TV Show: I Know What You Did Last Summer-- Ending Explained with spoilers!

 

Here's a thought after watching I know what you did last summer: it has become incredibly important to invest in therapy programs to help teens through. It appears that teens lose all sense of morality pretending to be adults who know what they are doing. They are not.

In fact, every school should introduce a mandatory program where every student has to speak to a therapist every month or so, depending on the needs and case.

Because if this is the way teens behave nowadays it is no wonder there is a rise in crime.

I Know What You Did Last Summer was supposed to be about an accident. The characters were supposed to be good people. Okay, maybe some of them had a mean streak, but still essentially good. They make one little mistake and are made to pay for it.

That's what the book and movies were about. The TV series will have you wondering if there is anyone on that little island who is good.

More than once, you will find yourself saying WTF over and over again. Sometimes it will be because of the way the characters behave. Other times it will be because the police force is so inept. The last episode of the season, especially...what the hell was even that?

The protagonist, Allison, was harbouring a secret. She was pretending to be Lennon because only her identical twin had friends. Turns out half of the group already suspected she wasn't Lennon.

I know what you did last summer...

Was it about Allison pretending to be Lennon or the cult that half the island seems to be part of?

For some reason, it's supposed to insert a supernatural element to the proceedings.  Does it do that effectively? Of course not. The island could pretty much put up a board that says "We are all mad here". And then send psychiatrists from all over the world there to give them some help.

There is not a single character that will appeal to you. All of them are crass and behave like insane junkies. In that case, the actors have done a decent job with the extremely poor script if we are able to dislike them that much.

There was a good attempt at keeping the mystery wrapped until the last episode but then the way it unfolds will leave you with your mouth open and wondering if perhaps you are the one who lost your mind and not the characters.

There are too many inconsistencies and too many subplots thrown into the mix. Unfortunately, none of them is compelling enough. All we care about is who knows what these irresponsible teens did last summer. Is it one of them or someone else entirely?

I Know What You Did Last Summer Ending Explained

Like in most slasher movies, not exactly a spoiler alert, it is one of them. But the reasoning is just so convoluted and seemed convenient.

The show centres around Allison. It's a story about her insecurities and her jealousy towards her twin Lennon.

Lennon has everything: friends, the adoration of her father, a college to go to after school ends.

Allison doesn't have a plan and is traumatised after her mother, who was part of a cult, committed suicide.

The whole cult plot was terribly written and does nothing but add confusion to the proceedings.

Allison gets into a fight with her twin at Margot's graduation party,  storms out and sits in Lennon's car. Her friends get skittish when they see Lyla, a cop, at their party and worry she may notice they have taken drugs. Allison pretends to be Lennon because she's still mad her twin seduced her crush Dylan.

The accident happens because Allison is a terrible driver. Or is she? The victim is none other than Lennon.

The friends freak and decide to keep it a secret because they are all high and worry they might be arrested and their futures will go down the drain. They place Lennon's body in a cave near the cliffs where they hope the tide will take her away. It was the place where the twin's mother committed suicide as well. Or did she?

Allison is immediately recognised by her father and upon his insistence, she decides she is okay with pretending to be Lennon forever. She did want her sister's life after all.

A year passes, Allison returns only to find a message scrawled on her mirror: I know what you did last summer. There's a goat ahead to accompany the message.

Soon after the friends die one by one. They weren't remarkable characters to begin with so no tears are shed.

Allison is shocked to discover her twin had an adult account in her name where she posted videos of her seducing random men. She also finds a video of her father, Bruce and Lyla being grossly intimate.

Now Lyla is the police officer in charge of every case of the island. Is she adept? Of course not. Its probably her affair with Bruce that causes her to focus on everything else but the murders in their quiet little island.

There are spiders found in people's brains, something with suffocating people with honey, a lot of cult stuff that focuses on rebirth, necklaces that keep coming up, and characters screaming at the police to help them only for them to focus on spiders rather than looking for missing teens in a place where a serial killer is on the loose.

