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Amazon Prime Video bosses have been forced to issue The Summer I Turned Pretty fans with another warning, following toxic behaviour online.
The third and final season of the hit coming-of-age drama arrived on the platform last month, with new episodes dropping weekly.
As we inch closer to the upcoming series finale and the conclusion of the messy love triangle between Belly Conklin (Lola Tung) and brothers Jeremiah (Gavin Casalengo) and Conrad Fisher (Chris Briney), viewers have made their voices heard on social media.
This has led to our feeds being flooded with messages from those calling out the actors for their characters’ decisions, demanding answers and, in some cases, sending messages of violence and death threats to the main stars.
Those behind the scenes have now posted a second message, begging fans to ‘act normal’.
Ahead of the latest instalment, the show’s official Instagram account posted a video with the message: ‘The summer we started acting normal online.’
Alongside the clip, they penned: ‘The show isn’t real but the people playing the characters are.’
Bosses also re-emphasized the warning they issued last month as the season began, declaring: ‘We have a ZERO tolerance policy for bullying and hate speech. If you engage in any of the following you will be banned.’
The examples then listed as ‘community guidelines’ were: no ‘hate speech or bullying’, ‘targeting our cast or crew’ and ‘harassing or doxxing members of the community’.
Jenny Han – who serves as the showrunner, executive producer and wrote the books that The Summer I Turned Pretty was based on – posted a similar message on her own social media page.
‘I know fans of the show are passionate and no one has bad intent, but even in jest, posting images of a woman being slapped or choked is not funny,’ she added.
The summer romance with a glossy Gen Z love triangle to keep fans hooked first aired in 2022 and went on to become one of the streamer’s most-viewed TV shows.
Based on the best-selling book trilogy, the third season is set four years on from the events of the second.
Belly has swapped between the equally handsome Fisher brothers for several episodes now, and is presumably set to make a concrete decision at the end of this 11 episode run.
She has finished her junior year of college at Finch University and is now set to marry Jeremiah (Conrad fans look away now, there’s lots of loved up ‘Jelly’ scenes coming).
But just in the nick of time, it looks like Conrad might actually have grown up to be worthy of her affections.
He is a doctor with a new sense of purpose and perspective – but is it enough to make Belly once again detonate her perfectly happy love life? We’ll have to tune in to find out.
It might not come as a total surprise that the production warned fans off, given that viewers have had fierce ‘ships’ of who should end up with who from the off. It’s Team Conrad vs Team Jeremiah.
The first season holds an 86% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with YouTuber Perri Nemiroff dubbing it ‘an irresistible summer escape’.
Additionally, fans have shared their own thoughts on the show so far, with Ranyoun Rania writing in her Google review: ‘I adore this series so much.
‘I only saw it on Prime Video today and watched all 7 episodes in that entire night and went to bed at 6 am but it was totally worth it.’
Arnold Bisoborwa added: ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty is a heartwarming and nostalgic coming-of-age series that perfectly captures the magic of first love, family bonds, and the bittersweetness of growing up.’
Sarah Smith also said they were kept up late watching the show, writing: ‘This is the best show I have watched in a long time. I literally stayed up all night to finish.’
This article was first published on July 16.
The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video now.
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