![]() ![]() They’re asked to take lethal risks, or to spend time in frightening situations in confined spaces or haunted houses. ![]() The contestants are prompted to perform death-defying and illegal acts, from cliff-diving to breaking and entering. The Panic tournament represents both a possible escape route and a distraction. Panic is an entertaining show, but it focuses too much on the investigation and figuring out who runs the Panic games, to the detriment of the teenage main characters and the game itself.Ĭarp feels like an inescapable trap to its teenagers, who wish for better things, like stardom or college and a future, but are mostly likely to end up in dead-end jobs and poverty. At the same time, Carp’s sheriff’s department is investigating the previous year’s game, in which two players died. Adapted from the YA book of the same name by show creator Lauren Oliver, Panic follows the current year’s players as they make their way through the game. In Panic, graduating high-schoolers in fictional small-town Carp, Texas, play in a summer-long tournament called Panic that involves facing their greatest fears for a chance to win $50,000. But Amazon’s new YA series Panic finds a new twist on the idea. ![]() Turning victims’ fear into a game is nothing new for film and TV, though it’s seen more often in horror movies like the Saw franchise and Escape Room than in mainstream young-adult fiction. ![]()
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