It’s one of today’s most divisive questions: Team Jeremiah or Team Conrad? The Summer I Turned Pretty ’s central love triangle has become a hot-button issue. Mainly, because it adheres to a longstanding teen drama formula specially crafted to sow fandom division: distinct archetypes for the two lead pretty boys . Ones that make it incredibly easy for viewers to identify which falls more in line with their personal taste. There’s the happy-go-lucky golden boy (in the case of TSITP, Jeremiah) or the brooding, complicated introvert, with plenty of layers that beg to be unpeeled. (Like my darling Conrad, for example. But I'm trying not to show bias here.)

Someone defaulting to slightly more online verbiage would call this the black cat vs. golden retriever dynamic. But for a brief ons

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