An opening voiceover waxes faux intellectual about not really knowing anyone, spoon-feeding the audience as to what the overall theme of the series is, despite it being a standard theme in slasher fare. While pilots are tough to get perfect or even right, the “I Know What You Did Last Summer” pilot (“It’s Thursday”) is arguably the strongest argument that this series should have instead been a reboot film.
Also ultimately dragged into the web of deceit and lies created by that specific summer night are Lennon and Alison’s dad Bruce (Bill Heck), Riley’s mother Courtney (Cassie Beck), Lyla (Fiona Rene), the chief of police investigating the murders as they pile up a year later, and Clara (Brooke Bloom), a mysterious character whose motives and presence only become even more mysterious with more screen time. Boiling them down to their requisite archetypes, the TV show’s friend group is comprised of twins Lennon and Alison (Madison Iseman), rich girl Margot (Brianne Tju), Nice Guy Dylan (Ezekiel Goodman), wrong side of the tracks misfit Riley (Ashley Moore), and gay best friend Johnny (Sebastian Amoruso). The general “I Know What You Did Last Summer” premise is still the same: After covering up a hit and run, a group of friends is stalked the following summer by a serial killer who taunts them and picks them off one-by-one. The Amazon series shares little in common with the movies, begging the question of it using established IP for something otherwise unrecognizable that may do more harm to its audience perception in the long run than good.
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