The summer of the lost secrets, the review of the first video series

During the summer, Prime Video season is used to release some hits. In the 2025 season it is the turn of The summer of the lost secretsseries between romance and mystery Based on the novel by Emily Lockhart And that reached the first place among the most viewed titles of the platform. The reason is clear: there is the thriller, one of the genres that goes larger on the streaming windows, there is the teen element through which the stories of the protagonist intertwine Cadence Sinclair And his cousins ​​and there is the rich-artist setting of a world that appears unattainable, where everything is idyllic and, for this reason, probably hides some skeletons. The problem is that the young woman played by Emily Alyn Lindpreviously known for the saga de The babysitter of Netflix or the reboot of Gossip Girldoes not remember him at all.

The summers in Beechwood has always passed, a private island of the Sinclair dynasty in which to spend the hottest months of the year together, for Cadence Everything changed after a terrible accident who saw her undressed and unconscious on the cliff by the sea. The girl does not remember anything: nor what happened, nor why she was there. And nobody wants to tell her what happened. Nor the mother, a real Sinclair all in one piece, impenetrable and from the posture always ritta. Nor much less the “liars”, or the cousins ​​with whom Cadence shared every single summer of his life, also together with Gat (Shubham Maheshwari), the group outsider, a young man who has not entered the Sinclair by order of blood, which has remained for this reason always excluded from the favors and the ways of making patriarch Harris (David Morse). This is also, in fact, a reason why his feelings for Cady remained hidden year after year, until the sixteenth summer in Beechwood Island, in which everything is ready to transform, more than young people can even imagine.

The summer of the lost secretswelcome to Beechwood Island

While The summer of the lost secrets Then do not move too far from so many Young Adult products that streaming services continuously offer, There is an intriguing and deeper subtext which acts as a carpet at the show in eight episodes, a real class struggle that starts intestine from the family to which it refers and which reflects on the concept or not of belonging. Growing up in luxury and forced everyone to maintain a facade, the Sinclair is not allowed to bend to the outside world or to show themselves never imperfect, discouraged, weak.

The rhetoric of the winners is their philosophy of life, such as the sense of closure and nobility of which no one else can be worthy, not even those who are next to them from all life, having to observe them more as a spectator than really entering their clan. It is the fate of Gatwhich becomes the fulcrum of speeches on power and classism that The summer of the lost secrets It puts in the center, garnishing a narrative that could have limited itself to being the usual sentimental drama of the moment and instead seeks a reflection on the dynamics of power that one’s social status entails And of how much capital to capital may also want to say to keep it private and folded on itself.

Between Young Adult, intestine class struggle and mysteries

To the figure of Gat, then, to be added the being so physically distant from the other liars. Of Indian origin, therefore far from the western and angelic image of the Biondi Sinclair, the boy together with his uncle and (Rahul Kohli) not only do they represent The cultural difference between the two worlds staged in The summer of the lost secretsbut catalyze a systemic racism which, although never explicit in direct terms, is skipped during the narration mechanisms of the series. And which becomes more and more explicit with a summons to one of the most timeless literary texts on the topic, the Stormy peaks by Emily Brontë, where Heathcliff’s skin is enough to make the rest of the characters suppose its lower and animalistic nature, it does not matter if inserted in a high -range context.

What is certain is that the first video show still remains on the surface in outlining many of the most insidious topics that crawl for the story. But the intertwining of less frivolous or discounted issues than what the various Young Adult adaptations have accustomed to the series to reserve a minimum of surprise to the viewerso dictated by the silences and discoveries to which Cady will come to each episode, as from observing an outline that can activate consciences while never abandoning the heart of the relationships of history, of which the young woman with Gat are the romantic protagonists. A refreshing show, of which we will like to hear about a second – although perhaps not necessary – season. The time to make the memories trace to the surface, even when they hurt more.