Who killed Cassandra in 'The Society’? The real killer is probably not who you think it is By Sam Prance One of the main storylines in Netflix's 'The Society' revolves around who killed Cassandra... The Society has left one question on Netflix viewers lips. Who shot Cassandra? Was it Dewey, was it Harry, was it Allie? The Society ending explained: The meaning of the season 1 finale plot twist Set in the fictional town of West Ham, The Society tells the compelling story of a group of teenagers who return home from a school trip only to find out that the rest of the town has gone missing. Not only that but West Ham is now surrounded by forest and the group are unable to escape. Confident teenager Cassandra (Rachel Keller) quickly takes charge but in episode 3, she is shot dead and it doesn't take long before a main suspect comes forward. Did they really kill her though? Who shot Cassandra in 'The Society' on Netflix? Who shot Cassandra in The Society? Was it actually Dewey? Picture: Netflix Following the shock murder of Cassandra, West Ham is sent into chaos. Cassandra's sister Allie (Kathryn Newton) goes into mourning. Meanwhile, many of her acquaintances begin to fear for their lives. Intelligent wizkid Gordie becomes hellbent on figuring out who killed her though. He persuades Allie to take on Cassandra's leadership role. They then confiscate guns in the town and Gordie searches for one whose bullets match the ones which killed Cassandra. In episode 5, Greg Dewey, an awkward teenager who lives in Harry's house, confesses to Harry that he shot Cassandra. He says: "Someone had to teach that cunt who's boss. I finally got you some peace and quiet like you wanted." Scared, Harry tells Gordie, who informs Allie and the others. Luke, Grizz, Clark and Jason then search Dewey's room and find a gun and, sure enough, the bullets are a match. The boys then lock Harry in a wine cellar. Later, the town holds a court hearing to find out if Dewey actually did it. The jury find him guilty. Dewey says: "Cassandra was a fucking bitch, so are all the women here." He adds: "Fucking bitches who won't give us the time of day who think we owe them everything. I killed Cassandra for everyone because she had it coming, because the night we were all at prom, we were at Harry's house and he said "he wished she were dead". Dewey also says: "Campbell helped me plan it. He was there." Allie arrests Campbell but considering that there's no actual evidence against him, she sets him free. She decides to execute Dewey though. He begs for his life and wets himself but, together with Luke and Jason, she shoots him. Still, seeing as we never actually see who shot Cassandra, there's still a chance that he didn't kill her. In fact, there's actually huge evidence that someone else did it. Who shot Cassandra if it wasn't Dewey? Did Dewey shoot Cassandra in 'The Society'? Was it Allie's mum? Picture: Netflix Of all the characters, Campbell seems most likely but he was literally having sex with Elle when the shooting happened. He could have orchestrated it though? Otherwise, Lexie is a potential suspect, simply because she clearly wants to take over the town herself. In terms of the main characters, there doesn't seem to be a good reason why anyone else would have wanted to kill Cassandra. Given how season 1 ends though, there's another suspect. In episode 10, we see a mysterious blonde woman in the real West Ham reading to children in the school library next to a board memorialising all of the characters in The Society. It looks like all the teens in New Ham may be dead (in hell?) but what if they are in some sort of experiment set up by their parents and the government? Eagle eyed fans of the show will notice that the mysterious woman is actually Allie and Cassandra's mum who waves them off in Episode 1. Not only that but she is the owner of the dog who strangely appears in New Ham right before Cassandra is killed. If that weren't enough, you can hear heels approach Cassandra before she is killed and she looks very shocked by who kills her. Why Allie and Cassandra's mum (Amanda), would shoot her own daughter is completely unclear. Was she disrupting the experiment the children are in? Is she just evil? Is it a mix of both? We have no idea but we're pretty sure that she did it. Who do you think shot Cassandra?<doc-sep>[Warning: spoilers ahead for Netflix’s The Society season 1.] If you’re like me, you binged the entirety of Netflix’s new teen dystopian drama The Society in one sitting. Harry (Alex Fitzalan) is your problematic fave, Grizz (Jack Mulhern) is your fave fave, you hate Campbell (Toby Wallace) with the burning passion of a thousand suns, and you’re wondering how the hell the kids of New Ham are going to get TF back home. Seriously, what the actual hell would you do in this situation? This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. It was stressful enough when Allie (Kathryn Newton) was in charge of all the lost teenagers stuck in the weird parallel universe of rich-people Connecticut. But now that an actual sociopath organized a coup d’état behind the guise of Lexie (Grace Victoria Cox) and Harry, everything seems fucked. It’s hard to imagine the teens surviving a northeast winter, even with Grizz’s miracle farm. Unfortunately, there’s some bummer news about the show. Netflix Welp, the bad news first: After initially renewing the series for a second season, Netflix announced last Friday that it was canceling The Society. Basically, it’s because of coronavirus-related production issues. The show was supposed to start filming a second season soon, but with the added expense of all the new safety protocols and getting everyone in that cast to be available at the same time, there were tons of logistical issues. It’s a huge bummer. