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Amazon Prime set the summer of 2025 ablaze, and into two divisive camps, with The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Now the streamer has another soft-focus teen romance for the small screen, based on a sensationally popular BookTok novel.
Every Year After has been adapted from Carley Fortune’s young adult novel of a similar name (Every Summer After), with its very own will-they-won’t-they love affair.
Percy Fraser (Sadie Soverall) and Sam Florek (Matt Cornett) are one another’s first love, but romance ebbs and flows over the course of six summers lakeside in Barry’s Bay, Canada. This explains the title.
Running concurrently to this, the story picks up again a decade later, when Percy is working as a dour obituary-writer and reckoning with a life that isn’t going as she planned.
A close family friend dies, forcing Percy to return to Barry’s Bay to attend the memorial service. There, she tries her damndest to avoid any run-ins with her now-ex Sam, who’s working as a doctor.
This week in her hometown – which is a lot of them moping about the fact they can’t be together, for reasons you will have to tune in to find out – is intercut with the summers of their past.
Played by younger actors as tweens, Percy and Sam first bond over horror movies and lake swims, set to tunes from the likes of Gracie Abrams, Lana del Rey and Noah Kahan.
But as they get older, and swap into the main leads, their focus shifts to the messy teenage hallmarks of getting together and breaking up, over and over again. Their families are incredibly patient about the whole thing.
The show has so far racked up an 82 per cent rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with several write-ups making those The Summer I Turned Pretty comparisons.
All eight episodes are waiting for fans of the book and newcomers alike to get stuck in.
The show might only have dropped today, but already eager fans have started watching, with Saher writing on X: ‘Hey so I’m already in tears and I’m only 3 mins in.’
‘Skipping gym tonight to binge. Let’s go!!’ wrote @kingofevrythlng, while Daisy tweeted: ‘I have such high hopes for Every Year After please don’t let me down, it will ruin my summer.’
Does Every Year After sound like one for you?
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Every Year After is available to watch on Amazon Prime.
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