i know what you did last summer summary book

Alison, meanwhile, is the fuck-up because she isn’t going to college in the fall. Between the two, even though Lennon has a mental illness and a drug problem she’s ignoring, she’s perceived as the sunny golden child. She seems to think she’s hot shit, especially compared with her identical twin sister, Alison, who’s conspicuously absent from the present-day timeline besides some family photos. The Lennon from last summer is all mischievous grins and lascivious dancing with none of the apparent world-weariness of the Lennon we have seen so far. It all starts at a graduation-night rager hosted by Lennon’s rich, social-media-obsessed friend Margot. But most of “It’s Thursday” is devoted, wisely, to depicting the events of last summer. We’ll return to this scene at the end of the episode and get a nice glimpse of the horrifying goat head that accompanies the note. You guessed it, folks: Someone knows what Lennon did last summer. She barely has any time to spend with her dad before she finds the titular note scrawled in blood on her closet door.

This episode begins by establishing our updated setting: present-day Wai Huna, Hawaii, where Lennon Grant has returned home for the first time after her freshman year at the University of Michigan (Go Blue!). It makes for a solid beginning if, occasionally, a tonally confusing one. Showrunner Sara Goodman seems to split the difference between spooky, violent Halloween fun and serious psychological drama.

But the series doesn’t treat death with the perverse glee of a cheesy ’90s hit - at least not yet. “As the mother of a murdered child, I don’t find violent death something to squeal and giggle about,” she said.ĭuncan would probably disapprove of the new TV version of I Know What You Did Last Summer, which seems to promise more teen murdering. It was particularly tasteless to Duncan, whose own teenage daughter was killed in 1989. What started as a teen melodrama and thriller had become a violent slasher flick reveling in the gruesome murders of teens by a fisherman with a hook.

When Lois Duncan watched the 1997 film adaptation of her 1973 novel I Know What You Did Last Summer, she hated it.

I know what you did last summer summary book