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They endured a calamity as teens, but adulthood has its own terrors
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Sunday, Nov. 14, 10/9c, Showtime
WORDS DESIGNED TO be eaten later in regret: “As long as nobody does anything crazy, we have nothing to worry about.” Maybe Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), one of several survivors of a notorious fictional tragedy 25 years earlier, isn’t aware that Juliette Lewis—the embodiment of lunacy in so many film and TV projects—is playing one of her former companions in peril.
is a luridly–like flashbacks—desperate teens descending into tribal rivalries and animal savagery over 19 months—and a contemporary mystery in which the adult survivors’ suburban veneer and vows of silence crack when someone starts dredging up their secrets.
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