A cheating husband, a vengeful, hurt wife, simple police officers and a road trip through the gorgeous national parks of America, come together in this middling revenge thriller
Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen's characters Liv and Will are young, attractive, and in love. They have it all. They go from Wales to New York shortly after being married because of Will's job, which appears to have something to do with events. They are living the dream when the firm places them in a luxurious flat.
Season 1 of "Wilderness"
Author:Marnie Dickens,
Cast: Talia Balsam, Eric Balfour, Morgana Van Peebles, Ashley Benson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jenna Coleman Jonathan Keltz, Stephanie Blake
Storyline: A British couple relocates to New York in search of a lucrative profession and a posh flat only to have everything fall apart in a web of lies and deceit.
Episodes: six
Runtime: 42–58 minutes
Liv tells her mother Caryl (Claire Rushbrook) that she wants everything to be perfect for their first Christmas. After her father abandoned her mother for another woman, Liv struggles to trust people and has a rocky connection with Caryl. It makes things more difficult since her mother blames Liv for her father's abandonment. Hell hath no fury and all that when Liv learns that Will is having an affair with his coworker Cara (Ashley Benson).
Will offers the standard justifications—it was a one-off, it didn't matter—and persuades Liv to travel to one of America's national parks to patch up their relationship. Liv's dark thoughts as she plots the ultimate retaliation against her lowlife husband are in stark contrast to the stunning scenery.
This film adaptation of the self-titled book by B.E. Jones is full of surprises. When it comes to acting, Coleman does a fantastic job portraying Liv's unreliable narrator, while Jackson-Cohen does the same with Will's endearing but crucial love-rat persona. Because we are seeing the characters via Liv's eyes and it is clear that she does not value them highly in her scheme of things, the characters are described in general terms.
Liv's token gay friend Ash (Morgana Van Peebles), Will's tough-talking boss Bonnie (Talia Balsam), and Cara's hopelessly infatuated partner Garth (Eric Balfour) round out the group. Police officers Rawlings (Marsha Stephanie Blake) and Wiseman (Jonathan Keltz), who are incredibly trustworthy, swallow all the secrets and falsehoods like lambs.
Though the loud pop song needle drops—with the exception of Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' in the title sequence—might get in the way of that, the six episodes fly by and may just as easily slip right out of your head.
