Panic: There is only one rule “don’t panic”

Plot:

In a small town called Carp, Texas (a miserable place), all the graduated high school seniors have a chance to play a risky game called Panic and win $50,000 that will allow them to escape.

Cast:

Olivia Welch as Heather Nill

Mike Faist as Dodge Mason

Jessica Sula as Natalie Williams

Ray Nicholson as Ray Hall

Camron Jones as Bishop Moore

Enrique Murciano as Sheriff James Cortez

Episodes:

The episodes of the first season are 10. The series is based on Lauren Oliver’s 2014 novel, she herself was hired to adapt her novel by making a deal with Amazon Studios through his company Glasstown Entertainment. Executive producers are Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum, of the Roth / Kirschenbaum Films, and Adam Schroeder.

Thoughts:

Every Panic participant has their own motivation to participate: Heather dreams of social redemption, Natalie wants to pursue an acting career in California, Dodge is driven by revenge intentions, and Ray wants to prove he is the strongest. Everyone wants to leave the town or wants to prove something.

The game is not just a stunt by a group of bored kids from a remote town in the province, but it is the concrete representation of the rite of passage of the stories we grew up with. Participants will have to overcome various tests and at the same time come to terms with their fears and with secrets and dark sides that hide within them. Once their shadow is dealt with, they will be able to get the reward and leave Carp, The only rule is don’t panic or at least put it aside.

The concept of the series was promising but it fails to hold up the ten episodes, thanks also to the clichés, some gaps especially in the central episodes, the absence of that panic that one expected to feel under the skin, so much pushed in the title and in the trailer, but it also has some interesting ideas. Very nice soundtrack and a cast that plays their role at best, and a story that focuses on the basic feelings of humans, love, friendship , desire for redemption and fear, a great monster that lives in one way or another in each of us.

Duration per episode: 40–49 minutes

Vote 6.5

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