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Cruel Summer first aired in 2021 • originally associated with Freeform • 2 seasons • 20 episodes • around 42 minutes per episode • status: Canceled.
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It sits in the Drama, Mystery space, which helps set expectations for tone and pacing.
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Synopsis
Taking place over three summers - 1993, 1994, 1995 - in a small Texas town, a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.
Keywords
anthology, psychological thriller, summer, missing person, 1990s.
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