BC-Filmed Season 2 of Breakout CRUEL SUMMER Premieres Tonight
Season 2 of Freeform’s breakout hit Cruel Summer follows two new teen girls in the Pacific Northwest town of Chatham, played by various locations in and around Vancouver.
Sunset Marina on Sea to Sky Highway, B.C. (used as The Claw restaurant in Nancy Drew).
Sea to Sky Highway, B.C.
Set in an idyllic waterfront town in the Pacific Northwest, the second chapter of Cruel Summer follows the rise and fall of an intense teenage friendship.
Approaching the story from three different timelines surrounding Y2K, the season twists and turns as it tracks the early friendship between Megan (Sadie Stanley), Isabella LaRue (Lexi Underwood) and Megan’s best friend Luke (Griffin Gluck), the love triangle that blossomed, and the mystery that would impact all of their lives going forward..
Cruel Summer’s season 2 trailer had 24 million views across social media in its first 10 days, putting it on track to become Freeform’s most-watched trailer ever.
The special two-episode premiere airs tonight on Freeform at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
With Sadie Stanley, Griffin Gluck and Lexi Underwood starring.
Vancouver filming dates: April 21 2022 – September 08 2022.
New showrunner: Elle Triedman.
New cast: Sadie Stanley, Lexi Underwood, Griffin Gluck, KaDee Strickland, Lisa Yamada, Sean Blakemore.
Paul Adelstein, Nile Bullock, Jenna Lamb and Braeden De La Garza recur.
Lisa Yamada and Sadie Stanley in Vancouver.
Paul Adelstein and KaDee Strickland doing press.
Producers: Studio eOne, Iron Ocean Productions’ Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple
Related: Season 2 of Freeform’s Breakout Series Cruel Summer Filming in Vancouver This Spring.
Filming in Vancouver:
Cruel Summer filmed the intense friendship between Sadie Stanley’s Megan and Lexie Underwood’s Isabella at West Vancouver’s Whytecliff Park.
Cruel Summer filmed in Cloverdale with Sadie Stanley, Lexi Underwood, Lisa Yamada and Sean Blakemore on set.
Production took the Clova Theatre back to 1999 with Girl Interrupted on the theatre marquee and Toy Story 2 and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo as the coming attractions.
Season one was the story of a popular teen abducted by the vice-principal and the awkward teen who seemingly took her place as Queen Bee. Told from their perspectives, it took place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town with Olivia Holt as popular, perfect Kate Wallis and Chiara Aurelia as nerdy, awkward Jeanette Turner turned Queen Bee..
