'Dead Of Summer' Season 2: Prepare For An Entirely 'Different Horror', EPs Preview Summer Of 1970
Peace, love, and the hippie dream died a highly publicized death at Altamont, and, if Dead of Summer has anything to say about it, the 1969 concert whipped up a little satanic nightmare in its wake.
Dead of Summer closed out its first season on Tuesday night, allowing just three of Stillwater's counselors to leave its boarders alive. While the future of Jessie, Drew, Blair will be addressed in a possible third season, the Freeform drama will travel back in time should season 2 come to fruition. It's time to take a good hard look at Deb and the summer of 1970.
"I can tell you it's going to be the summer of 1970 and that during that winter break, those kids decided - because they all missed Woodstock, because they were at Stillwater the year before - they decided to go to Altamont," executive producer Edward Kitsis told Entertainment Weekly. "If you know anything about the Altamont in 1969, maybe they found something there that followed them back."
If Woodstock was the hippie generation's zenith, Altamont was its nadir (my 8th-grade music teacher would be so proud if he knew I remembered this). Just four months after Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and Jefferson Airplane set up camp on Max Yasgur's farm, The Grateful Dead attempted to recreate the free concert phenomena in Northern California. The crowd turned violent, however, resulting in four deaths before the headliners even had a chance to take the stage. The Rolling Stones were the last musicians to play to the crowd, and the combination of their satanic imagery and Altamont's deadly legacy is perfect fodder for a Camp Stillwater nightmare.
Whatever horror plagues Camp Stillwater in season 2, it will be entirely different from the summer of 1989.
"What's going on with the lake is all it's doing is providing either good or evil; it can manifest itself in many different ways. The scares, the horror, and the '80s vibe you saw in this will be much different in 1970," Kitsis explained. "It won't be people trying to bring a demon back. It will be different horror. It will give you much more of an insight, also, into this season as well."
Freeform has not yet renewed Dead of Summer.
