A step down in quality from its first season, this new CruelSummer story lacks the punch and the nail-biting twists we've come to expect. Our review:
In both of its seasons, Cruel Summer has one characteristic that’s pretty daring: Across its episodes, the series chooses to stick with its lead characters, offering virtually no subplots for any of the supporting cast. When these peripheral characters do get some stories, they are usually told through the eyes of the protagonists, which makes it clear that the show wants us to pay full attention to the duo of girls that it follows.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT When you put almost all of your focus on two characters throughout ten episodes, you need to make sure that the audience will want to spend time with them. In Season 2, you absolutely want to tag along with Megan and Isabella, but… there’s also a murder investigation going on, and ten episodes are more than enough to tie up all those narrative strings.
Season 2 of Cruel Summer is also pretty lazy with the development of its mysteries at times, to a point where you start wondering how many times people can discover something crucial to an investigation by going through each other’s belongings – or, at the very least, if someone is going to speak up about the generalized lack of respect for boundaries.
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