Launched this month on Amazon Prime Video was the British thriller television miniseries "Wilderness" based on the novel of the same name by B. E. Jones. Starring Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, as Liv and Will Taylor; a young British couple whose marriage is going very well, but the biggest turning point in the lives of both of them comes when Liv sees a message on Will's mobile phone, which reveals that he is cheating on her and he has already had an affair and this is the turning point of their lives, as heartbreak turns into fury and revenge.

Promotional Poster for Wilderness

Filmed primarily in Vancouver, production began in April 2022, with filming also scheduled for Calgary, the Banff Springs Hotel, and moving in September to Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, and New York; additional filming also took place in the UK.

Scene from Wilderness

Scene from Wilderness

A trailer was released on 23rd August 2023, featuring the new re-recorded version of Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do". The song also plays over the opening credits.

Scene from Wilderness

Wilderness received mixed reviews and scored 57% on Rotten Tomatoes who said 'Wilderness often gets lost in its overabundance of revenge tropes, but its cutting twists may satisfy fans of sordid intrigue.' The show was criticised for its overreliance on tropes.

Next week, otsoNY will post the New York film locations from the six part mini-series within the News section, and as a sneak preview, one of the locations used in the TV show was known other than the brownstone featured in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

Jenna Coleman

Actress Jenna Coleman

Jenna-Louise Coleman is an English actress, known for her roles as Jasmine Thomas in the soap opera Emmerdale, Clara Oswald in the science-fiction series Doctor Who, Queen Victoria in the period drama Victoria, Joanna Lindsay in the crime miniseries The Cry, and Marie-Andrée Leclerc in the crime miniseries The Serpent. She has also had roles in several films, including "Captain America: The First Avenger", and "Me Before You". In 2022, she portrayed Johanna Constantine in the Netflix fantasy drama series The Sandman.

Actress Jenna Coleman

In June 2022, Coleman was announced to play Liv Taylor in the Amazon Prime thriller Wilderness, with filming beginning in British Columbia, Canada, in early summer 2022. In the following year, Coleman returned to the West End stage beginning in January 2023, co-starring with Aidan Turner in a revival of the 2015 Sam Steiner play, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, initially with a nine-week run at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London, followed by runs in Manchester and Brighton up until April.

Actress Jenna Coleman

In August 2023, Coleman was announced as starring as a rookie detective in a crime drama series for BBC One titled The Jetty; Coleman will also act as executive producer on the series.

When Coleman isn't filming, she has been involved with charity work in South Africa raising awareness of HIV with One To One Children's Fund, for which she is an ambassador. She is also an ambassador for Place2Be, a charity providing emotional and therapeutic services in schools.