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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

‘It isn’t just a teen romance’: why millennial women love The Summer I Turned Pretty

Lola and Conrad dancing at a formal party and looking pensive
Lola Tung as Belly and Christopher Briney as Conrad. Photograph: Erika Doss/Prime Video

It was billed as a show for teenagers, but you would be hard pressed to find a millennial woman who has not watched – and become mildly obsessed with – The Summer I Turned Pretty.

The coming-of-age drama, based on Jenny Han’s novel trilogy of the same name, has quietly grown into a global phenomenon for Prime Video. The first two episodes of its third and final season drew 25 million viewers, triple the audience of its debut.

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