14: Special: Let's Watch The Cruel Intentions Trilogy!

We’re off this week but we bring you three Again With Again With This episodes from the club vault.

AWAWT 253: Let’s Watch Joshua Jackson In Cruel Intentions!

How to reinvent Les Liaisons Dangereuses for the late 20th century Youthquake moment? Set it among Upper East Side high school brats, and throw in a couple of stars from The WB!

AWAWT 254: Let’s Watch Robin Dunne In Cruel Intentions 2!

A TV iteration of Cruel Intentions, Manchester Prep, was planned for FOX’s 1999-2000 primetime schedule…until Rupert Murdoch (allegedly) had the project sacked for being too crass (!), at which time it was reworked as a prequel, Cruel Intentions 2, and everything about it is…number two: the casting, the timeline, the geography, the wardrobe, and Robin “AJ” Dunne as Valmont makes Ryan Phillippe look like Jon Hamm. This is possibly the crappiest show-verse property we’ve ever contemplated, and we’re talking about that, plus early TWoP days, Some Kind Of Wonderful, and “frisky twins” (ew). Listen now!

AWAWT 255: Let’s Watch Kerr Smith In Cruel Intentions 3!

So it’s come to this: a Cruel Intentions sequel with none of the original talent attached. (Not even poor old Pierre Choderlos de Laclos gets a credit!) After Kathryn has ruined the family with her antics in New York, her cousin Cassidy is forced to lie low at a college in Santa Barbara, where she and her frenemy and sparring partner Jason (Kerr Smith!) simply can’t stop betting on sex. How does this entry slyly cross over with both American Psycho and Sex & The City? We’ll tell you everything important! …Which admittedly isn’t much.

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🎬 Cruel Intentions (1999) on Prime Video
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🎞️ Cruel Intentions 2 on Dailymotion (don't do it, friends)
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