In this eerie YA series, a group of teens return to their affluent New England town after a field trip to find that all of their parents are missing and they're totally cut off from the rest of the world — a situation that seems awesome at first, but quickly turns deadly. A fan favourite on the show is deaf and gay character Sam, played by an actor who's deaf in real life, Sean Berdy. Though Sam can speak, and his closest friends and his older brother can communicate with him through ASL, Sam largely has to rely on lip-reading to understand others. The show does an excellent job of portraying that struggle, even using humour at times, like when Sam's new boyfriend Grizz accidentally starts to teach himself BSL (British Sign Language) rather than ASL.
Watch The Society on Netflix.