The story of wilds was truly lame. I have to have a reason to care about some random kid. This is why I don't watch TV or movies any more. Way too many writers lean on "people will care about this character!" without actually giving a reason to care.
>some fake character in a tv show lost their family
OK. I don't give a fuck because I know I'm watching a TV show and none of this is real.
Writers are so bad these days.
They frequently forget to develop characters. They just 'have stuff happen to this character' before they set up anything.

Wilds is just some stupid kid that needs to find his family.
Don't get me started on "care about these superheroes crying".
OMFG another "the world is about to end" superhero movie!
yikes. yikes. yikes.
This is screenwriting 101 shit.

The new Star Wars movie truly sucked because they DID set up Rey and Ben to be truly interesting characters IF they flipped sides in the second movie. They had good set up. Then they completely fucked it all up in the 2nd movie by doing the vanilla boring timeline of them just staying the way they are and doing nothing interesting for the 2nd and 3rd movies. The trilogy would have been saved if Rey went dark and Ben went light. A massive fuck up. It's called a 'character arc'. Characters need to evolve in more than 1 direction.
Wilds is just 'kid lost his family and toughens up over time'. WOOOOOW what garbage story. I was skipping cutscenes after the first couple hours.
World didn't even have a good story, but it's way more watchable than Wilds.

Assuming people care about your shit characters is worse than action/comedy slop. Just give me fun instead of your BS fake emotional crap. It's like forcing your audience to sit through your dumb kid's play. It's not our kid. We don't care about your kid. We don't even know you.