The Wilds: Fans are rallying to save the series

The Wilds: Fans are rallying to save the series

Faced with the cancellation of Prime Video’s The Wilds series, fans rallied for a season 3 to see the light of day, emphasizing the feminist and LGBTI + dimension of the series.

A series that ends is a special and often difficult experience for the viewer. Sometimes fan communities form and trade for the best mourn of their favorite shows.

Other times, the end of a series is perceived as unacceptable by fans. This is the case with The savages.

The Wilds has been canceled from Prime Video

Deadline broke the bad news on July 28: The savages was deleted by Amazon Prime after only two seasons. To make matters worse, season 2 ended in cliffhanger particularly eye-catchingand fans eagerly awaited the sequel.

In this series launched in November 2020, we have followed a group of teenagers stranded on a desert island after a plane crash. While trying to survive, the survivors learned to know each other, to open up secrets well guarded and trauma irritated. Before doing a strange discovery on the island…

A feminist series

The announcement of the end of The savages caused shockwaves among fans of the series. Quick, hashtags #SaveTheWilds And #RinnovaTheWilds flooded Twitter, with viewers clamoring for the series to be ” renewed ” Where is it ” picked up by another television network “These are the requests made in a petition posted on Change.org by this same community.

It is specified that in this petition, fans illuminate the political dimension from The savageswhich he denotes with his feminist approach themes like patriarchy, sisterhood and sanity :

The Wilds have a devoted fan base, whose lives have been changed thanks to this series (…) This series is sacred to its LGBTQIA + fanswho has to found refuge in its beautiful narration and in its high-impact representation.

They deserve their story to have a conclusion. “

All that remains is to cross your fingers, keeping this in mind several series have already been saved thanks to their fans. Among them there are Lucifer on Netflix or Magnum which had been canceled from CBS before being renewed for two seasons on NBC.

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