The Society is about a group of senior high schoolers who were stuck in a place that looked like their high-society town after their field trip got canceled. Only there were no people left nor was there a way to go outside or communicate with people from outside.
At first, everyone thought it was a free pass from their parents so they partied and got on with their friends, only to learn that no one was going to get them. A group of campers then volunteered to search through the thick woods that surrounded their town and when they came back with a dead friend, only then did they all know that they were in a serious situation.
The set up of this show reminds me of the classic novel, The Lord of the Flies which made it more interesting. You lock up a group of teenagers to fend for themselves and come up with a sort of government with no consequences or law above them and no parents to guide them. You would think of social philosophy. Would they be looking out for each other? Would they be turning against each other to protect themselves? Would they naturally have teamwork? Would there be someone to stand up and be the leader?
I became very invested in the show because the characters were very diverse. The first one to catch my eye was Cassandra's character who has a heart defect but that didn't stop her from being the top notcher and the one to step up and be the leader of the teenagers. I also liked the fact that half of the main cast were Australian, I just wished they could have used their own accents. Sean Berdy is on this show too! He's a deaf actor who is going into mainstream television nowadays (I first saw him in Freeform's Switched at Birth) and I think having such different representations is an important thing in today's time.
- Me: A Writer
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