Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network

Show Name: The Fan and The Foe

Episode Title: The Summer I Turned [into a] pretty [huge superfan]

You are listening to The Fan and the Foe with your host(s) Gabbi and Louisa.

In this episode of The Fan and the Foe we discuss the summer I turned Pretty and its EXTREMELY dedicated fans

Louisa: okay before we get into things i want to clarify that we have both watched this right

Gabbi: yes I ve watched all the seasons

Louisa: Okay good me too, but for the listeners that don’t know, do you want to explain what TSIPT is??

Gabbi: Of course. So basically The Summer I turned pretty is a wildly popular YA romance show that is based off of the book trilogy by Jenny Han. You might be thinking to yourself hmm. I totally know that name from somewhere? It's because she is also the author of the equally famous To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before book and movie series. TSITP follows Isabel or Belly who spends every summer at her family friend's beach house on Cousins Beach. Belly has always been seen as a younger sister to everyone, especially her moms best friends two sons Conrad and Jeremiah, who are BOTH the love interests of this series at one point or another. But of course Belly goes for the older and emotionally unavailable one who she's been DOWN bad for since childhood.

Louisa: Oh obviously why would you go for the more reasonable option when there's a much more difficult and treacherous path to go down in the form of his older brother. But I am still team Conrad, jeres just there for the plet

Gabbi: trust me Louisa everyone whose ever seen the show shakes their head at every single decision belly makes.. This fanbase is you guessed it like that of most other teenaged romances– teenage girls who are desparately hope for their moms best friends son who also looks like chris briney to fall in love with them!

Louisa: Hey- don’t hate on my guy chris briney. He is the best actor in the entire series. And I think some people hope for their moms best friends son also looks like jeremiah

Gabbi: Okay okay your probably right. Anyways One of the biggest controversies of this show is the heated rivalry between the two brothers over Belly, and very polarly you either have to be Team Jeremiah or Team Conrad. There is a right answer and it is obviously Team Conrad

Louisa: How is that obvious? I feel like they both have some pretty apparent flaws and differences. But im not going against my word because as I said its def connie for the win. BUT my sister is team jeremiah because she says he is the one that has been there and the one that high as she says climbed up that ladder.

Gabbi: I mean they definitely both have their drawbacks and emotional trauma but at least Conrad didn’t cheat on belly and then fix it by proposing to her???

Louisa: Mind you with the SMALLEST ring known to mankind. But at least Jeremiah actually cared about her and didn’t try to covertly steal his brothers FIANCE. But Conrad is more stable and much more mature and caring. So like i guess I know where my sister was coming from we we actually got in a fight about it haha

Gabbi: a FIGHT??

Louisa: like basically yes haha. We were watching the finale together and SPOILER ALERT when they looked back at the house in cousins after belly and conrad were together she said smth a long the lines of “that shouldve been jere” so I was like what the heck are you talking about its always been conrad and so she was like no its been jere for like 7 years and I said sure but shes always thought about conrad and their infinity necklace and she like stormed off because she was so mad but we resolved it and mow were chillin even though we joke about that fight now

Gabbi: omg tahts insane haha, maybe your part of the crazy fandom.

Louisa: I mean were def not the ones reading the books and making...