What if forever with your soulmate meant trading sunsets for storms that test every promise? 🌊💔 Belly and Conrad, finally hand-in-hand after years of heartbreak, whispering vows under Parisian stars—but shadows from Cousins creep in, old flames flicker, and a secret that could unravel it all before the ink dries. Is their happy ever after just the calm before the ultimate wave? Fans are sobbing, theorizing, and screaming for more. Catch the trailer that’s rewriting every ending—link in bio, watch now before spoilers swallow you whole!
Prime Video has flipped the script on heartbreak with a pulse-racing teaser trailer for The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 4, dropping Thursday and thrusting fans back into the tidal pull of Belly Conklin (Lola Tung) and Conrad Fisher (Christopher Briney)’s hard-won romance—just as it teeters on the edge of uncharted turmoil. Titled “Echoes of Us,” the 2-minute clip—unveiled mere weeks after the September 17 series finale that sealed their reunion with a tear-streaked Paris kiss—hints at a time-jumped continuation where the couple’s “forever” collides with career clashes, resurfacing ghosts, and a Cousins Beach legacy that refuses to stay buried. With Jenny Han penning the extension beyond her trilogy’s close, this isn’t a tidy bow; it’s a storm surge threatening to drown the endgame Team Conrad stans celebrated. Announced alongside a feature film greenlight on finale night, the trailer has X (formerly Twitter) crashing under 300K #NotTheEnd posts, as viewers grapple: Is this the passionate payoff or a cruel tease that their “infinite worlds” vow was just the intermission?
The trailer wastes no time plunging into post-finale paradise: sweeping aerials of a sun-kissed Cousins Beach house, now with fairy lights strung across the porch, where Belly and Conrad sway to an acoustic “Daylight” cover, her head on his chest as waves lap like applause. “We made it,” Belly narrates softly, her voice laced with wonder, flashing to quick cuts of their Paris idyll—Eiffel Tower picnics, stolen Seine dances, and that raw bedroom confession where she clasps the infinity necklace, declaring, “Every version of me chooses you.” But the honeymoon haze shatters at the 45-second mark: a discordant violin swell as Conrad pores over med school acceptances in a cluttered Boston apartment, Belly pacing with a laptop open to freelance writing gigs that scream “Cousins forever.” “This was our dream,” he murmurs, but her eyes betray the fracture—cut to a tense dinner where she snaps, “Your dream, Con. Mine’s bigger than boardwalks.” Montage frenzy builds: Conrad’s late-night shifts clashing with Belly’s book tour invites; a surprise visit from Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), now a thriving chef with a knowing smile that lingers too long; and a cryptic envelope marked “Susannah’s Will—Unsealed,” spilling photos of hidden Fisher family deeds that could force a beach house sale. The clip peaks in a rain-lashed argument on the deck, Conrad grabbing her wrist: “We fought for this—don’t let it slip.” Belly pulls away, tears mixing with downpour: “Love isn’t enough if we’re drowning.” Fade to black on their intertwined hands, cracking like fault lines, tagline: “Some endings are just beginnings… until they’re not.” Prime’s mum on a summer 2027 premiere, but Han’s X tease—”The tide always turns”—fuels bets on a July splash.
This bold leap catapults the series from YA romance staple to serialized saga, defying the trilogy’s closure. For the uninitiated—or those still nursing Season 3’s emotional whiplash—The Summer I Turned Pretty, Han’s sun-soaked adaptation of her 2009-2011 novels, traces Belly’s metamorphosis from gawky teen to self-possessed woman, ensnared in the Fisher brothers’ gravitational love triangle. Season 1 (2022) bottled the Cousins magic: bonfires, first kisses, and Susannah Fisher’s (Rachel Blanchard) cancer shadow dimming the volleyball vibes. Belly’s debutante glow-up masked the ache of Conrad’s brooding distance and Jeremiah’s golden-boy charm, ending on a gut-wrenching prom-night pivot that left hearts in the sand. Season 2 (2023) cranked the betrayal dial—Belly’s prom choice imploding amid Susannah’s decline—forcing a Jeremiah engagement that felt like settling, with Conrad’s Stanford exile underscoring the “what if” torment.
Season 3, the trilogy’s supposed capstone premiering July 16 in split drops, shattered viewership records with 25 million global eyes in week one, per Prime metrics, blending book fidelity with show twists like expanded Taylor (Rain Spencer) arcs and Conrad’s anxiety-fueled panic attacks. Adapting We’ll Always Have Summer, it fast-forwarded to college Belly and Jeremiah’s fraying fairy tale: infidelity whispers (Jeremiah’s bachelorette bash slip-up, amped from the book’s one-night haze), a shotgun wedding weekend derailed by Conrad’s eleventh-hour airport ambush, and Belly’s Spain sabbatical morphing into a Paris epiphany. The August 29 trailer for the final three episodes teased her solo reinvention—new friends, flirtatious French boys, and that fateful Conrad letter: “Dear Belly, I was wrong to let you go.” The September 17 finale delivered catharsis: Conrad crashing her 22nd birthday, their slow-dance-to-sex arc set to Taylor Swift’s “Dress,” and a voiceover vow—”I choose you, of my own free will”—capped by a Cousins Christmas montage, infinity necklace gleaming. Han’s end-credits note—”We might meet again in Cousins”—was no bluff; hours later, the movie sequel was locked, with Tung and Briney locked in for “one final time,” per People.
