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* {{Hypocrite}}: Blair, initially suspecting that Drew is simply gay, tries to strike up a relationship with him, telling him about the importance of [[BeYourself being yourself]]. [[spoiler:When he finds out that Drew is also transgender, however, he wants nothing to do with him and is {{squick}}ed out at the fact that he had kissed a boy who was biologically female. Ironically, it's Jessie, who until then seemed like a run-of-the-mill AlphaBitch, who winds up being more accepting of Drew.]] To his credit, Blair eventually realizes that he was being an asshole and starts to accept Drew as well.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Blair, initially suspecting that Drew is simply gay, tries to strike up a relationship with him, telling him about the importance of [[BeYourself being yourself]]. [[spoiler:When he finds out that Drew is also transgender, however, he wants nothing to do with him and is {{squick}}ed out at the fact that he had kissed a boy who was biologically female.assigned female at birth. Ironically, it's Jessie, who until then seemed like a run-of-the-mill AlphaBitch, who winds up being more accepting of Drew.]] To his credit, Blair eventually realizes that he was being an asshole and starts to accept Drew as well.
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* ImmigrantPatriotism: Alex (real name Alexi Fayvinov) is an immigrant from the USSR who's obsessed with the AmericanDream, having seen his father get chewed up by it and vowing not to let the same thing happen to him.
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* ImmigrantPatriotism: Alex (real name Alexi Fayvinov) is an immigrant from the USSR who's obsessed with the AmericanDream, UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, having seen his father get chewed up by it and vowing not to let the same thing happen to him.
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* AnachronismStew: That said, a number of viewers have criticized the show's portrayal of the '80s for coming off as essentially 2016 with a coating of older technology and music, in terms of the fashions (there's a distinct lack of EightiesHair, for one), the dialogue, and the values on display. The idea that nobody seems to have a problem with the [[CampGay out-and-proud]] Blair working as a camp counselor, among either his fellow counselors, the children, or the parents, can come across as PoliticallyCorrectHistory to people who remember what [[HeteronormativeCrusader attitudes towards]] [[AllGaysArePedophiles gay people]] were actually like in the '80s.
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* NothingIsScarier: We never see what kills [[spoiler:Blotter]] at the end of episode 3.
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* NothingIsScarier: We never see what kills [[spoiler:Blotter]] at the end of episode 3. [[spoiler: In hindsight, this was clearly meant to hide the fact that it was Amy.]]
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* ShoutOut: A flashback in "She Talks To Angels" has Cricket offer Blair [[Series/{{Lost}} an Apollo Candy Bar.]]
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** A flashback in "She Talks To Angels" has Cricket offer Blair [[Series/{{Lost}} an Apollo Candy Bar.]]]]
** When Jessie outwits Amy in "She Talks To Angels", Amy calls her "[[Film/JurassicPark Clever girl...]]"
** A flashback in "She Talks To Angels" has Cricket offer Blair [[Series/{{Lost}} an Apollo Candy Bar.
** When Jessie outwits Amy in "She Talks To Angels", Amy calls her "[[Film/JurassicPark Clever girl...]]"
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* ShoutOut: A flashback in "She Talks To Angels" has Cricket offer Blair [[Series/{{Lost}} an Apollo Candy Bar.]]
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* WhamEpisode: "Home Sweet Home" turns literally everything we knew about the series so far on it's head: [[spoiler: Amy, the resident NiceGirl, is really an AxCrazy psychopath. She ''wanted'' Malphas to possess her and committed all of the murders to ensure that he would be summoned. She even let her only friend die just to ensure that she would be hired at Camp Stillwater.]]
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* WhamEpisode: "Home Sweet Home" turns literally everything we knew about the series so far on it's its head: [[spoiler: Amy, the resident NiceGirl, is really an AxCrazy psychopath. She ''wanted'' Malphas to possess her and committed all of the murders to ensure that he would be summoned. She even let her only friend die just to ensure that she would be hired at Camp Stillwater.]]
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* HollywoodSatanism: The devil-worshiping biker cultists. [[spoiler: They're carrying out the murders in an attempt to summon a demon named Malphas.]]
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* HollywoodSatanism: The devil-worshiping biker cultists. [[spoiler: They're carrying out the murders in an attempt trying to summon a demon named Malphas.]]
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* BigBad: The mysterious "teacher" who is in charge of the Satanist cult. "Townie" reveals that [[spoiler: it's Syke's boss, Boyd Heelan.]] Though he claims he didn't carry out the murders.
