{"id":17649,"date":"2023-08-24T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=17649"},"modified":"2023-08-24T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:19:01","slug":"the-darkest-summers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2023\/08\/24\/the-darkest-summers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Darkest Summers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello Lovelies,\u00a0 I\u2019m excited to welcome you all back to another Thriller review.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For this post, I wanted to rank and explain the details of a Hulu show that has been trending on most of my TikTok feeds. \u00a0 Some might have heard of it and if you didn\u2019t it\u2019s okay.\u00a0 The show did skip two years to introduce a new season after originally running on Freeform. \u00a0 Meaning, that a lot of people who didn\u2019t have DirectTV, Dish, or any non-streaming channel;\u00a0 most likely missed this.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019m going to start off by writing that,\u00a0 this show has a lot of layers and the first two episodes of each season were boring.\u00a0 Yes, it was boring and I\u2019m not ashamed to say it because the production team did a whole 360 and left my jaw on the floor. \u00a0 There were so many plot twists I couldn\u2019t even see all of them properly. \u00a0 Listen, it wasn\u2019t even the \u201c too many\u201d plot twists, each curve and Red Herring left me packing my suitcase and saying \u201cBye Bye\u201d because I couldn\u2019t believe it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Now, with my quirky intro over, let\u2019s talk about the difference between the two seasons of\u00a0 <\/span>Cruel Summer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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Season 1\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"Cruel<\/p>\n

This one right here will forever be my favorite. \u00a0 This season was deceiving and confusing.\u00a0 The way the writers unravel each detail is great, and each new scenario is so intricate that you can barely be mad that we didn\u2019t have a hero.\u00a0 The only way you can understand what I mean is to watch it yourself.\u00a0 For some people though, you really just don\u2019t have the time. That’s why I\u2019m going to give you a quick little background information to visualize it yourself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cruel Summer is told in three parts, this is the format for each season.\u00a0 There\u2019s the two past, and then there\u2019s the present.\u00a0 The first track of the past is 1993. \u00a0 This shows the build-up of what\u2019s going to take place, in this case; one of the main character\u2019s disappearance.\u00a0 The second track is 1994, which explains the aftermath of what already took place.\u00a0 The last track is 1995, which is the present. \u00a0 All of these times sew up together just the right way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Season 1 gives us an insight into the lives of Kate Wallace and Jeanette Turner.\u00a0 Kate is made out to be a kind, sweet, cheerful girl. \u00a0 People say she never lies and that you can get really close to her because her soul is so\u00a0 beautiful.\u00a0 Some might say you Hate To Love her, that\u2019s probably why she\u2019s so popular.\u00a0 Then we have our completely not so completely opposite of\u00a0 Kate,\u00a0 her name\u2019s Jeanette.\u00a0 \u00a0 Jeanette admires the life she wants from afar.\u00a0 That life is, the perfect boyfriend, all the best-looking friends, and the beauty, she loves the beauty. \u00a0 Jeanette doesn\u2019t think she has the beauty but she loves her \u201cmisfit\u201d group of friends.\u00a0 She just doesn\u2019t admire her braces or her glasses, she\u2019ll trade her frizzy brown hair for silk blonde hair any day.\u00a0 This is what we see from the Summer of 1993,\u00a0 the contrast that both girls share. \u00a0 How one admires the other one, while that one secretly loathes their expectational life.\u00a0 This is what the producers want us to see, the difference between the two. \u00a0 But soon the contrast turns into one defining trait once the other half disappears of all trace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We then see the early and late Fall of 1994.\u00a0 Everything is in chaos, at this point though the chaos is more of a misidentity. \u00a0 No one knows which role they were supposed to be playing. \u00a0 After Kate disappeared her friends didn\u2019t know who to follow, \u00a0 Kate\u2019s boyfriend didn\u2019t know who to be affectionate with,\u00a0 and the people didn\u2019t know who they were supposed to Hate to Love. \u00a0 The distress was all over though when Jeannette decided that everyone could follow her lead.\u00a0 Jeanette planned for that role for about 3 months, she changed her hair to straight and voluminous, she took out her braces, and she started wearing revealing clothes, unlike Kate.\u00a0 She actually almost had her down to the T, besides the clothes. \u00a0 The other thing she was bad at was telling the truth or so we think.\u00a0 The thing we do know for sure is that Jeanette is holding a deep secret behind her new pearly whites.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Next is the introduction of the present, which is the late Winter of 1995. \u00a0 It\u2019s when we watch all of Jeanette\u2019s hard work blow up in her face.\u00a0 We also find out what actually happened to Kate Wallace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This season blows your mind.\u00a0 I literally threw my shoe at the TV. \u00a0 Just like the <\/span>Perfect Host<\/span><\/i> you don\u2019t recognize the hero or the villain.\u00a0 You don\u2019t even know if there IS a hero.\u00a0 Which is personally a good ingredient to a great drama\/mystery show.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Season 2\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

