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Returning: Cruel Summer

YA anthology mystery series returns for its second season.

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US anthology mystery series Cruel Summer returns for its second season today on Prime Video.

The YA series stars Sadie Stanley, Lexi Underwood, Griffin Gluck, Lisa Yamada, Sean Blakemore, KaDee Strickland and Paul Adelstein

Set in an idyllic waterfront town in the Pacific Northwest, the next chapter of Cruel Summer follows the rise and fall of an intense teenage friendship. Approaching the story from three different timelines surrounding Y2K, the season twists and turns as it tracks the early friendship between Megan, Isabella and Megan’s best friend Luke, the love triangle that blossomed, and the mystery that would impact all of their lives going forward.

Friday August 11 on Prime Video.

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  1. The first season of this was a perfect example of a show stretching a thin story out to 10 episodes when it really should have been 6… maybe 8. I thought it was boring, hugely overwrought and completely ludicrous with all of the red herrings… most of the drama could have easily been solved by characters just communicating with each other, but this show is not one of those shows. It’s poor writing in my opinion, which relies on characters withholding information for no reason whatsoever to create drama, a lazy trope that’s frustratingly becoming all too familiar (The Summer I Turned Pretty S2 is incredibly guilty of this at the moment for example). It was one of the better shows in showing what era we were flashing back to though. Each era was clearly defined and I liked that, with no confusion as to what period we were watching. But that’s all it had going for it. It’s safe to say I won’t be back for this one.

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