The breakthrough hit of Freeform Cruel Summer has been completely reworked for the second season.
The series, which began production today in the second season, will include a completely different plot for its upcoming second season, which comes complete with a new cast and showrunner.
Sadie Stanley (Goldberg Family), newcomer Eloise Payet, Griffin Gluck (Locke and Key), Cady Strickland (Private Practice), Lisa Yamada (All American), Sean Blakemore (Greenleaf) and Paul Adelstein (True Story) will star in the second season. . The latter, who is reuniting with his ex-wife and son in a private practice at Strickland and Gluck, has been cast in a recurring role.
El Triedman (Freeform Siren, Vina) has been named the showrunner for season two and replaces Tia Napolitano in the role. Napolitano, who boarded Cruel Summer after the pilot when creator Bert W. Royal left after a creative strike with the CEO of Freeform, remains credited as executive producer. “After the start of the second season of” Cruel Summer “, Tia Napolitano has retired from the show and as such will no longer serve as a showrunner,” a spokesman for the show told THR. “Tia played an important role in the success of the show and will remain an executive producer.”
Sources say that first-season stars Olivia Holt, Chiara Aurelia, Michael Landes, Frey Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Alias Barnes, Blake Lee and Brooklyn Sudano knew when they signed that Cruel Summer was able to follow the path of the anthology. in season two. The cast was informed of the decision to reset the series with a new story as soon as an official decision was made some time after the finale of the first season.
The brutal summer, whose first season lasted for three years in the 90’s and explored the changing dynamics of popularity, marked the first script of the series, which debuted under Tara Duncan’s regime in Freeform. She replaced Tom Asheim as president of Freeform in 2020. The series ranks as the most watched original Freeform series in history and also performs well at Hulu, where all core cable programming is available for streaming the next day.
Situated in an idyllic coastal city in the Northwest Pacific, season two of the anthology follows the rise and fall of an intense teenage friendship. Approaching the story of three different timelines around Y2K, the season is distorted as it follows the early friendship between Megan, Isabella and Megan Luke’s best friend, the love triangle that has blossomed, and the mystery that will affect their entire lives ahead. . Season two returns on a date to be set this year.
Entertainment One is the studio of Cruel Summer. Royal created the series and withdrew from it after the pilot (also abandoning the backend participation in the winnings). Tridman’s CEO co-produced with Bill Purple, Napolitano, Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple of her Iron Ocean Productions.
Here are additional details about the cast and their respective roles: Sadie Stanley plays Megan Landry, a computer coder and honorary student of the Blue Collar family. After Megan meets Isabella, she begins to live in the moment and embrace her true self. When events take a tragic turn, her long-held dreams are shattered and she is left wondering who she can trust. Stanley (Dead to Me) is represented by Gersh, Stagecoach Entertainment and Goodman Genow.
Payet portrays the alluring and mysterious Isabella, the daughter of foreign diplomats, who spent a year as an exchange student with the Landry family. She quickly shakes life in this small town, but her charm cannot hide the truth about her past or the real reason she came to live with Landry forever. It is presented by Innovative Artists, Brave Artists Management and BMEG.
Gluck plays Luke Chambers, Megan’s lifelong best friend from a famous family. Over time, Luke finds himself at a crossroads as he tries to establish his own place in the world, apart from the expectations of his powerful father Steve (Adelstein). Gluck is with Paradigm, Leslie Allan-Rice Management and Hansen Jacobson.
Strickland (Shut Eye) plays Debbie, Megan’s hard-working single mother, who believes that Isabella’s household will open Megan’s eyes to a bigger world than their small town. It is presented by Gersh, Anonymous Content and Meyer & Downs.
Yamada is cast as Parker, a popular musician who becomes more cynical as the world takes a dark turn around her. She is from the Park Noack agency.
Blakemore (General Hospital) will play Sheriff Meyer, an old-fashioned type of law and order, under pressure to uncover the first major crime in Chatham. He is with SDB Partners.
Showrunner Tridman counts Power Book IV: Force, The Shannara Chronicles, Finding Carter and Devious Maids among his credits. She is with Kaplan / Perrone Entertainment and Yorn Levine.
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