Why everyone’s talking about The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Please tell me that they are watching the summers I have returned ???” He reads a text from my best friends in our group conversation.

We are both in our 30s, we are married, we have heavy careers, and we are still connected to a TV series about a young love triangle. It is a week of obsession that lasted for a week to shout on the screen like a football match and then get rid of emotional turmoil.

Pretty (TSITP), the third series of my article, follows Isabel Conklin (belly to his friends), because which brother – Conrad or Jeremiah Fisher – is expected to be the final decision.

Prime Video’s most popular show in the UK and social media is full of fan -made clips and opinions who should choose. The highly anticipated final is broadcast on 17 September.

Fortunately, my friend and I are both Conrad teams. But competition fired people so much that Some of the players were asked to calm down because they were exploited online.

So, what enables us to invest such emotionally in a romantic dilemma that does not exist?

Love triangles are not a new storytelling device. TSITP, such as Vampire Diaries and One Tree Hill, can be compared with TV shows (the second, it has half brothers instead of full siblings such as Conrad and Jeremiah).

Warning: It may contain potential spoilers below – especially if you haven’t watched the third series of the show

“Too much [encapsulates] Everything that is really good about the Romcoms of the 2000s and these angry, longing dramas, Fan Fan Nathan Scott (no, not the One Tree Hill character). ” All the views in the room, the forbidden small touches and everything – all there. “

Nathan saw his fiancée Oliwia Netter, who was both 25 years old and living in London, who watched TSITP, and initially the attitude was “this garbage and not watching”.

However, after a look and starts to ask questions, Nathan admits that he watched the first series in three days.

26 -year -old Superfan Varun Lobo entered TSITP a few years ago, but had not read any of the books written by the US writer Jenny Han on which the show was based.

He acknowledges that he has built on the elements of storytelling that works well before.

“This really evokes a nostalgia that takes you back to your first young paste and young romance, or he says. Controversial, Jeremiah team.

The 30 -year -old Becca Kittler read his books as a young man in the US and became the Conrad team from the beginning.

“I think everyone has people and I know Conrad is the belly. I have this spark, with each other, what they have history.”

But isn’t it a love triangle that includes brothers even for fiction?

“At the end of the day, about this escape,” Varun explains how he feels about the current situation of the world. “Sometimes it’s nice to take yourself out of him and go to Cousins ​​Beach.”

32 -year -old Michelle Elman is also an enthusiastic TSITP audience and a life coach in London. Although he jumps some moral Quandies caused by going with a pair of brothers, he appreciates how he cope with important problems.

Death – a theme in Dawson’s Creek, another popular show from the beginning of the millennium – focuses on the second and third TSITP series.

“There are too many yarns around grief because the children lose their mothers, and so there are really serious sub -tones.” “But they are presented in a very digestible way – I think this is where it echoed with some people.”

Michelle knows mothers and girls who watch the show together and use it as an opportunity to discuss how to deal with difficult situations – whether they are grown, problems or feelings of harm.

There is a lot to walk around: for example, when Jeremiah is drunk and makes unpleasant comments or cannot convey the feeling of Conrad.

Hype around TSITP was supported by social media in Tiktok, where the fans of the books speculated about the end of the TV series.

This gets more crazy when the inn mocked the series It can end differently book.

Others have created double -dedicated videos they want to come together, and many of them were arranged to the songs of Taylor Swift, whose music has a distinctive features in the film music.

Swift fans, who left secret messages and clues about future projects, were also convinced that Han had added seeds throughout the series to inform the result.

Varun had posters to advertise the show in a printing shop near his home in Nottingham. They frame them and now they decorate the dining room.

“I love the show so much,” he laughs.

In forums such as Becca and Reddit, it is particularly grateful for the online community that accumulates around TITP.

Im I will be grateful for this show forever. Therefore, I could find some of my best friends and I could get out of my field of comfort, or he says.

In the meantime, my group chat, my friends and the winning team (Conrad Team) we have supported or not ping on the final day when it will become clear.

Like me, Nathan feels like watching the show a little sports.

“A Super Bowl or Champions League finale.”

“I get the same feeling while watching Liverpool while watching Conrad and Belly … The feeling I get for the bathtub scene or the peach scene is the same as the last -minute winner in Anfield.

“Words fail me.”

Additional reporting by George Sandeman