Come back for more! from Amazon Prime The Savages presented viewers with a story of survival that provided shocking twists all the way to the Season 1 finale.
The drama series follows a group of teenage girls who find themselves stranded on a desert island after a plane crash. The high school kids don’t know they’re the subjects of a social experiment – until they’re later rescued by the same people who put them in the situation.
Season 1 focused on the girls’ time on the island and in the bunker shortly after their rescue. The finale ended with Leah (Sarah Pichon) escaping from his room to discover cameras on the island that showed a group of boys as next subjects.
Before the second season, the producers Sarah Streicher and Amy B. Harris open about the message behind the shocking social experiment.
“It’s, I think, part of how Sarah and I see the world, [but] we thought Gretchen was probably right — that women deep down would find a way to build community,” Harris said. Variety in December 2020 by Gretchen Klein (Rachel Griffiths), the character in charge of the experiment. “Obviously we live in a very divided world right now and people are behind their computer shouting, trolling each other and shouting strong opinions and not listening to each other. What if you were removing people from this world – a Dot and Shelby who don’t have much in common, but come from the same place – would they start to see common ground? would do.
She continued: “Maybe that’s kind of our hope: if you hang up your phones for five seconds and actually talk to someone else, you’ll find that you actually have more similarities than differences. And their biggest similarity is the desire to survive.
Although the show has yet to be renewed, the writing staff revealed that they still have a plan for the future of the show.
“I would say we have a really good plan, but we’re willing and open, once we start building the next parts of the house, to see different things come together. But yeah, we didn’t want to get into a position where we were like, ‘Where do we go now? We kind of wrote ourselves into the corners,'” Harris said. Collider that same month. “We tried to really build a structure.”
Streicher, for her part, added, “Plus, we have some thumbnail ideas where each girl will land at the end. And that’s important to keep us on track, character-wise. And it was really fun to generate – the idea of where do they land, after this experience? »
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