Bill Matlock / Freeform Don’t you just love it when Freeform comes through with a completely bonkers teen thriller? My current obsession is Cruel Summer, a deliciously bingeable new series created by Bert V. Royal, best known for writing the 2010 teen comedy Easy A. In today’s glut of trash TV, Cruel Summer’s premise feels genuinely fresh and compelling, even if I’m not quite sure how they’ll manage to pull it all off. Every episode takes place on the same day over three years — 1993, 1994, and 1995 — allowing for some fun throwback costuming: the girls in slip dresses over white T-shirts, the boys rocking baby Leo DiCaprio’s floppy hair. The drama starts when beloved popular girl Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt) suddenly goes missing. In the year she’s gone, awkward misfit Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia) somehow manages to take over Kate’s life: She starts dating Kate’s boyfriend, becomes friends with her friends. And then there’s the twist: Kate is found alive — she had been abducted by the new vice principal and held hostage in his basement — and she accuses Jeanette of knowing that Kate had been abducted but, because she was busy taking over Kate’s life, refused to report it. Jeanette, who flat-out denies Kate’s charges, goes from being the new most popular girl at school to the most reviled person in America. So who’s really telling the truth?