Netflix is adapting Carley Fortune’s #1 New York Times Bestseller This Summer Will Be Different, and we already know that we will be obsessed.
This Summer Will Be Different steps into the romance space with a tone that’s calm, grown, and quietly disarming. Adapted from Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel, the series follows Lucy — a twenty‑something navigating the soft chaos of adulthood, friendship, and the feelings she never meant to have.
Lucy spends her summers on Prince Edward Island with her best friend Bridget. It’s a ritual, a reset, a place where everything feels familiar. Until it doesn’t.
Because this is the summer she starts falling for Felix — Bridget’s brother. The twist? She doesn’t realize he is Bridget’s brother when it happens.
What begins as a spark becomes a complication, and what should have been a fleeting moment becomes a memory she can’t shake.
Months later, when Bridget abruptly leaves Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy finds herself back on the island — and face‑to‑face with the one person she promised herself she’d forget. The pull is still there. The timing still isn’t simple. And the emotional math hasn’t gotten any easier.
The show doesn’t chase melodrama. It sits in the tension — the kind that feels real, adult, and quietly high‑stakes. Prince Edward Island becomes more than a backdrop; it’s the emotional temperature of the story. Warm. Expansive. Honest.
This Summer Will Be Different is a romance about timing, but it’s also about self‑recognition. About the moment you realize your life is shifting, not loudly, but irrevocably. It’s a series that understands that the most complicated love stories aren’t the ones that explode — they’re the ones that return.
And this one returns exactly when Lucy least expects it.
Cast to be announced soon.
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