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Why You Shouldn’t Let Your Teen Watch ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (2021)

Half Pint Jules
3 min readJan 18, 2022

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With borderline pornographic bi-sexual sex, should this show really only be rated 16+?

I’ll admit, I’m not completely all the way through the first season of the 2021 adaptation of ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’, but I already have a few thoughts about it.

If you’d like to know how I personally feel about the level of sexuality in IKWYDLS, I’d love for you to read my article Sex Scenes in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (2021)

But, putting aside the views of an almost 30-year-old married woman, let’s talk about your kids.

Parents of Teens be Aware.

Lennon & Margot, I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021)

Although a lot of other teen dramas depict sex, violence, and drug use, there are always a few things that stand out to me as being more dangerous to our own teens. And that’s idealizing problematic or dangerous behaviours.

There is a massive difference between a love story going sour, a young woman getting her heartbroken, and the lessons that may be learnt…

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Half Pint Jules
Half Pint Jules

Written by Half Pint Jules

Serial small businesser, total geek for industry talk, strung out most of the time but really, just a SAHWM with a need to talk about it.

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