The Summer I Turned Pretty is returning with more teen drama and summer fun for the star-crossed love triangle of Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah.
The TV series first aired in June 2022 and is based on the book series written by Jenny Han of the same name, who is also the showrunner.
If you’ve fallen behind, you can catch up with all of our The Summer I Turned Pretty content ahead of the new season.
Isabel “Belly” Conklin, her mother Laurel, and her brother Steven have spent every summer at the Fisher’s house in the fictional town of Cousins Beach, and she has been in love with Conrad since she was ten.
Susannah Fisher and her sons Jeremiah and Conrad have been happy to share their vacation house with the Conklins.
However, during The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 1, both Fisher brothers formed crushes on Belly after her “glo-up.”
The aftermath has been playing out over the course of two seasons, but now, in the final season, things will come to a head as Belly winds up with one of them once and for all. But is it who we think?
The Summer I Turned Pretty Background
Susannah and Laurel met in college and have been best friends ever since. This is highlighted when Laurel reads an excerpt from her book describing Susannah being there for Belly’s birth.
Unfortunately, at the end of the first season, we learn Susannah has cancer and is going to be part of a trial and try to fight it. At the beginning of Season 2, unfortunately, we learn she passed away.
Although Belly has had a crush on Conrad for many years, his indifference leads her to explore her feelings for Jeremiah after he professes his love for her.
He plans on escorting her to the debutante ball but ends up missing when the two are supposed to dance due to going on Susannah’s phone and finding out she has cancer. This is something that Conrad has known and kept a secret all summer.
Conrad steps in for Jeremiah, and Belly and Conrad kiss by the beach later that night.
Now that the three’s love affair is in full swing let’s dive into everything we know about Season 3!
Did Amazon Prime Renew The Summer I Turned Pretty?
Prime Video’s hit coming-of-age series scored a season three renewal.
The first season premiered in June 2022.
Before it even premiered, it was renewed for The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2, which aired in July 2023. In August 2023, it was renewed for a third and final season.
How Did The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 End?
The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 was full of Fisher family real estate drama, romantic strain, and grief.
The four children, Belly, Conrad, Jeremiah, and Steven, fight off Susannah’s sister’s determination to sell the beach house, and everyone’s struggle with Susannah’s loss is felt throughout the season.
The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 Finale follows Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah’s trip back from Brown, where they pick up Conrad after his finals.
It doesn’t get off to a great start, however, because Conrad is still struggling with how he feels about Belly and happens to witness them kissing by the car when walking out of the school to meet up with them, which he doesn’t like.
Along the way, a bad storm hits, and the trio has to stay in a motel for the night. The motel only has one room with one bed. Belly takes the whole thing, and the two boys sleep on the floor.
Jeremiah shows real character when he tells Conrad that he’ll stop seeing Belly if he still has feelings for her and if she reciprocates those feelings, too. He convinces Conrad to tell Belly how he feels so she can have all the information she needs to decide.
Despite Conrad telling Belly how he feels, Belly wakes up the following day and puts on a Finch sweatshirt, representing her choice as Jeremiah.
This was not what Jeremiah was expecting, as he told her before the two sealed the deal with a kiss that there would not be a repeat of last summer.
Conrad sees from her choice of sweatshirts that he is not the one and tells her he didn’t mean anything he said to give Billy and Jeremiah a chance to be happy, something he hadn’t done before.
However, he isn’t too happy, considering he starts crying after leaving the room.
Meanwhile, Steven helps Laurel cope with Susannah’s death by convincing her to attend a writers’ group, where she reads her book aloud and meets a new friend.
We also see Taylor and Steven share their feelings for one another and finally start a relationship.
The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Returning Cast
Lola Tung (Belly), Christopher Briney (Conrad), Gavin Casalegno (Jeremiah), Sean Kaufman (Steven), Jackie Chung (Laurel), and Rain Spencer (Taylor) are all expected to return.
Rachel Blanchard (Susannah) returned in flashbacks during Season 2, so there’s also potential there.
It is unknown if characters like Cleveland (Alfredo Narciso), Sky (Elsie Fisher), Aunt Julia (Kyra Sedgwick), or Cam (David Iacono) will be returning in Season 3.
The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Cast Additions
There are five additions to The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3.
Fatal Attraction‘s Isabella Briggs and Kristen Connolly (The Cabin in the Woods) join as series regulars.
Also joining as recurring cast are Sofia Bryant (The Girl In The Woods), Lily Donoghue (Daisy Jones & the Six), Riverdale‘s Zoé de Grand’Maison, Stitchers’ Emma Ishta, and Shrinking‘s Tanner Zagarino.
The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Plot
Given that it is based on a book, the new season will most likely mirror Han’s third and final novel, “We’ll Always Have Summer.” This book takes place two years after the second, “It’s Not Summer Without You.”
In the third novel, we still see Belly struggling with which Fisher boy she truly wants. However, this time, she makes a final decision.
Even though the second season didn’t strictly follow the books, the cast told PEOPLE that Season 3 should closely follow the plot of the third book.
Casalegno revealed that Han is pretty firm about staying as true to the book as possible, mainly including the main points.
When Will The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Premiere?
We can officially confirm that the third and final season of the series will stream on July 16.
Where To Watch The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3
The place to watch Season 3 will be Prime Video, an Amazon MGM Studios production.
How Many Episodes in The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3?
The final season of the series deserves a worthwhile farewell.
It also deserves more episodes! That’s right, to our delight, rather than the single-digit episode count of the previous two seasons, The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 will get 11 episodes to wrap up Belly’s story.
In this day and age, when episode counts have decreased rather than increased, it’s a welcome development.
Is There A Season 3 Trailer?
We do have a trailer!
We also have gotten a fair share of first-look images we’ve sprinkled throughout this post.
In them, we get our first glimpse of what life is like after a time jump. Conrad has a new look, with lighter-colored hair and a white coat, which suggests he’s studied to become a doctor.
Belly and Jeremiah seem deeply in love and quite cozy in a series of stills that show them as a happy canoodling couple.
They’re both at the same school, and it seems they’re taking full advantage of that by getting to spend so much of their time together.
We even see that Taylor and Steven are still going strong as an unlikely but endearing pairing.
Trailer Brings It Home
But the trailer teases all the fun stuff. The Taylor Swift needledrop of “Daylight” is on par for this series, and the trailer teases Belly’s wedding.
But which brother does she belong with? Well, the trailer certain does a damn fine job of capturing Belly’s conflict.
She’s preparing for a wedding with Jeremiah, and it seems her mother doesn’t approve.
Memories of Conrad and what they had haunt her as well.
But who will she walk down the aisle toward? That’s the big question. We have our suspicions, but how we get there is where the real fun is.
But stay up-to-date on all The Summer I Turned Pretty news with TV Fanatic.
We will update you as we have more information!
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