![]() ![]() ![]() And yet at the same time, despite the fact that she’s very sophisticated and worldly, she is a very vulnerable teen girl who desperately wants a family and a friend group. We always looked at her as being this meteorite that hits this town, and it hits Megan. Isabella was already a complicated character, but now, the audience is left to wonder if she was behind Luke’s murder. The twist at the end of episode five leaves us on a cliffhanger when we learn that Isabella’s friend from home Lisa also drowned, similarly to Luke. ![]() Isabella (Lexi Underwood) and Luke (Griffin Gluck) in ‘Cruel Summer’ season two. What is the biggest challenge in taking on a format like that? The show consistently bounces between the three timelines. Our actors went above and beyond - it was a record cold in Vancouver and they were out there in their bathing suits, acting away. I wanted that kind of guilty pleasure fun. I really wanted to make a fun summer show. It gives you a lot more opportunity with that. You can miss a phone call that’s actually a thing. But it’s also fun to play in the sandbox pre-internet and social media. The idea that it’s very hard to keep secrets in a place like that, where you walk down the street and someone drives past and sees you. ![]() Real life and film, and just trying to really look at the small town of at all. Did you pull inspiration from anywhere in particular? I was just reading theories a little while ago about the logic and meaning behind the fake IDs between which mystery writer each character gets, so that’s kind of fun. At one point in the writers room, we talked about tracking a bracelet or a piece of jewelry, and it was like, “No, the necklace was a big thing in season one, right?” So really, it was just trying to honor the anthology and make it feel of itself. It was very important to me to not repeat anything from season one. After the success of the first season, what was it like heading into those expectations? I saw an article before the show dropped that the season two trailer was on track to become Freeform’s most-watched trailer ever. I also knew I wanted a murder to really center the story and give it some narrative drive. So when I came in, I knew that I wanted to really look at that intense friendship between two high school girls, and sort of build a friendship out of nothing and then make it crash and burn and see what comes out of the ashes. Shows like this are really hard to pull off, and I thought they did a beautiful job and really stuck the landing. I had actually watched season one as a fan, as a viewer. In conversation below, Triedman dishes on the midseason twist, reading those fan theories on Twitter and her thoughts on the season finale. And yet at the same time, despite the fact that she’s very sophisticated and worldly, she is a very vulnerable teen girl who desperately wants a family and a friend group.” “She’s a catalyst for all of this change. “We always looked at her as being this meteorite that hits this town,” Triedman says about Isabella. Set in a Y2k-era Pacific Northwest beach town, season two follows the complicated friendship between Megan ( Sadie Stanley), her best friend Luke (Griffin Gluck) and new girl in town Isabella ( Lexi Underwood), and the love triangle between them that ends in a mysterious tragedy.Īt the close of episode five, Megan learns shocking news about Isabella that could change the course of their friendship - and the murder mystery - forever. With producer credits on shows like Revenge and Devious Maids, Triedman stepped in as showrunner and executive producer after the Freeform hit was overhauled following a breakout first season, replacing Tia Napolitano as showrunner. They spend a lot of time it’s kind of amazing, just reading their theories. “There’s a lot of pressure,” Triedman tells The Hollywood Reporter of joining the series for its sophomore run. 'Hocus Pocus,' 'The Addams Family' and 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Included on Freeform's 31 Nights of Halloween Milestone Lineup ![]()
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