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Panic
Let the game begin.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Olivia Scott Welch
Heather Nill
10 eps
Mike Faist
Dodge Mason
10 eps
Jessica Sula
Natalie Williams
10 eps
Camron Jones
Bishop Marks
10 eps
Leslie Ann Leal
Summer Calvo
10 eps
Enrique Murciano
Sheriff Cortez
10 eps
Ray Nicholson
Ray Hall
10 eps
David Thompson
Diggins
10 eps
Jordan Elsass
Tyler Young
10 eps
Todd Williams
Capt. John Williams
10 eps
Lee Eddy
Sgt. Langley
10 eps
Kamdynn Gary
Skylar
10 eps
Maya Hendricks
Sarah Miller
10 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Panic actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Panic reads strongest on Bingeability, Serialized and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
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.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E08
Returns
The judges get personal when they announce the first of the four individual challenges that will establish the game's finalists. Past and present collide in the unexpected exposure of our player's motivations--and enmities. The sheriff gets closer to making an arrest, and Heather has her heart broken.
S01E09
Cages
One of our Final Four players is disqualified, opening the door for a surprise upset, and a dramatic showdown. As outside pressure on the game escalates, the consequences are wild...literally. Our players learn the hard way what's really at risk when you gamble it all on a game.
- Directed by Gandja Monteiro
S01E06
Dead End
The annual demolition derby provides some much-needed distraction from the troubling revelations of the previous episode. With the cops closing in on the judges, no one is sure the game can continue. Heather repairs one relationship, and ruptures another, in a dramatic ending that proves the game must go on...but not for everyone.
S01E07
Trust
Trust falls get literal meaning in the game's fifth challenge, where an abandoned train bridge forms the backdrop for revealing footage of our players-and the unintentional outcome of their secrets, and their lies. This challenge will determine who goes onto Final Four. The truth may set our players free...but not before it returns to haunt them.
S01E02
Heights
Twenty-three players are in, and the stakes are high--literally. Panic's second challenge takes the players sky-high, even as the game attracts the attention of the sheriff and his deputies who are dead set on stopping it. The new kid's odds are looking up until a bit of surprise sabotage.
S01E01
Panic
The newly graduated seniors await the kickoff signal from this year's judges, and tensions build as old friends become new competitors. Heather has sworn she will never play the game, but she may not have a choice.
- Directed by Leigh Janiak
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Joe RothProducer
- Lauren OliverExecutive Producer
- Ginger SledgeProducer
- Leigh JaniakExecutive Producer
- Jeff KirschenbaumProducer
Direction
- Gandja MonteiroDirector
- Leigh JaniakDirector
Music
- Brian H. KimOriginal Music Composer
- Isabella SummersOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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