Bet - Netflix Series

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Goofball show about Japanese teenager at a fancy schmantzy prep school in the USA. This school prepares students to take their positions as psychopaths in charge of running the country. To that end, all the little social games teenagers play have been turned up by a factor of a zillion. This gives the kids plenty of opportunity to release their inner psycho, and they make the most of it. Gambling is their primary means of competing and the head psycho maintains a leader board measured by winnings and losses to the tune of thousands of dollars. Our girl is looking for revenge on the psycho that killed her parents, but all we know is that they are somehow connected to this school.

The school (St. Dominic's) is like a cross between Hogwarts (of Harry Potter fame) and Nevermore (Wednesday Addams).

How goofball is it? Our girl thinks she has identified the culprit, so she constructs a bomb and places it under his assigned seat in the auditorium. Watching her assemble her bomb, it looks like a fairly ordinary pipe bomb, but she claims it is a directional bomb, like a Claymore, so it will only kill the person sitting in the seat. Me, I've never heard of a bomb with that kind of precision. While she has many skills, electronics is not one of them so, so she enlists a classmate to make a remote control for the detonator. When it comes time to set off the bomb, the classmate implores not to press the button. She presses it anyway, but the bomb doesn't go off. Classmate then informs her that deliberately disable the remote control. Makes no difference, as the target is leaving with his daughter, a bomb destroys his car, killing him, his daughter and his driver. Seems he crossed the mob and the mob wasn't happy, so boom!