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Cruel Summer Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2021 - 2021
Episode 1
Happy Birthday, Jeanette Turner
Tue, Apr 20, 202145 mins
Taking place over three summers in the 1990s when a popular teen goes missing, and a seemingly unrelated girl transforms from a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town, eventually becoming the most despised person in America.
Episode 2
A Smashing Good Time
Tue, Apr 20, 202141 mins
It's time for the annual Skylin Garden Club Party. Year after year after year, the residents of Skylin struggle with the truth around what happened to Kate, keeping their secrets buried and maintaining appearances.
Episode 3
Off with a Bang
Tue, Apr 27, 202141 mins
Victim or villain? Jeanette continues to add fuel to the fire as her reckless behavior causes her friends and family to question her even more.
Episode 4
You Don't Hunt, You Don't Eat
Tue, May 4, 202142 mins
Kate, reeling from the lawsuit, prepares her defense and finds friendship in an unlikely source. The annual Wallis hunting trip becomes the setting for an important first meeting.
Episode 5
As The Carny Gods Intended
Tue, May 11, 202141 mins
Jeannette and Kate cross paths at the Skylin High takeover of the County Fair, where one is desperate to prove herself and the other to lose herself.
Episode 6
An Ocean Inside Me
Tue, May 18, 202141 mins
A new deposition threatens Jeanette's case. A discovery causes Cindy's suspicions about her own daughter to reach new heights as her relationship with Greg becomes further strained.
Episode 7
Happy Birthday, Kate Wallis
Tue, May 25, 202141 mins
Kate struggles with a family secret she's been holding on to. Joy tries to convince Kate to go on "The Marsha Bailey Show." Mallory has a birthday surprise.
Episode 8
Proof
Tue, Jun 1, 202140 mins
On the first day of school, everyone learns that the drama of the summer is anything but over and that some people will pay more for the consequences of Jeanette and Kate's deception than others.
Episode 9
A Secret of My Own
Tue, Jun 8, 202142 mins
Kate's closely held secrets and fragmented memories of her time in Martin's captivity are brought to the surface.
Episode 10
Hostile Witness
Tue, Jun 15, 202144 mins
Kate and Jeannette's worlds collide as the court date arrives, finally forcing the two young women to answer the question on everyone's mind, but the answer comes with a price that not everyone can pay.
