'Every Year After' Trailer Breakdown: Cast, Release Date & Plot, Explained
Based on Carley Fortune's international bestselling duology, Every Year After (2026) will adapt Every Summer After and One Golden Summer in what'll presumably be two seasons. But as shows like The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022) prove, sometimes we even get a movie, which, let's be real, none of us would complain about here.
In an interview with Elle, showrunner Amy B. Harris teased that they plan to "take a lot" from Fortune's 2025 novel, which depicts Charlie's own love story, while ensuring the remaining core characters from the first season continue to have their arcs on screen as well.
Summer 2026 undoubtedly seems to be the season of romance adaptations with Off Campus (2026) and now Every Year After. While the shows are vastly different from one another, the guaranteed happy ending makes the viewing experience enormously more exciting than any other genre. The formula is a comfort to countless fans because, despite the fact that we know we'll get what we want in the end, the execution still manages to ensure we feel every emotion under the sun.
Meet The 'Every Year After' Cast
The core main characters we'll be introduced to in Every Year After Season 1 are Persephone "Percy" Fraser, played by Sadie Soverall, and the Florek brothers, Sam and Charlie, played by Matt Cornett and Michael Bradway, respectively. Because the show spans across six years, we got confirmation at the Q&A Page, Screen, and Everything In Between Convention that the actors will play their characters in their early teen years and present day in their late twenties and early thirties.
The series also stars Elisha Cuthbert as Sue Florek, Aurora Perrineau as Chantal, Abigail Cowen as Delilah Mason, Joseph Chiu as Jordie, Robyn Ross as Diane Fraser, and more.
What Is 'Every Year After' Season 1 About?
If the show follows the book order, Every Year After Season 1 should follow in the events of Every Summer After, which spans across six years from when Percy Fraser first meets the Florek brothers to her return to Barry's Bay after their mom's passing and the big fallout from her relationship with Sam.
The present-day timeline will presumably span across one week, making every emotion heightened. Upon their reunion, those old sparks from their time together will naturally return, and despite Sam being in a relationship with Taylor, his girlfriend, whom he introduces Percy to in the trailer, we all know where this is going.
This is a romance after all, and best friends to lovers always have a way of finding their way back together in the end. And naturally, with all book-to-screen adaptations, the trajectory of their relationship can change in a number of ways to lead to their eventual breakup, including how Sam finds out about Percy and Charlie's hookup if that narrative remains. But hopefully, no matter how things change, the show will keep the heart of the books, which never goes into a love triangle with Percy and the Florek brothers.
'Every Year After' Trailer Breakdown And Release Date
If I hadn't already read the books and solely taken the trailer at face value, I would've immediately run to my local independent romance bookstore to find out more. There's something indescribably nostalgic about summer as a season and how romance feels extra enticing when the sun's out, and our worries are lessened.
The trailer captures every beat of this nostalgia while effectively laying the groundwork to showcase the tension and longing between Percy and Sam as well as their eventual second chance. If you don't know what you're in for, the trailer teases plenty in the best way to touch on the tropes. Plus, setting the entire thing to Maggie Rogers' "Light On" intensifies the emotions gorgeously and makes it easy to anticipate just how much we're in for when trailers typically only scratch the surface of the entire show.
This one's not only good, but it feels like watching the People We Meet on Vacation (2026) trailer for the first time, which is also interestingly a friends-to-lovers second chance.
Every Year After will drop all eight episodes at once on June 10, 2026, exclusively on Prime Video.
