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Netflix New Teen Drama The Society Imagines A World Without Adults

Netflix New Teen Drama The Society Imagines A World Without Adults

SPOILER: It's not all drinking and partying

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

A new Netflix drama series called The Society follows a group of teenagers who find themselves in a bizarre place that looks exactly like the town that they live in, but it's empty and they are alone there.

Ever wondered what it would be like if you awoke one morning to find that nearly everyone had disappeared?

OK, so we all think about that every morning, but now someone is showing us the side of that strange reality that isn't all about staying in bed and generally being left alone.

The teenagers awake to discover that their well-off town in New England, USA - or at least, somewhere that looks very much like it - has been completely cleared out of adults and authority figures, and only the kids are left.

What ensues looks like a cross between Dawson's Creek and The Lord of the Flies (two references for the kids, there) with a healthy amount of violence and disorder.

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The show will be released on Netflix on 10 May, and stars a load of rising stars like Rachel Keller, Kathryn Newton, and Alex Fitzalan.

If those names don't mean anything to you, don't worry. This will.

Netflix said of the new show: "The Society follows a group of teenagers who are mysteriously transported to a facsimile of their wealthy New England town without any trace of their parents.

"Their newfound freedom will be fun... but it will also be very dangerous. As they struggle to figure out what has happened to them and how to get home, they must establish order and form alliances if they want to survive."

Sounds interesting, right?

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This ambitious original show was created by showrunner Chris Keyser, who wanted to take the classic American high school drama and flip it on its head.

He recently told Teen Vogue: "I love the question that novel asks: if we are left to our own devices, will human beings find a way to co-exist or slide toward chaos?

"The Society's take on that is to pose the question, not in the world of children - or full-grown adults - but to a group of young men and women who are at that exact moment in their lives when they become responsible for their own destinies.

"It's as if adulthood, with all its risks and opportunities - and in its most extreme form - arrives overnight."

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He continued: "The other twist is that, unlike most versions of Lord of the Flies, which are set in some form of wilderness, ours takes place right in the heart of civilisation.

"So the questions aren't what will I eat and how will I find shelter. The questions are things like: who makes the rules, how do we keep ourselves safe from each other, how do we protect the weakest among us - who owns the stuff all around us?"

If that sounds like your sort of thing, it's out on Netflix next month.

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