6.744 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
LatestSomeone is dead set on making sure that Joust, the final challenge, ends with the right winner-and Heather realizes that for at least one person, Panic isn't a game anymore. An explosive conclusion brings the game to a permanent end...or so, at least, it seems. This year's players may be finished with the game. But it may not be finished with them.
In the forgotten town of Carp, Texas, Panic is the only way out. Every summer the graduating seniors risk their lives competing in a series of challenges for the chance to win life-changing money. After the death of two players the stakes—and danger—have never been higher.
Acting
Mike Faist's Dodge: trauma in a tank top.
Cinematography
Texas never looked so beautiful and so miserable.
Writing
Lauren Oliver adapting her own novel—rare and mostly works.
Creator
Lauren Oliver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lauren Oliver wrote the novel in 2014, but Amazon didn't greenlight until 2019—by which point Squid Game made 'deadly childhood games' a whole thing.
The show was canceled after one season, leaving Dodge's arc genuinely unresolved. Amazon basically Panicked themselves.
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