Where Does 'Cruel Summer' Season 2 Take Place?
Cruel Summer is an anthology series, which means the Texas town that served as the backdrop of Season 1 is now in the rearview mirror. The second season of the show, which follows three timelines in the Y2K era, takes place in the fictional town of Chatham, Washington, and centers around two friends: Megan Landry (Sadie Stanley), a Chatham native who's on track for a computer science scholarship, and Isabella LaRue (Lexi Underwood), a worldly exchange student who boards with the Landrys for a year.
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Ultimately, the two girls find themselves at the center of a murder case when Megan's friend, Luke (Griffin Gluck), is killed. But the real mystery, at least as far as this post is concerned, is where the heck the show was shot!
Where does Cruel Summer Season 2 take place?
The second season of Cruel Summer takes place in the fictional town of Chatham, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest, but it was actually shot in and around Vancouver, Canada, and Richmond, British Columbia. According to a local outlet (via Decider) filming was set to begin in March 8 and end on June 29.
That timeline squares with Gluck's weather-related experience on set. As the actor told Distractify, "We were shooting those summer scenes during the coldest days of the year. Not of the year but for our shooting...we were right at the end of wintertime, I think, verging on spring/summer. And so it'd be like freezing cold out, and I would be in shorts and a short-sleeve t-shirt and flip flops, freezing my buns off."
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On the flip side, the cast shot winter scenes in the middle of summer. "We're wearing pants with a T-shirt and a sweater and a jacket over that and like some big socks and some big boots," he said. "And we're just dying of heat."
Real-life locations that appear on the show include Sunset Marina on Sea to Sky Highway, B.C. and the Clova Theatre, which production took back to the year 1999 with the following movie listed on the marquee: Girl Interrupted. A clue as to what's to come this season? That remains to be seen.
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