If the creator of this series wanted to make something to show how small towns in western societies (no matter the indigenous people who seem to fit right in) are filled with reprobates, degenerates and just awful, horrible, selfish people (and the more disgusting they are the more money and power they have) whom one noble city girl cannot change, then they succeeded.
Otherwise I don't get the point of this show and I wonder how did the basic info manage to trick me into watching this cheap attempt at portraying a valid topic of complexities of small communities.
I'll stick to Twin Peaks
Truly excellent show, such a shame that it won't get the chance to develop itself.
Great cast, complex and detailed exploration of different themes, The Society asks relevant questions about the world today without giving us easy answers. It doesn't bail out of the difficult question of politics, it engages bravely in it without glaringly pushing it into one direction. (Although some ***** may argue that home abuser Campbell deserves more sympathy). I'm really satisfied with portrayal of relationships between people, the dynamics between public and private interests, human emotions, aspirations, priviledges, biases and social structures, all without falling down into a hole of fetishisation of individualism and overemphasis on personal identity (which I did expect of the show judging by its title). Grizz, Kelly and Helena as characters are excellent, there cannot be enough scenes with them.
But the most important thing is that this show didn't left me indifferent and it managed to do its magic on me.
I have a few minor critiques - character of Will is not up to standard as the other characters, he's lacking something, but I can't define what really, his role should've been more thought through. Also, like some of the other commentators here noticed, there's too little emphasis on searching what's around the town or how to actually escape from that place, like they all gave up for 5-6 months after first attempt that resulted with death . For my taste, the show didn't show much of daily routines which mundanity angers significant part of the population and which (the anger) becomes a major drive for later developments, as a viewer you can't really grasp the atmosphere of the town, maybe more mass scenes would help to amend that problem .
After watching a fiasco of modern TV called Mr. Robot, I needed to come back to review this TV show, which also has the theme of social revolution mixed with personal "journey", and I realised this is a masterpiece. It has better and more stable, rounded characters, better understanding of society. This show isn't obsessed by extreme individualism and it does a great job of exploring motif of selfishness against caring for others/greater good. Authors of this show are theoretically equipped, aren't swimming in cliches and obvious popular culture rip-offs, style never preceeds the substance and ambitiousness didn't ate the whole point and internal coherence of the show, which is apparently a hard thing to do, no matter the budget.
