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* DecoyProtagonist: Cassandra is set up as the main character at first. She is the most level headed character in the show, who uses smart judgement when making a decision. She even has a tragic backstory of having a genetic heart condition and survives off a pacemaker. Even her little sister Allie calls her TheHero of the situation they find themselves in. [[spoiler: She is murdered in episode 3 after she official becomes the leader of the town and is successfully able to hold their high school prom. Allie then takes over as leader and ties to find who murdered her sister, officially making her the main character of the series.]]
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The show follows the small peaceful city of West Ham, which has an issue with a strange foul smell floating around. One day while dealing with it, the parents send their children off into a trip, but when they are forced to come back due to a roadblock, the teens come back to find that all the adults have vanished from the town and there's no connection to the outside world, be it internet, satellite or whatever, and the roads to the outside of the town are blocked. Locked together and alone, the teens have to find a way to survive and figure out what happened to their city.
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The show follows the small peaceful city of West Ham, which has an issue with a strange foul smell floating around. One day while dealing with it, the parents send their children off into senior class goes on a trip, but when they are forced to come back due to a roadblock, the teens come back to find that all the adults have vanished from the town and there's no connection to the outside world, be it internet, satellite or whatever, and the roads to the outside of the town are blocked. Locked together and alone, the teens have to find a way to survive and figure out what happened to their city.
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Has nothing to do with the BodyHorror 80s cult film ''Film/{{Society}}''.
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* CainandAbel: Campbell and Sam respectively. If you stretch the relationship to Cousins, it’s more notable with Campbell and Allie.
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* CainandAbel: CainAndAbel: Campbell and Sam respectively. If you stretch the relationship to Cousins, it’s more notable with Campbell and Allie.
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* OnlySaneMan: Grizz and Helena stand out as the more level headed ones when even Allie and Will tend to go over the line. Cassandra was also this before [[spoiler: she was shot and murdered by Dewey]]
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* OnlySaneMan: Grizz Grizz, Kelly and Helena stand out as the more level headed ones when even Allie and Will tend to go over the line. Cassandra was also this before [[spoiler: she was shot and murdered by Dewey]]
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* TheBeard: A particularly unique inversion in which Sam pretends he’s not gay and the father of Becca’s baby because Becca wants to hide who the real father is.
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* TheBeard: A particularly unique inversion in which Sam pretends he’s not gay and the father of Becca’s baby because Becca wants to his who the real father is.
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* DragonInChief: Campbell is clearly more competent than Harry, the Guard, and even Lexie who he convinces to take control but they’re all clearly his puppets who he only needs because no one will support him alone due to his 0%ApprovalRating with the masses.
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* DragonInChief: Campbell is clearly more competent than Harry, the Guard, and even Lexie who he convinces to take control but they’re all clearly his puppets who he only needs because no one will support him alone due to his 0%ApprovalRating ZeroPercentApprovalRating with the masses.
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* AdultFear: While the rest of the troubles are dependent on the the show’s premise, Elle’s storyline is a chillingly realistic depiction of someone being stuck in an abusive relationship.
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* CainandAbel: Campbell and Sam respectively. If you stretch the relationship to Cousins, it’s more notable with Campbell and Allie.
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* DumbMuscle: the Guard are all pretty naive and gullible former jocks who Campbell has the least trouble manipulating.
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* DragonInChief: Campbell is clearly more competent than Harry, the Guard, and even Lexie who he convinces to take control but they’re all clearly his puppets who he only needs because no one will support him alone due to his 0%ApprovalRating with the masses.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Inverted with Grizz who was planning to never talk to any of his high school buddies again once he went to college.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In season one's finale, Campbell is able to manipulate The Guard, Harry and Lexie to depose Allie and Will, making them the current rulers of The Society, and he gets Elle back, but the final look in Harry and Lexie's faces hints that they realize they have just made a DealWithTheDevil for that power.]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:The final shot of season one hints that all the kids have actually died, with a shot to the real town showing their parents by the side of a large plaque with their names saying "We Remember Them".]]
* DrivingQuestion: What happened to the town's adults? Where are theteens?teens? Who is Pfeiffer? What is the source of the smell?
* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:The final shot of season one hints that all the kids have actually died, with a shot to the real town showing their parents by the side of a large plaque with their names saying "We Remember Them".]]
