Never come between a pair of ride-or-die BFFs. They will be certain revenge is felt in the event that they ever really feel betrayed.
Megan and Isabella held Luke accountable for his lies on Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 8.
Prepare yourselves, Cruel Summer followers! We’ve made it to the cabin, and the stress has skyrocketed. This thrilling homicide thriller is beginning its roller-coaster highs towards the climax.
“Confess Your Sins” was a chapter carried by how sturdy Winter 1999 grew to become. We’ve waited most of Cruel Summer Season 2 to get to this second, so the stakes had been excessive. (And the early motion delivered!)
The summer time of 1999 added loads of gas to the hearth burning within the winter. We could not have one with out the opposite to land the reality bombs. But for Summer 2000? It was on the again burner.
With a plot that jumps round three intervals, they cannot all the time get equal focus. Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 5 was the closest, the place all the things felt self-contained and important to the thriller.
The summer time of 2000 has been dealt a brief hand at occasions as a result of the characters should catch up after Luke’s physique is found. And we will not transfer ahead an excessive amount of as a result of there’s nonetheless a homicide to witness prior to now.
Once once more, the summer time stalled in its pacing, as an alternative selecting to pull out the drama.
Plenty of begins, stops, and exposition to fill the timeframe. There wasn’t something new added we did not already know.
The closest new info was Megan telling Isabella why she frolicked with Ned.
Her reply was very comprehensible and one thing Megan would need. She’s all the time centered on her targets and doing stuff she may declare as her personal. Even Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 1 dealt along with her frustration at having to share her life with Isabella.
Ned and the tech world had been all hers.
Isabella: Well, yeah. I imply I’m simply saying if I had been hella paranoid, I’d put them someplace fully unlikely. Like with my taxes or in a completely completely different database, proper?
Megan: That’s truly actually good.
Isabella: You may very well be much less stunned. Reading individuals is like my superpower.
Megan: You do have a expertise for it.
However, we want extra data on why she turned to cyber crimes. Like how did Ned get her to conform to hack?
There is extra to this than merely needing a separation in her life. Megan has a complete completely different facet to her that solely scratched the floor.
Steve and Brent are absolutely the worst. Like a complete “the apple would not fall removed from the tree” scenario, proper?
The summer time of 1999 (and the winter of 1999) proved but once more why the Chambers males are trash.
Brent is working wild and speaking a giant recreation, however when the chips fall, his daddy additionally bails him out—even this time after his gross habits towards Isabella and undoing her high.
Isabella: What are you doing?
Megan: Looking for you!
Luke: We needed to determine what to do tonight.
Isabella: Oh. Cool.
Megan: What are you up for? You all the time have one of the best concepts.
Isabella: Absolutely something.
Here comes Steve to flex his poisonous masculinity and canopy up for his son’s horrible angle. A good guardian would’ve held his son accountable for the way he handled Isabella and made her uncomfortable. But no, Steve is the worst enabler.
He’s fortunate Brent by no means obtained any costs and that Parker solely dumped him. Brent deserved loads worse, and hopefully, his karma comes swiftly and painfully.
It’s good that Parker and Isabella bonded after all the things that occurred. We solely obtained the primary few hints of their friendship beginning, however we all know they will finally change into BFFs later.
This makes Parker’s eventual betrayal on Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 6 much more stunning.
Coming to Chatham, Isabella appeared the worldliest and most life like of the kids. She knew how merciless the world may very well be and did not like optimism blind her judgment. Parker was an excellent stability for her as a result of she appeared mature and did not settle for Brent’s habits.
Tim: Yo, Isabella? You wanna get moist?
Isabella: Ummm, provided that it’s for charity. Which, I suppose is you? But nonetheless, nah, I’m good.
Parker: Wow, Tim and his limp hose.
Plus, Parker may simply spot Isabella holding again the reality in the course of the automobile wash. You may see it on her face; she knew there was extra to the story.
I want we obtained extra scenes of them collectively, particularly to get a distinction between how Isabella’s friendship with Parker was completely different than hers with Megan’s. The ride-or-dies felt extra intense, whereas she and Parker had been extra of an unstated understanding.