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* BigBad: The mysterious "teacher" who is in charge of the Satanist cult. "Townie" reveals that [[spoiler: it's Syke's boss, Boyd Heelan.]] Though he claims he didn't carry out the murders.Amy.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "How To Stay Alive In The Woods", Holyoke tells Joel that someone else will die unless he kills Amy. [[spoiler: As Amy was the one committing the murders, he turned out to be absolutely right.]]
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* {{Cult}}: The camp was once the site of a spiritualist compound that, in 1871, experienced what was apparently a mass suicide. The leader, Holyoke, was the only survivor, at least until an armed mob killed him.
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* {{Cult}}: The camp was once the site of a spiritualist compound that, in 1871, experienced what was apparently a mass suicide. The leader, Holyoke, was the only survivor, at least until an armed mob killed him. "The Devil Inside" reveals that [[spoiler: the "mass suicide" was actually a murder. Holyoke led a benevolent religious group that was attempting to exorcise Malphas from the lake, but the Satanist cult killed them before they could finish and pinned it on Holyoke.]]
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* HollywoodSatanism: The devil-worshiping biker cultists. Little is known about what exactly they want so far, though all indications are that it's nothing good.
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* HollywoodSatanism: The devil-worshiping biker cultists. Little is known about what exactly they want so far, though all indications are that it's nothing good.[[spoiler: They're carrying out the murders in an attempt to summon a demon named Malphas.]]
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* BigBad: The mysterious "teacher" who is in charge of the Satanist cult. "Townie" reveals that [[spoiler: it's Syke's boss, Boyd Heelan.]] Though he claims he didn't carry out the murders.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: How Sykes realizes that [[spoiler: Boyd Heelan is "the teacher" behind the Satanist cult.]] He told him that Damon had died, but not that he had killed himself.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Blair, initially suspecting that Drew is simply gay, tries to strike up a relationship with him, telling him about the importance of [[BeYourself being yourself]]. [[spoiler:When he finds out that Drew is also transgender, however, he wants nothing to do with him and is {{squick}}ed out at the fact that he had kissed a boy who was biologically female. Ironically, it's Jessie, who until then seemed like a run-of-the-mill AlphaBitch, who winds up being more accepting of Drew.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Blair, initially suspecting that Drew is simply gay, tries to strike up a relationship with him, telling him about the importance of [[BeYourself being yourself]]. [[spoiler:When he finds out that Drew is also transgender, however, he wants nothing to do with him and is {{squick}}ed out at the fact that he had kissed a boy who was biologically female. Ironically, it's Jessie, who until then seemed like a run-of-the-mill AlphaBitch, who winds up being more accepting of Drew.]]]] To his credit, Blair eventually realizes that he was being an asshole and starts to accept Drew as well.
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* DemonicPossession: Technically spiritual possession, but Amy gets possessed by [[spoiler: Cricket]] and Holyoke in "The Dharma Bums".
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* BearTrap: The woods around the camp are filled with them, as the counselors find out when they lead the kids on a hike. One of them kills [[spoiler:Cricket]] when she gets knocked over by one of the cultists and her head lands in one, causing instant death.
* DrivenToSuicide: Joel's brother Michael killed himself because Holyoke was haunting him. Afterwards, Holyoke moves on to Joel himself, [[spoiler:causing him to almost do the same before his fellow counselors stop him.]] Notably, the episode was prefaced with a special {{content warning|s}}, and ended with a notice displaying the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's phone number.
* GoryDiscretionShot: We never even see [[spoiler:Blotter's]] death or what kills him, only [[NothingIsScarier his horrified reaction to the monster]], while the camera cuts away from [[spoiler:Cricket's]] death just before it happens, only showing us the bloody aftermath.
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* HollywoodSatanism: The devil-worshiping bikers. Little is known about what exactly they want so far, though all indications are that it's nothing good.
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* HearingVoices: Holyoke does this to Joel. They're very much of the evil variety, telling him to kill Amy or else somebody else at the camp will die. He had previously been doing the same to Joel's older brother Michael.
* HollywoodSatanism: The devil-worshipingbikers.biker cultists. Little is known about what exactly they want so far, though all indications are that it's nothing good.
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* LikesOlderWomen: Joel starts dating the middle-aged head counselor Deb.
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* LikesOlderWomen: Joel starts dating the middle-aged head counselor Deb. [[spoiler:It turns out, however, that their romantic interactions were all hallucinations on Joel's part, the result of the camp playing with his mind.]]
