Wilderness review: a soapy drama set in the American southwest

Amazon series starring Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen is 'full of twists'

Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jenna Coleman in Wilderness
Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jenna Coleman in Wilderness
(Image credit: Maddie Brooking/Amazon Prime Video)

Most people who discover their husband is a "cheating slimeball" choose one of two options, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph. "If they've got any sense, they chuck him out; or they stay in the marriage, which becomes a hotbed of festering resentment." But characters in TV thrillers "don't behave like normal people". 

In the new Amazon Prime Video drama "Wilderness", British couple Liv (Jenna Coleman) and Will (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) are living a glamorous life in New York for his work, when she discovers that he is having an affair with a colleague "who wears thongs with all the coverage of dental floss". Does she "hightail it back to Britain and tell the duplicitous, gaslighting Will to sling his hook? She does not." 

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