‘Every Year After’, the eight-episode romance series based on Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel, is now streaming in full on Prime Video from Wednesday, 10 June 2026, with all episodes available at once.
The show follows Percy Fraser, a young woman who returns to the lakeside town of Barry’s Bay years after a painful departure, forcing her to confront unresolved feelings for Sam Florek, the boy who was once her closest friend and her first love.
The series is adapted from Fortune’s 2022 novel of the same name, which became a social media word-of-mouth hit before landing on mainstream bestseller lists, as reported by Newsweek.
‘Every Year After’ on Prime Video: what the show is about
Percy’s return triggers a chain of memories and reckonings. The series moves between past and present, letting the audience piece together exactly why Percy left and what the fallout cost both of them.
Variety reviewed it ahead of its premiere as “a dreamy summer romance” with a tone that has drawn comparisons to Normal People and Daisy Jones and the Six.
Early critical scores land it at 78% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The series was developed by Amy B. Harris and Leila Gerstein, both of whom have backgrounds in character-led TV drama.
The pacing is quieter and more deliberate than the average streaming romance, which is already one of the more talked-about aspects of the early reaction.
Prime Video dropped all eight episodes simultaneously rather than rolling them out weekly, meaning the full season is available for viewers who want to watch straight through.
‘Every Year After’ cast and who plays Percy and Sam
Sadie Soverall leads the series as Percy, with Matt Cornett playing Sam. The supporting cast includes Aurora Perrineau, Abigail Cowen, Michael Bradway, Joseph Chiu and Elisha Cuthbert.
The casting of Soverall as Percy was announced with strong approval from readers of Fortune’s novel, who had been vocal online about how they imagined the character.
Fortune’s novel was originally published in some markets as Every Summer After. The book broke out largely through reader recommendations on social media before reaching mainstream visibility, which means the adaptation arrives with a pre-built audience that has been waiting since the title went into development.
That built-in fanbase gives the show a different starting point to a series launching without existing reader expectations.
What happens next
Prime Video has not confirmed whether Every Year After will return for a second season. The decision will depend on viewership data gathered over the first few weeks of the show’s run.
Strong first-week numbers from an existing fanbase would put a renewal in a different position entirely, and the show is entering a busy summer streaming period where word-of-mouth performance matters as much as opening-day figures.