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** Cricket's father is cheating on his mother. When she tells her, the mother replies that she already knows, but doesn't do anything about it because she's long since given up on the hope of finding a better man.
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** Cricket's father is cheating on his her mother. When she tells her, the mother replies that she already knows, but doesn't do anything about it because she's long since given up on the hope of finding a better man.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Each episode features flashbacks focusing on one of the main characters.
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* {{Hallucinations}}: Something about the woods causes people to see things that aren't there.
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* CameraFiend: Joel, who is filming his experience as a counselor.
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* CameraFiend: Joel, who is filming his experience as a counselor. [[spoiler:It's actually because he's being haunted by Holyoke; the camera lets him tell the difference between his visions and what he's actually seeing. At camp, however, that security stops working, causing Joel to put the camera down by episode 5.]]
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Set at Camp Stillwater, a summer camp in the Midwest in 1989, the show follows a group of camp counselors who come to realize that the camp they work at is haunted, by both literal spirits and by a dark history stretching back decades. As they struggle to survive, the counselors' own secrets start spilling out.
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Set at Camp Stillwater, a summer camp in the Midwest Wisconsin in 1989, the show follows a group of camp counselors who come to realize that the camp they work at is haunted, by both literal spirits and by a dark history stretching back decades. As they struggle to survive, the counselors' own secrets start spilling out.
* CameraFiend: Joel, who is filming his experience as a counselor.
* CampGay: Blair.
* CampGay: Blair.
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* TastesLikeFriendship: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Amy in "Mix Tape": When Jessie lies about her grandmother dying (to get a night off/make Amy take a shift for her), Amy immediately realizes what's going on, but agrees to take the extra shift anyway to keep the peace. Later, she ups the ante by offering Jessie cookies, ostensibly to comfort her, but really as an attempt to make friends with her.
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* TastesLikeFriendship: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] HarmlessElectrocution: At the end of episode 3, [[spoiler:Amy gets struck by Amy lightning while standing in "Mix Tape": When the middle of a lake, only to be out of the hospital in a day]].
* HollywoodSatanism: The devil-worshiping bikers. Little is known about what exactly they want so far, though all indications are that it's nothing good.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Blair, initially suspecting that Drew is simply gay, tries to strike up a relationship with him, telling him about the importance of [[BeYourself being yourself]]. [[spoiler:When he finds out that Drew is also transgender, however, he wants nothing to do with him and is {{squick}}ed out at the fact that he had kissed a boy who was biologically female. Ironically, it's Jessie, who until then seemed like a run-of-the-mill AlphaBitch, who winds up being more accepting of Drew.]]
* ImmigrantPatriotism: Alex (real name Alexi Fayvinov) is an immigrant from the USSR who's obsessed with the AmericanDream, having seen his father get chewed up by it and vowing not to let the same thing happen to him.
* JerkJock: Alex.
* LikesOlderWomen: Joel starts dating the middle-aged head counselor Deb.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Jessielies about her grandmother dying (to starts out looking like a more conventional AlphaBitch, but in the episode "Modern Love", [[spoiler:of the two people who learn that Drew is transgender, she's the one who accepts him for who he is]].
* NothingIsScarier: We never see what kills [[spoiler:Blotter]] at the end of episode 3.
* ReallyGetsAround: Cricket wants people to think she's like this. She sneaks into boys' bathrooms and puts up graffiti claiming that she's a slut in order to geta night off/make Amy take a shift for her), Amy immediately realizes what's going on, but agrees boys to take the extra shift anyway to keep the peace. Later, she ups the ante by offering Jessie cookies, ostensibly to comfort her, but really as an attempt to make friends with her.notice her. In truth, she's still a virgin.
* HollywoodSatanism: The devil-worshiping bikers. Little is known about what exactly they want so far, though all indications are that it's nothing good.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Blair, initially suspecting that Drew is simply gay, tries to strike up a relationship with him, telling him about the importance of [[BeYourself being yourself]]. [[spoiler:When he finds out that Drew is also transgender, however, he wants nothing to do with him and is {{squick}}ed out at the fact that he had kissed a boy who was biologically female. Ironically, it's Jessie, who until then seemed like a run-of-the-mill AlphaBitch, who winds up being more accepting of Drew.]]
* ImmigrantPatriotism: Alex (real name Alexi Fayvinov) is an immigrant from the USSR who's obsessed with the AmericanDream, having seen his father get chewed up by it and vowing not to let the same thing happen to him.
