"When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive."
Starring Kathryn Newton, Gideon Adlon, Sean Berdy.
Wikipedia synopsis: When a mysterious and irritating smell permeates the town of West Ham, CT, the High School students are sent off on a 10-day camping trip while the problem is dealt with. After departing by bus, the student ends up returning to town, being told that the road to the camp is blocked. However, they discover initially that everyone else town has disappeared, and that while local phones and texting work, they are electronically cut off from the rest of the world. The next day, they further discover that all roads and exits from town are now blocked by seemingly endless and dangerous forest. Some student uses their newfound freedom to engage in a wild party, while others attempt to ascertain what has happened.
The TV Daddy says: I stumbled on this show by accident the other day while flicking through Netflix. The story sounded interesting enough. Teens run wild when they found their town empty - no parents, nothing. And as guessed their new freedom gives birth to wild parties, lots of alcohol, sex, school bullies going on a rampage and so on, but after a few days of partying, something is about to go wrong. Their freedom turns into a nightmare as they have to face the reality of a crumbling society with no rules. Who is going to take the lead them and make decisions on their behalf? There lies the moral question. If someone commits a crime, who is going to play judge, juror, and executioner?
Media says: Series creator Christopher Keyser explains that the series has been compared to Under The Dome and the post-apocalyptic series Lord Of The Flies (kinds stranded on an island and have to fend for themselves and soon in a downward spiral ends up in the same situation as the teens from The Society.
"Lord of the Flies was certainly the thing I thought about most in the writing of the show. I was interested in this question of where we had gotten to as a civilization — I don’t mean just the country I live in, although in this case we are writing about America — and asking whether we could have done better. Lord of the Flies seemed like a good way to address that, particularly if you placed it not amongst pre-adolescent boys, but among people coming of age. Marc [Webb] and I originally developed the show before I'd seen The Leftovers, and having seen it, we changed the show somewhat. There was a lot more stuff with the parents in The Society originally, but I thought, "There’s no way I’m going to do that any better than that show did,” and so we don't focus very much on the grief of those left behind. We steered clear of that because of what a beautiful job The Leftovers did with that conversation about grief.
The first season doesn’t spend too much time delving into the mystery of what happened — how these kids got to what appears to be a parallel Earth. Do you know what the resolution of that mystery is?
Yes, we have a pretty good sense of it. I don't think we know all the details, because we like playing around with it, but we have a pretty good idea of what happened. I hope what we did in the first season is begin to solve it slowly, and dig into where are they, how did they get there, why were they taken, and can they get back? They answer some of those things, they’re able to figure out a little bit about where they think they are, and should we be lucky enough to have subsequent seasons, that mystery is going to deepen. Whether you're looking at it from a scientific point of view or a mystical point of view, the question of how they get back is a tough one.
Our philosophy was also that this is not Riverdale, it’s not like these kids are home and have a lot of time to investigate a given mystery. They’re in the middle of having to re-create an entire world, and surviving from one day to the next is their principal obligation. Their secondary obligation is to try to figure out what the hell is going on and to try to get home. They don’t have a lot of resources, they’re just kids in the middle of nowhere, so there are lots of things that are virtually unanswerable. We planned that mystery as if this were going to be a long-running series, so the question of, “Can they get home?” will run throughout the entire show.
(SOURCE: www.hollywoodreporter.com. Author for hollywoodrepoter: Emma Dibdin)
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