The story of Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah isn’t over yet.
Prime Video has renewed The Summer I Turned Pretty, its popular show based on Jenny Han’s series of novels, for a third season, Variety reports.
Han’s young adult trilogy, launched in 2009 with The Summer I Turned Pretty, follows Belly, a teenager who spends her summers at Cousins Beach with family friends and becomes involved in a love triangle with brothers Conrad and Jeremiah. The other novels in the trilogy, It’s Not Summer Without You and We’ll Always Have Summer, were published in 2010 and 2011, respectively.
The television series, which stars Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, and Gavin Casalegno, debuted on Prime in June 2022 and was a hit with critics and viewers. It was renewed for a second season before the first season aired, with Han, who created the show, returning as an executive producer.
The third season of The Summer I Turned Pretty will span 10 episodes, and was greenlighted before the writers’ and actors’ strikes that have paralyzed Hollywood. No work will be done on the new season until the strikes are over, according to Variety.
Han shared news of the new season on Instagram, writing, “So excited to finally share that we’re coming back to Cousins for Season 3, and this time we’ll have 10 whole episodes. It’s been hard not being able to work on the show because of the ongoing strikes, but we can’t wait to get going on Season 3 as soon as we’re able.”
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
