Cruel Summer

SEASON:

Episode 10 Endgame

Cruel Summer Season-Finale Recap: Brent, Interrupted We regret riding for Isabella the entire season.
Episode 9 The Miseducation of Luke Chambers

Cruel Summer Recap: Don’t Speak The penultimate episode is essentiallyCruel Summer (Luke’s Version).
Episode 8 Confess Your Sins

Cruel Summer Recap: Teenage Dirtbag What exactly is the plan here, girls?
Episode 7 It’s the End of the World

Cruel Summer Recap: Partying Like It’s 1999 Things are finally happening onCruel Summer: Girlz Rule Boys Drool Edition.
Episode 6 The Plunge

Cruel Summer Recap: Hot-Girl Summer So the douche gene didn’t skip Luke after all.
Episode 5 All I Want for Christmas

Cruel Summer Recap: Spy Kids Megan has a promising future career as a Girl Boss Scammer.

Episode 4 Springing a Leak

Cruel Summer Recap: Let’s Go, Girls This whole episode really could have been an email.
Episode 3 Bloody Knuckles

Cruel Summer Recap: Beware the Nice Guy The men in this show continue to reveal themselves to be the worst.
Episode 2 Ride or Die

Cruel Summer Recap: Sex, Lies, and Revenge Porn Why isn’t the sheriff more interested in solving the case of the Christmas revenge porn?
Episode 1 Welcome to Chatham

Cruel Summer Season-Premiere Recap: What Did Megan Do Last Summer? The classic love triangle gets turned on its head in the best way. Plus, all the Y2K slang!

chapters ‘Everything on That Island Wanted to Kill You’The very first crew ofSurvivorslept tent-less on a beach covered in rats and snakes because they smelled a hit TV show. And then it got worse. ByEmily Nussbaum
exit interview HowClippedDramatized the Facts to Expose the TruthShowrunner Gina Welch on filling in the narrative gaps of the Donald Sterling affair “in a way that implicated the viewer.” ByJen Chaney
stories from the frontline What It’s Like to Work With Madonna on a Movie SetSpike Lee and eight other collaborators look back on the highs and lows of the queen of pop’s Hollywood career. ByMatthew Jacobs

The Latest on TV

now streaming 3:15 p.m.

The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This July 4 WeekendSwap fireworks for fire-breathing dragons, baby.

BySavannah Salazar
chapters 11:00 a.m.

‘Everything on That Island Wanted to Kill You’The very first crew ofSurvivorslept tent-less on a beach covered in rats and snakes because they smelled a hit TV show. And then it got worse.

ByEmily Nussbaum

exit interview 10:00 a.m.

HowClippedDramatized the Facts to Expose the TruthShowrunner Gina Welch on filling in the narrative gaps of the Donald Sterling affair “in a way that implicated the viewer.”

ByJen Chaney
vulture lists Yesterday at 3:01 p.m.

The 20 Most Significant Episodes ofLostWe have to go back (because it’s now streaming on Netflix).

ByJen Chaney
achy breaky Yesterday at 2:00 p.m.

A Timeline of Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose’s Explosive DivorceA chance meeting on theHannah Montanaset has led to one of the year’s biggest tabloid stories.

ByJustin Curto
the girls aren’t fighting Yesterday at 11:00 a.m.

LetHouse of the Dragon’s Women Be EvilThere’s gotta be a happy medium between legendary cruelty and benevolent naïveté.

ByNate Jones
something to chew on Yesterday at 9:00 a.m.

13 TV Conversation Starters for Your Fourth of July BarbecueSpecifically aboutThe Bear,House of the Dragon,The Boys,andThe Acolyte.

ByJesse David Fox
cancel culture July 3, 2024

2024’s Canceled Shows, for Your Final ConsiderationOuter RangeandMake or Breakhave been put out to pasture.

ByJason P. Frank
remembrance July 3, 2024

No One Could Tee Up a Bullfrog Like Bill CobbsHe built a career on wise, one-shot characters, and he made everything fromDemolition MantoThe Sopranosbetter because of it.

ByMatt Zoller Seitz
definition July 3, 2024

What Is a Bottle Episode?The people on the internet are wrong. Or are they?

ByKathryn VanArendonk