Opinion | Amazon's 'The Wilds' is more than just a gender-swapped 'Lord of the Flies'

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Opinion | Noah Berlatsky: Amazon's 'The Wilds' is more than just a gender-swapped 'Lord of the Flies' - NBCNewsTHINK

— but gender-switched!" As you'd expect from that description, the show does include rumination on the patriarchy, toxic masculinity and even fraternity rituals. But"The Wilds" is perhaps even more interesting in the way it takes the"Lord of the Flies" colonialist ideas about what makes one civilized and uncivilized and messily, but thoroughly, evacuates them.

"The Wilds" starts with nine teen girls flying to Hawaii for an empowerment retreat. The plane crashes in the ocean, and the girls have to figure out how to find shelter and food amid natural disasters and personal drama. At least one girl also begins to suspect that the island is not what it seems and that they've been set up by shadowy forces for purposes unknown.

Golding's very proper loathing of the supposedly primitive, and his vision of degrading devolution, gives the novel an exhilarating narrative rush. Strip away the veneer of higher culture, and civilization hurtles briskly toward atavistic nightmare.

 

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