The jam packed cast of high school cliches was pretty bad, but I'm the type to try and give things a chance, and honestly a couple of early portrayals and characters had me wanting to give the show a chance.
But (extremely mild spoilers) the young "genius" trope bound for MIT proceeds to hack extremely secure government servers in a matter of seconds and a dozen keystrokes. He then looks at roughly 15 data points in a collection of literally thousands of numbers in an irregular distribution and gleans the pattern miraculously - handing us, the viewer, the hook to the show. Turns out only old people are dying, yay!
He then proceeds to tell exactly no one, tries to escape, and is seemingly shot dead.
Don't worry though, less than 15 minutes further into this train wreck the government itself will reveal the big secret to the entire (remaining) town, making the entire series of scenes utterly pointless!
I didn't make it past the government video tape, but I have zero doubt our hacker friend survived his bullet too.
The farm boy knows how to save a birthing that's going badly, the drug dealer magically has the SWAT dudes who shoot on sight let his drugs through, and don't worry - early signs tell us that the elitist 1%er is going to be the trouble maker that interferes with our more likeable teenagers from seamlessly setting up a functioning society.
In my head cannon, the virus finishes off the rest of the town and the series ended by the end of episode 2, because I'm not wasting more of my time to find out otherwise. It's better this way.
But (extremely mild spoilers) the young "genius" trope bound for MIT proceeds to hack extremely secure government servers in a matter of seconds and a dozen keystrokes. He then looks at roughly 15 data points in a collection of literally thousands of numbers in an irregular distribution and gleans the pattern miraculously - handing us, the viewer, the hook to the show. Turns out only old people are dying, yay!
He then proceeds to tell exactly no one, tries to escape, and is seemingly shot dead.
Don't worry though, less than 15 minutes further into this train wreck the government itself will reveal the big secret to the entire (remaining) town, making the entire series of scenes utterly pointless!
I didn't make it past the government video tape, but I have zero doubt our hacker friend survived his bullet too.
The farm boy knows how to save a birthing that's going badly, the drug dealer magically has the SWAT dudes who shoot on sight let his drugs through, and don't worry - early signs tell us that the elitist 1%er is going to be the trouble maker that interferes with our more likeable teenagers from seamlessly setting up a functioning society.
In my head cannon, the virus finishes off the rest of the town and the series ended by the end of episode 2, because I'm not wasting more of my time to find out otherwise. It's better this way.