{"id":1309,"date":"2025-07-16T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/1309\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:54:10","slug":"move-over-friends-summer-i-turned-pretty-has-new-we-were-on-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/1309\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Over Friends, Summer I Turned Pretty Has New ‘We Were on a Break’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPrime Video<\/a> just dropped the first two episodes of the third and final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty<\/a> and there\u2019s one particular storyline that feels a bit too familiar. <\/p>\n

\n\tAt the end of episode one, titled \u201cLast Season,\u201d Belly (Lola Tung) <\/a>learns that Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) had sex with another girl, Lacie Barone (Lily Donoghue), during a spring break trip to Cabo, as they had a fight before the trip and he thought they had broken up.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt happened when we were on a break\u2026 when we were broken up,\u201d Jeremiah explains to an angry Belly after she finds out at a frat party. Belly yells back, \u201cYou knew that we weren\u2019t really broken up, that that wasn\u2019t real.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHow was I supposed to know that? It was real for me,\u201d Jeremiah claims before Belly responds, \u201cWell, if I knew it, then you should have known it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the second episode of season three, titled \u201cLast Christmas,\u201d Jeremiah maintained that he \u201cdidn\u2019t cheat. We were on a break,\u201d after being confronted by Belly\u2019s best friend, Taylor (Rain Spencer). However, she clapped back, \u201cYou\u2019re not getting off on this, like, technicality. You were broken up for all of two seconds, Jeremiah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the great \u201cwe were on a break\u201d debate may be new to some in the younger generation, it\u2019s important to know it didn\u2019t start with Belly and Jeremiah. In fact, there\u2019s one not-so-little-known show that originated the \u201cwe were on a break\u201d storyline and planted the phrase in the cultural zeitgeist.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn season three of Friends<\/a>, the iconic phrase is actually coined. In episode 15, titled \u201cThe One Where Ross And Rachel Take A Break,\u201d Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Ross (David Schwimmer), who were in a relationship at the time, get into an argument because Ross suspects Rachel is having an affair with her co-worker Mark. However, Rachel always looked at their relationship with Mark as platonic (though she later learned Mark did have a crush on her).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ongoing argument about the matter led Rachel to suggest to Ross, \u201cMaybe we should just take a break\u2026 A break from us.\u201d They go their separate ways after, and both individually confess that their relationship was effectively over after that conversation.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the breakup, Ross went to a bar to process everything and decided to call Rachel to reconcile with her. However, Rachel has already called Mark, who offered to come over and comfort her after the fight. That leads Ross to mistakenly suspect Mark and Rachel are hooking up when he hears his voice in the background. An emotional and drunk Ross then ends up having an affair with a promiscuous woman named Chloe; though he learns the next morning that he misread the situation with Mark and Rachel and that she actually wanted to continue their relationship.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, the one-night stand with Chloe doesn\u2019t remain a secret and turns into another argument between Ross and Rachel in episode 16, titled \u201cThe One With The Morning After,\u201d causing them to break up again. Rachel accuses Ross of cheating, as \u201cwe were on a break,\u201d she says, while Ross claims that no cheating occurred because they had broken up, thus differentiating between a \u201cbreak\u201d and a \u201cbreakup.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe iconic phrase is then used throughout the rest of Friends, which ran for 10 seasons, and one of the most popular lines from the show that\u2019s still used today. And now the phrase has found a new life thanks to The Summer I Turned Pretty. However, just like it was for Ross and Rachel, it will likely be an ongoing discussion among fans as to whether Jeremiah and Belly were just on a break or officially broken up.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the new episodes of the Prime Video show premiered early Wednesday morning, there was also some online discourse surrounding the cheating storyline, as some claim Jeremiah was sexually assaulted by Lacie since he was intoxicated and emotionally unstable when they hooked up. Some even took to X to call out author\/creator Jenny Han for writing \u201cthat scene VERY HORRIBLY,\u201d as one user wrote<\/a> and should be treated as a serious and sensitive topic.<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of the premiere, the official social media account for the Prime Video series on Monday cautioned viewers <\/a>against bullying and hate speech, \u201ctargeting our cast or crew\u201d and \u201charassing or doxxing members of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video just dropped the first two episodes of the third and final season of The Summer I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,1911,1912,1913,348],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-friends","tag-prime-video","tag-the-summer-i-turned-pretty","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}