TV Shows like The Summer I Turned Pretty

“The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022) is a United States Streaming Era coming-of-age family-drama that stages a summer-long relational conflict around a single beach house. It maps Belly's passage into adulthood as a serialized dilemma between romantic desire and familial allegiance, with cinematography that privileges salt-bleached exteriors and high-contrast chiaroscuro lighting-grammar. The series foregrounds relational tension to interrogate identity formation and emotional inheritance, making the show a study in adolescent becoming rather than plot-driven spectacle.”