'Every Year After's Creators Explain The Big Percy & Sam Book Change

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Most of the changes Prime Video’s romance series Every Year After makes from Carley Fortune’s 2022 novel Every Summer After are fleshed-out expansions — the main characters are aged down a bit, a new Seattle setting is introduced, and side characters are given a lot more to do. But there is also a pretty huge alteration to the book’s biggest twist. Showrunner Amy B. Harris tells Elite Daily why the new adaptation flipped the script on Percy and Sam’s most pivotal moment.

Spoiler alert: This post discusses major events from the Season 1 finale of Every Year After, and the book Every Summer After.

The series keeps Percy’s life-altering secret the same, but it drastically changes how Sam discovers it. In Fortune’s book, Percy confesses she slept with Sam’s brother Charlie during her final summer in Barry’s Bay when they reunite over a decade later — but to Percy’s surprise, Sam reveals he had known about the hookup the whole time, as Charlie let it slip to him shortly after it happened. However, the show erases that detail, so when Percy tells Sam the truth about the decade-old tryst, S...