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Prime Video’s ‘Cruel Intentions’ Reboot Is Stale and Unsexy: TV Review
In Prime Video's reboot of "Cruel Intentions" two conniving step-siblings play a game of power and control.
Twenty-five years after the release of the cult-classic film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon, Prime Video is dropping a “ Cruel Intentions ” TV series. Adapted for television by Phoebe Fisher and Sara Goodman, this 21st-century retelling is a battle of wills between two volatile stepsiblings: the conniving and cross-wearing Caroline Merteuil ( Sarah Catherine Hook) and the manipulative Lucien Belmont ( Zac Burgess). The series opens at the start of the school year at the picturesque Manchester College, where, following a hazing incident the previous semester that left Scott Russell (Khobe Clarke), the son of a congressman, hospitalized, the fraternities and sororities are on thin ice.
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