What to Watch the Week of July 9: The Summer I Turned Pretty's Romantic and Emotional Season
glamour.comThe Summer I Turned Pretty's second season trailer, the headlines and initial reactions focused on how it featured “Back to December (Taylor’s Version),” a sneak peek of her upcoming Speak Now rerecording.
But the bigger news—in my opinion—was how much the trailer reveals in regards to the plotline.While the series follows for the most part, there were some changes in season one of Prime Video series, the biggest being that Susannah decides to do the trial to treat her rapidly-advancing cancer.
While it gave some fans (including myself) hope that she won't meet the same fate as she does in the books, we find out in the trailer that she has indeed passed away. “You never know the last time you'll see a place…a person…,” Belly () says in a voiceover. “I knew I'd lose Susannah eventually, I just didn't know I'd end up losing all of them.” “The series follows the books quite closely, so I always kind of knew,” Rachel Blanchard, who plays Susannah, tells Glamour. "Maybe a tiny kernel of me [hoped Susannah would survive], but I knew the direction it was going in., who plays her son Conrad, tells Glamour that he assumed from reading the books that the storyline would stay the same.
Adds Gavin Casalegno, who plays Conrad's brother Jeremiah, “Yeah, there was wasn't too much hope [that it would change].” And still, when you see how it all plays out, it's a gut punch knowing that summer at Cousins will never be the same.
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