‘Cruel Summer’ Showrunner on That Punch and the Coming ‘Showdown’ Between Kate and Jeanette “It’s about good people making bad choices, doubling down and the snowball effect that has,” Tia Napolitano tells TheWrapReid Nakamura | April 20, 2021 @ 8:00 PM Freeform/Bill Matlock (Warning: This post contains spoilers for Tuesday’s premiere of “Cruel Summer.”) The first two episodes of the new Freeform thriller “Cruel Summer” set up a plenty complicated dynamic for Kate and Jeanette, but the fallout from what happened between the two characters is only just beginning, says showrunner Tia Napolitano. “We like to say that our show is one in which someone might make a bad choice, but it’s about good people making bad choices, doubling down and the snowball effect that has,” Napolitano said in an interview with TheWrap. “People have regrets and then live with the consequences of their actions.”