Never come between a pair of ride-or-die BFFs. They will be sure 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 strain has skyrocketed. This thrilling homicide thriller is beginning its roller-coaster highs towards the climax.
“Confess Your Sins” was a chapter carried by how robust 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 at all times 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 instances as a result of the characters need to catch up after Luke’s physique is found. And we won’t transfer ahead an excessive amount of as a result of there’s nonetheless a homicide to witness previously.
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 at all times targeted on her objectives and doing stuff she might 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 really actually good.
Isabella: You might be much less shocked. Reading individuals is like my superpower.
Megan: You do have a expertise for it.
However, we’d like 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 an entire completely different aspect to her that solely scratched the floor.
Steve and Brent are absolutely the worst. Like an entire “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” state of affairs, proper?
The summer time of 1999 (and the winter of 1999) proved but once more why the Chambers males are trash.
Brent is operating wild and speaking an enormous sport, however when the chips fall, his daddy additionally bails him out—even this time after his gross conduct towards Isabella and undoing her prime.
Isabella: What are you doing?
Megan: Looking for you!
Luke: We wished to determine what to do tonight.
Isabella: Oh. Cool.
Megan: What are you up for? You at all times have the very best concepts.
Isabella: Absolutely something.
Here comes Steve to flex his poisonous masculinity and canopy up for his son’s horrible angle. A good father or mother would’ve held his son accountable for a way he handled Isabella and made her uncomfortable. But no, Steve is the worst enabler.
He’s fortunate Brent by no means bought any costs and that Parker solely dumped him. Brent deserved quite a bit 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 bought the primary few hints of their friendship beginning, however we all know they will finally turn 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 sensible of the kids. She knew how merciless the world might be and did not like optimism blind her judgment. Parker was a very good stability for her as a result of she appeared mature and did not settle for Brent’s conduct.
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 might simply spot Isabella holding again the reality in the course of the automotive wash. You might see it on her face; she knew there was extra to the story.
I want we bought 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 instructed Parker the reality about Luke shedding his virginity? She saved the key from Megan, however Parker is a distinct story.
The odds are low, particularly since Luke pressed onerous 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 idea.
Now, it is time to focus on the revenge on the cabin. Or what we’ll name “Luke’s Villain Arc.”
This little boy saved digging his grave one remark after the following. Sure, he was drugged and drunk, however he had accomplished and mentioned all these items lengthy earlier than Megan tied him to the mattress.
We known as it for weeks now that his insecurity and have to “be the man” can be his undoing. His good boy-next-door picture was solely a ruse to cowl up all of the horrible issues he mentioned 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 document 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 deal with 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 might’ve simply instructed me. Plenty of time has handed for the reason that scandal broke out, so he might’ve shortly come clear.
He more than likely had different causes for that tape. Maybe it was a contest towards Brent and his many secret movies?
Luke’s different huge villain second was revealing the reality about his virginity.
Do you assume Megan believed his lies? Luke pressed onerous and tugged on the feelings, however he was a confirmed liar. Megan cannot imagine him after all the things; there is no approach she would fall for this.
She has proof that he cannot be trusted between the dishonest try and his bragging. Luke is simply out for himself.
Regardless of why they saved the key, Isabella and Luke had been courting then. It would’ve been good if that they had instructed 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 look like they had been testifying towards 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 idea is that the gunshot might 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 might occur at that cabin.
Last Thoughts From The Archive:
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Sheriff Myer goes to seek out loads of footage on these cameras. Maybe it will 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 social gathering? No dwelling digicam was that good 20 years in the past.
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Luke realizing 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 might be a very good man.
- Who might or not it’s if Luke is adamant that he did not launch the tape? One of the gross man pals? Jeff? Steve? Parkers or one of many ladies?
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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