WHY is Darren Wilden's face back on my screen
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I hope I'm wrong but PLL: Summer School also known as PLL: Original Sin will probably be canceled after the second season because the promo for this season is atrocious. I didn't even know it was coming out and I follow a ton of pages that talk about film and tv. I really think that they want it to fail for some reason.
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i know mona did many horrible things and i understand why the liars wouldn’t trust her but… i still feel bad for her. all that she wanted was to be part of the group and the liars never included her (again, i get it)… a season later we see her faking her own death in order to stop 🅰️ and then she gets kidnapped for like 5 months, she is tortured alongside the liars and still, she isn’t included in the group… i’m not blaming the liars but… idk they could have been great together
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The main reason why the end of season 2 of Cruel Summer left me so unsatisfied, especially in comparison to season 1, is their choice of the main villain of each season, or more explicitly: their motivation for becoming the villains of these stories.
This series is centered around teenagers who clearly all make some very bad decisions at so many turns. And they're supposed to do that, because well, they're teenagers.
And Jeanette did just that. Was it evil? Sure! Her leaving Kate in that basement was, without a doubt, a horrible decision. But (not in an excusing way), she is very much a teenager who so desperately wanted to fit in and be popular, that she disregarded/accepted the consequences of not unlocking the basement door. It doesn't quite go as far as eliciting empathy for her situation, but in the end it can at least partially be chalked up to "underdeveloped teen brain makes a terribly horrible decision for their own benefit", because oftentimes bad teenage decisions can lead to even worse outcomes.
Isabella on the other hand? She has a history of being some kind of evil for her own benefit. She doesn't strike you as the kind of person who couldn't be popular or well liked or have friends without being manipulative.
But most importantly: Isabella didn't just leave Luke to die. Which, yeah, would have been bad enough. Just like Jeanette leaving Kate behind was bad - though I am sure she did not actively want Kate to die, she just wanted her gone and there's a difference in that.
No, Isabella didn't see Luke and turned around and left - she actively decided to kill him. That's not neglect. That's not ignorance of consequences. It's doing something that she knew would result in death. And for what? We were made to believe she wanted Megan to herself, but then we see her leaving anyway. So, not only did she kill someone, she also did it for reasons that lie far beyond any of the reasons we've been given throughout the season.
The closest we come to an explanation is the assumption that she has a anti-social personality disorder, and that's frustrating. Not because I don't enjoy plots like that (I really do. Hence my adoration for the movie Orphan), but simply because that's NOT what this series is about. It's about teenagers being stupid. It's about teenagers making horrible decisions. It's this unique moral ambiguity that comes with the territory of growing up. Play out these stories with adults and you have a bunch of criminals, because there's no lenience, no "maybe they didn't know it any better", no "well, maybe they were just being selfish and reckless". But the finale effectively erased that possibility. Isabella knew, she knew and she did it anyway and she burst this bubble this show has previously created for all those characters who were figuring growing up.
Jeanette Turner was a selfish teen who didn't care to contemplate the consequences of her decisions.
Isabella LaRue was a ruthless sociopath who kills people for the sake of killing them, not because she was ever in a position where accepting or causing the death of someone was deemed necessary from her point of view and that makes all the difference between these two storylines.
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