Students walk past the Old Well during a rain storm on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Johnny Andrews/UNC-Chapel Hill)
“The Summer I Turned Pretty,” an Amazon original series, recently premiered its third season, which features many scenes filmed in Chapel Hill and on UNC’s campus.
The series, which first premiered in 2022, is centered around a love triangle between a young woman and two brothers. The first two seasons focused on the characters’ time in high school. The third season, which had a two-episode premiere on July 16, begins as they enter college.
In July of 2024, principal photography took place on UNC’s campus, transforming key locations into parts of the fictional “Finch College” in Rhode Island. Showrunners even put out a call to UNC students and faculty, inviting them to apply to be extras.
Attentive viewers can catch sights from across UNC-Chapel Hill campus. While the season opens with an establishing drone shot of somewhere that clearly isn’t Chapel Hill, it immediately cuts to more familiar locales. Columbia Avenue, Swain Hall, and Old East dorm are all visible within the first minutes of the season’s opening episode.
“The Summer I Turned Pretty” is the story of Belly, who is pulled back and forth between brothers Conrad and Jeremiah. The latest season features a time jump, cutting from the end of Belly’s time in high school to the start of her junior year of college. She’s now in a relationship with one of the brothers, but secrets and past decisions immediately spark drama between the two. The season’s description promises the other brother will reenter the picture, reigniting the show’s central love triangle.
The first two episodes of the show are available to view now with an Amazon Prime subscription. The next episode will be released on July 23.
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