Show Review: The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2

August 25, 2023

I have to say, I for sure did not love season 2 as much as I loved season 1. I loved season 1.

Season 2 just wrapped itself up and we have no date set for season 3 which means I am going to be reading the books. It was much messier and much less cozy this time around, and that is fine, life goes in waves and it ebbs and flows and life cannot always be as it was before. This seems to be the message throughout the whole season. Nothing is the same as it was.

It is hard to watch Belly go through heartache and mess things up over and over. At the beginning of the season I am feeling like I resonate with Belly so much and that I am 100% team Belly, but by the end of it I was so disappointed with her decisions.

I need to give her some grace because she is a teenager, but I am feeling very sad with the way that she has treated the Fisher boys. This takes me back to my feelings toward Rory from Gilmore Girls. Like Rory, Belly messes up a lot in season 2 while she is finding herself and trying to learn what she wants while grieving the loss of the relationships she had with the boys as well as their mother, Susannah, and the loss of her childhood. So much has changed in such a short amount of time, and that is really hard.

She has lost her moms best friend, she has changed the relationships she has with her two closest friends, she is trying to figure out what young adulthood looks like and what college she wants to go to, it is a confusing time for Belly, still I am disappointed in her actions.

But I am also so proud of her. She is learning to humble herself to her mistakes, she is leaning into what she wants, she is developing an adult relationship with her mom, and all the while she is mourning the loss of someone so dear to her.

I highly suggest the second season and cannot wait for season 3.