Like the Britney song, she’s no longer a girl, not yet a woman, but she is enjoying exploring the complications that come with romance and dating. READ MORE: Summer 2022 TV Preview: Over 40 Shows To WatchĪs the title says, this is the summer Belly has “turned pretty” and boys are noticing. Complicating things further is Cam ( David Iacono, “The Flight Attendant”), who is the first boy to show Belly any kind of romantic attention. Belly has had a crush on Susannah’s eldest son Conrad ( Christopher Briney) for several years, while his younger brother Jeremiah ( Gavin Casalegno, CW’s “Walker”) has harbored a secret crush on her.
Newcomer Lola Tung stars as teenager Isabel “Belly” Conklin, whose family’s annual summer trip to Cousins Beach, Virginia gets shaken up by both family drama and Belly’s burgeoning sexuality.Įvery year, Belly, her older brother Steven ( Sean Kaufman), and her novelist mother Laurel ( Jackie Chung) spend the summer staying at the beach house of rich family friend Susannah ( Rachel Blanchard, “Fargo S1”). Based on the novel of the same name by Jenny Han (“ To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”), “ The Summer I Turned Pretty” is a perfectly distracting piece of summer fluff.