I CAN FIX *THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY* (FULL SERIES COMMENTARY) 

everyone's like "omg belly you turned so pretty all of a sudden" like she didn’t literally just take off her GLASSES

the fact that susannah wanted belly + conrad to go to the debs so she could see them dance with belly in a white dress bc she didn't think she'd be alive for their wedding

it's kinda interesting how most book readers end up being team conrad and people like me, who only watched the show, like jeremiah's portrayal better. still, cam cameron was the best option among the three boys in my opinion

jeremiah’s actor looks like someone who would be in the hype house

You can tell how much Trin dislikes Jeremiah solely based on her calling him Jeremy. That’s too funny.

I'm so done with the blue-eyed/green-eyed love interests because they always look at people like they're ready to steal their souls and it freaks me out

I totally agree with the soundtrack criticism. Score makes such a big difference and using ONLY pop songs is really distracting

I DESPISED Taylor when I watched the series and I tried to find people on TikTok who thought the same but they said how amazing and fun she was DID WE NOT WATCH THE SAME SCENES 😟

the analysis of taylor’s character is so real. im tired of seeing people saying how much they love her character because i just see her the exact same way you see her.

ur white girl rant abt them being upset when their minority friend is finally in the spotlight was so real i was clapping u are SO REAL AND RIGHT and true. love u trini

i was just in love w belly’s mom the whole time.. and i rly loved seeing the moms’ friendship. it was very wholesome. also they’re so insane for playing Funeral.. they knew what they were doing

I love when trin was talking about the soundtrack of the show and saying it didn’t fit the scene I felt the same l was thinking why not add beautiful piano playing or violin to it instead of adding gen z songs why not make it a nice show with out lots of the songs every 5 seconds

THANK YOU for putting into words why i hated the way they did the soundtrack!!! i love every single song they used individually and out of the show's context but it distracts so much from the plot and feels so unnecessary and until now i thought it was just me

no bc the way when watching this i was so blindsided when jeramiah was suddenly interested in her. i didn’t read the books and felt in the show it wasn’t made a plot point till the last three episodes

i genuinely thought belly and jeremiah had such brother/sister energy so you can imagine how shocked i was when i realized that was Wrong lol

I would of liked Jelly more if it made sense. It seemed that Jeremiah liking Belly came out of nowhere. It just seemed like his jealousy before was out of not being the center of attention, not because he liked her. I was rooting for Conrad but I hate the finale because first of all check on your damn brother instead of going in to save Belly. I hated the way Susannah’s cancer was revealed in the finale. I feel like it should of been more explosive and less rushed. Also I don’t like that there is no closure for Jeremiah and Belly there’s just the cancer plot line and then all of the sudden we’re with Conrad again. I liked the show but I haven’t rewatched it purely because I don’t like the finale. Hopefully they do better next season.

i had many issues with the show but one of things that truly sent me over was the lack of drama around Susannah’s cancer relapse. In the book (according to my memory), Laurel and Susannah are always out and tell the kids they are going to museums and “having fun” but the grand reveal at the end is that they were going to doctor appointments. it’s just such a big shock and makes it so much more emotional.

All these plots of tv shows and movies where people suddenly get seen as gorgeous when they take off their glasses really screwed with my self esteem as a kid.

The Summer I Turned Pretty is a *pretty* wholesome, summery, yet very bittersweet coming-of-age series. I honestly can’t even remember what happened in the books cause it’s been ages since then. I like this version of Isabel Conklin. I heard she’s *pretty* unlikeable in the book series, so I’m glad the writers of the show have given her some personality. The Fisher Boys and Steven are *pretty* wholesome themselves. Conrad may be moody, but deep down, he probably has depth to his feelings and emotions.

