Every Year After Prime Video review:
If you spent any time on BookTok over the last few years, you probably already know about Carley Fortune’s bestselling book Every Summer After. Well, Amazon Prime Video just dropped the TV adaptation, renamed Every Year After, and all eight episodes hit the streamer yesterday! I basically shut out the world and binged the whole thing, and honestly? It’s the perfect, messy summer drama.
The series was put together by showrunners Amy B. Harris and Leila Gerstein, and they definitely captured that nostalgic, slightly heartbreaking lake-house aesthetic.
The story follows Percy (played by Sadie Soverall) and Sam (Matt Cornett). They start out as childhood best friends spending consecutive summers together in a gorgeous lakeside town called Barry’s Bay, and naturally, they fall hard for each other. But the show jumps back and forth between those sweet teenage flashbacks and the present day, where they haven’t spoken in a literal decade. Percy has to come back to town for a tragic family funeral, forcing them to confront whatever horrible mistake broke them apart.
Here is what really worked (and a few things that felt a bit dramatic):
* The Chemistry: Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett are so good together. You genuinely believe they have years of history just by the way they look at each other.
* The Dual Timelines: Jumps between the past and present can sometimes be annoying, but here it really builds up the mystery of why Percy ran away and cut off contact in the first place.
* The Drama: Fair warning, it gets pretty heavy. There’s a massive secret involving Sam’s brother, Charlie, that explains their big breakup, and it’s definitely going to have people talking.
It’s giving major The Summer I Turned Pretty vibes, so if you like angst, pretty lake views, and first-love drama, you’re going to love this. It’s a super easy, emotional watch for the weekend.
