Clique

Plot synopsis:
Massie (Elizabeth McLaughlin), Dylan (Sophie Anna Everhard), Kristen (Bridgit Mendler) and Alicia (Samantha Boscarino) are the most popular girls at Octavian Country Day, calling themselves the Pretty Committee. However Massie is devastated when the Block family takes in the Lyons family, who have moved from Orlando, Florida with their teenage daughter, Claire (Ellen Marlow). Claire attempts to impress Massie by convincing her mother to buy her designer clothing at the mall, where she bumps into Dylan and the two become acquainted. Meanwhile, Massie meets a boy named Chris Abeley (Keli Price) while horseback riding and immediately finds him attractive.
At school, Claire bumps into Chris in front of the steps, which makes Massie jealous. Massie orders the girls to exclude Claire because she had a fight with her. Claire meets the eccentric Layne Abeley (Vanessa Marano), they become friends and eventually make plans on Friday.
On Friday, Claire ditches Layne because Massie's mother invites Claire to Massie's weekend sleepover, but eventually leaves due to teasing. In the morning, Layne comes by to hang out with Claire and Chris tags along. He is revealed to be Layne's older brother.
Massie holds a meeting for Kristen's project, which is to create a homemade makeup line called Glambition. They see Claire swimming in the pool and they tease her about her cheap bathing suit. Later that night, Claire goes to Massie's room to confront her but Massie is gone. In attempt to gain friends Claire Instant Messages Alicia, Kristen, and Dylan pretending to be Massie to drive the girls apart.
When the Glambition makeup arrives, the girls get together to sort through the packages. They make snide comments at each other about their supposed dishonesty before realizing that Claire had manipulated all of them. They ambush Claire in a four way call and tell Claire that she doesn't belong there. Now friends again, the girls tell Massie that since the charity auction is on Chris' birthday, she should jump out of a pop out cake to impress him and Massie happily agrees.
On a field trip to New York City, the Pretty Committee tries to sell their Glambition make up but their recipe contains peanut oil, which triggers allergic reactions in their classmates. In amidst the panic, Massie anonymously texts Claire to use Layne's oatmeal snack to reduce the swelling, which makes Claire a hero.
At the charity auction, Claire meets Chris' girlfriend, Fawn and prevents Massie from jumping out of the cake. After the auction, Massie tells Claire that the reason why she had been mean was because she saw Claire as a threat.

