Though I’ve gone through the motions of thirtysomething self-deprecation at times, I don’t actually think there’s anything all that wrong with being an adult fan of The Summer I Turned Pretty . I’ve seen all the articles fretting about why so many grown-ups are tuning in to a show for teenagers —full disclosure, I wrote one of them myself , though in my defense, it was way back in Season 2, before all you Belly-come-latelies—but the why seems obvious enough to me: It’s a pretty good coming-of-age romance in a TV landscape that is sorely lacking in them. Networks used to turn out tons of TV shows about teens’ love lives , but, much like The Pitt now appears like a revelation for embracing a genre that minted money for decades, The Summer I Turned Pretty

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