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Did season 2 get the green light? YES! That’s the infuriating thing. Netflix announced on July 9, 2019, that season 2 of The Society was supposed to be a go. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. But now it’s not happening. If you wanna read on for what could have been…here’s what was in store for season 2 before the show got the axe. Season 2 will focus on the terrible trio. Right now, Campbell, Lexie, and Harry are in charge…but far from on the same page. That will be dangerous. “I think there’s an interesting—and pretty timely—question about what happens if you give people who are entirely unfit for office the chance to run and they make it,” Keyser says. “So we have a good sense of what the arc of season 2 will be.” Campbell won’t be winning for long…according to the actor who plays Campbell. Cosmo talked to Toby Wallace, who plays the psychopath, about season 2, and let’s just say that he doesn’t think Campbell is going to be in power for long. “The way things end in the show, there’s quite a lot of potential for the shift in power and a shift in kind of alliances between characters, including the relationship between me and Elle, and various other characters,” Toby says. “I think Campbell’s mission to get power, as successful as he seems to be, will probably fall at some point.” So Campbell might not be in power for long? “I’ll be surprised if he’s completely successful.” Netflix Things are looking good for Sam and Grizz. Ah, time for my favorite ship in The Society. Grizz and Sam (Sean Berdy) were starting something sweet, until Sam tells the sensitive jock about his plans to help Becca (Gideon Adlon) raise “their” baby. Grizz doesn’t want to be Sam’s secret and breaks things off. But now that he’s back from his expedition—with food and some sort of plan to survive—will he and Sam get to work this thing out? ! This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Newly crowned internet boyfriend Jack Mulhern (who plays Grizz) sure thinks so. “I think the fans are clamoring for it, so I think there will be reconciliation, I’m sure,” he says in an interview with The Metro. “I would be interested to see the dynamic with the kid,” he continues. “That’s going to be potential for humor, potential for drama. I think that the kid thrown into the situation is probably at the center of the world from my perspective going forward.” Netflix Kelly may be her own soul mate in season 2. Cosmo spoke to Kristine Forseth on the set of her new Hulu series Looking for Alaska, and we couldn’t help but ask about The Society...and Kelly’s love triangle. “I’d like to see her spend some time by herself,” she says. “Before it all happened, she was just caught up in her superficial worlds. I’d like to see what she’s like by herself.” So, no reconciliation with Harry anytime soon. Allie has something up her sleeve…. Kathryn Newton spoke to Cosmo as well and assured us that Allie is not a goner. That smile she shot Lexie before being shoved into the van definitely means something. “Oh, you could see it on her face that she’s looking at Lexi like, girl, you have no idea what you just did. Chaos is going to happen,” Kathryn says. She won’t say what Allie has planned, but she does think Harry might play a part in her escape. “I do think Campbell’s behind all of it, and Lexi thinks that she’s in charge but it is really Campbell,” she says. “And I wonder...Harry really likes Ally, he might help her out and come back around. He looked pretty sad when she was taken away.” We may see more of the West Ham parents in season 2. “Yes, I think we have the flexibility to go back and see [more of the parents], but I still think you wouldn’t end up feeling any kind of parity between the two sides of the show,” showrunner Chris Keyser told the Hollywood Reporter. Apparently, when Keyser first drafted The Society, it was meant to split evenly between West Ham and New Ham, but they ultimately decided to stay focused on the kids. Hard agree. Race and social class will come into play more and more. “This season deals a lot with men versus women, and it deals only briefly with race, but I think you can expect that conversation about class and race to keep coming up,” Keyser says in the same interview. “All these things need to be relitigated in a world in which there are no givens. We hope, over time, and if we’re lucky enough to get a season 2, to explore all the social contract questions that we take for granted.” This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Netflix Even the creators don’t know all the details about the “parallel world.” “I don’t think we know all the details, because we like playing around with it, but we have a pretty good idea of what happened,” Keyser says. “Should we be lucky enough to have subsequent seasons, that mystery is going to deepen.” But here are some questions we still have about season 2: Netflix What is The Guard going to do with Allie and Will? Now that Campbell and the scary football players have seized power, what are they going to do with their competition? They may have framed Allie and Will (Jacques Colimon) for attempting to steal the election, but when whatever strategy the new regime puts in place undoubtedly fails, the horde of terrified teens might want its OG leaders back. In this messed-up society, the move seems to call for the death of any and all political opponents. But let me tell you, if they touch a hair on Allie’s head, I will have serious words for Netflix. Will someone save Elle…or will she save herself? My thoughts on Elle (Olivia DeJonge) throughout the entire season can basically be summarized in this GIF: GIPHY Last, we really saw Elle. She spat in Allie’s face when Campbell “rescued” her from house arrest, but we all know she just wants to escape her abusive, crazy boyfriend. To be honest, she doesn’t