Like the first season, the story should have been broken up to take place over three summers. Once Megan would hold a conversation with Isabella, they suddenly became best friends, as we see them in the winter. More time was needed for the girls’ to flesh out their friendship, as we’re not even seeing much of that in the summer of ‘99 arc. It’s too fast-paced, too rushed, to be believable. But, by the summer of 2000, their relationship has completely deteriorated and they hardly speak, despite the fact that Isabella is still living with the Landrys. Yet, five or six short months later, in December of ‘99, their friendship is so intense that they feel like they are missing pieces in each other’s family - sisters, in fact. Isabella arrives in the summer of ‘99, and it takes a bit of time for Megan to even be nice to Isabella. There are several reasons the relationship between Megan and Isabella isn’t working, but the timeline and distance between the three narrative arcs is the biggest one. While the story is interesting, it is nowhere on par with the intrigue of the first season because the relationship between Megan and Isabella isn’t believable or enjoyable in the slightest. In Cruel Summer Season 2, in the small coastal town of Chatham, the arrival of Isabella LaRue ( Lexi Underwood) - daughter of diplomats - in the summer of 1999 puts the life of good girl Megan Landry ( Sadie Stanley) on a new path, ultimately leading to the death of her boyfriend Luke ( Griffin Gluck) in the winter, and the subsequent murder investigation that calls both girls into question when his body is discovered in the summer of 2000.

In the first season, we met Jeanette Turner ( Chiara Aurelia) and Kate Wallis ( Olivia Holt), whose lives were forever changed after the latter was kidnapped by their school’s new assistant principal.

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Cruel Summer Season 2.Freeform’s anthology series Cruel Summer follows the stories of two girls whose lives are woven together by tragic circumstances.

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