If You Miss The Summer I Turned Pretty, Watch These 8 Shows and Movies Next
Your favorite part of The Summer I Turned Pretty decides what you should watch next.
Because maybe you don't miss the love triangle. Maybe you miss Cousins, Conrad-level yearning, the girls, or simply watching beautiful people make terrible decisions near water.
Pick your favorite part and start there.
1. Sterling Point
Watch this if your favorite part of TSITP was... one summer changing an entire family.
Where to watch: Prime Video | Length: 8 episodes
Snack: Maple popcorn | Drink: Blueberry lemonade
Brand new this week, Sterling Point follows Annie after she inherits a Canadian island and walks straight into family secrets, new friendships and romance.
Bonus connection: Gossip Girl producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are executive producers.
This is probably the easiest new fandom for a TSITP girl to enter.
2. Every Year After
Watch this if your favorite part of TSITP was... returning to the same summer place and the same person every year.
Where to watch: Prime Video | Length: 8 episodes
Snack: S'mores | Drink: Iced peach tea
Percy and Sam fall in love across six summers in the lake town of Barry's Bay, then meet again as adults. Childhood history, first love, summer nostalgia and years of unresolved feelings.
Honestly, this might be the closest match to the exact feeling TSITP leaves behind.
3. We Were Liars
Watch this if your favorite part of TSITP was... Cousins Beach itself.
Where to watch: Prime Video | Length: 8 episodes
Snack: Sea salt popcorn | Drink: Sparkling lemonade
A private island, the same families returning every summer, childhood friends, first love and a very expensive house full of secrets.
Familiar?
We Were Liars gives you that Cousins atmosphere, except much darker. Come for the dreamy summer setting, stay because you suddenly need to know what everyone is hiding.
4. One Day
Watch this if your favorite part of TSITP was... Conrad Fisher yearning in silence.
Where to watch: Netflix | Length: 14 episodes
Snack: Chocolate croissant | Drink: Iced coffee
Conrad girls, this one is yours.
Emma and Dexter keep moving in and out of each other's lives across almost two decades. There is no love triangle to distract you, just history, terrible timing and two people taking an almost offensive amount of time to deal with their feelings.
5. The Buccaneers
Watch this if your favorite part of TSITP was... Belly and Taylor, Susannah and Laurel, and the female relationships.
Where to watch: Apple TV+ | Length: 2 seasons, 16 episodes
Snack: Strawberry shortcake | Drink: Rose lemonade
Move everything to the 1870s and replace Cousins outfits with giant dresses.
The Buccaneers follows a group of young American women dealing with friendship, sisters, love triangles and very messy choices in British high society. The romances are fun, but the girls are genuinely the reason to stay.
6. Forever
Watch this if your favorite part of TSITP was... Belly figuring out who she was while falling in love.
Where to watch: Netflix | Length: 8 episodes
Snack: Cinnamon sugar donuts | Drink: Strawberry lemonade
Keisha and Justin reconnect as teenagers and experience their first serious relationship together.
Romance matters, but so do parents, school, ambition and figuring out what they actually want from life. Pick this if you wanted Belly's world to keep growing beyond whichever Fisher brother she loved.
7. People We Meet on Vacation
Watch this if your favorite part of TSITP was... summer becoming a romantic ritual.
Where to watch: Netflix | Movie runtime: 1 hr 57 min
Snack: Chocolate covered pretzels | Drink: Tropical iced tea
Poppy and Alex are best friends who spend their summer vacations together every year until the friendship starts feeling suspiciously like something else.
You get years of history and painfully obvious feelings, but you can finish the entire emotional situation in one movie. Very considerate of them.
8. Nobody Wants This
Watch this if your favorite part of TSITP was... love getting complicated because real life keeps interfering.
Where to watch: Netflix | Length: 2 seasons, 20 episodes
Snack: Salted caramel popcorn | Drink: Iced matcha
Consider this your graduation from YA romance.
Joanne and Noah are adults who fall in love and then have to work out whether their families, beliefs and completely different lives can actually fit together.
Same romantic messiness, except now everyone has jobs and is slightly better at communicating.
The nice thing about missing TSITP is realizing you probably don't need another copy of it.
You just need to know whether you came to Cousins for the summers, the friendships, the growing up or one deeply emotionally unavailable boy.
Your next obsession only needs the part that made you stay.