Cruel Summer Season 2 Trailer Released by Freeform

Cruel Summer creates dramatic waves with a chilling Y2K aesthetic ahead of its premiere on Freeform next month.

 As previously reported, the anthology thriller returns with a special two-episode premiere on Monday, June 5, at 9/8c. Set to Tommee Profitt, Fleurie, and Jung Youth’s cover of Linkin Park’s 2000’s hit “In the End,” the trailer introduces a new cast of characters and a secret with two sides.

Cruel Summer Season 2 takes place in “an idyllic waterfront town in the Pacific Northwest” and follows three different timelines surrounding Y2k. The show’s Instagram account teased that one will be in 2000.

The Freeform series’ upcoming season will track the twists and turns that arise in “the early friendship between Megan, Isabella, and Megan’s best friend Luke, the love triangle that blossomed, and the mystery that would impact all of their lives going forward,” per the season’s synopsis.

Sadie Stanley stars as Megan Landry, “a computer coder and honor student from a blue-collar family,” who learns how to “embrace her true self” when she meets Eloise Payet’s Isabella. But everything changes when tragedy strikes.

Isabella comes into Megan’s life as an exchange student with whom Megan’s mom hopes she will be good friends. Isabella “quickly shakes up life in this small town, but her charm can’t hide the truth about her past or the real reason she came to live with the Landrys forever.”

Griffin Gluck plays Luke Chambers, who comes “from a prominent family” and “finds himself at a crossroads as he tries to establish his own place in the world, separate from the expectations of his powerful father” over time.

Cruel Summer will bring a small Private Practice reunion to TV as KaDee Strickland stars as “Megan’s hardworking single mom,” Debbie, and Paul Adelstein recurs as Luke’s “high-profile dad,” Steve Chambers. Gluck appeared on the procedural drama as Mason Adelstein’s Cooper Freedman’s son and Strickland’s Charlotte King’s stepson.

Season 2 also stars Lisa Yamada as Parker, “a popular musician who becomes more cynical as the world takes a dark turn around her,” and Sean Blakemore as Sheriff Myer, “an old-fashioned law-and-order type, under pressure to solve the first major crime in Chatham.”

Cruel Summer‘s trailer leaves plenty to speculate about that crime. Still, it posits that it’s a missing teenager that may have something to do with Megan and Isabella’s ride-or-die friendship with polaroids, mixed CDs, camcorder video, and VHS tapes to boot.

Created by Bert V. Royal, Cruel Summer comes from studio eOne, with Elle Triedman as showrunner for the sophomore season. The show’s executive producers include Triedman, Bill Purple, Tia Napolitano, and Iron Ocean Productions’ Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple.

Watch Cruel Summer‘s Season 2 trailer below:

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Cruel Summer Season 2 premieres on Monday, June 5, at 9/8c on Freeform.

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