With Belly (Lola Tung) finally choosing between the brothers who were vying for her heart, Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), the love triangle that dominated the summer has finally come to an end. But even though The Summer I Turned Pretty is over, don’t fret, romance fans: There are plenty of love triangles on Netflix to tie you up in knots for months to come. Here are four more romantic trios to emotionally invest in.
After losing her entire family, a teenage girl, Jackie (Nikki Rodriguez), moves to a small town to live with her guardian’s big, messy, extended family, the Walters. As she navigates grief and recovery, Cole (Noah LaLonde) and Alex Walter (Ashby Gentry) offer her two very different kinds of comfort. The endearing family drama My Life with the Walter Boys Season 2 is streaming now.
In the young adult series Sex Education, Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) begins sophomore year determined to live the life she deserves — which includes hot boys, hot grades, hot friends, and hot vibes. But in her quest to become who she thinks she is, she’s torn between two boys who are complete opposites: the sensitive bad boy Paxton Yoshida-Hall (Darren Barnet) and her debate bro frenemy Ben Gross (Jaren Lewison). Surviving this love triangle might be the most difficult thing Devi’s ever done — besides, well, the equally tough tasks of rebuilding her relationship with her mom, grieving her dad, and finding herself.
In Sex Education, an earnest, awkward high-school aged virgin named Otis (Asa Butterfield) whose mother Jean (Gillian Anderson) is a sex therapist, starts doling out sex and relationship advice at school to impress resident bad girl Maeve (Emma Mackey). When business booms and his classmates start confessing things to him that he can’t solve using a psychology book, he realizes love and sex are more complicated than they seem — especially when he’s caught between the sweet new girl Ola (Patricia Alllison) and Maeve.
After a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity lands on her desk, Emily (Lily Collins) moves to Paris. Yes, so begins Emily in Paris. Ooh la la. Once she lands in the City of Lights, Emily meets two Parisians who’ll become fixtures in her new life: an attractive young chef, Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), who lives in her building, and Camille (Camille Razat), a glamorous woman who seems to be the only welcoming person in France. Just when Emily’s starting to think living in Paris might be her destiny, she finds out her now-crush Gabriel and her new pal Camille are dating, and reality comes crashing in.
