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While it may seem close to impossible, season 3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty may not actually be the end of the series. The stars may have to align to move past the existing books, but we have some new updates that are at least somewhat hopeful, surprising as that may be.

Author/showrunner Jenny Han has talked about the potential for a season 4 of The Summer I Turned Pretty over the course of the past year, including this summer. While originally saying that the show would only have three seasons, because it was adapting three books, she left the door open with future comments.

This summer, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she talked about the condition for making a new show:

“Never say never — I never do. If the story is there, then I’m there. As a storyteller, you just get hit with inspiration all the time. If I had a really great idea that I was excited by, that I wanted to keep telling the story, and if [the stars] were excited to do it, then I would be so pumped. It really depends on if I feel like there is more story to tell.”

Jenny Han is, of course, the original author of the books she then adapted into the show, so it would be continuing on with her own work, not someone else’s, making this more possible than it might be otherwise.

One hitch here is that she is continuing work on her To All the Boys spin-off show, XO, Kitty, for its third season on Netflix. That’s good news and bad news, given that it’s going to make her busy, but also, shows that she’s up for going beyond her original source material of her own books as it appears she thought there was “more story to tell” over there.

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AmazonOutside of Tan, star Lola Tung said that she would absolutely return to her “cinematic universe” if asked in a minute, which I suppose is no surprise. It is probably not wise for either Tan or Tung to completely shut the door on returning, and these comments indicate that at the very least, it’s possible.

Despite making more seasons of XO, Kitty for Netflix, Tan has a deal with Amazon for future projects now after The Summer I Turned Pretty. She is down to one last book trilogy to potentially adapt, Burn for Burn, but we have heard no news on whether that might be on the table. She also has some standalone books, or it’s possible she just does something new and wholly original like XO, Kitty, even if it’s not in one of her existing universes like The Summer I Turned Pretty.

The Summer I Turned Pretty has now passed up The Terminal List: Dark Wolf as it’s the #1 show on Amazon, though it will likely fall as fans make it through the finale. We’ll see about season 4, but it may be a while until we know one way or the other.