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Credit where credit is due. The decision to update Cruel Intentions to the collegiate atmosphere of fraternities and sororities was inspired. Their structure contains built-in expectations that wonderfully mirror the neo-Edith Wharton New York that hit in the 1999 film but might feel tired in our post-Gossip Girl world. The update to college also works like the oft-used porn dialogue, Now that you’ve turned 18…
The Cruel Intentions movie was all about taboos and in a world where the internet is filled with incest porn, age gap porn, and just about any other power dynamic you can imagine porn, this update could’ve leaned into these dynamics to reveal something interesting about our desires. It could have lived in a fantasy space where it became even more ethically murky to relish in and reevaluate why we’re turned on by what’s forbidden. Instead it tries to ground the narrative in ways that make it fucked up in a sad way instead of fucked up in a fun way.
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To sustain that story for potential future seasons, though, co-showrunners and had to go beyond the film’s foundations. First, they fleshed out characters that orbit the gruesome twosome at the center of “Cruel Intentions.” Cece (Sara Silva), a character originally played by Selma Blair in the film, now serves as Caroline’s ambitious but naive right hand in their sorority. Blaze (John Harlan Kim), inspired by a queer character originally played by Joshua Jackson, is now a leader in Lucien’s fraternity alongside their new president and his lover, Scott (Khobe Clarke). Sean Patrick Thomas plays Professor Chadwick, a good-natured educator who succumbs to his attraction to his teaching assistant, Cece. (Fans of the film will know Thomas originally played a similar role in the character of Ronald, a young music teacher who falls in love with Blair’s Cecile.)
