#gretchen klein

[afreauxheaux]

THE WILDS 2.05 | 45/16

#the wilds #the wilds spoilers #thewildsedit #thewildsdaily #the wilds seasons 2 #henry tanaka #aidan laprete #rachel griffiths #gretchen klein #bbelcher #cinemapix #cinematv #tvfilm #chewieblog #my chemical romance #mcr #welcome to the black parade #the black parade #mygifs

[see-you-in-the-mourning]

My ideal way for season 3 of the wilds to end would be for the teens to outsmart Gretchen’s smarmy ass and trap her and her research bitches on the island to fend for their damn selves. Leatin and shoni are happy and drama free. The only Hetero couple I would accept is Marty and Bo just because I think they could be cute together. Everyone else becomes bffs with each other. Seth gets fucking obliterated and Nora realizes she’s been a dumb hoe and helps save everyone and redeems herself. I would also like to see dean beat up that psychiatrist dude who’s name I can’t be bothered to remember. All the shitty parents leave the kids alone. And everyone gets some fucking therapy and lives happily ever after while Gretchen Klein rots in obscurity.

#the wilds on prime #the wilds spoilers #the wilds season 2 #the wilds #shoni #leatin #shelby x toni #leah x fatin #leah rilke #fatin jadmani #shelby goodkind #toni shalifoe #martha blackburn #gretchen klein #rachel reid #nora reid #dot campbell #bo leonard #kirin oconner #ivan taylor #josh herbert #seth novak #henry tanaka #rafael garcia #scotty simms

[lesblizzard-ultradyke]

tumblr users today at 00:00

#boop #booping #boops #boops boops #boop boop #the wilds #Gretchen Klein #Gretchen the wilds #Gretchen Klein the wilds

[unhinjed]

gretchen is so funny to me like yes she is so fucked up she'll send 16 deeply traumatized children to survive the wilderness as part of a experiment but she'll also whine like a baby and play match-3 games under a blanket. her subordinates are terrified of her. she is the most ridiculous woman to ever grace television. she's a milf. she gets jumpscared by mcr. she's insane and so what i love her for it

#the wilds #gretchen klein

[thewildssource]

EXODUS S02E08: The Wilds

#thewildsedit #hella #* #uservale #userk8 #usertreena #tuserhannah #tuserssam #userrobin #usersole #usergiu #userrainbow #usermimsi #userriah #uservalentina #usercas #leah rilke #gretchen klein #the wilds #2x08

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Propaganda under the cut.

Willie Jack

she stole a truck full of chips, many many items from the frozen meat section in a grocery store, i think a car, and the copper out of street lights. i think she does graffiti also? there’s probably more but those were the ones i counted in the pilot episode. she also cursed someone and then un-cursed them. she didn’t win the indigenous character tournament which i’m still heartbroken about but listen we can get her to win this one okay. she’s not technically as morally gray as other characters, like she hasn’t killed anyone but she just likes causing chaos and starting shit. she regularly gets into fights with people and probably wins most of them. listen i just need willie jack to win a tournament okay

Gretchen Klein

she runs an experiment where she strands a group of eight girls in their late teens on a remote island completely cut off from civilization after an alleged plane crash on the way to a feminist retreat called the dawn of eve. this is supposed to show how women will act in the absence of patriarchy. none of the girls’ parents were aware of this, and only one of the girls knew about the experiment beforehand. said girl’s boyfriend was murdered by gretchen’s son. the girls are eventually rescued and brought to a secure facility where gretchen, a psychologist and an fbi agent interviewed the girls. she also repeated the experiment she performed on the girls on a group of eight boys also in their late teens, to see whether they would act differently on a deserted island than in a patriarchal society. she did this because she wanted to prove that women aren’t necessarily lesser than men but just ended up traumatizing a bunch of teenagers

#poll #tournament poll #round 1 #willie jack #reservation dogs #gretchen klein #the wilds

[comingupforblair]

Leah: You promised you’d let us go!

Gretchen: Hitler promised not to invade Czechoslovakia, Leah. Welcome to the real world.

#incorrect the wilds quotes #the wilds #leah rilke #gretchen klein #peep show

[suavis]

the funniest thing about the wilds to me is that gretchen will be doing things that make no sense and believing that she is doing nothing wrong. her experiment has NO validity or reliability and she’s definitely going to jail after this the second they catch her ass but it’s worth it for the extremely biased and harmful experiment that violates like every single ethic of psychology ❤️ dare i say girlboss

#she’s so interesting to watch. miss girl checked herself into a psych ward and got mad when they wouldn’t immediately let her out #she calls the experimental subjects her children and is deluded to the point of thinking that leah would be on her side after this shit #legitimately she is so funny and fascinating i want to study HER #gretchen klein #the wilds #the wilds spoilers

[silasplaskett]

miss ‘i can blame everything on bad male behavior’ really took a boy that she provides therapy to and is aware has violent tendencies and put him on that island like. yes. this will all go according to plan. my plan. my plan specifically laid out so that the boys will fail and the girls will succeed. in my eyes at least. 

