important communication is between two people.
On the island, we are 10 days past Seth being kicked out of the group. Kirin starts cracking jokes but Ivan is not happy with the nature of said humour. He’s also not happy with Kirin full stop, given they went to the same high school and have some serious bad blood. We will get to that shortly!
Seth is approached by Kirin and takes his lighter after choking him out. Josh also puts his fire out and walks back to the beach, leaving Seth with nothing. The boys start bragging about what they’ve done, but in doing so, take their eye off Raf long enough for him to take Seth some supplies from camp.
Raf returns to camp and finds that his friends have decided he needs to leave. Kirin confronts him about the supplies, pointing out that Seth could die and didn’t want to be responsible for his death. Raf couldn’t sit back and let that happen. Kirin though steps up and decides Raf also needs to be kicked out of camp. Unfortunately, the other boys agree.
Ivan and Kirin have a history of bad blood. In the past, they’ve fought each other often. It’s not always been pretty, but it’s always been physical. The knock-on effect of Luc leaving Ivan is that he starts to see himself in a much different light. He starts to think about how he could have done things better and how he could have been more supportive of his friend.
Ivan apologizes to Kirin for what happened between them at school. Ivan also loads up a “peace offering” for Seth and the others in the form of a makeshift torch.
Leah starts spacing out with Rachel in the woods. The latter believes they’re going to make it back, fingering the cross around her neck as she tells Leah that she has hope.
Rachel and her friend go exploring in the forest and wind up finding a hot spring. That cross has done wonders for her, who is actually now almost a completely different person overnight. She is bouncy and excited for the other girls to come and join them at the springs.
Elsewhere, Shelby admits to Toni that she loves her (which she says back later in the episode after processing this news) while Toni remains suspicious over the number she’s found in Martha’s journal. Martha shrugs it off but out in the woods, she notices a rabbit, dying, whilst several babies feed. ..
Martha, a member of the group, comes back into the camp after claiming she is a monster. She doesn’t stay for long and is soon seen carting off into the woods with a knife in her hands. Leah finds her sitting with a rabbit she has killed, completely destroyed. ..
The Episode Review
It’s hardly a surprise to see Martha falling off the deep end, but this cabin fever is only a small part of this episode, which almost exclusively focuses on the boys.
The attention that Kirin and Ivan get is strange because it wasn’t a big part of the earlier episodes. I don’t know why this wasn’t a bigger part of the boys’ group. If these two hated each other so much then their feelings would have been exemplified on the island.
This season of “The Wilds” has had a lot of problems. One is that there are too many characters, and as a result, no one is getting the development they need. ..
Henry is still incredibly one-dimensional, we’ve seen nothing about Josh’s past while Ivan and Kirin are lumped up together. This results in the pair feeling diluted given we don’t really see what drives either of them. ..
This season has not been memorable, which is a shame because there is definitely potential here. ..
