“You can’t marry me to erase him,” was the line that set me off. Okay, fine: I was already weeping at the opening credits. Yes, I’m talking about the show that has reduced so many of us to lovestruck teenage girls with too many feelings: The Summer I Turned Pretty .

In case you’ve missed the hype because you’ve been busy living in the real world (where brothers don’t fight over the same girl and no self-respecting adult calls themselves “Belly”), please allow me to catch you up. Based on Jenny Han’s novel trilogy of the same name, the coming-of-age drama follows Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung) and the summer holidays she spends in the fictional seaside town of Cousins with the Fisher brothers, Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno).

Alongside Belly’s older brothe

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