‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Season 3 Delayed to 2025

The Summer I Turned Pretty will not return this year. Amazon announced during its upfront presentation on Tuesday that the next season of the show, based on Jenny Han’s bestselling romance trilogy, has been delayed to 2025.

But while fans have to wait a bit longer, the network sweetened the deal by announcing that the upcoming third season will include 11 episodes rather than the previously announced 10. This is up from seven in Season One and eight in Season Two.

Though Season Three was greenlit ahead of the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes, production was delayed once the strikes began last summer. Filming has already begun, and Han said during the upfront presentation that she will make her directorial debut during the third season. Han and Sarah Kucserka will serve as co-showrunners for the new season.

The series follows Belly Conklin (Lola Tung) and is set in fictional waterfront Cousins Beach at the beach house where Belly spent summers with her mother (Jackie Chung) and her mom’s best friend Susannah Fisher (Rachel Blanchard). She grew up with Susannah’s sons, Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), and after one summer, Belly found love in Susannah’s sons. The first season featured the love triangle between Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah and also shared a backstory of Susannah’s secret struggle with cancer.

In Season Two, things opened differently with Belly and Conrad no longer together, and Jeremiah no longer her best friend. Also, Susannah is gone. “And if the longtime friends and fumbling lovers can’t figure out a way to work together, the beach house is next,” Rolling Stone’s review of the second season detailed. “Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah are forced to watch the sand shift underneath their feet and must grapple with the possibility that even love might not be enough to stop things from floating away forever.”