The trailer for the third and final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty has arrived- and while the sun may be setting on Cousins Beach, the emotions are only just beginning to rise.
Prime Video has dropped the first trailer for the show, which is set to premiere on July 16, and it looks juicy with Bella (Lola Tung), Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), and Conrad (Christopher Briney)'s love triangle at the forefront.
The series promises to give an emotional goodbye to the beach town where love triangles and teenage dreams first collided, with author Jenny Han warning fans to 'brace themselves.'
The creator of both the book trilogy and the series told viewers that the ending will be 'gut-wrenching, but necessarily so.'
At the beginning of the trailer, we pick up two years after we left off and see that Bella did choose Jeremiah over Conrad. However, she admitted in the clip, 'I thought choosing meant closure, but Conrad never really left me.'
Swept up in their exciting young love, marriage enters the conversation between Bella and Jeremiah, with her mum voicing concern at the prospect and urging the pair to slow things down. A sentiment that the Fisher brothers' late mother, Susannah, no doubt would have agreed with.
The trailer also showed that Conrad honored his late mother's final wish by moving west and pursuing a career in medicine in San Francisco, but something (or someone) draws him back to Cousins, and more importantly to Belly.
As Conrad contemplates reentering Belly’s world, he turns to her loyal best friend Taylor (Rain Spencer), who is also dating her brother Steven (Sean Kaufman) for advice.
Like the ones gone before it, this season’s emotional depth is accentuated by a carefully curated soundtrack: Taylor Swift’s Lover track 'Daylight' plays behind Jeremiah’s sweet moments with Belly, while Red and its echoing lyric 'loving him comes in flashbacks, and echoes' plays during Conrad’s reappearance.
The trailer also drops hints about possible reconciliations beyond Belly and the brothers, one between her divorced parents, who may also be rekindling in the final stretch.
According to Prime Video’s synopsis, Belly is 'looking forward to another summer in Cousins with her soulmate, Jeremiah,' but a series of life-altering moments reopens the door to her past with Conrad. Now on the edge of adulthood, she must finally choose where her heart truly lies once and for all.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Jenny Han teased: 'To tell a compelling love triangle, you have to break a few hearts.'
'If it’s too easy, there’s no tension. You want people watching to feel torn, uncertain, just like Belly. Some viewers are coming in fresh, while others have loved this story since the beginning. I can’t please everyone, I wish I could, but in the end, I have to write something I believe in,' she added.
