Why every millennial woman you know is suddenly watching The Summer I Turned Pretty

It should also be noted that Han’s books were published for the first time in 2009, 2010 and 2011 – therefore, when many millennials were adolescents. “It reminds me of being this age and all the shows and novels of comforting teenagers that I loved,” adds Holly. “With the current state of the world, maybe many of us want to feel like we are still 16 years old.”

Its gigantic success could also be partly attributed to the fact that the episodes are published each week rather than one time – a rare but intelligent tactic which both strengthens anticipation and dates back to the way the programs worked when we were younger. “At the time, we had to wait until weeks to discover what was going to happen in our favorite programs,” said Jenna, 40. “And in the meantime, we have conversations with people, seeing online reactions and experiencing delayed gratuity rather than excavation in one day. Watching new episodes becomes an opportunity.”

Then there is the soundtrack, which has so far presented no less than 20 songs from Taylor Swift through the three seasons, not to mention the pieces of Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Phoebe Bridgers and Gracie Abrams. All this guarantees that sound, the series draws from a sadder musical universe of girl which is characterized by the same themes and feelings as the spectacle: desire, sorrow and attractive melancholy. Fans speculate even that Swift could drop the first single of his next album, The life of a showgirlIn the final of the series – which seems disturbed, but more strange things have happened.

And, finally, let’s revisit Conrad. Soft, soft and emotionally committed conrad. A man so cleverly designed through the female objective this part of the addictive agony to look The summer when I became pretty knows that it does not exist hoping that he could. His aesthetics – all loose collar shirts, his daddy jeans and her gym coaches – is also very coded from the 90s and is directly opposed to that of his brother, who is more polo shirt and freight pants, giving a type of vibration “I spend my weekends drink whiskey and play golf with the lads”. “Singletons among our generation are so tired of men in the real world at this stage,” explains Holly, “but the boy Jenny Han knows how to write a man we all want.”