Liv and Will are young, incredibly handsome, and live in a spectacular loft in New York. They are the picture of the perfect couple. Everything is going well until one day Liv discovers that her husband has been unfaithful. At that moment her worst fears come true, because the last thing she wants in life is to become like her mother: the betrayed woman.

When she confronts him, he apologizes tearfully. "It was the biggest mistake of my life", "it didn't mean anything", "it was just a one night stand", "it won't happen again", "I'm sorry you found out this way"... The typical and therefore insufficient.

In an attempt to fix things, Will organizes the road trip they had always dreamed of taking to change the scenery and spend more time together away from everything. Liv accepts. She is truly willing to give their relationship a new chance, but then she discovers that the one night stand was not what it seemed.

From that moment on, each postcard-perfect stop on their trip becomes the perfect setting for her new dream: to kill her husband and make it look like an accident.

That's just the beginning, as this is the premise and starting point of Wilderness, a miniseries starring Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who, The Serpent) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Haunting of Hill House) based on the homonymous novel by BE Jones, an addictive revenge thriller full of crazy twists that keep us hooked to the screen.

Its charm, along with solid performances and a duration of only six episodes, lies in the fact that it never tries to subvert the genre or to make a tale of female empowerment, sisterhood, and personal growth: its protagonist is simply a wounded and furious woman. 

Dangerous Trails is aware that its protagonist would have been labeled not long ago as "crazy" or "hysterical", and it embraces it by making a direct reference to Fatal Attraction when Liv describes herself as a "Bunny Boiler". 

Liv is not a heroine or an anti-heroine, she is a woman who feels betrayed, who is extremely angry, and all she wants is revenge on the two-legged rat she has for a husband and to end him once and for all. It is no coincidence that the opening song is Taylor Swift's Look What You Made Me Do.

All these elements make up a proposal that is not only entertaining but also truly refreshing, because these adult '90s thrillers are no longer made. Wilderness reminds us how much we miss them. 

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence