"For the last three years, along with millions or possibly billions of others, I have been rapaciously devouring The Summer I Turned Pretty, a YA television series with the central premise of " Challengers,for teenagers, with far-reaching incestuous overtones." Adapted from Jenny Han's book series of the same name, the Amazon show followed a high-school girl named, and I can't stress this enough, Belly (Lola Tung), as she got her braces off and had a glow-up"
"People have been starting wars over that book for thousands of years. The Summer I Turned Pretty was Cain and Abel if they both fell in love with the same girl - the girl who was raised alongside them as a sister, mind you, in a town called Cousins, also mind you - and then duked it out for their entire adolescence and early adulthood, stopping just short of fratricide (and I mean just short)."
Millions of viewers devoured The Summer I Turned Pretty, a YA series about Belly and her romantic entanglement with brothers Conrad and Jeremiah. The adaptation follows Belly through adolescence as she oscillates between the brooding Conrad and the chaotic Jeremiah. The plot includes a beach house, recurring cancer, parental dysfunction, misapplied self-tanner, and a cast of characters enabling one another's poor decisions. The fandom became so intense that Amazon publicly asked fans to stop bullying the cast. Narrative comparisons range from Cain and Abel to Flowers in the Attic, Dawson's Creek, and King Lear, highlighting incestuous overtones, perverse romance, and familial betrayal.
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