I feel like Jeremiah and Belly didn't even like each other. Jere only saw interest once she turned "pretty" and Belly only liked him when Conrad rejected her. Also, I was literally sobbing during the family hugs. Jere going "please mom" messed me up. Anyways loved this vid as always. (Team Cam fr)

i remember being younger and reading those books and just was soooo mad at how the author completely destroyed jeremiah’s character in the last book so belly could be with conrad☹️

I hope you put some respect on Cam Cameron’s name, poor thing SUFFERED this whole season for nothing lol

When Conrad replaced Jeremiah at the ball it reminded me of that tvd scene where Elena danced with Damon

i think the music was placed just to show people how "trendy" the show is- like they used popular songs and it wasn't a seamless transition into the song, but mostly they were abruptly placed and you can tell they put it in for advertisement

Random opinion no one asked for: the whole volleyball tournament was boring af and I almost skipped it. I understand it was supposed to show Belly and Conrad make a good team but they could have done that another way. The ONLY volleyball scene worth watching is the one in Avatar the Last Airbender.🔥

I’m glad to see I wasn’t alone on the soundtrack for the show. We did not need every current song ever. Maybe one or or two that could’ve been made timeless if it was used at the right moment. It was too clunky- they could’ve had an iconic “don’t you forget about me” moment and they BLEW IT

Bruh the white friend being mad at the token poc friend because they finally aren't in the background was my entire hs experience with one of my best friends. Dropped her as soon as I went to college. The friendship was too toxic, and she didn't even see herself as a white girl, so that made it worse; she couldn't even recognize her white fragility

when Conrad said go look in the mirror some more it was fucked up cause he knows she has issues with her body, it’s talked about more in the books

unpopular option: im glad jeremiah shot that firework or else belly would’ve been a cheater and then looked liked a hypocritie in book three💀

comfirming/answering trin's questions in the book and show the bonfire did seem way more dramatic in the book and jeremiah did not kiss a guy in the book. them playing a song every minute was kind lazy of the show it is not talked abt enough. edited: idk why jenny han made shayla and belly half asian i wished there was a character that was full asian for asian representation as someone who is chinese

Conrad was Susannah and Laurel's boy. Although all his flaws were shown in the books, having both mothers share a special relationship with him always made me aware that Jenny Han wanted to highlight him as a sensitive, closed and fearful teenager.

Conrad=Gaslight Jeremiah=Gatekeep Belly=Girlboss

I feel like the show was Jenny’s way of rewriting the books, both with the romance and with the characters themselves sometimes. In the books, Belly spends way more time with Jeremiah and only, what? One or even half of one book being developed with Conrad? But in the show, it’s obvious right from the first five minutes that they’re gunning for Conrad. From the amount of scenes they’re given compared to the books to the tracks they use in their scenes. I noticed even Susannah is partial to him! So the show felt very manipulative because, even though Belly does hookup with Cam and Jeremiah, we already know there’s no room for anyone but Conrad. Who isn’t a good guy (I don’t think Jeremiah is great either). He’s hot and cold with Belly. He’s dating someone else and knows Belly is with other guys every time he makes a move. And the entire time he’s treating her that way, he fully knows she likes him and had always liked him. And I always see the argument that it’s because he was the only one of the kids who knew of his mom’s cancer, plus the stuff with the dad so he was going through a lot, but haven’t we already established that what people are going through doesn’t excuse how we treat others? Why does that seem to be forgotten with TV, movies, and books time and time again? “Because it’s just fiction”? But again, haven’t we established that people, especially young people, are influenced by media? So I’m not team Conrad. I’m not team Jeremiah, either, he’s got his own issues. I would’ve liked for the first season to end with Belly maturing to realize that boys aren’t the center of the world, especially the Fisher boys, and started focusing more on herself and her relationships with her friends, and then in the next seasons start picking up on romance again, but once she’s figured herself out.

i loved when we didn’t see like a single plus size character the whole show until the very end when there was a single shot of a bigger girl at the deb ball when belly gave a monologue about how “all girls are pretty” it was a lame excuse for body diversity and came off super inauthentic

“Please don’t ruin St. Patrick’s day for the boys” 😂😭😭

trin calling jeremiah jeremy like belly’s bestie is so funny to me 😭

"i'm gonna freak out by your glowup" sis she took her GLASSES OFF

Also i for some reason connected with Conrad lol, the older siblings vibes of having to be in charge, the fact that everyone would be like "omg talk to me" and interrupt him THE SECOND he opened his mouth, also the having to cope with being too old for the "mistakes" and too young for "the adult stuff" that weird middle where you feel like everything is wrong, i don't know if he is the best option but i did like him a lot

