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"Idon't want to say I have a small-town mind-set, but I love people and I love making friends. That's who I am, even now," says Chiara Aurelia, the lead of Freeform's new drama Cruel Summer, in which she plays a character whose experiences differ greatly from her own.
Produced by Jessica Biel (The Sinner), the 10-episode series is a fresh, multilayered take on the teen crime genre, and Aurelia, 18, delivers a standout performance. Premiering April 20 on Hulu and Freeform, the show follows
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Cruel Summer —truly, genuinely, actually divided. This isn't normal social media division, either. Typically, when , it's because people either .
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Jessica Biel and takes place over three summers in the 1990s, following mousy Jeanette Turner (Aurelia) and popular Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt). During the show’s arc, Kate mysteriously disappears, while Jeanette progresses from wallflower to popular girl to hated outsider — seemingly stealing Kate’s life while she’s gone (including her friends and boyfriend).
The new series Cruel Summer is making history for Freeform!
Cruel Summer has posted Freeform’s most-watched overall series debut ever, averaging 3.81 million average multi-platform viewers in its first week. The Jessica Biel-produced drama also ranks as the network’s best-ever series debut among Adults 18-49 (2.65 million) and Adults 18-34 (1.33 million).
Iceland Airwaves festival has added nearly 30 new acts to its 2021 edition, including Arlo Parks and Bartees Strange.The festival, which cancelled its 2020 edition due to COVID-19 concerns last August, will now return to Reykjavík this November.The likes of Metronomy, Daði Freyr and Dry Cleaning were announced to be playing the festival last year, and more artists have now joined the line-up.Iceland Airwaves will take place across Reykjavík on the weekend of November 3-6, 2021.
Patti Smith and Arlo Parks are among the acts set to perform at this year’s Manchester International Festival, which will also screen a new film starring Cillian Murphy.The event will take place between July 1 and July 18, and will see its participating artists reflect on ideas such as love and human connection in a post-coronavirus world.As per a press release, MIF 2021 will offer up “a unique snapshot of these unprecedented times” while playing “a key role in the safe reopening of the city’s
Warning: This story contains spoilers from the Tuesday, April 27, episode of Cruel Summer.
ITV’s new drama Viewpoint is set to have audiences hooked to the telly every night this week with its all-star cast and addictive plot. Northern Irish actress Bronagh Waugh stars in the show alongside Noel Clark and Alexander Roach.
A worse teen crime drama than “Cruel Summer” would play to conventions and pit the high school archetypes such as the spoiled mean girl against the nerdy, innocent girl, with no real estate between them for character growth. But the new Freeform series, created by Bert V.
Star of the summer! Chiara Aurelia made waves when her new Freeform TV show, Cruel Summer, premiered on Tuesday, April 20.
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Cruel Summer.
On her 15th birthday, Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia) wakes up just another Texan teen with glasses, braces, frizzy hair and an uncomplicated wish to be pretty and popular. Shortly after her 17th birthday, she tells a friend, “I miss the days when nobody wanted me dead.” In just a couple of years, Jeanette’s life is turned upside down by a public allegation that has the governor of her state calling her a “disgrace” and the National Enquirer charging her with Satan worship.
Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentWhen Olivia Holt rose to prominence on Disney XD’s “Kickin’ It” in 2011, she was barely 14 years old — the same age as Jessica Biel when she began working on the family drama “7th Heaven,” 15 years earlier.Now, the two women are teaming up for “Cruel Summer,” Freeform’s psychological thriller in which Holt stars as Kate Wallis, a high schooler who goes missing.
Luke Benward plays a captured soldier who puts it all on the line in the name of honor, in Wildcat, a new thriller from Saban Pictures that co-stars Georgina Campbell. In the gripping feature Luke’s character endures torture at the hands of a terrorist group in the Middle East, a role that he “immersed” himself in.