Cruel Intentions: Here’s your first look at the new Prime Video TV series
New information about the forthcoming Cruel Intentions series has finally arrived. Back in December 2023, it was revealed that a TV iteration of the 1999 cult classic was headed to Prime Video.
Like its predecessor, the show will follow “two ruthless step-siblings,” Caroline Merteuil (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Lucien Belmont (Zac Burgess), who go to “great lengths to stay on top of the social pyramid.” However, instead of taking place at an elite private high school in the Upper East Side of New York City, the show is set at a posh college in Washinton, D.C.
The synopsis adds: “In this case, their focus is the Greek life hierarchy at an elite Washington D.C. college. After a brutal hazing incident threatens the entire Panhellenic system, they’ll do anything to preserve their power and reputations, even attempt to seduce the daughter of the Vice President of the United States,” played by Gossip Girl star Savannah Lee Smith.
Since that fateful day, additional details about the series have been kept under wraps… until now. Fortunately, the co-showrunners of Cruel Intentions, Sara Goodman and Phoebe Fisher, shared exciting details about the show during a recent sit down with Entertainment Weekly. “We talked a lot about what the peek behind the curtain of a rarefied world that we hadn’t seen before could be, where it felt like it had its own social hierarchy,” Fisher explained.
