Crafting an enduring love triangle isn’t easy. But with The Summer I Turned Pretty , co-showrunner Jenny Han managed to pull it off, dividing viewers into camps in the grand tradition of fellow YA authors Stephanie Meyer and Suzanne Collins. Sure, it seemed increasingly apparent over the course of the third and final season that 21-year-old Belly Conklin (Lola Tung) would ultimately choose Conrad Fisher (Christopher Briney) over her fiancé, his younger brother, Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno). And fans of the source material, Han’s YA novel trilogy of the same name, already knew the likely outcome . But for a while there, especially when Belly fell for Jeremiah in season two, he stood a fighting chance. They did get engaged, after all.

Love triangles pop up often in Han’s work, includ

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