The Society, Netflix’s high-tech, aged-up take on Lord of the Flies, manages the trick with a simple bus ride. I’ve watched a lot of television series where nuanced self-possession has sharpened my understanding of what it means to be human, but I genuinely can’t remember the last time I came out on the other side of a binge seeing the base tenuousness of the society we’ve made for ourselves with such terrifying new clarity. Stars: Kathryn Newton, Gideon Adlon, Sean Berdy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Jacques Colimon, Olivia DeJonge Admittedly, a couple of game-changing reveals come late enough in the season that there doesn’t really end up being enough time for either the characters or the audience to process them, but as a single-season, multi-generational monster story, October Faction still mostly works. MacKenzie is particularly good at selling the texture of this approach, his adult Fred ringing with the kind of rebellious punk spirit native to a black sheep of a rich kid who came of age in the 1980s, but Taylor, Darku and Burghart more than hold their own. Switching back and forth in time from the family’s personal and professional struggles in the present day to Fred and Deloris’ intense hunter-training-cum-courtship in the late 80s/early 90s, the series distinguishes itself from fellow teen and/or supernatural series by refusing to limit either itself or its adult characters to being any one thing. MacKenzie and Tamara Taylor) as they yank their teen twins Geoff (Gabriel Darku) and Viv (Aurora Burghart) from the elite Tokyo boarding school to move the entire family to Fred’s dead dad’s creepy, gadget-filled mansion in the couple’s eerily regressive New England hometown for a year of nuclear family normalcy. An improbably compelling mash-up of Supernatural and Spy Kids (I’m not joking), October Faction follows globe-trotting, middle-aged monster hunters Fred and Deloris Allen (J.C. One of several one-and-done Netflix Originals on this list, Damian Kindler’s wild supernatural family drama, October Faction (adapted from a Steve Niles and Damien Worm graphic novel of the same name), is nevertheless worth your time. MacKenzie, Aurora Burghart, Gabriel Darku, Maxim Roy, Stephen McHattie, Wendy Crewson, Megan Follows
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