Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 24' - Cruel Summer - Season Two/Series Finale

Cruel Summer has recently been scrapped, meaning US network Freeform has no more scripted series on their roster. So the second season in this, teen drama mystery thriller anthology series is the last. Twenty episodes all up across two seasons, we are starting to see a pattern of two season wonder series.

This second season follows the rise and fall of an intense teenage friendship between two girls in 1999 and 2000. So we get the Y2K bug, gothic outfits, college girl dramas and a serious love triangle!

The second season begun in the US early June last year. I can't remember when it got added to Amazon in Australia. However I just concluded the ten episode run. So what happens in the second season with Megan, Isabella, and Luke?

Season two takes place between 1999 and 2000 in the fictional town of Chatham, Washington, and follows three teenage friends: Megan, Isabella, and Luke. 

Megan, an aspiring coder, and her family welcome Isabella, a foreign exchange student, into their home for a year. Megan and Isabella develop a friendship that quickly becomes complicated when both become romantically involved with Luke, Megan's childhood best friend. 

Within months, things unravel quickly when a leaked sex tape results in Megan and Isabella becoming prime suspects in Luke's murder. Finale SPOILER ALERT below. Read ahead at your own risk!

While the series annoyingly jumps from time period to time period, in January 2000, the unknown figure is revealed to be Brent. After an argument, Brent pushes Luke into the lake, where he apparently drowns.

So is Luke's death an accident after all? Steve looks for a way to cover this up as Megan and Isabella hide their involvement with Luke's disappearance. Megan puts up missing person fliers and later gets into an argument with Isabella resulting in her breaking off the friendship.

Then in summer 2000, Megan and Isabella are released from police custody after accusing each other. After Megan rejects Isabella's attempt to renew their friendship, the latter leaves town. 

Megan is arrested when Myer comes into possession of the tape they made at the cabin with Isabella edited out. Out of guilt, Brent comes forward and turns himself in to the police resulting in Steve's arrest for his corruption and cover-ups. 

On a plane to Ibiza, Isabella introduces herself to the girl beside her as Lisa and offers to be her tour guide. 

Megan finds a security camera pointed at the dock where Luke was killed and discovers that Isabella returned there to find Luke barely alive before she purposely uses her foot to drown him and set his body adrift, leaving Megan devastated. It was the winning plot twist that made up for some serious filler ahead of this finale. In the end the series ending episode.

I couldn't have seen this midday movie style series returning for a third season with all that is happening with TV networks, streamers downsizing after having way too much content on the go.

This season however is filmed in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. I almost feel like they have used the same filming locations as The CW's Nancy Drew.

Either way both seasons of Cruel Summer stream now on Amazon Prime. Not Amazon's best series, not the worst either.