

Leading the pack is Heather Nill (played by Olivia Welch), a soft-spoken writer who decides to play Panic after a devastating encounter with her mother, Sherri (Rachel Bay Jones). Over the course of the competition, the players are asked to face their deepest fears, and each must decide how much they’re willing to risk in order to win. Set in the sultry Texas summer, Panic follows a group of recent high school graduates as they compete for a $50,000 cash prize and an opportunity to escape their small town. It’s a question that plagues Amazon’s twisty, addictive YA drama. But Panic, a new series based on Lauren Oliver’s bestselling novel of the same name, is streaming on Amazon Prime Video, not Netflix. It sounds like the perfect setup for a blockbuster teen drama on Netflix, one that would dominate the service’s Top 10 list and produce a legion of die-hard fans. A series of dangerous - and in some cases, deadly - challenges organized by a mysterious group of “judges.” A dozen teenagers with nothing to lose.
