The Summer I Turned Pretty Vs. To All The Boys: Which Is Better?
Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty and Netflix’s To All The Boys are both adaptations of YA book trilogies by Jenny Han, and each is about a teenage girl experiencing romantic love for the first time, but one is better than the other. The To All the Boys film franchise concluded in 2021 with the second sequel, To All the Boys: Always and Forever, which saw its protagonist Lara Jean (Lana Condor) and love interest Peter (Noah Centineo) getting ready to leave for college. The Summer I Turned Pretty season 1, released in June 2022, depicts the events of Han’s book of the same name, adapting the first part of its trilogy.
The Summer I Turned Pretty season 1 follows high schooler Belly’s (Lola Tung) during her summer vacation, which she considers to be the best time of year. She always spends the season with her mother, Laurel (Jackie Chung), and brother, Steven (Sean Kaufman), at her mother’s friend Susannah’s (Rachel Blanchard) summer home in Cousins Beach. Belly’s favorite part of the yearly tradition has always been her time spent with Susannah’s sons, Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) and Conrad (Christopher Briney), the latter on whom Belly has had a crush for years. But with her believing that Conrad doesn’t reciprocate her feelings, Belly decides to take part in a debutante ball, which leads her to new friends and romantic interests.
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While similarly focusing on shy teenage girls whose romantic fantasies aren’t acted upon, the comparisons between the adaptations of The Summer I Turned Pretty and To All The Boys stop there. The first installment of the latter, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, always has Lara Jean and Peter as the main couple, while Belly has multiple
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