The Summer I Turned Pretty cast is just as invested in the love triangle outcome as fans are — but what have they said about potential changes to the endgame relationship?
Prime Video’s hit series, which debuted in June 2022, is based on a book series of the same name by showrunner Jenny Han. The Summer I Turned Pretty focuses on Belly (Lola Tung) who gets caught up in a love triangle where after exploring her feelings for Conrad (Christopher Briney), she starts to reconsider whether his brother, Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), is her perfect match.
In the original book trilogy, Belly made her final choice in We’ll Always Have Summer, which will presumably inspire the third season of the show. Fans, however, have questioned whether the story will follow the events of the book series or whether there will be changes.
Han hasn’t given much information away except to confirm that the final season will raise the stakes, writing via Instagram in December 2024, “One thing I’ll say about season 3 of [The Summer I Turned Pretty] … there are no filler episodes.”
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There seem to be plans to expand the Summer I Turned Pretty universe — no matter the outcome.
“I will say stay tuned, but Jenny’s got some exciting surprises. So we’re thrilled about a season 3, and she’s got a vision for more,” Vernon Sanders, the head of television at Amazon and MGM Studios, told Deadline in September 2023. “This show is going to continue to be a huge centerpiece for us, and we absolutely have plans to continue building it. Jenny’s got great vision for where she wants to go with all of it, but we’re already hard at work developing complementary pieces.”
Keep scrolling for everything the cast has said about whether Belly will choose Conrad or Jeremiah:
Gavin Casalegno
“I do feel like there’s a strong chance that that’s a possibility,” he exclusively told Us Weekly in June 2023 about the show potentially straying from the original events in the books. “Obviously, I know where [my character Jeremiah] ends up going and what ends up happening. But I don’t emphasize on that. Because I think Jenny writes it so well that I’m able to kind of get there naturally without having to force it in a certain direction.”
Jenny Han
After season 1 debuted on Prime Video, Han hinted that her vision for the show may not mirror the events in the books.
“I really had to weigh what the fans are expecting with where the show is going creatively and find that balance,” she told Variety in June 2022. “My priority has always been that I want fans of the book to feel really satisfied by the story we’re telling, but also for them to know that this is an adaptation in a new medium, so it’s not going to be exactly the same. I think those are sort of the two things that are always in my head.
Han added: “I don’t want to spoil too much but the books have been out for a while. You never know what could happen with the show. I was open minded going into it. I was considering a lot of different possibilities.”
More recently, Han teased that changes were coming, telling Entertainment Weekly in March 2025, “There are going to be surprises. There are the things that [book fans] know and then there are things they think they know, and then there’s going to be, hopefully, things that surprise them.”
Two months later, Han told the outlet there would be a “satisfying” ending for everyone.
“A successful love triangle is one where, no matter what happens, people are going to be devastated and heartbroken,” Han hinted. “Because if the answer feels really clear and easy, then there’s no real conflict. No matter what you do, someone’s going to be hurt by it.”
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Lola Tung
The actress showed support for onscreen shakeups. “The one thing I’ve always admired about Jenny is that every season and every decision about what’s coming next is purely to serve the story,” she explained to EW that same month. “She’s never going to do anything that doesn’t make sense for the story.”
Tung continued: “It’s all about this beautiful world she’s created and giving the fans something really, really special and giving us something really special to work with.”
Christopher Briney
Briney hasn’t revealed who Belly could choose — but he has some thoughts on the back and forth.
“It’s all unreal expectations. It’s all ridiculous,” he told InStyle in January 2024 before weighing in on Conrad story lines, “You’re not going to go to Stanford. You’re not going to go to a beach town every summer and fall in love with your mom’s friend’s f***ing whatever. It’s not going to happen. It’s stupid. That’s not how life works.”
