The cast includes Olivia Welch in the lead role as Heather Nill. She plays a high school graduate, living in a trailer with her mother and younger sister. Mike Faist plays Dodge Mason. He is a new guy in Carp who also participates in Panic. Jessica Sula plays Heather’s best friend Natalie Williams who teams up with her to win Panic. Ray Nicholson plays Heather’s love interest, Ray Hall. He also participates in Panic which his older brother Luke won a few years ago. Camron Jones plays Bishop Moore, another love interest of Heather and also a best friend. He comes from an affluent family, unlike his peers and Heather. Enrique Murciano plays Richards County’s, Sheriff James Cortez. His son died in last year’s Panic.
What’s the Show About?
The show is set in a small Texas town, Carp. Every summer, the town’s graduating seniors take part in a competition called Panic, involving a series of challenges. Season one sees 47 graduates participate in the annual competition. The prize for winning Panic is a sum of $50,000, a prize that will allow them to escape the town. During the first season, the participants realize that the rules have changed. Now they must traverse through the dodgy competition and emerge victorious without losing their lives. The competition, aptly named Panic, is built around the participants’ fears and capitalizes on their panic thereafter. It includes stupidly daring feats like jumping off a cliff or escaping a bomb explosion.
Will There Be A Panic Season 2?
Spoilers for A Sequel
Season 1 ended with viewers getting to learn who the mastermind behind the rigging of the competition’s secret gambling operation was. We finally get to see the one pulling the strings from behind, and it’s none other than Sheriff James Cortez. When the planted bomb inside his car explodes after playing car-bound chicken with Heather, he barely manages to escape. As he makes an escape, his wife catches up to the crook and shoots him. With Cortez surviving the explosion, the future of Panic is unknown at this point. It’s pretty much given, however, that the competition will continue on if the series moves ahead. Meanwhile, Heather’s love life is also surrounded by murky waters. Early in the season, Heather and one of her best friends Bishop started to date each other. However, their relationship didn’t last long as Bishop leaves for college. After the short-lived relationship, Heather makes out with Ray. As far as the fate of the deadly competition is concerned, it’s not over just yet. As the season concludes, we see a shady and suspicious stranger following Heather. The stranger follows her in their truck and throws a dummy on her windshield. This pretty much confirms that Panic is not over and is out to make things for Heather and others…fatal! Also Read: Army Of The Dead Review, Ending Explained
