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 favorite on the show is deaf 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 relies on lip-reading to understand those who don't know ASL. The show does an excellent job of portraying what that's like, and uses humor at times, like when Sam's new boyfriend Grizz accidentally starts to teach himself BSL (British Sign Language) rather than ASL.
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