Signed Marnie Dickens (Gold Digger, Thirteen) Wilderness: Out of Control 6-episode mini-series based on the novel of the same name. novel by B. E. Jones. Start phrase Prime Videowho distributes it around the world sums it up perfectly: “Watch as a ‘happily ever after’ love story quickly turns into a nightmare.”.
In fact, this story is related to a lion (Jenna Coleman, Serpent) and Will Taylor (Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Hill House), a young married couple who seem to be realizing their ideal dream of love. Only apparently.
She, a Welshwoman, moves to New York to continue his English career, leaving everything to devote herself body and soul to her husband. But he doesn’t do the same: when Liv discovers that she has been cheated on, she kicks him out of the house. But he swears to her that it was only once, that it will never happen again and that he loves her madly. He proposes to her holidays: Two Brits go on a dream tour of the United States to start over, and Liv agrees. But things will get worse and worse.
Betrayal: They Never Lived Happily Ever After
Wildlife is very structured cunning: told Olivia’s point of viewdevoted wife, pushes the audience to sympathize with her, a victim of her selfish and deceitful husband, but everything is destined to change.
L’intention show this what can be achieved when we devote our whole life to someone, making a mistake, not leaving a plan B behind, and that someone ruins our plans.
But there is another purpose of the story: to demonstrate that we can all do anything. Maybe we are already the “monsters” we will become, or maybe our disappointment is so great that out of the blue we turn into cold calculators. The thing is, what the miniseries finale wants to tell us is that we’ll never know – at least for this story – as it really was.
Actually true Wildlife’s forte This is precisely what leaves us without a real explanation of what is happening. nature about whose gaze led us along the entire journey, throughout 6 episodes. There last quote from Terminator (it’s impossible not to connect this episode with the ending of James Cameron’s film) was created to launch two messages: is to find ourselves in front of a woman we don’t really know yet, because we will never know what her nature was, and the most important message is that the future is not written. And that each of our actionmore or less planned, can direct our life in the direction opposite to what was planned.
In The Wild, we go from “and they lived happily ever after,” which no one really believes, to “they lived in a nightmare that changed them forever.” And to this we can believe.
However probability Some of the narrative passages, especially after thousands of films and TV shows have shown us in detail investigative tools made in the USA, are definitely lacking.
Although some characters have a fair amount of luck, there really is no counterbalance to the easily verifiable claims. Too easy. Not to mention the issue of wiretapping…
Wildlife works, but it also has many weaknesses.
Either way, Wilderness ultimately works. And it offers us two really interesting characters and is able to attract our attention. But no, they are not the two main characters. Actually I mean Liv’s mother, Caryl (Claire Rushbrooke, Secrets and Lies, Whitechapel) and Detective Rawlins (Marsha Stephanie Black, Orange Is the New Black)
It is they who give us portraits of two of the most interesting women in the miniseries, and both are superior to the main character. What of course, this is undesirable.
The television adaptation of the novel is dedicated to curiosity the viewer, in particular, in his identification with one of the two “roles” playing in pairs. Whether a person identifies themselves as a traitor or traitor based on experience or simple fear, it doesn’t really matter: emotional involvement the present.
I wonder if the traitor will be discovered and what will happen to him. We wonder if the devotee will know about the betrayal and how he will react. We’re curious when we’re in Liv or Will’s shoes because the experiences they go through (accidents and attacks aside) universal experience.
Anyone who has been married knows that cheating is… fear which worries every couple, especially when you are happy and are afraid that happiness can end at any moment.
Wildlife builds its own “hunger” to know how it will end a story about everything that concerns feelings that can be shared by the vast majority of people. Situations you might find yourself in or fear you might find yourself in.
The problem is the aforementioned credibility. If you create a story in such a way that it is about universal feelings and situations, and you do this by choosing a “normal” setting rather than, for example, science fiction set in the future, even more so attention to credibility it must be fundamental. There are, however, some logical steps here that just don’t add up, and some compulsion – there is no need to go into details and insert revelations, you will understand by watching the series – which make everything artificial. And it’s a shame: a little more attention would have been enough to make the story truly effective.
And then there are the characters. Oliver Jackson Cohen he’s perfect as Will: understatedly charming, but with a bad-boy face that makes his constant lies believable. And pathetic attempts to convince his wife to believe him, despite the fact that he knows that he is lying even at such moments. Jenna ColemanHowever, it can hardly be trusted. She misses the famous physique for the role : She’s so adorable (and tiny, let’s not forget) that she not only seems unsuited to the physical challenges associated with her character, but also doesn’t inspire much confidence when she’s plagued by feelings of guilt and inadequacy.
Personally, I would put an actress in her place, beautiful and charming, but capable of looking different. Someone like Anya Taylor-Joy or Cara Delevingne, to name just a few: beautiful, charming, but also able to quickly transform before the viewer’s eyes, always inspiring trust.
However, thanks also to the rest of the cast, not forgetting Eric Balfourformer “parsley” of the series, which can be seen in many important titles, which in many ways fits here – as I already said, Wilderness Go away pretty smooth. Compulsion politically correct (and here you will easily understand) aside.
Take it for what it is: pure fun on universal themes and are already widely used – better – in film and television.