• Director(s)

    Bill Purple, Laura Nisbet-Peters, Kellie Cyrus, Alexis Ostrander, Daniel Willis, Ben Hernandez Bray, Max Winkler, Hiromi Kamata

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Mystery

  • Cast

    Chiara Aurelia, Olivia Holt, Sadie Stanley

TV Show

Cruel Summer

CRUEL SUMMER is a US mystery drama series; in this episode, a sex tape causes problems for Megan, Isabella and Luke.…

CRUEL SUMMER is a US mystery drama series; in this episode, a sex tape causes problems for Megan, Isabella and Luke.

  • Director(s)

    Bill Purple, Laura Nisbet-Peters, Kellie Cyrus, Alexis Ostrander, Daniel Willis, Ben Hernandez Bray, Max Winkler, Hiromi Kamata

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Mystery

  • Cast

    Chiara Aurelia, Olivia Holt, Sadie Stanley

Classified Date:
17/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
sexually abusive behaviour
Classified Date:
22/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
sexual violence and sexual threat
A teenage couple are filmed having sex, after which the video is shown at a party without their consent. The scene includes prolonged sexual moaning.
additional issues
The episode features moderate bad language ('bitch', 'slut') as well as milder terms ('ass', 'God'). A body is pulled from a lake, but it is inside a body bag. In another scene a teenager frantically scrubs blood from a floor. Teenagers drink from a spirit bottle at a party and there is brief dangerous behaviour when two young women jump from a rock in to the sea.
sexual violence references
Classified Date:
21/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
sexual violence and sexual threat
A video recording captures two teenagers having sex, without graphic detail. There are references to the recording being taken without consent.
additional issues
There are references to teens using stimulants to help them get through their studies. There is moderate bad language ('slut', 'bitch'), accompanied by other milder terms ('shit', 'bullshit', 'ass', 'asshole', 'friggin'', 'balls', 'hell', 'God' and 'Jesus'). Sexual innuendo and references to adultery are mild.
infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
21/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man grabs his son by the head and forces him roughly to bow down, causing him pain. A teen pushes another against a fridge.
language
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') as well as use of milder terms including 'bitch', 'skank', 'shit', 'crap', 'douchebag', 'piss' and 'ass'.
sex
Moderate sex references include the discussion of a sex tape various characters have been involved in making, and crude jokes regarding erections.
additional issues
A passing reference is made to narcotics found in a man's system after he has died. There is very mild rude humour, including jokes about flatulence.
sexual violence references, sex references, language, sexism, bloody images
Classified Date:
24/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
Bad language includes ‘slut’, ‘skanky’, ‘bitch’, ‘ho’, ‘frigging’, ‘shit’, ‘douchebag’, ‘crap’, ‘ass’, ‘hell’, ‘moron’, ‘damn’ and ‘oh my God’.
sex
There are verbal references to ‘banging’ and ‘sloppy seconds’. One person addresses another as ‘dildo’.
discrimination
There are references to a teenage girl having been repeatedly harassed and called a ‘slut’ after she was falsely identified as one of the victims of an illicitly recorded and distributed ‘sex tape’. In one scene an anonymous harasser makes abusive phones call to her household, using terms such as ‘bitch’ and ‘skanky, dirty ho’ and telling her to 'go back to where [she] came from'. Such behaviour is clearly criticised.
injury detail
There is a brief, dimly lit image of blood-soaked fabric that has been discarded in a rubbish bin. It is implied that the blood may have been shed during an off-screen murder.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are undetailed references to a teenager having secretly filmed two other teens having sex and then distributed the video without their consent. It is also briefly mentioned that he has made tapes of other teens as well, also without their consent. The perpetrator is unrepentant, but his behaviour is explicitly condemned by others as criminal and predatory.
additional issues
Other issues include scenes of underage drinking.
moderate sex references
Classified Date:
24/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
sex
A teenage girl holds up a condom and asks a character if he is ready to have sex for the first time. Further undetailed sex references occur during a post-coital scene. In another scene, a character refers to an older man 'hitting on' on a teenage girl.
additional issues
Mild bad language ('bullshit', 'balls', ‘ass’) occurs, as well as very mild bad language ('God', ‘hell’). There are undetailed verbal and visual references to a fatal drowning. Verbal references are also made to underage drinking.
moderate sex references, sexual harassment
Classified Date:
25/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
sex
A stripper wearing lingerie is briefly shown giving a lap dance to a seventeen-year-old at his birthday party. There are also verbal sex references and innuendo.
sexual violence and sexual threat
Two teenage boys sexually harass a teenage girl by shaming her for being sexually active.
additional issues
Teens are shown drinking, including taking shots, at a party. After a teenage boys death, his shirt is shown to have blood on it.
moderate threat
Classified Date:
24/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A man points a gun at a character for trespassing and accusing him of murdering a teenage boy. A doomsday prepper gets into an altercation with a couple buying Y2K decorations and threatens them.
additional issues
A young man manipulates his girlfriend into thinking her best friend is trying to break them up. A character brags to friends about dating two women at once, and implies that he slept with one of them. There is use of mild bad language ('shit') and milder terms ('screw', 'damn', 'God').
sexual violence references, strong threat, sexual threat, sex references
Classified Date:
24/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A character tied to a bed is given a drink spiked with prescription medication which acts as truth serum, and later has a gun pointed at him.
sex
There are sex references to bondage and safe words.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are verbal references to male characters secretly recording women they have slept with. A male undoes a females bikini top when she rejects him before verbally abusing her.
additional issues
Moderate violence includes the sound of gun being fired with no aftermath detail. There is use of moderate bad language ('slut') and milder terms ('shit', 'bullshit', 'God', 'damn', 'jerk').
strong threat, sexual violence references
Classified Date:
24/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A drugged character chained to a bed begs to be set free.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A character worries about being filmed having sex without her consent.
additional issues
A character tied to a bed is shot in the ear by a person holding him hostage, with bloody aftermath. Characters make sexist comments about female gamers. A man pushes his son against a wall and verbally berates him. Characters quiz a friend on a sex tape he made with his girlfriend. There is use of moderate bad language ('pussy') and milder terms ('asshole', 'bullshit', 'jerk', 'screw').
moderate bad language, sex references, violence, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
24/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man slaps his son, telling him to pull himself together. A character is pushed over, hitting their head on a metal bar and someone clamps another's head to the ground with their foot.
language
There is moderate bad language ('bitch') along with milder terms such as 'shit', 'crap', 'ass', 'asshole', 'screw', 'God', 'damn', 'Christ' and 'hell'.
sex
Characters repeatedly discuss a sex tape made by a teenage boy which involves girls of a similar age. There are verbal references to adulterous behaviour.
additional issues
Distressed characters frantically search for a missing person who they hear has drowned in a body of water. Characters discuss drugging another with unspecified pills. There are scenes of emotional upset and panic as a person feels trapped by the authorities, as well as undetailed references to a woman's cancer.
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  • Classified date

    21/08/2023

  • Distributor

    Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.

  • Language

    English