The Summer We Turned Obsessed: Waiting on Conrad Every Week

Every Wednesday, Prime Video drops a new episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty, and the internet collectively loses its mind. It’s not just teenagers watching a messy love triangle unfold, it is grown women, many of whom devoured Jenny Han’s books as teens, now reliving that nostalgia with a mix of irony and genuine obsession.

So what’s the hype about? The show has become a pop-culture moment, a perfect storm of summer vibes, teen drama and TikTok memes that flood For You Pages the second an episode airs. It’s not just a TV series anymore, it’s a weekly ritual, a digital watch party where the discourse is half the fun.

Just like Twilight had Team Edward vs. Team Jacob, The Summer I Turned Pretty has its own fandom split. It’s almost impossible to watch without picking a side. Are you rooting for Jeremiah, who in the first season was described as the golden retriever of a boyfriend, who is easygoing, affectionate, and wears his heart on his sleeve? Or are you waiting for Conrad to have a comeback – the moody, mysterious, complicated love interest whose silence says more than Jeremiah’s thousand words?

The show has become a weekly battleground where fans defend their chosen brother. TikTok is full of edits, memes, and heated debates about which Fisher brother deserves Belly’s heart. But this season, the debate feels a little outdated. It is more about the slow unraveling of Jeremiah’s storyline. With every episode, things get messier for him and in contrast, Conrad’s brooding, complicated energy only pulls in more sympathy. As a result, Team Conrad seems to be gathering more and more supporters each week, while Team Jeremiah feels like it’s losing ground.

But in the opinion of many watchers, the real question isn’t Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah anymore. It’s whether Belly should even be dating either of them at all. At this point, nearly everyone in the show is displaying some kind of toxic or delusional behavior, and the whole premise of dating two brothers has started to feel… well, a little messed up. Especially now that the word wedding has been thrown around. Because if we’re already talking about marriage in the middle of this chaos, maybe the healthiest plot twist would be for Belly to choose peace and finally date outside the Fisher family?

But will she? Probably not. And that’s why we’ll keep showing up every week, scrolling through the memes, and waiting (not so patiently) for Conrad to finally say what we all know he’s feeling and save us from this nightmare of an engagement between two teenagers who clearly have no idea what they’re doing.

Until then: Team Belly Should Quit Dating.