The first season of The Wilds–Prime Video’s Lost-meets-Mean Girls series about a diverse group of teenage girls stranded on an island after a plane crash–posed the question of whether it’s harder to survive in the wild or live through adolescence as a young woman. As the girls work through their personal conflicts and start working together to find rescue, it becomes clear to one, Leah (Sarah Pidgeon), that there’s something else going on, and one of their groups might be in on it.

Warning: The Wilds spoilers ahead!

Turns out, the plane crash was faked in order to put the girls in a situation where they have to work together to find community, all part of a social experiment conducted by Dr. Gretchen Klein (Rachel Griffiths), code-named “The Dawn of Eve.” As the girls know nothing of the experiment, believing themselves to have been en route to some sort of female empowerment workshop/retreat, Klein embedded two operatives in the group to assist and report back. One of these operatives died as a result of the crash, and Leah discovers the identity of the second at the very end of the season. The 10 episodes of season 1 jumped between the girls on the island and being interviewed post-rescue, and the last episode set up quite a cliffhanger in Leah discovering the observation room showing live recordings of another group of stranded teens–all boys.

Season 2, then, introduces those boys (code-named “The Twilight of Adam”), and spends quite a bit of time on their dynamic. Like the girls, there are pre-existing relationships between pairs of boys–stepbrothers, best friends, rivals–and preconceived ideas about each other are tested. As with the first season, the story jumps between time on the island and post-rescue interviews, this time centered on something catastrophic that happens two weeks in that prevents the boys from successfully reaching the goal set for them by Dr. Klein. The new episodes of course also include the girls, especially Leah, who finds a way in quarantine to reach one of the boys, Raf (Zack Calderon), and plot with him how to escape their current situation.

Those who have watched all eight episodes of The Wilds Season 2 must be dying to know when Season 3 is due, so read on for all we know…

Will there be a Season 3 for The Wilds?

There better be! Season 2 ended on a jaw-dropping cliffhanger, with the two groups finding each other, learning part of the truth about what happened to them, and setting up a fresh and possibly more dangerous challenge. The show can’t end like that! There has to be more! But as of Season 2’s premiere on Friday, May 6, we have no information about whether the show has even been renewed by Prime Video, let alone when it will air.

When Season 1 started streaming, news about the second season came quickly, about a week later, so we are hopeful that the same holds true for news about a third season. Watch this space!

When is The Wilds Season 3 release date?

We’re guessing that, if Season 3 is a go, it will roughly follow the same production schedule as Season 2. The announcement that there would be a Season 2 happened in December 2020, filming for that season began in April 2021 and wrapped in August, with the premiere on Prime Video in May 2022, or about nine months later. If our hypothetical (but surely happening, I mean, come on) Season 3 starts filming within the next several months, we might be seeing a premiere date of mid-to-late-2023. Again, we’ll update this page with information as we get it.

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Who will be in The Wilds Season 3 cast?

We imagine the cast of Season 2 will return for Season 3, including larger roles for some characters introduced in Season 1 who were more or less sidelined for plot reasons in Season 2 (that wasn’t too spoiler-y, was it?). We met the girls in Season 1; here are the boys:

Zack Calderon as Rafael Garcia

Aidan Laprete as Henry Tanaka

Nicholas Coombe as Josh Herbert

Charles Alexander as Kirin O’Conner

Miles Gutierrez-Riley as Ivan Taylor

Reed Shannon as Scotty Simms

Tanner Ray Rook as Bo Leonard

Alex Fitzalan as Seth Novak

Where can I watch The Wilds?

All episodes of Seasons 1 and 2 of The Wilds are available to stream now on Prime Video.

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