have a lot of options. With literally nowhere to run, what was she supposed to do when he banged down her door? My hope for season 2 is that she’s able to get out of his clutches in a way that gives her back her autonomy. The poisoned-pie plan was pretty clever (until it wasn’t), so I don’t doubt she could come up with another scheme for survival. And she told Allie she would get what’s coming to her, which seemed more like promise of protection than a threat. Allie needs you to get it together, girl! This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Will Helena find out the truth about Luke? Luke (Alex MacNicoll) was an integral part of Campbell’s takeover. The only member of The Guard that the New Ham teens would possibly trust, he lied to everyone about Allie’s so-called plans to rig the election. At first, his new wife, Helena, didn’t believe it, but in the end, she chooses to side with her husband. Will she learn what really happened? If so, what is she going to do about it? We know she knows her way around a weapon. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Who is Pfeiffer the bus driver? It seems the man who drove the New Ham teens to their alternate dimension is the same man who fought with Harry’s mom and Sam’s dad at the start of the series. Apparently, he was contracted to get rid of the town’s mysterious smell for $1.5 million. When the powers that be refused to pay, he brought the smell back and wrote on the high school’s walls, “You’ve been weighed in the balance and found wanting.” But...what does he want from the kids? How did he make this universe happen and how do they find him? Look how happy they used to be! Netflix Why are the parents so chill? In the last few moments of the series, we catch a glimpse of Allie’s mom reading Peter Pan to the little children of West Ham. On the wall is a memorial to their missing teens, and everyone is wearing little yellow ribbons in their honor. I don’t have much to say about this, but they just seem so...fine with this whole thing? Maybe...look for your kids. Emily Tannenbaum Entertainment Editor Emily is the entertainment editor at Cosmopolitan, which is a nice way of saying she watches way too much TV and constantly wants to tell you about it. 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[Warning: spoilers for The Society on Netflix...kinda] Riverdale is one of the most talked-about shows amongst Gen Zs and millennials alike, inspiring countless fan works and Reddit theory pages as well as launching the careers of Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, and K. J. Apa into superstardom. You’d think the showrunner of a new Netflix series aimed at teens would want to encourage any comparison to The CW’s campy mystery series. Not Chris Keyser, creator of Netflix’s modern dystopian drama The Society. The Society centers on a group of rich teens who find themselves stranded in a parallel reality of their wealthy Connecticut town without parents, police, or any discernible way home. Although, somehow, it’s still a bit more rooted in reality than the neo-noir world of Archie Andrews and the gang. Plus, The Society has no endgame ships quite like Bughead and Varchie—Grizz and Sam are getting there, while I’m rooting for Helena to dump Luke’s ass in season 2. You deserve so much better, Helena. Netflix No, The Society is meant to reflect how teens of today (especially post-Parkland) would actually react in the face of insurmountable chaos and conflict. In fact, the new bingeable series even sneaked in a little joke at Riverdale’s expense, which makes sense, considering the West Ham teens would definitely watch weekly. This show really compared Riverdale and Soviet Russia I'm done 😭 #TheSociety pic.twitter.com/54aFPhLiRH — L U C Y (@ellesheIena) May 12, 2019 But that’s not all the creator of The Society wants to say about the other teen drama (which also streams on Netflix). When the Hollywood Reporter asked about the mystery of West Ham and how the teens plan on getting home if there’s a season 2, here’s what Keyser had to say: “Our philosophy was also that this is not ‘Riverdale.’ It’s not like these kids are home and have a lot of time to investigate a given mystery. They’re in the middle of having to recreate an entire world, and surviving from one day to the next is their principal obligation. Their secondary obligation is to try to figure out what the hell is going on and to try to get home. They don’t have a lot of resources. They’re just kids in the middle of nowhere, so there are lots of things that are virtually unanswerable.” Basically, Allie, Harry, and the rest of the lost boys and girls are probably not quoting Shakespeare with their insults while simultaneously planning proms and catching serial killers, (*takes breath*) on top of searching for a way home. But...isn’t that exactly what they do? They may not have figured out what the hell happened to their town, but the teens uncover much more than you’d expect. Not to mention, they literally do end up searching for the killer of one of their own (no spoilers)...all while planning movie nights and Thanksgiving feasts. The football team even forms its own, more dangerous version of Archie and Reggie’s Red Circle with The Guard. Just putting that out there... In the end, the biggest difference is that The Society feels more grounded and high-stakes, while Riverdale is a sexy, fun romp that is very pretty to look at and even more fun to meme. I, for one, will be watching Betty and Jughead unmask the Gargoyle King and take down The Farm while waiting very impatiently for The Society season 2. Stream 'The Society' on Netflix Emily Tannenbaum Entertainment Editor Emily is the entertainment editor at Cosmopolitan, which is a nice way of saying she watches way too much TV and constantly wants to tell you about it.