* DrivingQuestion: What happened to the town's adults? Where are the
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* FriendsVersusLover: A complicated situation with Sam. In order to keep the fact that Becca got pregnant off a one night stand hidden, Sam agrees to pretend to be the father of the kid. When he and Grizz start to have a fling, Grizz also thinks Sam is the baby's father and Becca's behavior, acting as if she and Sam were a couple, puts Sam in a tough position.
* HateSink: Campbell clearly establishes himself as this early on when he takes advantage of his newfound freedom by banning His own brother Sam from their house (calling him a little fag in the process) and only gets worse as the story goes on by emotionally and physically abusing Elle while alienating her from the rest of the people in town. His own cousins and brother hate him. The only people who tolerate him are Elle (increasingly out of fear) and Harry (out increasing need for drugs)
* HateSink: Campbell clearly establishes himself as this early on when he takes advantage of his newfound freedom by banning His own brother Sam from their house (calling him a little fag in the process) and only gets worse as the story goes on by emotionally and physically abusing Elle while alienating her from the rest of the people in town. His own cousins and brother hate him. The only people who tolerate him are Elle (increasingly out of fear) and Harry (out increasing need for drugs)
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* FriendsVersusLover: FriendVersusLover: A complicated situation with Sam. In order to keep the fact that Becca got pregnant off a one night stand hidden, Sam agrees to pretend to be the father of the kid. When he and Grizz start to have a fling, Grizz also thinks Sam is the baby's father and Becca's behavior, acting as if she and Sam were a couple, puts Sam in a tough position.
* HateSink: Campbell clearly establishes himself as this early on when he takes advantage of his newfound freedom by banning His own brother Sam from their house (calling him a little fag in the process) and only gets worse as the story goes on by emotionally and physically abusing Elle while alienating her from the rest of the people in town. His own cousins and brother hate him. The only people who tolerate him are Elle (increasingly out of fear) and Harry (out increasing need fordrugs)drugs).
* HateSink: Campbell clearly establishes himself as this early on when he takes advantage of his newfound freedom by banning His own brother Sam from their house (calling him a little fag in the process) and only gets worse as the story goes on by emotionally and physically abusing Elle while alienating her from the rest of the people in town. His own cousins and brother hate him. The only people who tolerate him are Elle (increasingly out of fear) and Harry (out increasing need for
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* IdiotBall: Allie [[spoiler:decides to keep Campbell alive and let him run free after extensive evidence that he's a dangerous psychopath that sooner or later will rain down chaos in the city and against the warnings of Sam, Elle and the Guard. When he comes back as the final enemy of the season, he even says that letting him go was a terrible decision.]]
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* PowerCorrupts: Allie realizes she has become much worse of a person ever since she got to power. [[spoiler:When Lexie and Harry take over and Lexie becomes perturbed seeing the mob against Allie, the latter is quick to say what she is thinking and say that things will change that fast and she'll become worse and worse, much to Lexie's horror.]]
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* It’sAllAboutMe: Harry is almost virtually incapable of putting the needs of others before his petty desires to the point that being forced to do so causes a DespairEventHorizon rather than CharacterDevelopment.
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* HateSink: Campbell clearly establishes himself as this early on when he takes advantage of his newfound freedom by banning His own brother Sam from their house (calling him a little fag in the process) and only gets worse as the story goes on by emotionally and physically abusing Elle while alienating her from the rest of the people in town. His own cousins and brother hate him. The only people who tolerate him are Elle (increasingly out of fear) and Harry (out increasing need for drugs(drugs)
* HeManWomanHater: [[spoiler: When Dewey admits to killing Cassandra, he puts this trope on display as his reason]]
* HeManWomanHater: [[spoiler: When Dewey admits to killing Cassandra, he puts this trope on display as his reason]]
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* HateSink: Campbell clearly establishes himself as this early on when he takes advantage of his newfound freedom by banning His own brother Sam from their house (calling him a little fag in the process) and only gets worse as the story goes on by emotionally and physically abusing Elle while alienating her from the rest of the people in town. His own cousins and brother hate him. The only people who tolerate him are Elle (increasingly out of fear) and Harry (out increasing need for drugs(
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* OnlySaneMan: Grizz and Helena stand out as the more level headed ones when even Allie and Will tend to go over the line. Cassandra was also this before [[spoiler: she was shot and murdered by Dewey]]
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* IdiotBall: Allie [[spoiler:decides to keep Campbell alive and let him run free after extensive evidence that he's a dangerous psychopath that sooner or later will rain down chaos in the city and against the warnings of Sam, Elle and the Guard.]]
