Summer goes toe-to-toe with her as a sort of symbolic gesture to keep the Marissa flame alive at Harbor.
this sort of steaming, young Newpsie-in-training socialite who's been toiling in Marissa's shadow all these years.
We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.
It's going to bring back some of the classic, bitchy Summer -- there's really sort of an 'All About Eve' thing between Taylor and Summer.
This year is senior year and with senior year comes all that sort of angst and anxiety, all that sort of epic teen drama - who am I, where am I going, what's gonna happen to us, ... It's going to call everyone's identity into question and throw the show back on the family.