Those who are victims of bullying often decide to absorb the blows without ever striking back, while at times they quietly plot the moment of revenge, and it is precisely revenge that fuels the stories we are about to present. One of the most recent examples that blends revenge and bullying, especially in a school context, is Carrie, a Prime Video miniseries adapted from the eponymous novel by Stephen King, which tells the story of a girl living in isolation who is forced to attend the town’s high school for the first time. Carrie is continually teased, targeted by her peers, she believes she is not understood even by adults, and that discomfort slowly takes shape, manifesting in the most ruthless way possible. Carrie’s tragedy fully embodies the “breaking point,” the moment when all endured violence (psychological and physical) exceeds the point of no return, abruptly turning the victim into a perpetrator. In television and storytelling in general, the revenge born from this breaking point is not limited to a mere outburst; it adapts and becomes a survival plan, a ruthless response to the dare. Curious to learn more? Here are three TV series where bullying, revenge and toxic environments have dominated the story.
From school classrooms to the breaking point: 3 TV series about bullying and revenge after Carrie
Yellowjackets
Among the most popular series of recent years is Yellowjackets, created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, and, like Carrie, set in a high school backdrop. The protagonists are girls’ soccer players who in 1996 depart for Seattle to take part in a national tournament, but never reach their destination. Their plane crashes in a wild area, and the survivors must fend for themselves, facing not only obvious hardships (such as shortages of water, food, comfort, and the dangers of nature) but also forced to preserve their mental health. Cut off from the rest of the world, the young survivors forget they are adolescents and transform into fierce beings, and years later, far from that dramatic stretch, those who have returned home must still reckon with the weight of those traumas. In Yellowjackets we meet Misty Quigley, often mocked by her peers, marginalized and used as a scapegoat, but in the wild she seems to regain her strength, becoming a skilled manipulator. Once isolated from the rest of the world, the teenagers do not forget their own feelings, and that basic form of bullying evolves into a primordial struggle. Comprising four seasons at the moment (the fourth arriving November 20, 2026), it is available for streaming on Paramount+.
Get Even
Created by Holly Phillips, Get Even is a British TV series from 2020 consisting of a single season on Netflix and starring a group of teenage girls, four classmates who attend a private school and decide to form a vigilante squad (the DGM, Don’t Get Mad, Get Even), to fight injustices within the institution, thereby planning their secret revenge. The aim is to unmask the bullies and punish them by hitting their weak points, mending the reputation and social prestige through public accusations or embarrassing pranks, but the situation spirals out of control when one of their targets is found dead and they suddenly become suspects in a murder case.
The Pyramid Game
A South Korean TV series you might not know, The Pyramid Game, is adapted from the webtoon by Naver. The story follows Sung Soo-ji, a student who transfers to a new all-girls high school where she discovers that the Pyramid Game is in force, a top-secret monthly voting system run via an app where the students can evaluate the popularity of their peers. Those who achieve the highest score can enjoy significant privileges, while those with the lowest score become legitimate targets of bullying by others. Sung Soo-ji rejects these rules and refuses to bow to them, so her revenge becomes a strategic and meticulous plan, like a chess game: she understands that to defeat the bullies she must dismantle the rules of the game. The series, consisting of one season, is available for streaming on Paramount+.
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