Character
Dot Campbell
Dot Campbell in The Wilds (2020), played by Shannon Berry.
Stranded with a group of teenage girls after their plane crashes on a deserted island, Dot Campbell is the one who actually knows how to survive. Blunt, capable, and impatient with panic, she scavenges supplies and reads terrain like a survivalist while the others spiral, treating the wreckage less as trauma than as a problem to solve.
Shannon Berry plays Dot's competence as armor rather than confidence, letting flickers of exhaustion and grief show through her deadpan practicality. The show trusts her dry humor to carry real weight, and Berry finds the tired tenderness underneath a girl who's clearly been the responsible one long before this island ever happened.
You think you know what you've got buried down there, under the surface, but you don't always. And sometimes it can surprise the shit out of you.
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Appears in
The Wilds2020