Easiest overview would be to say that six teenagers in Los Angeles discover that their parents harbor a dark murderous secret. They unite to slowly stop their parents from continuing their terrible acts. Airing originally on Hulu.
Its a ten episode first season that works similar to that of AMC's Preacher. Rather than establishing the characters in one single episode and progress to being runaways. The first season offers a deep dive into each character, their relationships with their parents acting out over a full season, avoiding the continual weekly flashback, to deliver exposition when a show goes in the mode of current events and stops to explain why we are at this point of conflict. The series presented by the OCs Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage who are the show runners, deliver a modern look at teens with a normal cross section of teenage angst, acceptance, sexuality, peer pressure, suicide/death, and first world problems of kids living in Los Angeles would normally face. We get a strong sense of home life and most importantly see the perspective of the parents in light of them being aware that what they are doing is wrong, and rationalize how they live with those decisions. As for the remarks to Preacher; we see a town, the residents of this town, what these characters call home, and who they really are, before blowing the town off the face of the planet and sending our protagonist on a perilous journey.
Knowing how they got to the point of no return, and the stakes of them keeping off the grid for the remainder of the series, becomes clearly understood. The show slowly develops how their options where dwindled and how moments have triggered events and relationships to change forever, and the consequences of who or what is waiting for them if they get caught.
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