Get To Know The New Guys Of The Wilds Season 2
“We wanted to be men, but the truth is some of us were becoming monsters.”
Lord of the Flies gets a social experiment twist in Prime Video’s teen survival drama The Wilds. In the first season, we saw the past and present that lead to a group of teenage girls to be stranded on a deserted island.
Season 2 introduces us to a new set of test subjects, a group of guys who have also been stranded on a deserted island, and who serve as the control group. Let’s get to know the new guys:
Alex Fitzalan is Seth Novak
Seth is naturally funny, Ivy-League smart, and full of charisma. Though he doesn’t necessarily aspire to a leadership role, his steadiness and sense of humor win him the respect and loyalty of the others, except for his step-brother Henry.
Tanner Ray Rock is Bo Leonard
Bo is a soft-spoken, contemplative teenager, also from the Florida panhandle. He has a naively optimistic outlook on life, despite a difficult upbringing, and he’d gladly lie down in the street for his best friend Scotty. His loyalty knows almost no bound.
Aidan Laprete is Henry Tanaka
The opposite of his personable step-brother Seth, Henry is an emo reclusive type who prefers to retreat into the safety of his noise-canceling headphones and dwell on the darkness in the world.
Reed Shannon is Scotty Simms
Scotty is short in stature but big in personality. He’s a fast-talking teenage entrepreneur from the Florida panhandle who dreams of making the Forbes 400 list one day. And by his side always, both in life and on the island, is his best friend Bo.
Nicholas Coombe is Josh Herbert
Josh is a talkative, hypochondriacal teenager from a wealthy family in San Diego. Unlike the rest of his athletic, tennis-playing family, Josh is an awkward, nervous type who takes a number of homeopathic supplements to handle his chronic stress.
Miles Gutierrez-Riley is Ivan Taylor
Ivan is an activist and aspiring playwright with an impeccable fashion sense and a razor-sharp wit. But his words can be cutting, sometimes too deeply, which has cost him friends along the way.
Charles Alexander is Kirin O’Connor
Kirin is a short-tempered lacrosse player who doesn’t have much patience for weakness. Among the castaways, he’s ready and willing to take the lead first, though his hot-headed approach might not appeal to everyone.
Zack Calderon is Rafael Garcia
A quiet, sensitive teenager who lives in Tijuana but attends high school in San Diego. Straddling two worlds has made it difficult for Raf to get a clear and certain sense of himself, so he gravitates toward people with stronger, charismatic personalities.
All eight episodes of The Wilds will premiere Friday, May 6 exclusively on Prime Video. See my review of season 1, below:
