On the heels of a massively successful launch for “Off Campus” last month, Amazon is set to debut “Every Year After,” its next big YA series, on June 10. Along with being another romance, this one has the added bonus of potentially filling that “The Summer I Turned Pretty”-shaped hole in YA fans’ hearts, since it’s the tale of a girl who goes to vacation in the same town every year and meets and becomes close with two brothers.
That comparison could definitely help to pull in more viewers — but is it something the team is worried will dominate the conversation? The short answer, per “Every Summer After” author Carley Fortune, is “No.”
“I hope that viewers will see there are brothers and it is a summer setting, but I think the show really stands on its own,” Fortune tells Variety. “It is so visually unique. I think it’s unlike something I’ve seen on TV. And it was shot in Canada, which I was so happy about. I think tonally, it feels a little different. And there will absolutely be comparisons to the show, but I’m not worried about them.”
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Based on Fortune’s “Every Summer After,” the show’s eight-episode first season — adapted by Amy B. Harris — follows the childhood romance between Percy Fraser (Sadie Soverall) and Sam Florek (Matt Cornett) in flashbacks, and jumps into their post-breakup lives in present day. The story explores the what led to their breakup in the past, as tragedy brings Percy back to the Canadian lakeside town of Barry’s Bay and face to face with Sam and his brother, Charlie (Michael Bradway), after years of radio silence.