Enter Season 4: the TV bridge to cinema closure, greenlit August 2025 amid Season 3’s 82% Rotten Tomatoes glow (up from Season 2’s 74%) and 100M+ streamed hours. Insiders whisper the pitch crystallized during finale reshoots, Han eyeing a “decades-later ripple” akin to her Burn for Burn spinoffs, but rooted in real fan ache—X polls post-finale showed 65% craving Conrad-Belly spin-offs. The trailer jumps two years: Belly, 24, a budding novelist hawking a Cousins memoir; Conrad, 25, grinding med school residencies with flashbacks to his Season 1 panic spirals, now medicated but simmering. Their cohabitation bliss—lazy beach mornings, Susannah-inspired garden tending—cracks under ambition’s weight: Belly’s agent pushes a New York book deal clashing with Conrad’s Boston rotations; Jeremiah’s pop-up restaurant empire invites collaborative “family” weekends that dredge buried jealousies. “It’s not about choosing again,” Han told Hollywood Reporter post-finale. “It’s what happens when the choice gets real—jobs, loss, the slow erosion of ‘us’.” Teased subplots? A Susannah will bombshell revealing a secret trust tied to the brothers’ estranged dad Adam (Tom Everett Scott), pitting Conrad against Jeremiah in a custody-like deed war; Belly’s Paris fling resurfacing as a platonic muse, sparking Conrad’s trust tumbles; and cameos from grown Steven (Sean Kaufman) and Taylor, now West Coast power couple, offering wry “been there” counsel.
The cast’s evolution adds poignant punch. Tung, 26, channels a wearier Belly—crop tops swapped for linen shifts, her chemistry with Briney (27, post-The Sex Lives of College Girls buzz) electric in leaked chemistry reads, their Paris scenes shot with handheld intimacy for “lived-in love.” “Conrad’s not the boy anymore; he’s the man fighting to stay,” Briney shared with Variety, nodding to his character’s therapy arc. Casalegno, 26, shines as a post-Denise Jeremiah—tattooed, triumphant, but haunted—hinting at “redemption that stings.” New additions tease depth: Amandla Stenberg as Belly’s editor, a sharp-tongued queer ally probing her “white-picket fears”; and Archie Madekwe recurring as Conrad’s med school rival, injecting bromance-turned-betrayal. Blanchard, battling her own health parallels to Susannah, films ethereal flashbacks via green screen, her voiceover haunting: “Love isn’t the summer; it’s the winters you weather.”
Fandom fault lines are fracturing. Season 3’s finale spiked 40% in 18-34 views, Nielsen data shows, with Swiftie Easter eggs—like “invisible string” lyrics etched in sand—driving viral TikToks (500M impressions). But purists howl at the extension: “The books ended with hope—don’t drag it into divorce fic,” one X thread lamented, netting 4K retweets. Team Jere holdouts celebrate Jeremiah’s glow-up, while Conrad stans dissect frames—the cracked hand silhouette? A will-fueled split? “It’s mature magic,” a Refinery29 op-ed praised, crediting Han’s “post-college pivot” for mirroring To All the Boys‘ grown-up grace. Forbes pegs the expansion as Prime’s YA lifeline post-strikes, with a $15M-per-episode budget funding France reshoots and VFX “dream dives” into alternate endings—Belly glimpsing a Jeremiah life, Conrad a solo med empire.
Production was a pressure-cooker pas de deux. Filming kicked off in secrecy July 20 on Wilmington’s original sets, spilling to Paris for authenticity—cobblestone chases dodging tourists, Eiffel backdrops at dusk. Director Rachel Leiterman (Season 3 alum) infused Han’s nostalgia with grit: slow-mo arguments laced with ocean roars, symbolizing “love’s undertow.” Tung prepped via journaling “Belly’s unsent letters,” while Briney shadowed ER docs for Conrad’s exhaustion authenticity. Composer Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans amp the ache with swelling strings over Swift’s “invisible string,” teasing a soundtrack collab. Han, directing her TV debut episode, defended the detour in THR: “The books were youth’s blaze; this is the embers—warm, but flickering. Fans wanted more; we’re giving the long burn.”
The trailer’s “not the end” ethos echoes broader Han lore—her TATB sequel’s “still love you” nod, Burn‘s ghostly ties—positioning TSITP as a franchise phoenix. X deep dives multiply: That envelope’s postmark (Boston? Paris?); Jeremiah’s smirk (ally or agitator?); a blurred ultrasound in Belly’s drawer (baby twist incoming?). With the movie—Han writing/directing a “conclusion” slotted for 2028—looming as the true valediction, Season 4 feels like a delicious detour, probing if infinite choices mean infinite fights. As Belly quips in the books, “The ache is always there.” But in Han’s waves, it’s the pullback that hurts sweetest—promising Conrad and Belly’s together isn’t finale; it’s fuel for the fire.
