The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 time jump is officially longer than we thought. In case you missed it, gearing up for the release of the long-anticipated final season, it was initially teased that the series would pick up after a two-year time jump, mimicking that of the original book series.
However, the series' stars have now confirmed that the time jump between season 2 and season 3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty is actually four years.
“This season starts four years into the future from what we last saw,” Chris Briney told Extra TV ahead of the new season, which definitely makes more sense for the glimpses that we have gotten about how far Conrad has progressed in med school in teaser images and trailers.
It all comes down to this.
Speaking to Extra TV, Sean Kaufman and Rain Spencer also confirmed the time jump in The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 will skip four years ahead instead of two, as we had initially believed.
Speaking to the outlet, Kaufman said Steven is in a “very different place” in season 3. “Obviously, there's a time jump, so we are four years ahead. He has graduated [from] Princeton early magna cum whatever laude — definitely not, but he probably says he did — and he's out in the workforce now. He's working at this firm called Breaker, working with this new character, Denise, and I'm really excited for you guys to see that relationship form.”
Kaufman continued saying “there's a lot of change that happens for Steven this season” including “some life-altering stuff that really makes him kind of question what he has been doing with his life, what he's been finding mundane, and what he actually wants to do with his life and what kind of passion he figures out whether that's in romantic relationships or in work.”
The key takeaways here are the plural use in “romantic relationships” and the somewhat hopeful outlook after the “ life-altering stuff,” given, you know, the fact that the trailer teases he'll suffer a major car accident.
Spencer also confirmed the longer time jump, saying: “It's a four-year time jump, so Taylor is in college, she wants to move to New York, she wants to be this PR superstar. We get to meet her mum for the first time, which is really interesting. We get to see how Taylor grew up and her dynamic with her mum.”
The duo also teased that the The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 time jump will majorly affect Steven and Taylor's relationship. “I'd say we are not where we left off at the end of season 2,” Kaufman teased. “The past four years, they have been breaking up, getting back together, and breaking up again.”
Lola Tung also previously confirmed the four-year time jump while speaking to Teen Vogue, though in a more mathematical way. The star admitted it was nice to play her age during The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3. If we do a little math, Tung was 21 while filming season 3, and when we last saw Belly in season 2, she was 17 years old, so, yes, that's a four-year difference.
A four-year time jump definitely makes more sense for what we know so far about The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3, though we might also get some more peeks throughout the season before we get to the final timeline, likely to see more of Belly and Jeremiah's relationship through the years. Think of it as mini time jumps before we get to the full time jump. After all, author Jenny Han has already confirmed that some of the pictures we have gotten as teasers for season 3 are actually throwbacks.
Back in October, Gavin Casalegno and Lol Tung were spotted filming a scene in Paris, where Jeremiah chases after Belly. Many believe the Paris trip on the show corresponds with Belly's trip to Spain in the book, which happens during her junior year of university.
Previously, and as eagle-eyed fans had noticed, Prime Video has confirmed that season 3 picks up at the end of Belly's junior year at college as she prepares to head to Cousins with Jeremiah. So, I guess be ready to jump back and forth quite a bit?
This article was originally published on Teen Vogue.
