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Topic: Cruel Summer

Thomas Doherty and Jason Gothay on Gossip Girl (HBO Max)

TV ends the "hot for teacher" fantasy

Kylie Cheung
Chiara Aurelia and Olivia Holt in "Cruel Summer" (Freeform)

Grooming & the big lie in "Cruel Summer"

Kylie Cheung
Olivia Holt in "Cruel Summer" and Amy Adams in "The Woman in the Window" (Photo illustration by Salon/Netflix/Freeform)

The onscreen horror of sexist disbelief

Kylie Cheung