(Warning: This post contains spoilers for the third episode of “Cruel Summer.”)
Much of the third episode of Freeform’s slow-burn thriller “Cruel Summer” was spent chronicling the deteriorating relationship between Jeanette (Chiara Aurelia) and her mother Cindy (Sarah Drew), with the pair’s seemingly tight-knit mother-daughter dynamic in the show’s 1993 timeline replaced by Cindy’s conspicuous absence in 1995 as the entire Turner family seemingly comes undone under the weight of Kate’s allegations against Jeanette.
“I think for Cindy, 1994 [the middle timeline] is the pinnacle of success,” Drew said in an interview with TheWrap. “Her daughter has now become the popular, gorgeous, desired girl with all the cool friends.