Tags: psychological

Review:
First four episodes just OK, fifth very good, sixth good.
Or, in terms of ratings out of 10, I would say 6-6-6-6-8-7.
The first four episodes are slickly made but uncreative and predictable; the people you expect to be good are good and the people you expect to be bad are bad.
Things get more interesting in the last two episodes, when the heroine doesn't know who she can trust anymore, and the focus switches to Rachel Hurd-Wood, who emerges as the real star of the show (she outacts, as well as outlooks, the rest of the cast).
On the whole, the story could have been told in a two-hour movie - there wasn't really a need for six 45-minute episodes.
A "take it or leave it" kind of show - no harm done either way..
Found the plot incredibly engaging and complex.
It draws you in and you won't be able to stop watching until you've finished the series.
Characters are complex and are very well acted with strong leads.
The tone is dark whilst still maintaining some lighter moments.
Overall a good watch that is thought compelling and exciting at the same time.
Worth the time!.
Worth the time!.
Surprising.
I read the description and expected it to be a banale teenage seeries.
What I saw was an excellent Scottish crime drama.
It's about young people yes, but then not only.
Good plot, good actors..
British drama's always meet the mark don't they?.
Finishing the short but sweet 6 episode season 'Clique', I'm not left feeling deflated!
Clique is a drama that is dark, entertaining and quite sexy- whilst not trying to be too philosophical about itself.
Watch this show because you enjoy dramas with a thick (and perhaps, unrealistic) plot and good looking actors who all do a great job.
Also, watch this show if you're into nice aesthetics combined with great filming; it does just that.Not too much of a slow burner, but not too fast either, 'Clique' conveys the slow decline of a friendship between two young women as they enter a darker, grown up world at university.
With lots of drugs (which I found slightly too much, considering they're meant to be broke students, but hey!
It's still a fun watch) and mystery that is actually engaging, this show doesn't disappoint- unless you're not into glossy late- teen shows, then stay away!All in all, an interesting show that pokes at gender roles and feminism in a dark and engaging way- I highly recommend and PLEASE HAVE A SECOND SEASON!.
Don't waste your time..
One of the worst shows I have seen.This doesn't make any sense at all.
The writers seemed to have tried creating a dark, dramatic drama but came up producing a long series about depressed people drinking and just having sex.The characters are boring and their dialogue is usually short and just dragged out.
Nothing makes sense.
Main character is very annoying and just quiet and walks around.
There is no emotion, no energy just nothing.
I did hope for some kind of energy or moment that would catch my attention but was left clueless and angry.I really don't understand how the rating is so high as most of my friends regularly watch BBC iPlayer shows and can confirm this is the worst show produced by BBC THREE.
I didn't even finish it because it was that bad.
This does not portray the youth or university at all.
It's just rich snobs being boring and trying to be mysterious.
It is horrible..
tis OK.
The show starts slow but soon especially at the end of the pilot picks my interest.Sometimes, I found the actors' accents too strong.The whole team looks really glamorous, the outfits and the looks created for each character are great.
Hats off to the style team.The production of the show is realistic..
Sex drugs and not much studying.
I didn't go to university but if I did I wouldn't have minded going to the one in Clique.
Rather like Julia Brittains previous show Skins set in a sixth form college in Bristol.
The students are on a mission to have as much sex do as many drugs and booze as possible.
No need to worry about student grants here as most are filthy rich and parade in designer clothes and drive luxury cars.
Whilst this may not be an accurate portrayal of student life there is enough going on to keep the viewers interested.
And like it's predecessor Skilns there is some fine young acting talent on display in particular Synovve Karlson who along with stunning looks has a bright future ahead..
Quite an engaging and provocative thriller.
The series open up into a venture of passage to adulthood.
Two childhood friends reinvent their desires and are challenged by their past.
Some figures -posing as role models and such- intrigue these two friends.
And, in a few episodes, we witness the development of a not so basic but more complex story line, with a thread of problems to be solved.
All the while, the show encourages the viewer to reflect on themselves via its story line and most importantly does not lose its simplistic beauty.
Youth, drama, crime can rarely be subtly and properly synthesized like this..
If you wanted a crime drama pretending to be a University story.
Nothing has yet to top the impact Skins had on the british youth from its representation of class, poverty struggles and adolescent drama.
Clique looking seemingly fill this spot using the backdrop of university fails to act as both a young adolescent drama and crime story.
The story is unbelievable at best whereby the suspension of disbelief is trying to the viewer, yes the story doesn't have to be held to precisely real world dramas of a university student, but then again the shooting and setting of Clique attempts to lend itself to some sort of university cultural reality, which it most certainly does not succeed in.
The nagging lead female character (I've honestly forgot her name) which pushes away her friends because one second your a saint before university and the next your a drug raddled prostitute taking part in university initiations is just hilarious.
I couldn't watch more than four episodes before I tapped out and realised that what's been created should be forgotten..
Brilliant.
I doubt I am the target audience for this, being a 61 year old, just couldn't stop watching it.
Great script (touch of Luther about it series 2), supremly acted and believable filming.
If all you see is sex and drugs then you are missing a real treat.Series 3 please and hurry up!.
Annoying.
Cringe-worthy.
Main actress's face (which fills almost every shot) is banal and void of character.
Unrealistic horrible characters.
Ridiculous plotline.
Whole thing is just annoying..
Pretentious series with facile stereotypes..
Clique set in and around Edinburgh University.
I was a post grad there in the dark ages.
The series is compelling pseudo art house that's let down by its crude stereotyping and senseless facile characters.
Everyone in the series is drinking and eating themselves into an early grave.
Yet, none of them are overweight.
All the men and women are perfect shapes which is shockingly inaccurate.
That's fine in a fantasy series but Clique series perports to be realistic and yet none of the characters are realistic they are all stereotypes that only exist in TV and film.
There's a compete absence of any disabled people in clique.
Once again this doesn't easily fit in with a series begging to be taken seriously.
None of the characters are likeable.
Quite the opposite.
And yet behind all of this there's a decent, compelling storyline.
It's almost lost in the bland and pretentious people in the series.
My problem with clique that it's written by the type of arty people who decry stereotyping in society.
However, they've made a series that does the very thing they'd decry in other series.
There's not a single character in the series that is real or remotely likeable.
To conclude.
I'm very ambivalent about clique.
On the one hand it's full of vile characters whom the writers try and pass off as being real.
Whilst on the other hand there's a compelling series begging to be taken seriously.
Maybe I've missed the point of clique.
Or maybe the point is that clique is just a sea of stereotypes where it's characters are all physically perfect who can eat and drink as much as they want.
They can take as many drugs as they want and there's sex in every closet.
They can do all of these things with impunity.
Life isn't like that.
Clique is trying to present itself as a reflection of life today.
It wants to be taken seriously
It's impossible to take it seriously.
And yet I watch it..
Seriously this series really addicting.
I really need season 2.
I really need season 2.
You can't do this to me OMG.
I need to know what will happen with Rachel aka Milly.
And the reason Holly visited her.
and what happen with Alistair.
There's still so many things to be explained.
and the story line is really great I didn't expect anything at all.
I always loves mystery.
Clique Series 1.
**SPOILERS**
The Scottish drama that you probably didn't know about created by the talented former 'Skins' writer Jesse Brittain.
'Clique' follows Holly McStay played by a relatively new comer called Synnøve Karlsen (When you watch this show you'd think she's been doing this for ages).
Holly is a university student just beginning her first year in Edinburgh with her best pal since childhood Georgia Cunningham (How rare is that in real life?)
One day they go into a lecture led by the charismatic Jude McDermid and her brand of feminism lures both Holly and Georgia to discover more.
As the first episode goes on Georgia becomes ever more distant to her once best friend and begins following a 'clique' of bright students that she feels she now identifies with as they have a similar view on the feminism that Jude spoke about.
However, it turns out that Jude is the alpha of this so called 'clique'.
As time passes Holly continues to try and reconnect with Georgia but is left as an outcast which motivates her to try and enter this closely guarded circle to find out what is happening.
She finds out at the lavish parties this circle is populated by Edinburgh's most powerful men and women leading to Holly exposing it's corrupt core.
This proves to be a lot more dangerous than imagined and Holly's past is threatened to resurface.
'Clique' has noir like undertones but looks at modern university life with a bit of added drama, the team definitely make good use of the city and Scotland as a location, I remember reading an article that stated that this could be the next 'Gossip Girl' personally I don't think it's like 'Gossip Girl' unless its the fashion aspect they're talking about, in terms of students and the shows demographics wanting to dress like the characters.
Who doesn't want to look elegant?