Premise...?


I've watched into the second season but am still left to wonder how & why the details of their experience remain secret. Sure, there's been speculation. A soccer team crash-landed in a frigid wilderness ... cannibalism is nearly a cliche. But it seems the real issue would the murders they obviously did in order to make bodies available. Surely the scene was investigated, causes of death of the some dozen or so who didn't make it back determined.

Then there's the issue of at six or seven survivors, having experienced all of this & none of them speak out at length, write a book, sign a movie deal? What's left to assume? We have Taissa well in the public running for office, & no one demands to know exactly what she did while out there, what she's been holding back all of these years?

It's just very difficult to believe they'd manage to keep this secret this long.

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And yet they have. Accept that as a fact.

The premise is the power of a team of closely-knit championship teammates immutably closing ranks to try to protect themselves from the horrors they have experienced and the horrors they have created, as seen through the lens of their adult lives. I think the show is brilliant in writing and, uh, execution, and it will get darker. In his show, Larowquette, John
Larroquette hung a sign on his office wall: “This is a dark ride.” And it’s just getting started.

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Not disagreeing. I do think the show is well done, quite dark & brilliant. I just have a bit of trouble with the essential premise, of how they would have kept this secret for so long. Another issue I have is with the opening scene: Girl runs, essentially being chased & falls into the pit. How did she not know where it was? Where was she when the trap was being set? I thought I read that the survivors descend into clans of some sort, so maybe that's it. Those who eat vs those who don't? I guess we'll see.

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