The Wilds is new this weekend, but its road to becoming actually started on September 22, 2004. That was the premiere of ABC's Lost, the show that would change television and television storytelling for...
well, at least several years. In that show, a plane flying over the Pacific Ocean crashes, sending its diverse group of passengers scrambling for survival, each episode typically covering a specific character and their time on the seemingly deserted island they then called home, their life before fate led them to board that plane (helping to explain their actions on the island), and, in later seasons, the fallout of how their experiences on the island affected their lives once they returned to civilization.
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