Look, we all know the world – and I’d say with a somewhat concerning focus on the States – and politics is truly living like a unstable tectonic plates in every country, across the Globe, right now. So many billions of people. Old systems and rule-books that are consistently being ripped up and rewritten, as we all try to find a balance in life between the world of the past, a technologically advanced planet that doesn’t quite yet know how to handle itself.

I say all this because this trailer for Girls State is most definitely an interesting premise, and any sensible person can see how the governments we have right now are failing, time and again. To keep it simple, Girls State is based around what’s technically a summer camp – but that’s underselling it, and it’s not really something we have here in the UK – not on this scale anyway.

From Director team Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, Girls State follows 500 teenage girls from across Missouri as they gather for a week-long immersion in a laboratory of democracy, where they build a government from the ground up, campaign for office and form a Supreme Court to weigh the most divisive issues of the day – taking place at Missouri Girls State.

With such a fragile democratic status right now (that I think will be highlighted in Alex Garland‘s upcoming Civil War) alongside political polarization, questions of race and gender, and beyond, I’m intrigued to see what these young women will target for the future, with a very distinct female perspective – even if it’ll also be fueled by teenage insecurity and everything that goes with that – from all sides of gender.

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? Watch the trailer for a little initial insight:

Girls State comes to Apple TV+ from 5 April