| I Know What You Did Last Summer | |
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| Created by | Sara Goodman |
| Based on | I Know What You Did Last Summer byLois Duncan |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Producer | Sheila Phillips |
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| Running time | 44–58 minutes |
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| Network | Amazon Prime Video |
| Release | October 15 (2021-10-15) – November 12, 2021 (2021-11-12) |
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I Know What You Did Last Summer is an Americanslasher television series based onthe 1973 novel byLois Duncan. It was adapted forAmazon Prime Video by Sara Goodman and is produced byAmazon Studios andSony Pictures Television Studios, in association withOriginal Film,Mandalay Television andAtomic Monster. Part of theI Know What You Did Last Summer franchise, the series is a modern take on the original novel and follows a group of friends stalked by a brutal killer one year after covering up a car accident in which they killed someone. It features a cast led byMadison Iseman,Brianne Tju, Ezekiel Goodman, Ashley Moore, and Sebastian Amoruso, and also starsBill Heck,Fiona Rene, Cassie Beck, andBrooke Bloom.
Amazon Studios announced the series's development in 2019, withNeal H. Moritz andJames Wan serving as executive producers. It was given a straight-to-series order in October 2020. Filming took place inOahu and began in January 2021. The first four episodes premiered to mixed reviews onAmazon Prime Video on October 15, 2021, with the remaining episodes debuting on a weekly basis. In January 2022, the series was canceled after one season.
In addition,Spencer Sutherland co-stars as Dale, a young man from the village who saw Lennon's group the night of the event.
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| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [1] | |
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| 1 | "It's Thursday" | Craig William Macneill | Teleplay by : Sara Goodman andShay Hatten Story by : Shay Hatten and Sara Goodman | October 15, 2021 (2021-10-15) | |
Twins Alison and Lennon fight during an end-of-year high school party. Lennon sleeps with Dylan, Alison’s high school crush. While Alison tries to take off in Lennon’s car, all of Lennon's friends jump in the vehicle, including Dylan. They all mistake Alison for Lennon. On the ride home, they run over Lennon, who they believe is Alison. The group agrees to keep the secret and dumps the body in the ocean. | |||||
| 2 | "It's Not Just for Dog Shit" | Craig William Macneill | Sara Goodman | October 15, 2021 (2021-10-15) | |
| 3 | "A Gorilla Head Will Not Do" | Logan Kibens | Johanna Stokes | October 15, 2021 (2021-10-15) | |
| 4 | "Hot Shrimp Salad" | Logan Kibens | Phoebe Fisher | October 15, 2021 (2021-10-15) | |
| 5 | "Mukbang" | Benjamin Semanoff | Gary Tieche | October 22, 2021 (2021-10-22) | |
| 6 | "Least You Had a Spare" | Benjamin Semanoff | Lana Cho | October 29, 2021 (2021-10-29) | |
| 7 | "If Only Dogs Could Talk" | Logan Kibens | Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz | November 5, 2021 (2021-11-05) | |
| 8 | "Your Next Life Could Be So Much Happier" | Logan Kibens | Sara Goodman | November 12, 2021 (2021-11-12) | |
On July 26, 2019, it was announced thatAmazon Studios would develop a television series based on the 1973 novelI Know What You Did Last Summer byLois Duncan, withNeal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty ofOriginal Film serving as executive producers andShay Hatten writing the pilot.[2] On October 14, 2020, Amazon gave the project a series order, and it was announced that Sara Goodman had replaced Hatten as series writer. It was also announced that Goodman and Hatten would serve as executive producers on the series, alongsideErik Feig of Original Film and Rob Hackett, Michael Clear, andJames Wan ofAtomic Monster.[3] On December 9, 2020,Craig William Macneill was announced as the director of the pilot as well as an executive producer.[4] On January 11, 2021,Madison Iseman,Brianne Tju, Ezekiel Goodman, Ashley Moore, Sebastian Amoruso, Fiona Rene, Cassie Beck,Brooke Bloom, andBill Heck were cast in starring roles.[5] Later that month,Sonya Balmores was cast in a recurring role.[6] In the following two months, Spencer Sutherland[7] andChrissie Fit[8] also joined the cast in a recurring capacity. The series began filming onOahu on January 25, 2021.[9]
A soundtrack album forI Know What You Did Last Summer was released byMadison Gate Records on October 15, 2021, featuring original music by composersDrum & Lace andIan Hultquist.[10] The series premiered onAmazon Prime Video on the same date, with the first four episodes available immediately and the rest subsequently debuting on a weekly basis.[11] On January 7, 2022, Amazon Prime Video canceled the series after one season.[12][13]
Thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes reports a 41% approval rating with an average rating of 5.3 out of 10 based on 46 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "A bloodless slasher that fails to congeal,I Know What You Did Last Summer's killer cast can't make up for the show's many plot holes and unsatisfying twists."[14]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 45 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[15]
Meagan Navarro, writing forBloody Disgusting, gave the series three out of five stars. Navarro wrote, "Fantastic deaths and a gripping murder mystery pull you in, even when its mostly unlikeable leads tend to polarize", adding, "The more the series progresses, the murkier things get. It succeeds wholly in ensuring an unpredictable mystery that continues to surprise. When you think you've nailed a reveal, the series makes a shocking left turn", and concluded writing that "They may not engender themselves well to the viewer, but the slow trickle truth of who they are and their many secrets makes for a propulsive watch all the same."[16]
Daniel Fienberg, writing forThe Hollywood Reporter, said that, unlike the films, the then-teenagers are users ofInstagram, and that "it is only somewhat about Instagram, on a purely practical level, but it takes the myopia exhibited in previous versions of the story to an extreme". He added that while a "new take absolutely has an angle all its own, and a justification for retelling this story", it is "mediocre", and concluded saying there is something "amusingly subversive" about the "kills" that define the genre.[17]
Aedan Juvet ofScreen Rant praised the adaptation and its use of "next-genscream queen" Tju, writing that the actor brings "laughs, screams, and sheer perfection to her role as the series' all-important character".[18]
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