The summer everyone became obsessed with 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'

How Jenny Han’s "The Summer I Turned Pretty" cemented its place as a cultural phenomenon in its third and final season.

LOS ANGELES — “WE LOVE YOU, CONRAD!”

It's a Wednesday night at the Videre Rooftop Restaurant & Bar, and it's rowdy. A bar more known for poolside drinks and views of the Hollywood sign, where people would usually be found chit-chatting over loud music, is showing the newest episode of Amazon Prime's “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” the television series based on author Jenny Han’s popular young adult books.

“Get off our screens, Jeremiah!”

It's hard to go a few minutes without the crowd hurling jeers or cheers at the fictional characters that the show centers around: Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung), and brothers Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) and Conrad Fisher (Christopher Briney), childhood friends who find themselves entangled in a messy love triangle as they grow older.

“Really, Belly?”