Should you watch Cruel Summer?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Cruel Summer
Series · 2021
Taking place over three summers - 1993, 1994, 1995 - in a small Texas town, a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.
The sides of Cruel Summer
- A popular teen abducted in a small Texas town
- A shy girl who becomes the most hated person in America
- Three summers in the 1990s
Cruel Summer is good for you if…
- you like asking what Jeanette really knew about Kate.
- you like a story that keeps changing who you believe.
- you like 1990s teenage summers gone wrong.
Cruel Summer is bad for you if…
- you'd rather not watch a story about a teenager abducted and groomed.
- you'd rather not track one story jumping between three summers.
About: truth · reputation · trauma
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