‘The Summer I Turned Pretty': Jenny Han Explains the Symbolism of the Debutante Ball

Amazon Prime Video. Less than a week before the series launched on June 17, the coming-of-age, young-adult drama -- adapted from author Jenny Han's best-selling novels -- earned an early pickup for season 2, guaranteeing more romance, heartbreak and growing pains for the main heroine, Belly Conklin. The seven-episode freshman season, which largely follows the first book in Han's trilogy, centers around Isabel «Belly» Conklin as she, her mother Laurel and her brother Steven spend their annual summer vacation at the beach house of her mom's best friend, Susannah.

The Summer I Turned Pretty, felt the sparks right away. At least, according to . And since she wrote both the and the To All The Boys series, she would know a meet-cute when she sees one."It really felt like [their chemistry] was popping off the screen right away, honestly," Han recently told of the first Zoom with both Tung and Briney. The pair was put together for a “chemistry test,” when producers look at how two actors interact as their characters to see if they'd be a good fit together.

Lucky in love! Christopher Briney may play one-third of an iconic teen love triangle on Amazon Prime’s The Summer I Turned Pretty series — but in real life, he’s happily taken.

Emily Longeretta “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” based on Jenny Han’s novel, became the No. 1 show on Amazon Prime Video in its premiere weekend following its June 17 release.Following the series’ debut, all three “The Summer I Turned Pretty” books shot into the top three spots on the Amazon Best Sellers list, with book two, “It’s Not Summer Without You,” at No.

All about love! As The Summer I Turned Pretty fans found themselves caught between Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah, the cast of the hit Prime Video series has had sparks flying off screen in their own love lives.

Instagram stories, posted early Thursday morning.The “Cardigan” singer first announced that she wrote “Carolina” for the upcoming film in March on Instagram, where she posted a clip of the trailer and a snippet of the single accompanying it.“Where The Crawdads Sing is a book I got absolutely lost in when I read it years ago,” the 32 year-old singer wrote. “As soon as I heard there was a film in the works starring the incredible @daisyedgarjones and produced by the brilliant @reesewitherspoon, I knew I wanted to be a part of it from the musical side.”“I wrote ‘Carolina’ alone and asked my friend @aarondessner to produce it.

The Summer I Turned Pretty season 2 is happening, a follow-up to the Amazon show based on Jenny Han’s best-selling young adult book series. In fact, it was before the first even aired. Han will continue to be co-showrunner on the series; her partner on season one, Gabrielle Stanton, will be replaced by Sarah Kucserka for the second season.

The plot thickens! The Summer I Turned Pretty made quite a splash with its debut on Prime Video — and Belly’s (Lola Tung) love triangle with brothers Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) is only going to get even more complicated in season 2.

“The Summer I Turned Pretty” and its Prime Video adaptation. While some exist to create a more gripping plot for television, others are meant to create more well-rounded, modern characters.Fans of the book series might notice that, while Jeremiah’s sexuality is never mentioned in the novels, he is queer in the adaptation. During Episode 2, he walks Belly around the country club and points out each guy and girl he’s kissed.

Team Jeremiah! While Conrad Fisher gets a lot of hype — and love — in The Summer I Turned Pretty, his younger brother is a notable force.

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Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 1 of “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.Those who read Jenny Han’s 2009 novel “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” and the two books that followed, knew a bit of what to expect from the series, which dropped its first season on Friday, June 17.The premise was simple: A young girl, Belly, and her mom go to a beach house every summer and stay with the mother’s best friend and her sons. Bely has always had a crush on one of the boys, Conrad, and is best friends with his brother, Jeremiah. Ahead of her 16th birthday, she returned back to the beach once again and they all took notice that she was no longer a little girl.

Instagram post shows most of the cast of the new series, adapted from Jenny Han’s book trilogy, eager to complete the task. David Iacono, who plays Cam, Belly’s third love interest after Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah Fisher (Gavin Casalegno) exclaimed “I’m so excited to do this right now.”A sequence then shows Lola Tung, Gavin Casalegno, David Iacono, Summer Madison, Rain Spencer, Minnie Mills, Sean Kaufman and Chris Briney all waving what look to be striped straws in a flourish to make the arrow. What used to be a fixture for Disney Channel changed when the company changed the logo slightly, still having cast members trace ears, but in a more simplified way.

Gavin Casalegno is starring in the new Prime Video series The Summer I Turned Pretty!

feeling those things. But it was hard. It's hard to have a bunch of people watching you.”Of course, there was a lot of joy to be experienced in filming a story that takes place in a picturesque seaside town like Cousins Beach.

Based on the novel of the same name by Jenny Han (“To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”), “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is a perfectly distracting piece of summer fluff. Newcomer Lola Tung stars as teenager Isabel “Belly” Conklin, whose family’s annual summer trip to Cousins Beach, Virginia gets shaken up by both family drama and Belly’s burgeoning sexuality.

The Summer I Turned Pretty—Amazon Prime Video's set in the fictional Cousins Beach—is a bit of . mixed with mixed with . In other words, with characters you'll love, a house that will make you want to move to a seaside beach town, and an engaging love story. At the forefront of the series, which is by New York Times best-selling author Jenny Han of To All the Boys fame, is newcomer Lola Tung.

Warning: This story contains spoilers from season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Warning: This story contains spoilers from season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Prime Video’s rom-com “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” “Jenny Han, who’s the showrunner, creator and author of the books [the show is based on] delivered the news to me over Zoom,” Tung, 19, told The Post. “I kind of froze and had a little bit of a freakout moment.