Wilderness (2023)
8/10
Imperfect, Yet Still Interesting
17 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I'm not sure why so many reviews are as negative as they are. I agree that this is an imperfect thriller. The main issue I see is in editing. I saw a number of scenes that seemed superfluous and did little to advance the storylne. There were also scenes that didn't make a lot of sense, the main culprit here being the very final scene of the series. We definitely did not need it at all. The show would have been better if it had ended just before that scene. I am not an avid binge watcher, but I sat through all 6 episodes of this series in one day, which says something about it keeping my interest. I particularly enjoyed Jenna Coleman's performance as the wronged wife who chooses a different path to divorce in her reaction to her husband's infidelity. Her performance had to be nuanced in order to convey many different conflicting emotions. On the other hand, Oliver Jackson-Cohen literally had only two emotions to display, one of which was only glimpsed briefly, more towards the end. He also had little dialog to memorize, repeating the same lines ad nauseum. All in all, I did find this to be a good psychological thriller, despite its imperfections.
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