\"Cruel<\/p>\n

This season was amazing, but sadly I can only rank one of them on top.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This part of the series was unexpected because after waiting two years, we got introduced to a whole new cast with a bunch of new complex characters.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Just like the first season, this one was shown in three timelines.\u00a0 There is the Summer of 1999, the Winter of 1999, and the Summer of 2000. \u00a0 This season also follows computer genius and good\/shy girl Megan Landy partnered with outgoing\/bubbly Isabella LaRue who are all united by Luke Chambers(someone who I now love to hate, but also really love).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Summer of 1999, we got the first peek into Megan\u2019s personality.\u00a0 She\u2019s hard-working,\u00a0 smart, and absolutely in love with Luke Chambers.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t know that even though they are best friends. \u00a0 Up next, we come to face the background of\u00a0 Megan\u2019s family.\u00a0 They live a middle-class life.\u00a0 The life with the two-story house that has about five bedrooms inside with a minivan outside. \u00a0 Megan lives with her sister and her mom, who doesn\u2019t really take care of her like a mom.\u00a0 The viewers don\u2019t know why she and her mom don\u2019t have that cozy relationship until three episodes later. The only thing we do know so far is that Megan is upset because after her father abandoned them, Megan has to fill the role of everyone\u2019s mom.\u00a0 This new role brings light to the details of her character.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>When introduced to Isabella we learn that she\u2019s an exchange student that Megan\u2019s family hosts for the first time ever.\u00a0 This upsets Megan because her mom is trying to take care of another child when she can\u2019t even care for her own.\u00a0 That does make a good case until Megan\u2019s mom points out she\u2019s hosting Isabella because she needs friends, Megan can\u2019t argue with that because her Senior Year is coming up and she\u2019s lonely.\u00a0 So who\u2019s a better friend than bubbly, pretty, sparkly, friendly, and rich Isabella LaRue, whom I’m just going to refer to as Izzy.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>We meet Izzy, and all we learn is that she\u2019s rich and has been all over the world to different boarding schools.\u00a0 We also learn that she \u201chas\u201d a best friend named Lisa and Megan reminds Izzy of her.\u00a0 She says they are the same way. \u00a0 But that\u2019s not what we are talking about, what we are talking about is half of the first timeline we see how Megan is taking this new girl she has already set-up herself to hate all around her favorite spots of their small town called Richmond. \u00a0 Richmond is where everyone knows everybody, and everybody knows the Chambers family.\u00a0 Well, everybody except Izzy.\u00a0 So when Megan introduces her to older brother Brent Chambers and younger brother Luke Chambers,\u00a0 she already knows who she\u2019s going to target first.\u00a0 This very same target leads to someone floating in the Richmond Lake water. \u00a0 Until we see the end and find out the floating somebody is dead.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The second season to me was too much of a slow-burn.\u00a0 I did enjoy the build-up though, but I wanted exposed secrets to punch me in the face like the first season, but it was more like meh.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s still good though, and each season is stand-alone which is awesome.\u00a0 So I recommend you to please go watch it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n




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