The 2nd play of Freeform's Cruel Summer volition present a caller enigma successful a antithetic mounting with an wholly caller cast. Get a sneak peek astatine the ensemble here.
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Cruel Summer play 2 volition beryllium nary vacation.
On Jan. 11, Freeform released the archetypal representation of the 2nd season's cast—Sadie Stanley, Lexi Underwood, Griffin Gluck, KaDee Strickland, Lisa Yamada and Sean Blakemore—posed astir a picnic array successful beforehand of a misty water and forest.
Captioned "The information yet comes to the surface," the photograph gives an ominous tease astir wherever things are headed successful play two, which volition beryllium acceptable successful a waterfront municipality successful the Pacific Northwest.
"The adjacent section of Cruel Summer follows the emergence and autumn of an aggravated teenage friendship," according to the network. "Approaching the communicative from 3 antithetic timelines surrounding Y2K, the play twists and turns arsenic it tracks the aboriginal relationship betwixt Megan (Stanley), Isabella (Underwood) and Megan's champion person Luke (Gluck), the emotion triangle that blossomed, and the enigma that would interaction each of their lives going forward."
Megan is described by the web as "a machine coder and grant pupil from a blue-collar family" who meets Isabella, "a girl of overseas diplomats," when she spends a twelvemonth arsenic an speech pupil with Megan's family.
Luke, meanwhile, "finds himself astatine a crossroads arsenic helium tries to found his ain spot successful the world, abstracted from the expectations of his almighty father," played by Paul Adelstein.
If you, similar us, utilized to walk your Sunday nights glued to ABC's primetime lineup, you'll nary uncertainty admit that play 2 of Cruel Summer features a reunion betwixt Adelstein and Strickland, who played hubby and wife Cooper and Charlotte on Private Practice from 2007-2013.
Strickland plays Megan's mother, "who thinks hosting Isabella volition unfastened her daughter's eyes to a bigger satellite than their tiny town."
The archetypal play of Cruel Summer was acceptable successful the fictional municipality of Skylin, Texas successful the '90s and told the communicative of teenage friends Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt) and Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia). Focusing connected the aforesaid time implicit the people of 3 years, the communicative revolved astir Kate's mysterious disappearance and what happens aft Jeanette seemingly takes her place.
The 2nd play of Cruel Summer volition deed Freeform aboriginal this year.
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