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* {{Irony}}: Gordie creates an execution method that is supposed to alleviate guilt. Three people shoot the executed, two have blanks and one has the real bullet, this way, everyone can think that they're not the one to have killed the executed. [[spoiler:When the method is used, it has the exact opposite effect. All the members of the execution group think that they were the one to kill Eddy.]]
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler:Sam says that Campbell had killed their family's pet bird. He cut off the bird's wings and watched it try to run away, and that he was later tested positive for psychopathy.]]
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* TworfenTokenMinority: The deaf teen is also the only openly gay guy in the society.
* WildTeenParty: As soon as they realize the adults are gone the teens make a party in the church.
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* TworfenTokenMinority: The TwoferTokenMinority: Sam is a deaf teen teen, and he is also the only openly gay guy in the society.
* WildTeenParty: As soon as they realize the adults are gone the teens make a party in thechurch.church.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 3 has the society establish itself for the first time, with Cassandra at the helm, [[spoiler:and she is murdered by the end of the episode, prompting even more chaos than before.]]
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* WhamEpisode: Episode 3 has the society establish itself for the first time, with Cassandra at the helm, [[spoiler:and she is murdered by the end of the episode, prompting even more chaos than before.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: In the middle of the prom, Kelly goes on stage to say a few words, but ends up having a minor meltdown instead and almost ruining the party.
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* TemptingFaith: In episode three, two characters have a talk about how they never fight, only for the end of the episode to have them fighting.
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* TokenReligiousTeammate: Helena, who even tries to recreate religion in the new society.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Helena, who even tries to recreate religion in the new society.
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** At the beginning of the first episode, the teens put on a play where two men try heads or tails and manage to get tails over 80times.times. Later in the episode, Casandra tries heads or tails only to realize that tails keep coming out.
** Episode 3 starts with a girl raiding a dress store to get the dress she reserved for prom, saying that she is unlikely to use it now. Later on the girls decide to make prom happen anyway.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Harry starts off as a jerk, but the events of episode three, in which he is forced to conform to the new society and share what he has, aside from losing his girlfriend, causes him to slowly start to lose it as he starts to want revenge on Cassandra for creating this new society.
* RealityEnsues: After a largely male group starts raiding and pillaging the town's the girls obviously start to fear for their safety, when they realize that their society no longer has any of the rules they relied on to keep them safe. As Cassandra realizes the threat os rapes are in the air, fear sets in the girls and they push for society to be
** At the beginning of the first episode, the teens put on a play where two men try heads or tails and manage to get tails over 80
** Episode 3 starts with a girl raiding a dress store to get the dress she reserved for prom, saying that she is unlikely to use it now. Later on the girls decide to make prom happen anyway.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Harry starts off as a jerk, but the events of episode three, in which he is forced to conform to the new society and share what he has, aside from losing his girlfriend, causes him to slowly start to lose it as he starts to want revenge on Cassandra for creating this new society.
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* TworfenTokenMinority: The deaf teen is also the only openly gay guy in the society.
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* SacrificialLamb: Emily, one of the girls that goes into the woods in episode one. She's bitten by a cobra and after spending time trying to resurrect her, the group realizes that they're dealing with a life or death situation.
* WildTeenParty: As soon as they realize the adults are gone the teens make a party in the church.
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* SacrificialLamb: Emily, one of the girls that goes into the woods in episode one. She's bitten by a cobra and after spending time trying to resurrect her, the group realizes that they're dealing with a life or death situation.
* WildTeenParty: As soon as they realize the adults are gone the teens make a party in the church.
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''The Society'' is a mystery teen drama on Creator/Netflix.
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''The Society'' is a mystery teen drama on Creator/Netflix.
The show follows the small peaceful city of West Ham, which has an issue with a strange foul smell floating around. One day while dealing with it, the parents send their children off into a trip, but when they are forced to come back due to a roadblock, the teens come back to find that all the adults have vanished from the town and there's no connection to the outside world, be it internet, satellite or whatever, and the roads to the outside of the town are blocked. Locked together and alone, the teens have to find a way to survive and figure out what happened to their city.
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