Review: 'The Society' — teen utopia or scary place? — is 'Lost' without grown-ups
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
May 09, 2019
4 minutes
"The Society," a teenage melodrama with an uncanny element and some timely civics lessons, streams into your life at midnight Friday on Netflix. A concoction of hormonal impulses and moral dilemmas, it can be daffy and even a little dumb, but it has some thematic ambition, a talented cast, eventful episodes and a core mystery that may keep you hanging on through its 10-episode first season, even when you know the answers will be less interesting than the questions.
We are in West Ham, Conn., a picture-book New England community afflicted by a powerful bad smell of untraceable
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