ERIKA DOSS
Spoilers for The Summer I Turned Pretty season three, episode eight, ahead!
For most questions I have about The Summer I Turned Pretty, I turn to my dedicated group chat, called “the summer we texted.” Did Laurel switch Jeremiah’s and Conrad’s letters on purpose? Is Jeremiah actually the victim in this whole scenario? Did Michael’s sponsor this season? (I’d vote “yes” on all three.)
However, after the premiere of episode eight of season three, there’s one question none of us can seem to answer: What was going on with Taylor’s wedding hair?
It was a big episode for fans of Belly’s (Lola Tung) bestie Taylor (Rain Spencer), who not only took Conrad (Chris Briney) to task for messing with Belly’s head, but also kind of, sort of, reignited her relationship with Steven (Sean Kauffman). During the wedding scene, however, her hair was distractingly…bad. Sorry, but someone had to say it!
On first watch, I assumed that her hair was wet, and that when she burst into Belly’s dressing room we were meant to assume that she’d been too busy tracking down AWOL Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) to finish getting ready. But then, as guests mingled before the arrival of the bride, Taylor stood at a cocktail table, her hair still looking like a bird’s nest.
Online, I heard many theories: that Taylor was trying to wear her hair curly à la Denise—Steven’s other love interest, who Taylor thought was more well-suited to his nerdiness—but that she hadn’t quite mastered the gel-to-curl cream ratio for her hair; that Taylor was either consciously or subconsciously attempting to ruin the wedding aesthetic, just in case her speech about Belly’s codependency with Jeremiah didn’t get through to her; that Lucinda, Taylor’s hairdresser mom, was the one trying to sabotage the wedding by allowing Taylor to show up in public like that; that Taylor was going for the avant-garde wet look, and she thought she looked good. (The last one is the least plausible, in my opinion.)
Dedicated The Summer I Turned Pretty fans pointed out that in the book, author Jenny Han wrote that Taylor was having a bad-hair day—and this is a character that never has bad-hair days. The symbolism is a little over-the-top if this is the case, but then again, this is a show for teens based on a YA novel, also for teens, and sometimes the symbolism needs to be screamed in ALL CAPS. Think about it: What’s scarier to a teen than a terrible hair day when photos are involved? Surely this omen means the wedding and impending marriage were doomed.
It’s really too bad that Taylor didn’t read Glamour’s guide to styling wavy hair before getting ready for her maid of honor duties. But hey, looks like she’ll have another shot.…
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