The Covid-19 pandemic robbed us of a lot of things. Summers with friends, important moments with families and just a general sense of freedom that made life feel like an endless slog.
But to me, the biggest loss was The Society on Netflix. Ok, I might be being overly dramatic, but part of me is very serious.
The show premiered on Netflix in May 2019, before we the world went into a crazy spin. It followed a group of teenagers who had to rebuild their town after the rest of the population vanished into thin air. It deals with teenage drama, relationships, power struggles and had plenty of mystery. It was the perfect television show, honestly.
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If you haven’t already watched it, you should. But be prepared to be left absolutely devastated at the end – because it got cancelled after one season. The most upsetting thing was that it wasn’t initially cancelled. It was renewed for a second season just two months after it was released.
Sadly, the pandemic struck during production of it. Rather than wait it out, another year later on August 21, 2020, it was cancelled.
Things like an increase in costs and scheduling issues were cited. And then the show was forgotten.
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The show’s creator Christopher Keyser has said: “This wasn’t a normal cancellation. This wasn’t about not having the audience or we didn’t believe in it anymore. There was a global crisis that changed all of our lives in the one year we were able to make it.”
Fine, I get it, things happen. But there was SO MUCH left of The Society that other fans and I were still desperate for. The show ended with so many cliffhangers. The biggest was what was actually happening in the town.
Theories of an alternate universe emerged, as did speculation that the kids were living in purgatory. There was even the theory that it was all a weird experiment cooked up by their parents without their knowledge.
But it doesn’t matter, because we’ll never know.
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There was so much more, though. Like who was the father of Becca’s baby? Does a black and white dog hold the key to finding out what’s actually going on? Will twisted Campbell get his comeuppance? Will Grizz and Sam’s romance happen? Will Allie and Will be ok?
The many characters were key to the show, and I really fell in love with Grizz and Sam especially. But they were all brilliant and layered and brought a different side to the story.
In the years that have passed, I’ll think about the show every now and then, hoping that the creator has done a tell-all interview or released the scripts for season two. Anything that will fill the void that The Society left.
I know we won’t get a season two. It’s been five years, the actors have all moved on. But I just want something.
Creator Christopher Keyser has said in recent interviews that he still gets asked about the show all the time. He even revealed that there were plans to release a graphic novel that would tell the story of season two – but the publisher went out of business.
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I’m still hopeful that one day there will be something that gives all us The Society fans the answers we want. But Netflix recently added insult to injury, in a way I really found cruel.
Scrolling through the catalogue one day last year, among the “New On Netflix” and other categories, I spotted “Critically-acclaimed TV Programmes”.
It had the expected series like You, Stranger Things and Making A Murdered, but also there was The Society. So critically-acclaimed that they binned it off after one season? A sick, sick joke, that I will never forgive Covid for.
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