'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Faces 1 Big Dilemma In Its New Season
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The return of the series — based on Jenny Han's book of the same name — has been hotly anticipated by fans. Here's how the first two episodes stack up.
We’re deep into the “magical months between June and August,” which can only mean one thing: It’s finally time to return to Cousins Beach for the third and final season of Prime Video’s hotly anticipated “The Summer I Turned Pretty.”
The teen TV series is based on Jenny Han’s bestselling YA series of the same name, and it depicts the coming-of-age journey of a girl named Belly (Lola Tung) who has spent every summer of her life at the beach house of her mom’s best friend, Susannah Fisher (Rachel Blanchard).
The series starts the summer Belly turns 16 and begins to “bloom.” That summer, she also becomes caught in a love triangle with Susannah’s boys: Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno). Conrad is the boy Belly has always loved who finally wants her, and Jeremiah is Belly’s best friend, who actually lets her love him.
Their heated love triangle perfectly conjures the adolescent feelings of falling in love for the first time and pining for someone you’re not supposed to want. The intensity of the emotionally charged moments that Belly shares with both boys has led fans to proclaim fierce loyalties to Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah, and has also spawned countless TikTok videos.
It’s this nostalgic yet timely take on growing up that has catapulted “The Summer I Turned Pretty” from a Gen Z teen drama to a hit show with a multigenerational audience, resonating especially with millennials.