Trin saying Jeremiah is a “wheres my hug at“ guy is so accurate! I read her mind of where she was going right before it came out and I was dying!!! Also: Jeremiah had better chemistry in the 30 second scene with that guy at that party than all the Belly scenes

I love Jeremiah and lean more towards team jere but I completely agree that until episode 5 I DID NOT think he liked her. When he shot that firework I literally turned to my friend and said, “he’s not jealous, he did that because he’s pissed at Conrad for driving away their dad.” LOL

On the question of why Jenny Han’s characters aren’t fully Asian, first I’ll say I literally know nothing about racism-based casting decisions, but I do remember Jenny saying that some producers originally wanted a white actress for Lara Jean, and Jenny was firmly against it. It seems she had even more creative control on this project, but I wonder if higher-ups are more agreeable to bi/multiracial actors/characters. But, like I said, I know nothing lol

I really did not like taylor... belly was so right for telling her that she just hate seeing her getting more independent and maybe casting a shadow over her and not the other way around for once... I was so disappointed

In the book it was told from Belly's perspective and she didn't know she had cancer so its revealed in the last few chapters and everyone including Jeremiah knew about it Susanna's cancer but they wanted it to be the last perfect summer together but Susanna didn't want belly to know. belly and her relationship was a lot stronger in the books so it was a lot bigger of a deal and your right everyone in the books was white lol

My dad and I watched this together (and cried) but we were actually a bit peeved that the ending was about the love story instead of the Family Love Story, we really would’ve preferred to be punched in the gut. They could’ve done w/ drawing out the “begging our mom to live” scene and actually SEE her give in and promise to try. And then cut to the breakfast/dinner montage and finish w/ Belly leaning her head on Conrad’s shoulder at the beach. We didn’t need it to be all spelled out. Just felt a little whiplash-y

her mom rlly caught her DRINKING and said "who said you could have a drink?" like that's my mom's reaction to me eating cake before dinner or something not me underage drinking 😭

The amount of underage drinking in the show is crazy and the parents just let them lol

I really cannot fathom how some people like Taylor, maybe she in some ways she has some character development. But she never even properly apologized to belly for kissing her brother than gaslighting her after belly called her out. From the very beginning of the show she’s jealous, controlling, and then gets mad at belly for taking HER advice. The whole jealousy with Taylor especially bothers me, we see her hanging out at parties/getting ready to go hang out with other friends, but as soon as belly gets other friends it becomes some huge issue. Taylor is also so controlling in some scenes, she basically peer pressures belly without the peer constantly pushing her out of her comfort zone and then when belly does it and ends up enjoying herself Taylor gets upset. I don’t know, maybe Taylor is better in the other books (I haven’t read them) but at least in this one she’s insufferable. (Anyways Trin this was amazing and i’m so glad you dedicated a video to this show!)

Speaking of all of her leads being White and Asian makes me think of something else I noticed. All of her "Whasian" lead females always in up with a white guy and in the process pass over a boy of color whether it be in the books, movies, or shows. By no means am I saying there is something wrong with interracial couples it is good to see the representation but it is hard not to feel like there is a pattern. In To all the boys, LJ has Peter and picks him over John who I know was white in the books but is black in the movies and here in The Summer I Turned Pretty Cam gets left in the dust for the potential of being with one of the brothers.

Something watching this show made me realize is that the older I get the more I care about the adult storyline than the teen story line in all these shows lmao

Lool the fact that Trin keeps calling him Jeremy hahaha

Trins reaction too Olivia’s songs being in the show was literally the same way I reacted

Your reaction to the first note of “the way I loved you” was also my reaction. I literally SCREAMED.

In the books basically every character was white I’m glad they added more people of color 😭

The thing about him telling Belly he was drunk and he can't really remember their almost kiss is he told her like the 2 episode that he remembers everything when he's drunk

You know your becoming a señora when the only relationship you were truly invested in was the mom's friendship haha

i love this show, but i also feel like the representation was a little…idk. making the main characters asian american is awesome. all here for representation. but i also feel like there’s no REAL commitment if the main character is asian with a white dad, breaking it off with her POC guy in pursuit of the white male love interests, while the white characters ALSO break it off with their POC love interests. like let’s NOT introduce the brown characters as foils to the “better-suited” white love interests that we know they’re going to end up with. as a black person, i find that a little upsetting. and i’m going to double down earlier with my previous point, is it REALLY groundbreaking to have a white male/asian woman romance story? i just feel like it’s a trope that’s been driven into the GROUND.

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE

I'm pretty sure Belly was white in the books. There's no mention of her being Asian, and the girl in the original covers is white. They also changed Belly's mom's last name from Dunne to Park

'trying to assassinate them when they make out' had me crying loved this video !

NO CAUSE THE DEB SCENE WITH FUCKING THE WAY I LOVED YOU PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND ENDED ME I WAS ON THE FLOOR THAT WAS THE MOST CINEMATIC AND INCREDIBLE PIECES OF FILM EVER

team jere and team belly and team cam! That classic "white person syndrome" is really relatable.

She literally calls all of them out on their bs lmaooo like her coming after Steven at the end was great

YESSSS I NEEDED TRIN TO DO THIS SERIES.

I was mad watching this that they made Jeramiah part of the love triangle out of nowhere part way through. There was a point where he was just not involved in any of the drama and was just running around being a bisexual chaos god and I was so into it

it would have been so much better if they played instrumental music, ya know, for example at the dancing scene, it could have been one of those scenes (that have been done a few times but could have been so good) where it zones in on Conrad and Belly, with some emotional instrumental piano type of music, then the background becomes muffled, and then it shows just them two with no one else in the room. Instrumentals are the smoothest transition and music to use to make the viewer feel some typa way. When you hear fucking taylor swift abruptly like that, it just takes you out of the show. I love some of the songs they chose, and I can see why they would want to put those songs in the background, but it really ruined the vibe for me. It could have made the show so much better.

as someone who has read the books and watched the show, I honestly think the show was better which is a rare occurrence but the show provided so much more depth which is also rare lol The ability to see all the plots and not just belly's POV make the show so much better.

When 1 step forward 3 steps back came on I literally thought it was new years day until she started singing lmao

I liked the series more than the books just because it felt like it had more of a plot. The debutante plot added a lot more. And I hope we get more conrad and belly being together because we really didn't in the books besides the flashbacks that weren't always positive. I am going to dread the next two seasons bc I hate jere as the books go on. And I do believe Jere's character didn't really change that much in the 3rd book like everyone thinks. I just think that his childlikeness didn't really disappear or age the way it should have.

The new title of this video should be “Trin roasting Jeremiah for 59 minutes straight”

when they played PHOEBE DURING A SAD SCENE i knew they meant business. like that shit was evil.

Trin feeling bad for not remembering something when half of the plot literally didn’t exist in the book because they barely had anything going on 😅 This is the only case where I think the show is leagues better than the books

Jeremy gives me kind of a sad puppy dog vibe but not in a cute way. He's described as a golden retriever and I feel that kinda of works. He's energetic and all over belly. But he's jealous of his owner giving attention to other dogs and if he doesn't get the attention he wants, he tears up ur slippers or couch. No hate to golden retrievers or anything. Just an analogy I thought of.

alt title: “59 minutes of trin lovell hating on white people” validly enough.

“God forbid we ruin the Fourth” I DIED

I’ve never read the books so this is just my two cents on just the series but right off the first episode, I saw Jeremiah’s connection and interest in Belly just from their first interaction together. I thought the actor who played him did an amazing job with the longing looks and flirty playfulness with Belly. I was automatically drawn to him even though I already knew they were setting up Belly and Conrad as endgame (based on Belly’s commentaries in the series). I feel like I may have a different opinion and perspective if I had actually read the books first but i really loved all of the Jelly scenes together. They were really playful and honest and I see more of a friendship turned relationship between the two. I do see the chemistry between Belly and Conrad as well, though. Maybe in the next season, It will showcase that a little Bit better than this season because I was fully invested in the Jeremiah/Belly relationship. I do wish there was some sort of closure between Belly and Jeremiah before she kissed Conrad.

me punching the air bc finally someone else questions why tf all Jenny Han’s Asian characters have to be mixed like it’s really giving that middle school Asian girl self hatred where you romanticize white people and being white adjacent bc how prevalent they are in media and just in general🤢 like the way it literally adds nothing to the character or story either it’s always just to be a little extra quirky or exotic and the “othered” concept could still be accomplished if they were just full Asian like ma’am… I’m sick lmao

trin screaming when “the way i loved you” came on, pls that was literally me

I didn’t read the books, but based on the show Conrad seems like a creepy sad boi with anger issues, while Jeremiah seems to be genuinely loving and supportive of Belly and overall just a better match for her personality

