Panic

Prime Video | Release Date: May 28, 2021

6.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Ratings

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waiting4vizziniJun 21, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. " 'DON'T PANIC!' written in large, friendly letters on the cover."

Logic problems and plot holes make this YA concotion an incoherent mess. (mild spoilers for the first episode and one occurance in season 1)

Our present day Heroine Heather Nill (yeah she's a nobody) is presented to us on screen as a plain, inconspicuous, everygirl who hails from the town of Smithville, TX which is harshly recast as "Carp" an anagram of "Crap" in the show. Ostensibly she's an aspiring accountant, whose money she's saved (almost $6G's) for her certificate program she's put in a shoebox in her room rather than the checking account we later learn she has. We're told she's "smart" ,"a creative", and "a girl made of stories" who somehow is not aware of the existance of creative writing scholarships. She has a neglectful, theiving, subtance abusing, former teen-mother named Sheri whose poor taste in men predictably endangers Heather's much younger sister. Sheri steals Heather's accounting certificate stash which she says was spent on a transmission for a 2001 Geo Metro (you could just by another one between $100 and $900). This combined with her being sacked from her part time gig at the local ISP/computer/cellphone store is the inciting incident that presses her into a last minute decision to play the game alluded to in the title for what is advertised as a life changing sum of $50Gs. Players somehow manage to mostly stay ahead of the cops for many of the challenges even though there are large crowds of spectators at many of them. The much alluded to judges remain a mystery for much of the series. This show had some interesting things to say about class consciousness that are all too often ignored in the media but they were drowned out by too many distractions and plot holes for me to be fully engaged. Skip it as it is way less fun than it promises to be.… Expand

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