Grand Army Ending

The series starts with a terrorist attack at the Plaza. Black smoke is seen rising from the windows of the Grand Army. The teachers hoard the students in classrooms and on the stairs as they wait for the threat to pass. With such a solemn opening, ‘Grand Army’ basically underscores its dramatic aspirations. The five main characters serve as different focal points of the show. Each of them has their own story, which is populated by a separate set of characters. Often time, these stories interact, maintaining a symbiotic existence. Zoey treads a thin line between the disobedience stemming from her feminism and immature reactionary antics. Like the other four main characters, her brilliance and uniqueness set her apart in the crowd of students at the Grand Army. She fiercely defends her sexual agency when a boy she likes, Tim Delaney, questions her closeness with two of their mutual friends. She is clearly the leader of their clique, also including Tim’s sister Anna, Luke Friedman, and George Wright. She is robbed of that very sense of agency and fearlessness when Luke and George rape her in a cab with Tim also present there. Broken and betrayed, she feels truly defeated when the three boys are set free because of a lack of evidence.