Netflix's The Society Is What Happens When Teenagers Can Do Whatever They Want

Parent's just don't understand, at least according to Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff. Although could you reside in a global without them?


Netflix's upcoming young-adult drama The Society is almost a modern version of the 1954 Nobel Prize-winning novel Lord of the Flies, as it explores what occurs as soon as whenever an audience of teenagers are left to their own devices and form a society with a decidedly shaky foundation.


Written by Chris Keyser (Party of Five), The Society follows an audience of teens who find themselves transported to a peculiar approximation of their neighborhood, which seems same, with the exception of one essential thing: Their parents are nowhere to be noticed. Dumbfounded, they must work with each other to build some semblance of normalcy and also alliances together to calculate what's happened to them, their parents, and why they can ever possibly return home.


Big Little Lies's Kathryn Newton stars as Allie, our protagonist who's trying in vain to call her mother and speak to her amidst the chaos. Naturally, it's not working out for her also well, since all of the parents are gone and everything. Although why were the categorize of teens transported to this weird new place? Wouldn't it have been enough to just take all of the parents away? Needless to say, there's something even weirder going on below the surface here.


It looks pretty insane – and the addition of Billie Eilish's "bury a friend" ratchets up the tension, especially because it looks like someone is literally burying a friend. Eerie.


All episodes of The Society will be accessible on Netflix beginning on May 10, so you've got some time left to calculate some categorize kind of survival plan before all of the parents up and disappear. Ensure you've got that Netflix password, just in case anything crazy happens.