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Panic - Season 1
No one knows who invented Panic or when it first began. But in the forgotten rural town of Carp, Texas, the game is the only way out. Every summer the graduating seniors risk their lives competing in a series of challenges that force them to confront their deepest fears for the chance to win life-changing money. Anyone can play. Only one will win. Let the games begin.
October 29, 1991 in Tampa, Florida, USA
May 28, 2021
Between the stellar performances from its ensemble of young stars, a story with enough twists and turns to overlook its occasional unremarkable sequences, Panic has the potential to be 2021's next YA hit.
May 28, 2021
It's kind of adorable to watch this show and to think anybody can keep any of this under wraps. Have you ever tried to plan a surprise birthday party?
May 28, 2021
Panic manages to balance the concept with teen tropes without betraying it.
May 30, 2021
Rather than being The Hunger Games transplanted to an unremarkable small town, it's merely a bloodless Saw for tweens.
May 28, 2021
We'll give it a recommendation because we were actually rooting for its main character by the end of the first episode, and we were surprised that we were doing so.
May 30, 2021
"Panic" is perfectly calibrated for those who like a good, nail-biting binge. Each episode ends with a cliffhanger and something more preposterous than the next.
May 28, 2021
There was a time when Oliver's book would have made for an intense, entertaining 100-minute movie, but it strains under the pressure of a 10-episode season. Even for teenagers eager to take on the world, more isn't always better.
May 28, 2021
What's left, then, is a mediocre teen soap opera, full of hook-ups and love triangles and secret betrayals.