‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ is back and people are going to have some big feelings about it

There’s a lot to unpack about third and final season of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” – and we don’t just mean Belly’s (Lola Tung) college duffle bag.

There’s a lot to unpack about third and final season of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” – and we don’t just mean Belly’s (Lola Tung) college duffle bag. Prime TV on Wednesday released the first two episodes of the summery, love triangle-laden series, which picks up after a four-year time jump to find Belly in her junior year at the fictional Finch College with her boyfriend Jeremiah Fisher (Gavin Casalegno). Meanwhile, his older brother and Belly’s ex, Conrad (Christopher Briney), is studying to be a doctor at Stanford University. While Belly and Jeremiah are still very much going strong, viewers are instantly reminded that the love triangle between the two brothers and Belly is still, of course, very much a thing, but not the focus of the first two episodes. The drama in these first two episodes – which take place largely outside of Cousins Beach, other than a select few flashbacks – stems largely from the conflict between Jeremiah and Belly, after Belly learns that Jeremiah cheated on her during a spring break trip to Cabo. The entire situation was very Rachel Green and Ross Gellar – a “we were on a break” scenario. Jeremiah thought they were broken up when he went to Cabo; Belly did not. It was safe to assume some polarizing plot developments would ignite the show’s passionate fandom, given the series released a preemptive warning to its active online community of viewers, asking them to “keep the conversation kind” in a statement posted to its official X page ahead of the Season 3 debut.