Do you assume Isabella informed Parker the reality about Luke shedding his virginity? She stored the key from Megan, however Parker is a distinct story.
The odds are low, particularly since Luke pressed exhausting to make sure the reality would by no means come out.
Even at their lowest, Isabella would by no means do one thing to harm Megan deliberately. Revealing that fact to the world would trigger a tidal wave of points. Megan cannot deal with betrayal nicely; she lashes out at everybody.
The occasions on the cabin proved that concept.
Now, it is time to talk about the revenge on the cabin. Or what we’ll name “Luke’s Villain Arc.”
This little boy stored digging his grave one remark after the subsequent. Sure, he was drugged and drunk, however he had achieved and stated all these items lengthy earlier than Megan tied him to the mattress.
We known as it for weeks now that his insecurity and must “be the person” could be his undoing. His good boy-next-door picture was solely a ruse to cowl up all of the horrible issues he stated and did.
Luke might be a pleasant man in his on a regular basis life, however his actions do not help that. Someone who cared about his girlfriend would not report a intercourse tape, brag about dishonest, or attempt to cheat on her. He cares an excessive amount of about his picture and fame.
Did anybody appropriately guess that Luke recorded the intercourse tape?
He was suspicious, however these theories had been pushed apart to concentrate on different individuals. Like, Luke could not have been that horrible? He could not be like Brent, proper?
Isabella: Luke, if Brent didn’t make the intercourse tape between you and Megan, who did?
Luke: I did.
Wrong! He did not do it with the identical seriousness as Brent, however he nonetheless recorded a intercourse tape with out Megan’s consent.
And if it was just for “pleasure” for him and Megan down the road, he may’ve simply informed me. Plenty of time has handed for the reason that scandal broke out, so he may’ve rapidly come clear.
He probably had different causes for that tape. Maybe it was a contest in opposition to Brent and his many secret movies?
Luke’s different large villain second was revealing the reality about his virginity.
Do you assume Megan believed his lies? Luke pressed exhausting and tugged on the feelings, however he was a confirmed liar. Megan cannot consider him after all the things; there is not any approach she would fall for this.
She has proof that he cannot be trusted between the dishonest try and his bragging. Luke is barely out for himself.
Regardless of why they stored the key, Isabella and Luke had been relationship then. It would’ve been good if they’d informed the reality, however just one used it as ammunition on the cabin. And that wasn’t Isabella.
Speaking of ammunition, the cliffhanger ended with Isabella firing a gun on digicam. Their testimonies to Sheriff Myer made it seem to be they had been testifying in opposition to one another.
But Luke could not have died from the gunshot at that time. Their chat that Parker overheard confirmed they weren’t collectively when Luke died and had been nonetheless suspicious of one another.
My concept is that the gunshot may very well be from a clean gun.
A prank to push Luke to the brink and seize him on digicam confessing to all the things. Whoever killed Luke needed to have occurred afterward.
We nonetheless have two extra episodes left of Cruel Summer Season 2, so loads of time stays on this homicide thriller. Let’s not neglect the massive twist of Cruel Summer Season 1 Episode 10 did not occur till the ultimate minutes. Anything may occur at that cabin.
Last Thoughts From The Archive:
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Sheriff Myer goes to search out loads of footage on these cameras. Maybe it’s going to reveal if another person drove up the cabin after Isabella and Megan left?
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Really? A video digicam from 1999 picked up audio, not to mention an audio group made it clear, of Megan and Isabella plotting their revenge throughout a loud get together? No dwelling digicam was that good 20 years in the past.
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Luke figuring out about Brent’s secret intercourse tapes (and watching them) cemented him as a horrible man. No one who stood again and did nothing because it continued may very well be an excellent man.
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Who may it’s if Luke is adamant that he did not launch the tape? One of the gross man buddies? Jeff? Steve? Parkers or one of many women?
Now, over to you, Cruel Summer followers.
What did you consider “Confess Your Sins”?
Did Isabella homicide Luke with the gunshot? Who do you assume launched the intercourse tape? What will Sheriff Myer do now with the testimony?
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