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The Society

★ 7.1 44K votes 2019–2019 1 season · 10 episodes Canceled Netflix
Young adultTeen protagonists with teen-first appeal.This show: 9/10DystopiaOppressive imagined societies and the people caught in them.This show: 8/10Mystery boxCentral riddles sustained across whole seasons.This show: 8/10Coming of ageGrowing up as the central arc.This show: 8/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 8/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 8/10SurvivalStaying alive against nature, scarcity or pursuit.This show: 7/10Cliffhanger-drivenEngineered for the 'one more episode' effect.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Kathryn NewtonGideon AdlonSean BerdyNatasha Liu BordizzoJacques ColimonOlivia DeJonge
Written by
Christopher Keyser
Starring
Kathryn NewtonGideon AdlonSean BerdyNatasha Liu BordizzoJacques ColimonOlivia DeJonge
Written by
Christopher Keyser
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

"Teen politics as apocalypse rehearsal"

A group of teenagers returns from a canceled school trip to find their town completely empty, its residents vanished without explanation. Cut off from the outside world, they must build their own society from scratch, forming factions, governance, and rivalries as resources dwindle and old social hierarchies collapse. It plays like a YA Lord of the Flies crossed with a mystery box thriller, tense and slow-burning, driven by ensemble teen drama rather than jump scares. The eerie premise carries the early episodes, while the back half leans harder into politics, romance, and power struggles among its young cast.

Watch it for

the unsettling premise of a town emptied overnight, forcing teens to govern themselves.

Maybe skip if

you want the central mystery resolved rather than left as a launching pad for drama.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12019
7.410K109h 18m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1What Happened?7.1
1K58 min
▶2Our Town7.0
1K58 min
▶3Childhood's End7.2
1K60 min
▶4Drop by Drop7.3
96156 min
▶5Putting on the Clothes7.5
92453 min
▶6Like A F-ing God or Something7.7
92748 min
▶7Allie's Rules7.6
92753 min
▶8Poison7.9
95953 min
▶9New Names7.5
87260 min
▶10How It Happens7.5
98459 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kathryn Newton Allie Pressman
Gideon Adlon Becca Gelb
Sean Berdy Sam Eliot
Natasha Liu Bordizzo Helena Wu
Jacques Colimon Will LeClair
Olivia DeJonge Elle Tomkins
Alex Fitzalan Harry Bingham
Kristine Froseth Kelly Aldrich
José Julián Gordie
Alex MacNicoll Luke Holbrook

Crew

Christopher Keyser

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