History Series / TheSociety

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Kelly is shown giving Helena pads and the girls discuss rationing them because they have a very limited supply. Clarke and Jason forcing [[spoiler: Lexie]] to stay in custody in the same clothes while she gets hers prompts the latter's FaceHeelTurn.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Allie goes out of her way to help Elle when she finds out that Campbell is abusing her. And how is she thanked for this? [[spoiler: Elle is quick to run back to Campbell's side during the coup, pretending that Allie was really holding her prisoner, and she spit in Allie's face instead of choosing that time to finally stand up to her abusive boyfriend.]]
** [[spoiler: Though to be fair, Elle is really left with no other option, as Campbell has effectivly taken control of the whole town. And when she does spit in Allie’s face, her intonation on how she says ‘you’ll get what you deserve I promise’, and her eye contact makes it clear she is telling Allie she will try to help her.]]

* 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.

** This is foreshadowed by the performance of ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildernsternAreDead'' that begins the show: it's a play about treating secondary characters as protagonists.

** This is foreshadowed by the performance of ''Theater/RosencrantzAndGuildernsternAreDead'' that begins the show: it's a play about treating secondary characters as protagonists.

** The first episode begins at a performance of ''Theater/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', in whose opening scene Guildenstern flips a coin that comes out heads 90 times. In the play, this symbolizes that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern don't exist in the real world; everything that happens to them is at the whim of the author of the play. Later in the episode, Cassandra—who played Guildenstern—flips a coin over and over and keeps getting tails.

** 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 times. Later in the episode, Casandra tries heads or tails only to realize that tails keep coming out.

* CourtroomEpisode: Episode 5.

** The raid of Harry's house in episode 5 is covered in this. It goes back and forth between the genuinely scary thought of a bunch of jocks bursting into your house while you're sleeping wielding weapons and yelling at you, to the general incompetence of the Guard while doing it (such as Jason trying to read people their rights and Grizz stopping partway through to catch up with one of the girls).

* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: A solar eclipse occurs in the second episode, and the kids have varying opinions on whether it means something or is just a natural occurrance. They end up on the latter side of things once Bean points out that the next scheduled eclipse isn't for another five years, and take it as proof that they're somehow in another dimension.

* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: A solar eclipse happens in the second episode. Gordie dismisses it at first, until he's informed that there isn't supposed to be one in North America for nearly a decade.

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 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.

Think of a modern, teen, and more paranormal ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''.

* SiblingYingYang: Allie and Cassandra Pressman. Allie is more cynical and jaded while Cassandra is more optimistic and idealistic.

* DumbMuscle: the Guard are all pretty naive and gullible former jocks who Campbell has the least trouble manipulating.

* AxCrazy: It's implied throughout Season 1 that Campbell is a textbook psychopath and he does nothing to make people think any different, and even recognizes that most people are afraid of him. [[spoiler:Dewey is arguably another example, as he killed Cassandra for no other reason than other guys complaining about how they disapprove of her being the leader of the community.]]

* TheBeard: A particularly unique inversion in which Sam pretends he’s not gay and says he’s the father of Becca’s baby because Becca doesn't want to admit she was knocked up in a random one-night stand.

* CainAndAbel: Campbell and Sam respectively. If you stretch the relationship to cousins, it’s more notable with Campbell and Allie.

* 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.

* TokenReligiousTeammate: Helena, who even tries to recreate religion in the new society.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Sam and Grizz, as well as Allie and Will.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:The final shot of season one hints that all the kids have actually died, with a shot of the real town showing their parents by the side of a large plaque with their names saying "We Remember Them".]]
* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* HeManWomanHater: When [[spoiler:Dewey]] admits to killing Cassandra, he puts this trope on display as his reason.

* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: Sam, Campbell's brother, believes he is this, pointing out how he can fake human emotions but doesn't really feel any of it, and is a master manipulator. Campbell, himself, admits this to Elle during the Thanksgiving episode.]]

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Inverted with Grizz who was planning to never talk to any of his high school buddies again once he went to college.

Think of a modern, teen, and more paranormal ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''

* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: The whole relationship between Elle and Campbell is this. Campbell both physically and mentally abuses her and keeps her for having any kind of social life outside of being with him, not even with pets. It's clear she doesn't love him or want to be with him, but is afraid of what he might do if she tries to leave him.]]

* 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.]]

!Tropes

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Its implied throughout Season 1 that Campbell is a textbook psychopath and he does nothing to make people think any different, and even recognizes that most people are afraid of him. Dewey is arguably another example, as he killed Cassandra for no other reason than other guys complaining about how they disapprove of her being the leader of the community.]]
* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: The whole relationship between Elle and Campbell is this. Campbell both physically and mentally abuses her and keeps her for having any kind of social life outside of being with him, not even with pets. Its clear she doesn't love him or want to be with him, but is afraid of what he might do if she tries to leave him.]]

* TheBeard: A particularly unique inversion in which Sam pretends he’s not gay and says he’s the father of Becca’s baby because Becca wants to hide who the real father is.
* BecarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lexie believes Allie leads the town like a dictatorship and runs to beat her in an election for Mayor. [[spoiler: She gets most of the people's support and seems like she will win, only to experience what a true coup and dictatorship looks like when Campbell takes over the town by force when he gets the Guard on his side, and makes himself the undisputed ruler with her and Harry as his puppet front men.]]
* CainAndAbel: Campbell and Sam respectively. If you stretch the relationship to Cousins, it’s more notable with Campbell and Allie.
* {{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".]]

** [[spoiler: Allie has a nightmare that the Guard will turn against her and overthrow her rule. This happens during the Season Finale.]]

* 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).
* HeManWomanHater: [[spoiler: When Dewey admits to killing Cassandra, he puts this trope on display as his reason]]

* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Campbell makes himself this, after he successfully overthrows Allie's rule and puts Harry and Lexie out in front as his puppets to lead the towns people.]]

* OnlySaneMan: 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]]

* 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

* BecarefulWhatYouWishFor: Alexi believes Allie leads the town like a dictatorship and runs to beat her in an election for Mayor. [[spoiler: She gets most of the people's support and seems like she will win, only to experience what a true coup and dictatorship looks like when Campbell takes over the town by force when he gets the Guard on his side, and makes himself the undisputed ruler with her and Harry has his puppet front men.]]

* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Campbell makes himself this, after he successfully overthrows Allie's rule and puts Harry and Alexi out in front as his puppets to lead the towns people.]]

* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: The whole relationship between Elle and Campbell is this. Campbell both physically and mentally abuses her and keeps her for having any kind of social life outside of being with him, [[spoiler: not even with pets.]] Its clear she doesn't love him or want to be with him, but is afraid of what he might do if she tries to leave him.]]

* {{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".]]