<i>The Summer I Turned Pretty</i> Snuck in a <i>To All the Boys</i> Easter Egg in Season 3
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THE RUNDOWN
- A new episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty featured sweet references to To All the Boys I Loved Before.
- Both the Prime Video series and Netflix film are based on novels written by Jenny Han.
- One scene shows Jeremiah and Belly dressed up as Lara Jean and Peter from To All the Boys.
The Jenny Han Cinematic Universe is thriving. Yesterday’s new episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty contains an Easter egg for To All the Boys I Loved Before, another one of Han’s beloved book-to-screen trilogies. Did you spot it?
In season 3, episode 1, one scene shows a collection of photos of Belly and Jeremiah on her dorm room wall. One of the snapshots appears to be from Halloween, with the couple dressing up as Lara Jean Covey and Peter Kavinsky from To All the Boys. The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment features Belly wearing Lara Jean’s iconic pink jacket and plaid skirt, while Jeremiah wears a brunette wig and sweatshirt. They even recreated one of the couple’s poses.
The references don’t stop there. Some fans caught parallels between Belly and Lara Jean in a flashback scene to her Christmas at the beach house.
And in a later scene, Belly fills out a crossword that Conrad left behind for her, completing the title of Han’s book, P.S. I Still Love You, the follow-up to To All the Boys. Using your own book title to help express your characters’ yearning feelings in another series? Clever move, Jenny Han.
Belly’s acknowledging the To All the Boys books and movies implies that the two stories aren’t set in the same universe. In fact, Han already made that clear in a 2023 interview with W magazine, revealing that Lara Jean is familiar with the Summer I Turned Pretty books in her world, too.
“I have a little Easter egg on the cover of Always and Forever, Lara Jean. There’s a copy of The Summer I Turned Pretty on the cover in her bedroom, because I feel like Lara Jean would read that book,” Han said. “To me, The Summer I Turned Pretty exists in a slightly more grounded universe. And Lara Jean’s world feels a little more heightened.”
New episodes of TSITP’s third and final season are streaming weekly on Wednesdays on Prime Video.
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