The young protagonists in a moment of the “Panic” series (photo © 2021 Matt Lankes / Amazon Studios).
P.ANIC
Kind: adventure, yellow, teen
Directed by Lauren Oliver. With Olivia Scott Welch, Mike Faist, Jessica Sula, Ray Nicholson. On Prime Video
The expedient is that of the challenge, the dangerous challenge in which the high stakes stimulate even the greatest risks; a mechanism that has recently returned to spread in the offer of platforms and which is at the basis of Panic.
In the fictional town of Carp, Texas, a group of students faces a classic passing game, a ritual that ideally marks the entrance into adult life.
But the rules are strict, the game has become extremely dangerous; at stake there are 50 thousand dollars, the risk is that of life.
Panic crosses some issues dear to the Prime platform; the so-called “young adult” universe, which is one of the strengths in terms of target, but also the search for the extreme and survival, in a dark and disturbing picture of doubts, anxieties and disruptions of a generation.
The characters of Panic they live in an immobile environment, from which they would like to escape and emancipate themselves. The dangerous games mix with the more markedly “teen” lines, in a mixture of points of view that are not always linear and compelling; the central knot of the story is always and in any case fearan ancestral feeling that marks the growth and change of each character.
For the youngest in search of strong emotions and the values (and mistakes) of adolescence.
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