Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 4 Review: Springing a Leak

Megan wants to begin engaged on her poker face. Her secrets and techniques are spilling out sooner than her pc takes as well up.

The sheriff’s newest interrogation uncovered a monster of a secret on Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 4.

This twist is the kind of reveal that makes you query the suspects’ intentions. If there’s one factor we discovered about Megan, she’s holding a treasure trove of secrets and techniques.

“Springing a Leak” was an aptly-named chapter. This thread of this thriller was all about exposition and giving us extra causes to doubt the principle characters.

Was it an thrilling episode? Not notably; a lot of the plot was filler aside from the massive reveals. However, we wanted the secrets and techniques to fill out the gaps within the thriller.

For instance, Megan and Isabella’s evening out in the summertime of 1999. Right now, the membership half was a little bit of filler.

Don’t get me mistaken, seeing them bond and flesh out their BFF standing was necessary to present depth to their relationship. We obtained a higher sense of how they turned from frenemies into BFFs. This half helps the thriller between the summer season and winter of 1999.

And that Megan developed the talent of making faux IDs. (We’ll get to this shortly.)

On the opposite hand, Megan studying what a physique shot was in all probability will not be necessary in a while. These scenes flushed out time to pepper the background. It’s all the time higher when filler would not really feel like filler.

I might see these scenes having weight to them if the evening results in one thing vital.

What if Sheriff Myer noticed Megan and Isabella on the bar? Or did Megan use her expertise of making the IDs as a new aspect enterprise?

Megan: I’d?
Isabella: You don’t must drink it. Just maintain it. It’ll make you look cool.

During Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 1, we discovered that Megan is doing one thing shady on the aspect to make some cash.

Her household is struggling monetary points, like on Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 3, so it would not be out of the query for her to do it. She has the abilities, and she or he wants the cash.

The Megan in the summertime of 2000 is completely completely different.

And the identical goes for her flirtation with Jeff.

Whatever occurred between them was nothing however a reminiscence by the summer season of 2000. The few moments of them flirting and the longing look from Luke began the opposite sophisticated love triangle we do not know a lot about but.

Megan flirting with Jeff and kissing him may be a response to Isabella pushing her to take a threat. Old Megan would’ve been too shy to do it; new Megan is making an attempt one thing new.

Plus, she has been pushing her emotions down about Luke, so this could possibly be her method of getting over him.

She stated that she discovered it straightforward to be herself with Jeff. After their pc flirting, it is not shocking that one thing began. They felt pure and cozy with one another; they’d some chemistry.

However, Jeff’s trash perspective in the course of the winter of 1999 cannot be forgotten.

Something messy goes to occur that tears them aside. We’ll must seize some popcorn and wait and see till all of it comes crashing down in Chatham.

If Cruel Summer Season 1 is an instance, somebody will really feel betrayed and heartbroken.

During the winter of 1999, these parts felt like they had been retreading the identical drama. Sure, all three intervals do not must be jampacked, however the pacing wants motion to maintain up with viewers.

The awkward dinner scene at Steve’s home was achieved extra to get the characters caught up on all of the shadiness. And the drama casts doubts on the principle character’s motives.

Megan: Why didn’t you inform me?!
Debbie: I didn’t wish to stress you out.
Megan: Okay, you possibly can’t have it each methods! You can’t lean on me to pay for issues after which preserve me in the dead of night. For as soon as, it could be good so that you can be the grownup right here.

Like, how far would Steve go to guard his household’s status? Is Megan mistaken to doubt Isabella, or might Isabella and Luke have secretly connected prior to now?

And will Debbie sweep Brent’s actions beneath the rug now that Steve paid to restore her home’s pipes?

It was a lot of telling us issues and getting the opposite characters caught up. We’ve identified a few of this data for a whereas now. Let’s hope the winter 1999 portion retains transferring ahead.

Megan’s actions in the course of the winter of 1999 had been essentially the most irritating. Why is she continually lashing out at folks? And why does it really feel prefer it comes from a place of ethical superiority?

I like Megan, however she’s constructed up such a wall that she makes use of it to guage everybody else. She’s needed to work exhausting and be an grownup generally, which should have led to her frustration. However, the wall is hurting her too.

Isabella: Are you actually asking me that?
Megan: Yeah, I suppose I’m.
Isabella: You know, I’ve let this entire city name me a slut and a awful buddy. Everywhere I’m going folks whisper behind my again all so to preserve your scholarship. And now you assume I’m sneaking round with Luke? Are you kidding me, Megan?!
Megan: I’m sorry. It’s simply the stuff with the pipes has me stressing out.
Isabella: I don’t care! Okay, how far do I’ve to go to show my loyalty to you? And what? Do you want me to kill for you?

Debbie remains to be her mom and made a powerful name concerning the emergency funds.

Isabella took the blame for a intercourse tape. Isabella would not have supplied the plan if she was betraying her by sleeping with Luke. No method would she assist the lady she was screwing over.

Megan must belief the folks in her life and keep in mind she will be able to’t management all the things. Debbie and Isabella wish to assist nonetheless they’ll.

The summer season of 2000 was the juiciest a part of “Springing a Leak.”

Something about an interrogation scene retains us on the sting of our seats! It’s like a cat-and-mouse recreation. And thrilling stuff can come out of an interrogation, like what occurred on Cruel Summer Season 1 Episode 3.

Sheriff Myer would not belief or consider Megan. His fact is throughout his face; his vitality radiates with it.

She is aware of it. We realize it.

Her story about Luke working away is the kind of story that appears plausible sufficient.

He’s a teenager, his father is overbearing and controlling, and his brother is a jerk. Plus, with Steve’s stress, Luke wanting to flee him might’ve been a actual choice.

I would not be stunned if Luke did wish to run away. His being murdered and wishing to flee do not essentially must be linked. Leaving might’ve been what he wished all alongside, and he obtained murdered earlier than leaving.

Megan holding the key could possibly be a crimson herring.

On the opposite hand, the twist in regards to the being pregnant? Shocking! Jaw on the ground.

When Sheriff Myer dropped that information, it modified all the things.

If Luke had deliberate to go away, it could open up the probabilities of how folks would react. Steve could be livid over the being pregnant, Megan could be heartbroken if Luke went, and Debbie and Isabella could be upset with Luke for not stepping up.

Sheriff Myer: Luke was the love of your life, however by all accounts, your relationship was by no means the identical after the intercourse tape. Too many secrets and techniques. Too many lies. And it solely obtained worse once you came upon you had been pregnant.
Lawyer: Sheriff, I must…
Sheriff Myer: I consider you and Luke went to the cabin. You informed him you had been pregnant and he rejected the thought of a child with you. A future with you. So, you killed him.

This is all based mostly on the closest folks of their lives and if Megan stored the kid. We have not thought of the aspect characters like Brent, Jeff, and Parker. We do not know the way they play a half in that twist but.

With the intercourse tape and this being pregnant, it might all be the spark for the way Luke died on the cabin.

Last Thoughts From The Archive:

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  Megan’s decrease grade might threaten her scholarship. Either her aspect enterprise is creating faux IDs, or she’s hacking into the varsity to vary grads for a revenue.
  
   
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  Who could possibly be her secret pc instructor? Someone on the town will in all probability play a half within the thriller.
  
   
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  Take the cash! Isabella must stay on the home, too; it is a reward that advantages everybody.

Now, over to you, Cruel Summer followers.

What did you consider “Springing a Leak”?

Is Sheriff Myer appropriate in his concept about Megan? What will the police discover on Megan’s pc? Is the story about Luke working away the reality?

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