In a later scene, Jenna is trapped in front of a wall that has written in blood. When I read that Red Rose was created thanks to a BBC initiative to order two-thirds of its content from outside of London, my first thought was a plot from 30 Rock: “I Heart Connecticut” (S5 E19) that features Jack and Jenna’s attempt to shoot a horror film that is paid for in-full by state subsidies and corporate sponsors. They set out to create a distinctly twenty-first century, distinctly northern, distinctly teenage horror story and succeeded. For the Clarkson Twins, setting the show in their hometown of Bolton (a town just north of Manchester) was a deliberate narrative choice.
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I was not expecting, however, for the series to remind me of the location-specific charm and humor of the Channel 4 fan favorite, Derry Girls. The first two make sense genre-wise: Hill House is an irresistibly binge-able horror series (with room for immersive world-building) and Black Mirror often leans into tech-inspired horror satire. Given their track record, it follows that the series feels like a cross between The Haunting of Hill House, Black Mirror, and Derry Girls. The show will have you lusting over rolling moors in one instance and checking which apps have access to your Location Services the next.Ĭreators Michael and Paul Clarkson, also known as the Clarkson Twins (they are actually twins) previously wrote for and produced The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) and The Wheel of Time (2021). Soon, the someone or something behind the app seems to become set on puppet-ing the group of social media savvy friends to their physical and emotional limits.
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Although the series opens on a FOMO-inducing end-of-school bash in the lush moors of northern England, Red Rose quickly makes a harsh turn from Euphoria to Squid Game when seventeen-year-old Rochelle (Isis Hainsworth) accepts an invitation to join Red Rose, a new app, the software targets her and her tight-knit group of friends, isolates them from each other and torments them in increasingly personal ways. All is not well for a group of recently graduated Bolton teens in Red Rose, the latest BBC drama to hit Netflix.
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