The boy dies, and a year later, the de facto Final Girl of the group, Julie James, gets a note in the mail with the title’s ominous words emblazoned across it. The slim thriller initially told a pretty simple tale of a group of teens who accidentally hit a boy on a bike with their car, anonymously call the cops, then make a pact never to tell. It bears noting how Duncan’s original story has been ratcheted up over the decades. “As the mother of a murdered child, I don’t find violent death something to squeal and giggle about.” “What I, personally, have a problem with are the stories - usually on television, where action takes the place of introspection - where violence is sensationalized and made to seem thrilling rather than terrible,” the late author once said. If Lois Duncan was “appalled” when her 1973 young adult novel was turned into a slasher film in 1997, we’re not sure how she’d react to this balls-out (literally) sex- and gore-fest, the first four episodes of which premiere Friday, October 15th. And that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the series, which is rife with ketamine use, full-frontal nudity, Lil Xan, and increasingly creative ways for beautiful high-schoolers to meet their maker. Said dick belongs to a teenage boy peeing in a pool at a raucous party. Not that long into the first episode of Amazon’s new take on the teen classic I Know What You Did Last Summer, we see a dick.
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