Watching The Summer I Turned Pretty with my tween daughter has taken a slightly awkward turn in Season 3. There are a few more F-bombs and sexual scenarios between Belly, Jeremiah, Conrad, and their incestuous circle, though it’s still tame for the teen canon—more Dawson’s Creek than Cruel Intentions . The upside, however, to sitting through this questionable season of what has been a mostly dreamy series? It’s full of teachable moments.

Never follow your boyfriend to college, especially a seemingly mediocre college, as Belly does with Jeremiah to the fictional Finch. Do not get engaged at 21 (Belly and Jeremiah again, with the tiny ring that made TikTok shudder ). And, most of all: If confronted with the same choice as modern heroines Lauren Conrad, Carrie Bradshaw, Rachel Green,

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