This Is What’s Not Working About ‘Cruel Summer’ Season 2

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Cruel Summer Season 2.Freeform’s anthology series Cruel Summer follows the stories of two girls whose lives are woven together by tragic circumstances.

In the first season, we met Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia) and Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt), whose lives were forever changed after the latter was kidnapped by their school’s new assistant principal.

In Cruel Summer Season 2, in the small coastal town of Chatham, the arrival of Isabella Larue (Lexi Underwood) — daughter of diplomats — in the summer of 1999 puts the life of good girl Megan Landry (Sadie Stanley) on a new path, ultimately leading to the death of her boyfriend Luke (Griffin Gluck) in the winter, and the subsequent murder investigation that calls both girls into question when his body is discovered in the summer of 2000.

While the story is interesting, it is nowhere on par with the intrigue of the…

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