The hard thing about town-wide conspiracies is that you need buy-in from a lot of people.
To keep one going like the one in the new Amazon Prime Video series “Panic” means an impossibly concentrated effort on the part of just about everyone involved.
In “Panic,” the high schoolers in a small Texas town called Carp hold an annual secret contest where players endure a series of dangerous tasks.
The reward — enough cash to fund a move to a new job or fall tuition or a life outside the city — is enough to entice dozens of players.But maybe the hardest thing for “Panic” to center is the idea of just how many people are willing to risk anything short of (and maybe even including) potential manslaughter charges in order for the premise of this show to work.
With all 10 episodes written by Lauren Oliver (who wrote the book the
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