Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 4 Springing a Leak
In Summer 1999, Megan wants to be adventurous and makes fake IDs for the gang. In Winter 1999, a burst pipe leads the Landrys and Isabella to a messy night at the Chambers house. Isabella wants to help but is met with resistance from Megan.
If Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 3 drew on Isabella’s potential obsession with Meghan, this episode (Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 4, “Springing A Leak”) centers on Meghan’s family dynamics and her future. In December 1999, a leak in Meghan’s family home forces her, Isabella and her mom Deb (Meghan’s sister is conspicuously absent this week) to relocate to Luke’s family house because Meghan refuses to allow her mom to take Isabella’s money for the repair, and a lot of tensions between the two merging families boil to the surface. At dinner, the girls confront Brent about the sex tapes and when Deb finds out that there was more than one, she’s horrified. It’s not just predatory, it’s also criminal — and she’s unsettled that her boyfriend has helped his son sweep this under the rug.
Meghan’s suspicions about Isabella and Luke also hit a new level when she finds Isabella’s bathing suit top tucked away behind some towels in Luke’s bathroom. Isabella says she’d been looking for that top since the summer and is rightfully offended when Meghan asks her outright whether she and Luke had any overlap with his relationship with Meghan — after all, she’s walked around with the Scarlet A on her chest for Meghan since the tape was leaked. “Do you need me to kill for you?” Isabella says ominously in a fun bit of writing that underscores the central tension between the girls. I understand both sentiments, but Meghan’s self-righteous attitudes this episode (especially in bossing her mom around about money) finally hit a point of annoyance that made sympathy a bit harder to reach for this week.
Cruel Summer
Season Number: 2
Episode Number: 4
Episode Title: Springing a Leak
Air Date: Jun 19, 2023
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Source: Cruel.Summer.S02E04.1080p.WEB.h264-ETHEL
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