#maam u are traumatizing teenagers. they are not in any real way improved by this experiment #shes literally off her rocker like idk what to do every time i think about her #the wilds #the wilds spoilers #gretchen klein #bea.txt

[good-old-fashioned-lover-bi]

the wilds characters as "things to never say to someone who just came out"

+ bonus

#the wilds #toni shalifoe #shelby goodkind #fatin jadmani #ivan taylor #dot campbell #dorothy campbell #leah rilke #kirin o'conner #kirin o'connor #gretchen klein

[dcvina-claires]

gretchen: you played us like a fiddle

leah: no fiddles are actually quite hard to play

leah: i played you like the cheap kazoo you are

#the wilds #leah rilke #gretchen klein

[ofpinkfizz]

every part of me wanted to believe Gretchen would have at least attempted to make her "experiment" somewhat credible by making the control group an actual one. the simple fact that Seth was picked as the inside man is proof for me that this wasn't the case. and yes, she wanted the girls to do better but most importantly she wanted the boys to act in a very specific way.

adding to the group a guy who has shown clear signs of instability, who is prone to violence, who has attachment issues, who for all accounts is a ticking bomb who can't handle any sort of conflict, can only end badly. especially when you make said guy your contact with these people you're using as guinea pigs.

there is no possible outcome in which Seth didn't ruin the entire process, and with that being taken into consideration there isn't any outcome where violence and disruption wouldn't have been their fate either.

#was this clear to everyone? yes #did i need to rant about it anyway? sadly yes #maybe it's just the part of me who studied pages and pages on social experiments and sociology but god #i really thought she could have picked a trainwreck who actually went out on the island but he was already a threat to everyone around him #and #anyway whatever #gretchen klein #seth novak #the wilds #mine

[fuckyeahtomblyth]

Can we talk about the directorial decision to open Scotty’s interrogation scene with a zoom out of his hoodie?

There is a long-standing racist stereotype regarding Black men in hoodies, most memorably in the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin, wherein they are perceived as trying to hide themselves out of guilt because they have done something wrong, resulting in unwarranted suspicion and the assumption that they are threatening or dangerous.

That we are being introduced to present-day, post-island Scotty with a shot like this, as he sits under the expressionless watch of Gretchen & Dean, tells us that Scotty believes, & perhaps fears, they are stereotyping him in this way.

When we see his face, it is halfway in shadow, as is Gretchen’s. Neither of them is going to be honest with the other in the conversation that follows. Positioning Scotty on the left-hand side of the frame, juxtaposed with Gretchen on the right-hand side, is a nice way of conveying that Scotty views her as an opponent, much like two fighters on opposite sides of a ring before a match. He is sizing her up.

What is deceptive here is the way Scotty is slouching & appears small in the frame versus Gretchen’s confident, straight posture & domination of the frame. Perhaps this is deliberate on Scotty’s part to make her think he is weak, small, or afraid. (We learn when the dialogue starts... he is not.)

In the next shot, Scotty is in the center of the frame & so is Dean even though we know they are not sitting directly across from each other. This shows us that Scotty sees Dean as, hopefully, an ally or an equal. Unfortunately, Dean’s gaze is nowhere near as steely as Gretchen’s; it falters quickly, then he looks to Gretchen to break the stalemate. Dean holds no power at this table. Scotty knows it; he looks back to Gretchen.

We are back to opposing characters on opposing sides of the frame: Scotty on the left, Gretchen on the right. Scotty small, Gretchen large. Both of their faces are still halfway in shadow. She seems to be taunting him into speaking with some creepy eyebrow wiggle.

In the last gif, he throws the eyebrow wiggle back at her like, “FFS, what do you want from me, lady?” (It’s pretty hot, tbh.) They are no longer on opposite sides of the frame from each other; Scotty has sized her up & found she is not intimidating. He is ready to start the fight. He no longer looks weak, small, or afraid, & he’s no longer taking up a tiny corner of the shot. In fact, he is taking up more of the shot that Gretchen is at this point. He has played chicken with her, metaphorically, & decided she ain’t shit.

Gretchen’s expression in the last gif is one of resignation. She backs off. Her eyes drop. The awkward silence & scrutinizing stares did not break him. 

As a viewer, examining this, you can’t help but wonder now, in retrospect, about that hoodie shot. Maybe it did not speak to Scotty’s fear that he was being racially stereotyped by the adults. Maybe it was representative of the fact that they were, indeed, making a judgment about him, believing he was guilty of something & would crack under a little pressure.

And they, like that bullshit, racist stereotype, were wrong.

This all happens in a matter of seconds. 

You don’t even have time to process the nuance as you watch the show. All of these tiny decisions made by the director, done in tiny detail by the actors, are what deliver mood & tone & steer viewers into drawing conclusions without dialogue explicitly telling them how to feel & what to think. It’s what makes you, at home, feel like you’re experiencing something as it unfolds. It’s what makes damn good television.

#the wilds #the wilds season 2 #the wilds spoilers #thewildsedit #thewildsdaily #scotty simms #reed shannon #gretchen klein #rachel griffiths #tvgifs #tvedit #fandom meta

[obnoxiousselfishevilheart]

Judge: Ms. Klein, how do you respond to these claims against you?

Gretchen: Your honor, they simply hate to see a girlboss winning

#gretchen klein #the wilds #incorrect the wilds quotes

[alicentes]

Gretchen: as you can see my experiment proves that if girls are in a post plane crash survival situation together, they will thrive and become better people who uplift each other instead of hurting each other.

Yellowjacket: lmao, hold my beer.

#the yellowjackets kind of support each other by joining a cannibal cult i guess? #the wilds #gretchen klein #yellowjackets #the unsinkable eight

[smalldez]

actually gretchen was so funny to set up that weird quasi prom thing for when the girls and boys meet. she's literally batshit insane and i think what season 2 did with occasional success is remind us that, while this show handles complicated characters and heavy emotional themes, plot-wise it is soooo stupid and silly and goofy. like the amount of suspension of disbelief required at any given moment is insane. i think they should get to clown a little

#i remembered near the end of my watch that like many american teen shows. the wilds is verifiably unhinged and we should have fun with that #the wilds #the wilds spoilers #ig #gretchen klein #always on her girlboss game <3