Warning: This article contains spoilers for theCruel Summerseason 2 finale, “Endgame.”
Cruel Summerreally meant the term “ride or die” literally this season.
While Isabella thought she got away with murder and skipped town making a new friend a.k.a.
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What were some of the alternate ideas you were considering?
We had different potential killers before we landed on Isabella.
It didn’t take that long, but we certainly went down many avenues with other characters.
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We just wanted it to be surprising and hopefully satisfying.
Why did you decide on Isabella as Luke’s killer?
Well, she didn’t go there to kill him.
I think that’s important to say.
She saw Luke as a dead end for Megan.
Then she skips town and leaves Megan behind.
How did she get to this point?
She’s someone who tells herself a story to fit the circumstance.
When she was in St. Bart’s with Lisa, everything went sideways and then she extricated herself.
But she’s an outsider, and they don’t look kindly on outsiders.
Her lawyer tells her it’ll be very easy for her to take the fall.
In fact, she is the murderer, but at that point, they don’t have that information.
At that point she is out for herself.
She’s already been aware of the status of her passport and gotten it back.
If Megan had said, “Yes, this has felt fantastic.
you could’t turn back time, but you could rewrite the future.
What was going through her mind when Isabella makes that choice to drown Luke instead of helping him?
He was trying to isolate her and save his own skin.
He’s playing dirty, but he’s not saying untruths either.
It’s New Year’s Day, 5 in the morning, and it feels like a clean ending.
I don’t think she is really the villain.
She’s someone who has real boundary issues.
Everything is heightened with her.
There’s that Hail Mary pass at reigniting the friendship, and Megan shuts it down again.
For Isabella, when her back’s against the wall, she looks out for No.
1, and she’s a survivor.
It’s not as much about framing Megan as saving herself.
She would frame someone else if it were conducive, but she’s just taking care of herself.
Does this mean she probably killed Lisa too?
Trevor clearly thought there was more to the story.
Did she or didn’t she?
What’s going through Megan’s mind when she watches the security footage in the final moments?
I wanted it to be shock and horror, and Sadie did this so beautifully.
I think she’s taking that footage right to Sheriff Myer.
That’s what I would do.
I don’t think you’re able to see that and not do something with it.
It’s really too early to say what’s in store for a potential season 3.
