Redditor Creates a Perfect Timeline Map for Cruel Summer Season 2
Want to understand what goes on in Cruel Summer a little better? Read on.
Season 2 of Cruel Summer is at its peak, with the fifth mid-season episode airing on Freeform earlier this week. So far, the story of Megan and Luke, who move from friendship to dating, and exchange student Isabella, who breaks into a kind of insular community and becomes a catalyst for change, has been addictive to watch.
But for some viewers, the show has a minor drawback that makes it harder to follow.
'The three timelines in this show are giving me a headache honestly,' a fan wrote on the Cruel Summer subreddit, and many in the fandom seem to agree.
Season 2 takes over the concept of three different timelines showing different stages of a mystery (the background, the tragedy, the aftermath) from its premiere season. Whereas in Season 1, each time period was set in a different year, and the story spanned from 1993 to 1995, the current mystery is year-long and set in the Y2K era.
Each episode features one day from three different time periods: the summer of 1999, when Isabella comes to town; the week of the millennium celebration, when Luke goes missing; and the summer of 2000, when his body is found in a local lake and Megan and Isabella are accused of murder. It's safe to assume that we're going to see a total of 30 days from the characters' lives that will fully reveal the mystery of Luke's murder and answer all the burning questions.
This unusual structure is certainly unique and fascinating, but as the story progresses, the jumping between the timelines becomes quite hard to follow. Many fans complain that the events just seem to blend together, and if you also share this sentiment, here's something that will make your Cruel Summer experience so much more enjoyable.
Redditor u/fallriver1221 (God bless them) has just made our life a whole lot easier, rewatching all five episodes of Cruel Summer Season 2 that have aired so far and creating the perfect timeline of all the major events that took place. Here is this masterpiece, which will hopefully be updated every week:
Rewatched: mapped out a timeline of events.
by u/fallriver1221 in CruelSummer
Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 6 premieres on Freeform July 3, 2023.
Source: Reddit.