Is ‘The Wilds’ Season 3 a Go? Prime Video Sadly Says No

Unfortunately, The Wilds won’t be returning for a third season. Deadline exclusively reported that Prime Video has canceled the series after two seasons. This news may come as a shock to some fans, being that some of the show’s cast members teased a possible plot for season three.

Mia Healey, who plays Shelby on the show, sat down with Cinema Blend in May and revealed, “[Season 3] really excites me. That is like, ‘Okay, this is a whole different ball game now.’ And also, we have the whole bunker, you know? We’re not just on the island anymore. So these guys are in their sweats in this bunker, like investigating the whole thing and working together. It’s gonna be huge if we do season three, obviously.”

Even Erana James, who plays Toni, said at the time, “I’m thinking about the writers and I’m like, you have such a tall order and such a massive task. Like I can't even imagine what direction it's gonna go.”

The coming-of-age drama follows a group of teenagers who unknowingly participate in a social experiment when they survive a plane crash and end up on a deserted island. While season one focuses on a group of girls, season two introduces a group of boys who suffer the same fate.

Given the recent news, it looks like we’ll never know what happens in The Wilds season three. But, that hasn’t stopped the cast members from having an idea or two.

Back in May, Sophia Ali (Fatin) told People, "I want to see everyone progress farther than what they already have, and I feel like coming back together and making it more normal to society is almost going to reverse everyone for a second and they're all going to go back to who they used to be and not really know how to act with survival at the forefront in that environment with men around now."

She continued, “There are clearly factions that are sort of divided, then they get back together and then they just fracture so much. I think that certainly happens with the girls to a certain extent in season one but less in season two. I would like to see how those bonds can break again and how new alliances could form, how the suspicions can manifest. I mean, I just can't imagine what it's like.”

Charles Alexander, who plays Kirin, also suggested a rather intriguing storyline for season three. “I want them to go like island-vacay mode, where they're going in and out of this facility like it's a concrete underground rave cave,” he said to People. “And they hijack the speakers, and they've got different rooms and each room has got a different vibe.”

If season three was happening, we probably would’ve seen the return of Shelby (Mia Healey), Dot (Shannon Berry), Fatin (Sophia Ali), Martha (Jenna Clause), Rachel (Reign Edwards), Leah (Sarah Pidgeon), Toni (Erana James) and possibly Nora (Helena Howard). As for the boys’ group, Josh (Nicholas Coombe), Charles Alexander, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Zack Calderon, Aidan Laprete, Tanner Ray Rook and Reed Shannon would have come back as well.

Unless there’s a miracle and the show pulls a Manifest (where the show got saved from cancellation), we’ll most likely never know what happens next. (*sighs*)

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