History Series / TheSociety

* TokenReligiousTeammate: Helena, who even tries to recreate religion in the new society. Bean to a lesser extent--she wears a hijab, prays, and is vegetarian, but her religious beliefs aren't brought to the forefront at any point.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Sam is a deaf teen, and he is also the only openly gay guy in the society.

Has nothing to do with the BodyHorror 80s cult film ''Film/{{Society}}''.

* 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 townspeople.]]

* SacrificialLamb: Emily, one of the girls that goes into the woods in episode one. She's bitten by a snake and after spending time trying to revive her, the group realizes that they're dealing with a life or death situation.

* ShoutOut: When the society starts to figure out what happened, it's an allusion to [[spoiler:''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin''. A mysterious stranger (Pfeiffer) offers to solve a problem (the smell) for a fee. He does it, but the town screws him. In retaliation, he kidnaps their children]].

* UsefulNotes/SignedLanguage: Very common due to Sam being deaf, and a majority of those around him taking steps to learn the basics of ASL. Becca is fluent and acts as his unofficial interpreter. Grizz is also learning, though initially he tries British Sign Language because he doesn't realize it's a different language.
* TheSociopath: Campbell, full time. This scares his brother, Sam as he lampshades this by 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. He makes Elle his personal punching bag, implied to have abused Sam in the past and even sets up a coup and becomes a tyrant and possibly make Allie his slave like Elle.

* 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 former 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.
* 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.]]

* VomitIndiscretionShot: We get a full shot of Grizz' StressVomit near the end of episode 6.

* DumbMuscle: The Guard are all pretty naïve and gullible former jocks who Campbell has the least trouble manipulating, but Jason and Clark are the worst.

** After a largely male group starts a small riot while looking for flashlights and lamps, 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 of rapes are in the air, fear sets in the girls and they push for society to have rules and structure to prevent any further incidents.

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

* CourtroomEpisode: Episode five.
* 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 officially becomes the leader of the town and is successfully able to hold their high school prom. Allie then takes over as leader and tries to find who murdered her sister, officially making her the main character of the series.]]
** This is foreshadowed by the performance of ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' that begins the show: it's a play about treating secondary characters as protagonists.

* DownerEnding: Season 1 ends like this.
* DumbMuscle: The Guard are all pretty naive and gullible former jocks who Campbell has the least trouble manipulating, but Jason and Clark are the worst.

** Inverted with Grizz who was planning to never talk to any of his high school buddies again once he went to college.
** Played straight with Harry. During high school he was the most popular kid because of his rich parents and him throwing huge parties at his home. However, once all of that went away, many of the students in town want nothing to do with him, even the ones he thought were his friends, because they now see how selfish he is. There are scenes where teens won't even bother with him, unless he promises them something, like letting them borrowing one of his fancy cars. This on top of having to share his assets with other teens has led him into a deep depression, [[spoiler: which Campbell later uses to manipulate him into helping him take over the town at the end of Season 1.]]

* LegionOfDoom: Campbell's coup serves as this.

* NoBisexuals: Played with. While none of the characters are stated to be bisexual, the possibility isn't dismissed either. Sam pretends that he's interested enough in Becca to sleep with her in order to appear to be the father of her baby. When [[spoiler: Gwen]] comes on to Grizz and he rebukes her [[SorryImGay because he's gay]], she asks if he's "all-the-way gay" or "just mostly gay" (it's the former).

* OnlySaneMan: Grizz, Kelly, Helena, and Gordie 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]].

The series premiered May 10, 2019. A second season had been announced to premier some time in 2020, but in August 2020 Netflix reversed their decision and [[CutShort cancelled]] the show due to concerns about the cost of filming during the COVID-19 pandemic.

* AloneWithThePsycho: 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.

The series premiered May 10, 2019. A second season was been announced to premier some time in 2020, but in August 2020 Netflix reversed their decision and cancelled the show due to concerns about the cost of filming during COVID-19.

The series premiered May 10, 2019. A second season was been announced to premier some time in 2020, but in August 2020 Netflix instead announced the series' cancellation.

The series premiered May 10, 2019. A second season has been announced to premier some time in 2020.

* 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]].

* {{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.]]

* TheSociopath: 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.

The show begins in the small, peaceful town of West Ham, which has been having issues with a strange and foul smell floating around. One day to deal with it they send the senior class on an overnight camping trip. However when the teens are brought back early they find that everyone else has vanished. Even stranger, all communication with the outside world is gone--internet and phones don't have service, and a dense forest has surrounded the town to prevent anyone from leaving physically.

The show begins in the small, peaceful town of West Ham, which has been having issues with a strange and foul smell floating around. On the day to deal with it they send the senior class on an overnight camping trip, however when the teens are brought back early they find that everyone else has vanished. Even stranger, all communication with the outside world is gone--internet and phones don't have service, and a dense forest has surrounded the town to prevent anyone from leaving physically.

The show begins in the small, peaceful town of West Ham, which has been having issues with a strange and foul smell floating around. On the day they deal with it they send the senior class on an overnight camping trip, however when the teens are brought back early they find that everyone else has vanished. Even stranger, all communication with the outside world is gone--internet and phones don't have service, and a dense forest has surrounded the town to prevent anyone from leaving physically.

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:When Lexie launches her candidacy for mayor against Allie,]] she argues that Allie has been acting like a dictator, making unilateral and accountable decisions in secret, and letting the Guard get away with abusing prisoners. She's not wrong.

* RealityEnsues: After a largely male group starts a small riot while looking for flashlights and lamps, 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 of rapes are in the air, fear sets in the girls and they push for society to have rules and structure to prevent any further incidents.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted. The show takes place in a small town in Connecticut, and it's filmed in the New England area— Lancaster, Massachusetts, to be precise.

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

* 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.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler:Elle tries to poison a pumpkin pie and give it to Campbell, but he catches on and takes the pie to the Thanksgiving dinner being held by the town, poisoning a bunch of random people.]]

* 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.