Set at the height of #MeToo in 2018, Kimberly Belflower's
John Proctor is the Villain asks how 16-year-old girls would respond to that movement coinciding with them starting to understand their own sexuality and their relationships with men - through the prism of Arthur Miller's
The Crucible. That's the text being studied by the English Literature class in a tiny Georgia town's high school when Beth (Holly Howden Gilchrist) decides to set up a feminist society - although how it'll look on her college applications might be more of a motivator than how much it'll actually engage with the discourse. She's joined by Nell (Lauryn Ajufo,) a new arrival to town who's found more friends here than she ever did in Atlanta, and Raelynn (Miya James,) still smarting from her boyfriend Lee (Charlie Borg) cheating on her with her best friend Shelby.
