‘Cruel Summer’ Season 2 Trailer and Release Date on Freeform, Hulu, and Prime Video

Freeform has revealed the first trailer while confirming the premiere date for the second season of its anthology series. ‘Cruel Summer’ Season 2 will release on June 5 on Freeform with the first two episodes followed by the streaming release on June 6, 2023, on Hulu in the US and Prime Video in India and a few other territories.

The second season of ‘Cruel Summer’ was rumored to release at the end of last year, which was later officially delayed for about six months. The second season of the Freeform TV Series officially wrapped up filming in September 2022, after which, we speculated that Season 2 may premiere in December 2022.

The second season of Cruel Summer, set in an exquisite seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, follows the rise and breakdown of a strong teenage friendship. Approaching the story from three separate timelines surrounding Y2K, the season twists and turns as it follows Megan, Isabella, and Megan's best friend Luke's early friendship, the love triangle that evolved, and the mystery that would touch all of their lives in the future.

The second season of the anthology series features a brand new cast and mystery. The Season 2 cast includes Sadie Stanley as Megan Landry, a computer coder and honor student from a blue-collar family; Griffin Gluck as Luke Chambers, Megan’s lifelong best friend from a prominent family; KaDee Strickland as Debbie, Megan’s hardworking single mom; Lisa Yamada as Parker, a popular musician who becomes more cynical as the world takes a dark turn around her; Lexi Underwood as Isabella, the daughter of foreign diplomats, who is spending a year as an exchange student with the Landry family; and Sean Blakemore as Sheriff Myer, an old-fashioned law-and-order type, under pressure to solve the first major crime in Chatham. Season 2 also stars Paul Adelstein, Nile Bullock, Jenna Lamb, and Braeden De La Garza in recurring roles.

Season 2 will feature a different storyline that comes complete with a new cast and showrunner. Elle Triedman is the new showrunner for the second season, replacing Tia Napolitano. However, Napolitano has remained as an executive producer of the show. Executive producers include Triedman, Bill Purple, Tia Napolitano, and Iron Ocean Productions’ Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple. The series is distributed internationally by eOne. “Cruel Summer” comes from studio Entertainment One (eOne) and was created by Bert V. Royal.