The Plague Comes to America

What do you get when you have a small town, an age-specific plague, and six episodes?  You get something similar to Netflix's new series Between that will premiere tonight (here is a trailer). 

In this six part drama from Canada, everyone over the age of 21 is likely to die, leaving the kids to fend for themselves (no more living with dad and mom for another 10 years).  As with The 100 and other such shows, we get to see what the kids learned from their parents, if anything. And other recent series, such as The Last Ship and The Strain, already use plagues as the chosen method for telling a story about our society. 

So why not throw together kids and disease to see what we can get?  That is at least the idea.  Does it work?  You be the judge.

Of course, others already have an opinion, such as this statement from The Guardian:

While the premise of the show is fairly interesting, in this YA context it just seems contrived. It’s not so much a mystery as a situation we’ve accepted as fact, so we don’t care about finding a solution. All the characters seem immune, so why should we be invested in a disease that can’t kill them?