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Prime VideoEven though Every Year After removed the sunny season from the title of Carley Fortune’s book Every Summer After, it was never going to fully avoid comparisons to Prime Video’s other big summer-set YA romance. Especially when it comes to the similar matriarchal roles. While Elisha Cuthbert understands why viewers might see parallels between Sue Florek and The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Susannah Fisher, she didn’t want that in her head when portraying Barry Bay’s culinary queen.
“Obviously, there will be comparisons, but I hadn’t seen that show when I went into this,” Cuthbert says. “I read the novel and spent my time zeroing in on what I wanted to do with Sue, without any comparison to anything else.”
In Every Year After, Sue is a deeply supportive mother to her two teenage sons, and also becomes a significant maternal figure to her neighbor Percy. It’s because of Sue’s tragic early...
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