Cruel Summer — Season 1, Episode 1: Happy Birthday, Jeanette Turner

Episode synopsis

Taking place over 3 summers in the 90s when a popular teen goes missing, and a seemingly unrelated girl transforms from a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town, eventually becoming the most despised person in America.

About Cruel Summer

Taking place over three summers - 1993, 1994, 1995 - in a small Texas town, a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.

More episodes from Season 1

• E2A Smashing Good Time
• E3Off with a Bang
• E4You Don't Hunt, You Don't Eat
• E5As the Carny Gods Intended
• E6An Ocean in Me
• E7Happy Birthday, Kate Wallis
• E8Proof
• E9A Secret of My Own
• E10Hostile Witness