The worst was the last scene. Lyla finally wants to determine if Allison is the twin she claims to be, which is Lennon. They compare everything with a picture Bruce exchanged in the photo frames on his desk. The medical examiner finds a piercing on the upper lobe that the other twin doesn't have. They don't use pictures of the real Lennon from the numerous pictures on her bedroom wall or from her school photos, or social media.

Nope. They pick the picture Bruce gives them which helps the Medical examiner to state that Allison is indeed Lennon. Great job, doctor!

And then there's awkward Dylan who claims to be in love with Allison but even though he grew up with her, never learned the difference between her and her twin.

Then again, how could he? Allison dressed up like Lennon all the time. Copied her hairstyle too. Kept the same hair length as well. And wore the same make up.

In his free time, Dylan likes to set up salt licks for the goats and carve dead people's names in the cave. Turns out he's possibly a member of the cult too or desires to be in it.

But even though he talks like a creep, stalks Allison all the time and maintains a hobby to carve names on rocks, he isn't the killer. He couldn't be. Slasher movies 101, it's not the obvious guy in the group. It's the least obvious one. Someone who should have been killed easily because they move around so much but still not even attacked.

In the end, there's a tug of war of sorts between Dylan and Allison. Could it be Allison all along? Is she not only desperate to take on the life of her twin but also has mental issues?

Nope. It is the one other friend who survived, and whose absence stopped all killings on the island. And when she comes back...Allison is attacked.

The killer is none other than Margot. Why? Could it be because her boyfriend Johnny dumped her because he preferred people of his gender? Then again Margot wasn't exactly attracted to guys either and had an unhealthy obsession with Lennon whom she called Lemon.

Lennon on the other hand was sleeping around with everyone on the island so Margot was heartbroken about that.

Margot killed all her friends because she had a hunch Lennon was actually Allison. Just a hunch, mind you. She suspected her because Allison used the wrong angles and hashtags on social media and that is a crime in itself. How dare she!

She tried to get Allison to come clean by murdering all their friends. She asks Allison how she could let all her friends die and still not want to tell the truth?

Allison keeps maintaining she's Lennon even though Margot has stabbed her and a knife is sticking out of her stomach.

Somewhere along the lines Allison's mother had also returned, had two dialogues and then was killed. She picked the cult over her own family yet, even after all these years, she knew which daughter was which.

The friends Lennon and Allison grew up with didn't know at all.

Dylan is also running around the place and is struck. The police arrive and Lyla asks Lennon who stabbed her. Margot has already used Dylan's discharge from when he spent the night with Allison, on the knife. Allison had told Dylan the truth about her identity but he rejected her because she wasn't the girl who he had been in love with and had done terrible things because of it. Like soaking everyone in honey? Who knows.

Knowing Dylan will never accept her because she's crazy and a Lennon wannabe, Allison accuses Dylan of stabbing her.

He's taken into custody. Dylan knows his DNA will be found on the knife. The medical examiners won't notice why semen is all over the knife at all.

Dylan starts talking to his cellmates about cult-related things like rebirth and all.

Allison decides to live her life happily with Margot as her girlfriend. It doesn't matter if she had a preference as Allison. She's decided to take on Margot as her partner now.

They both live happily ever after.

But wait! One of the friends, Riley,  who was assumed dead and covered in some sort of honey embalming liquid, awakens.

So there is some truth to all the cult stuff?

The show shows teenagers as sleazy creatures who have no moral compass and only liked to indulge in alcohol, drugs, cigarettes and sex. There's also self-harming thrown in as well as posting adult videos online.

Anything that is deemed sinful, well the teens do it all.

The cult members may have some rules, but they all commit suicide as well probably because they thought they could be reborn. Were they?

Lennon was brainwashed into thinking she could come back to and rectify her mistakes which is why she runs towards the car that Allison purposely accelerated upon seeing her twin.

So we have a sister who was crazy and promiscuous, and another who was desperate and murderous. Great characters that we want to root for, right? Right?

Except we don't.

In the world of I know what you did last summer, everyone is a criminal.

Watch this show only if you want to cringe and throw profanities at the absurd finale.