* JerkJock: Alex.
* LikesOlderWomen: Joel starts dating the middle-aged head counselor Deb.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Jessie
* NothingIsScarier: We never see what kills [[spoiler:Blotter]] at the end of episode 3.
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* TastesLikeFriendship: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Amy in episode 3. When Jessie lies about her grandmother dying (to get a night off/make Amy take a shift for her), Amy immediately realizes what's going on, but agrees to take the extra shift anyway to keep the peace. Later, she ups the ante by offering Jessie cookies, ostensibly to comfort her, but really as an attempt to make friends with her.
* {{Transsexual}}: Drew, who was formerly known as Andrea.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: PlayedForDrama with Blair and Drew's abortive romance.
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** Alex discovered that his boss had been sleeping with a co-worker, and uses that to {{blackmail}} him into giving him some nice clothes so he can show up at summer camp looking sharp.
** Cricket's father is cheating on his mother. When she tells her, the mother replies that she already knows, but doesn't do anything about it because she's long since given up on the hope of finding a better man.
* {{Transsexual}}: Drew, who was formerly known as Andrea.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: PlayedForDrama with Blair and Drew's abortive romance.
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** Alex discovered that his boss had been sleeping with a co-worker, and uses that to {{blackmail}} him into giving him some nice clothes so he can show up at summer camp looking sharp.
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-->"This place is not just a place. It is alive. Living, breathing. It pulls you in, but holds much too tight. Red runs through it, the red of the night. Hear a whisper, hear a scream. At its center, a pulse. A beat. And you'll never leave."
'''''Dead of Summer''''' is a [[HorrorSeries horror TV series]] airing on [[Creator/ABCFamily Freeform]] in the summer of 2016, created by Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, and Ian Goldberg of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' and ''Series/{{Lost}}'' fame.
Set at Camp Stillwater, a summer camp in the Midwest in 1989, the show follows a group of camp counselors who come to realize that the camp they work at is haunted, by both literal spirits and by a dark history stretching back decades. As they struggle to survive, the counselors' own secrets start spilling out.
No relation to [[WebComic/DeadOfSummer the webcomic of the same name]].
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* TheEighties: The summer of 1989, to be specific. WordOfGod says that they set the show in the '80s because it was the EndOfAnEra, the last decade before the interconnected world of today started to come into being, and thus it has something of a nostalgic quality to it -- which serves a show in which the main characters are teenagers coming of age.
* [[TownWithADarkSecret Camp with a Dark Secret]]: Camp Stillwater's history is stained with blood.
* DontGoInTheWoods: Goes with the territory, really.
* {{Flashback}}: Much in the style of ''Lost'', the show will make heavy use of flashbacks to explore the backstory.
* GenreRoulette: A cross between a summer camp movie, a teen ComingOfAgeStory, and a supernatural horror mystery.
* SummerCampy: A given, considering the genre.
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-->"This place is not just a place. It is alive. Living, breathing. It pulls you in, but holds much too tight. Red runs through it, the red of the night. Hear a whisper, hear a scream. At its center, a pulse. A beat. And you'll never leave."
'''''Dead of Summer''''' is a [[HorrorSeries horror TV series]] airing on [[Creator/ABCFamily Freeform]] in the summer of 2016, created by Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, and Ian Goldberg of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' and ''Series/{{Lost}}'' fame.
Set at Camp Stillwater, a summer camp in the Midwest in 1989, the show follows a group of camp counselors who come to realize that the camp they work at is haunted, by both literal spirits and by a dark history stretching back decades. As they struggle to survive, the counselors' own secrets start spilling out.
No relation to [[WebComic/DeadOfSummer the webcomic of the same name]].
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* TheEighties: The summer of 1989, to be specific. WordOfGod says that they set the show in the '80s because it was the EndOfAnEra, the last decade before the interconnected world of today started to come into being, and thus it has something of a nostalgic quality to it -- which serves a show in which the main characters are teenagers coming of age.
* [[TownWithADarkSecret Camp with a Dark Secret]]: Camp Stillwater's history is stained with blood.
* DontGoInTheWoods: Goes with the territory, really.
* {{Flashback}}: Much in the style of ''Lost'', the show will make heavy use of flashbacks to explore the backstory.
* GenreRoulette: A cross between a summer camp movie, a teen ComingOfAgeStory, and a supernatural horror mystery.
* SummerCampy: A given, considering the genre.
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