Cam and belly have better chemistry than conrad and belly. I said what I said

Was I the only one who thought this show was like really bad? I didn’t read the books but it felt like Belly just played everyone in the show 😭

that firework was a murder attempt and no one can convince me otherwise

I feel so represented by your hatred for “Jelly” (I really hate that name). Jeremiah cringed me out so bad, I can’t. Cam and Conrad, even though the whole sad boy aloofness is getting kind of old, are sooo much better as love interests.

The fact that she has no experience and has made out with so many different guys her age in one summer has confused me the most. Not even now as an adult I have so many guys over one summer 🤣

Yes I am so happy that you did this series because I am absolutely obsessed with the show !! 💛

in the books I was team Jeremiah because there was a whole background story about how Jeremiah is bells best friend and they were very adorable, but in the last book I was team Conrad because I HATED the plot of the last book. but on the tv series I prefer Conrad or cam Cameron, but I still think that Jeremiah is kinda charming

It's the way Trin was roasting the music choices and then funeral came on and she just started balling

I'm sooo confused by fellow book readers opinions! I was always team jer since he seemed to truly genuinely care about her, not even just as a romantic prospect but as a person! Conrad always seemed like the classic toxic masculinity type and needed desperately to do some healing

I looooove this setup here, it fits your outfit too!!

NO WAY. IT’S HAPPENING Y’ALL. I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE.

I'm so glad u decided to do a video on this show. I saw the ad for it on tv and then watched in one sitting on prime. Quite the watch. I'm 15 and and belly was too at the start of the show. And she's doing all these things and I'm like the heck. I want some of that. Maybe not all the drama tho.

I was team Jelly (besides Cam) when watching the show without reading the books but I totally see his character switch up being like an older brother making fun of Belly (super similar to Steven) but then wanting to be with her. But I also still can't excuse Conrad's attitude. Like he has so much he's dealing with and I really understood his character much better after finding that out but it doesn't mean being rude is just fine. He's meaner to Belly than necessary through the whole show and it makes me so uncomfortable because it shows that he can't separate his feelings. Obviously he's a kid and still learning how to express his emotions, obviously this is a show and not that serious, but Belly deserves so much more from him or anyone.

the scene where conrad looks at belly and the way I loved you plays in the background...yea that sold the entire show to me honestly

Possible Unpopular Opinion: I really loved the book series more than "To All the Boys" as a preteen. I was Team Conrad from the get go!

Oh no, “The summer I turned pretty” was something I kept re-reading 😂 but this makes me wish I just let my imagination do it’s job, everything in my head seemed way better then what is portrayed here😭

LOVE YOU POINTING OUT THE MUSIC one of my fav parts of the shoooooow

i cannot articulate how much I appreciated this video! it truly felt like I was binging a show with a friend, and since I watched by myself, I really needed to feel like I was discussing it with someone

I still haven’t read the books but I’m all the way team Conrad based on the series, I can’t understand how people like Jeremiah because I think he was really manipulative. The way he didn’t want his brother to be happy with belly and wanted to set him up with this other girl I forgot the name of😂 But tbh I didn’t like Belly all that much either in terms of treating the boys, she really did hurt all three of them all the time which is kinda sad I also thought it was weird that Conrad seemed to be the “bad guy” or “fuckboy” when he was interested in this one girl for the whole series and Jeremiah was hooking up all around (no shame in that) and Conrad was being mopey and all because of his mom so his earned “titles” don’t make any sense

olivia rodrigo and jenna ortega need to be casted as leads in a sapphic coming of age film as gf NOW

i don’t know why people in tiktok were like “omg I want a friend like Taylor 😍” when she has trying to always be the main character even in belly’s life. honestly, I didn’t like her and the scene when Jeremiah puts another song totally cringed me out (27:31)

Unpopular opinion: I don’t think that belly and Jeremiah have much chemistry and I think people most root for him cuz his pretty… 👀. Y’all don’t shoot me 😭😭