Her BFF is Natalie ( Jessica Sula, giving the best performance in the series), who is initially frustrated that she now has to compete in the game against Olivia but ends up working with her. She has parent issues, confidence issues, and eventually romantic issues, of course, including an unexpected love triangle of sorts. Take Olivia Welch (Heather Nill), the show’s leading lady and someone who seems like one of Carp’s brightest stars before her junkie mother derails her life. However, the pull of $50k for the winner is too much for the new players to ignore.īelieve it or not, this “Hunger Games”-esque concept is largely just the backdrop for a relatively straightforward teen drama (with just enough sex and profanity to distinguish it from a standard offering on The CW). And everyone remembers what happened last year when two kids died. Anyone who does so in the premiere announces their participation in the game, one that will include several things that would make their parents scream, such as home invasions, crossing freeways wearing a blindfold, and maybe even Russian Roulette. For example, the game starts near a reservoir with the kind of cliff nearby that teens often dare one another to jump from. Every year, the graduating seniors compete in a game of increasingly intense dares, the kind that can get people killed.
Of course, every small town still has its dreamers, and the teenagers of Carp have a unique way to encourage at least one person to live out their wildest ambitions, a secret game called Panic that only the teenagers know about. “Panic” unfolds in the small town of Carp, Texas (even though no one has an accent), the kind of place that takes teenage optimism and flattens it, turning bright-eyed young people into dead-eyed nobodies who never left home.
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