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The channel announced the six- episode ”thriller” as part of its online-only schedule. It’s created by Jess Brittain who was on the Skins writing team (her brother Jamie Brittain and father Bryan Elsley co-created the teen series), and is set at the University of Edinburgh, my own alma mater. Brittain spent a lot of time in the city growing up and her show will follow two freshers who get involved with a group of “alpha girls” and are introduced to “a seductive world of lavish parties, populated by Edinburgh’s highest-powered business men and women”.
Childhood soulmates Georgia and Holly are only a few weeks into the so-called best years of their lives at university in Edinburgh, when Georgia gets drawn into the elite clique of alpha-girls, led by lecturer Jude McDermid. Jude's brand of feminism is alluring, just like the circle of bright students she surrounds herself with. Georgia's effortless entry into the clique leaves Holly out in the cold. But Holly's jealousy soon escalates to panic as Georgia begins acting erratically. Alarmed by this transformation in her best friend, Holly is compelled to follow her into Jude's closely guarded circle. What she discovers is a seductive world of lavish parties, populated by Edinburgh's highest-powered business men and women. But it's a world underpinned by sordid compromise, and as Holly exposes its deeply corrupt core, the danger mounts from all angles, for her and Georgia. Can Holly reclaim her soulmate? And at what cost to herself?