Cruel Summer’s Season 2 Finale Reveals Major Season 1 Easter Egg

Warning: This story accommodates spoilers from the season 2 finale of Cruel Summer.

Freeform’s Cruel Summer used their season 2 finale to introduce a significant Easter egg — which connects the story again to season 1.

During the conclusion to the sophomore season, which aired on Monday, July 31, Megan (Sadie Stanley) picks up her keys that are on prime of a e book titled Out of the Basement: The Kate Wallis Story.

Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt) was initially launched in season 1 because the present adopted her kidnapping — and subsequent rescue. Fellow scholar Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia) was accused of realizing about Kate’s whereabouts however holding it a secret. In the ultimate scene of the primary season it was revealed that Jeanette was conscious that Kate was held captive of their vice principal Martin Harris’ (Blake Lee) basement.

Viewers have been in for a fair greater shakeup when Freeform confirmed that Cruel Summer would proceed as an anthology collection in season 2. The hit collection returned with new episodes in June, which targeted on a tumultuous friendship between Megan and Isabella (Lexi Underwood). Their love triangle with Luke Chambers (Griffin Gluck) — in addition to his eventual loss of life — have been on the heart of the thriller.

Before the premiere of season 2, government producer Michelle Purple teased that the characters have been all a part of the identical universe.

“We took into big consideration [that] people really loved the cast in season 1 and were connected to them,” she advised TVLine in June. “We actually opened up a room and discussed, ‘What does it look like to continue both these girls’ stories or one of these girl’s stories?’”

Purple added: “We’re playing in the same world in the sense of it’s just a few years later. So there’s a tie to season 1, but we’re not going to tell you [what it is]! You guys have to find it!”

That similar month, Stanley, 21, and Underwood, 19, provided a glimpse on the conversations that passed off between them and the season 1 forged.

“It was just incredible being able to have the team from season 1 that definitely understood that formula and that structure of it. Because it is a little bit tricky navigating telling a story while also playing three different versions of your character or having those three different timelines,” Underwood solely advised Us Weekly. “Being able to have them guide us — it kind of took the pressure off of feeling like we had to do better. Like [we had to] top something or live up to certain standards. When we do interact with [the season 1 cast], they’re all just so incredibly great and they’ve given us so much like support and love.”

Stanley, for her half, praised Aurelia, 20, and Holt, 25, for the recommendation they gave after starring in Cruel Summer.

“Chiara and Olivia have both been so, so supportive and so lovely and reached out to both of us,” Stanley shared with Us. “I had met Chiara a couple of times [and] she’s lovely. Olivia came to set one day while we were filming in Vancouver and she’s awesome.”