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Van, previously comic relief, is now a cold, unfeeling shell, plainly expressing that they feel not one ounce of guilt about their actions.

What they agonised over, or did under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms in season one, has become the status quo. The last three episodes saw the girls breeze past feral into demonic. Where season one depicted a similar coming-of-age into brutality, watching season two, it feels like the creators looked at William Golding’s portrayal of savagery and asked him to hold their beer. But it was raucous fun to watch the withering putdowns of the teen girls picking on each other’s insecurities, the mystery of who or what was the “antler queen”, Shauna’s steamy affair with a hot artist, and her husband’s hilarious horror at discovering that she hadn’t just been going to a very demanding book club.Ī clear inspiration for the show is Lord of the Flies, the classic novel about a group of children going feral on a remote desert island, imagining a monster called “the beast” and eventually killing two of their party. This drama was always dark in season one the sweetest member of the team literally exploded while looking at her teddy bear, a girl watched her lover’s face being ripped apart by wolves and we saw a family pet meet the worst possible end. All are finding life in the real world almost as messed up as it was watching their friends die in the wilderness. In the present day, we follow four of the survivors: unfulfilled housewife Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), self-destructive addict Nat (Juliette Lewis), rising star politician (who occasionally finds herself up a tree chewing on her own hand) Taissa (Tawny Cypress) and delightfully sociopathic amateur detective Misty (Christina Ricci). Ricci as ‘delightfully sociopathic amateur detective Misty’.