The teen genre is a TV mainstay, but it often doesn’t get as much love in the streaming era. Shows that thrived in that heady time when the decline of network TV and the rise of Twitter culture met somewhere in the middle—the Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars of the world—ruled, but don’t have quite the same cultural cache now. But that doesn’t mean we don’t still love them. So, when Get Even, a British teen thriller about four girls at an elite boarding school who start a “getting even” club, dropped on Netflix, we took notice.
The series premiered on the BBC iPlayer back in February, but only just became available to American viewers today, dropping in its entirety on Netflix. It is a British series from Holly Phillips based on the “Don’t Get Made” book series by American author Gretchen McNeil. It stars Kim Adis as Kitty Wei, a girl struggling to deal with the super high pressure placed on her by her parents; Mia McKenna-Bruce as Bree Deringer, a troublemaker at school with a rich father; Bethany Antonia as Margot Rivers, a gamer with very few friends; and Jessica Alexander as Olivia Hayes, the “cool” girl at school. The four girls, all from different school social groups, form a club to expose the bullies at their school. When a boy is murdered and the secret club is framed for it, the D.G.M. (Don’t Get Mad) squad has to figure out who knows their secret before the crime gets pinned on them. Check out the stylish trailer…
The first season is 10 episodes, and each episode is roughly 30 minutes, so you’ll probably fly through this thing and be looking for more. As of right now, no second season has been greenlit, but a strong Netflix showing could change that. There’s already a second book in the series just waiting to be adapted. Here’s the official book series synopsis:
