{"id":2422058,"date":"2026-05-18T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2422058"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:53:12","slug":"every-year-after-boss-talks-finding-barrys-bay-and-telling-two-coming-of-age-stories-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/every-year-after-boss-talks-finding-barrys-bay-and-telling-two-coming-of-age-stories-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEvery Year After \u201dboss talks finding Barry&#8217;s Bay and telling two coming-of-age stories (exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Every Year After <\/em>is an upcoming adaptation of Carley Fortune&#8217;s book <em>Every Summer After<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Showrunner Amy B. Harris shares what it was like to bring Barry&#8217;s Bay to life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I sort of have become obsessed with coming of age,&#8221; Harris says. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s something you do hopefully at every age if you&#8217;re lucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When Amazon approached Amy B. Harris about developing Carley Fortune&#8217;s bestselling novel <em>Every Summer After<\/em> for TV, she did the only logical thing: sat down to read the book. 24 hours later, she was in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I was up all night reading. I could not put the book down,&#8221; the showrunner for <em>Every Year After <\/em>(premiering June 10 on Prime video) tells <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>. &#8220;The characters just jump off the page, and Barry&#8217;s Bay is a beautiful character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Michael Bradway as Charlie on &#8216;Every Year After&#8217;<br \/>Credit: Cate Cameron\/amazon prime<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Barry&#8217;s Bay is the setting for Percy (Sadie Soverall) and Sam&#8217;s (Matt Cornett) love story. It&#8217;s home to the lake where they spent their summers growing up, watching horror movies, and eventually, falling in love. &#8220;I have always loved working on shows that are really character driven, but also where the place is so important,&#8221; Harris says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The real-life place that stands in for Barry&#8217;s Bay in the show is a town called Bowen Island in Canada. &#8220;It literally had like a little ice cream counter,&#8221; Harris recalls. &#8220;There was nothing that I wanted that it didn&#8217;t have. It gave me goosebumps to be there every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Abigail Cowen as Delilah on 'Every Year After'Credit: Justine Yeung\/amazon prime\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/GdK6VHz1g0I_EPe3fimDJQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/entertainment_weekly_785\/638da2526276a80f139227e0fcfb9388\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Abigail Cowen as Delilah on &#8216;Every Year After&#8217;<br \/>Credit: Justine Yeung\/amazon prime<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;EW Dispatch newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong><em>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Barry&#8217;s Bay isn&#8217;t just the place where Sam met Percy. It&#8217;s also the place that she ran from, and when we meet her in the series, she hasn&#8217;t returned to the lake town for years. She only goes back now after learning that Sam&#8217;s mom has died.&#8221; Percy is a complicated female character in the best way,&#8221; Harris says. &#8220;She&#8217;s flawed and thoughtful and really contemplative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Telling the story of Percy and Sam meant diving into two very distinct timelines: the pre-teen and teen summers spent together, and the reality of two adults who haven&#8217;t spoken in years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I sort of have become obsessed with coming of age,&#8221; Harris says. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s something you do hopefully at every age if you&#8217;re lucky. And I loved that we had the opportunity to explore both timelines of coming of age. She&#8217;s coming of age as a teenager, but we&#8217;re also meeting them in their late twenties, which is another very important time of life where you&#8217;re really trying to figure out who you are and what matters to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, Sam and Percy won&#8217;t be the only people navigating those questions. When Percy returns to Barry&#8217;s Bay, she&#8217;ll find Sam&#8217;s brother, Charlie (Michael Bradbury), Sam&#8217;s best friend, Jordie (Joseph Chiu), and her former friend, Delilah (Abigail Cowen). And by Percy&#8217;s side? Her current bestie, Chantal (Aurora Perrineau).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We really decided to build out the other characters in a big way and not just focus on Sam, Percy, and Charlie,&#8221; Harris says. &#8220;So that was really fun to figure out who those characters were who had little snippets in the book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Joseph Chiu as Jordie and Aurora Perrineau as Chantal on 'Every Year After'Credit: Cate Cameron\/amazon prime\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/aVqbqt679rznFdz6neEf8A--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/entertainment_weekly_785\/eb6708ca3b3b569891b129d24ad32424\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Joseph Chiu as Jordie and Aurora Perrineau as Chantal on &#8216;Every Year After&#8217;<br \/>Credit: Cate Cameron\/amazon prime<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Talking specifically about Percy and Delilah&#8217;s dynamic, the two aren&#8217;t on good terms when Percy first arrives back in town. But that&#8217;s not something Harris was interested in dragging out. &#8220;I don&#8217;t wanna write shows where women are mean to each other,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I&#8217;m interested in seeing those all play out, and that gives good drama, but at the end of the day, I just wanted to see these women support each other. But obviously there&#8217;s good drama in what the heck happened between Delilah and Percy that they&#8217;re no longer speaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Same goes for Chantal, who&#8217;s visiting Barry&#8217;s Bay for the first time at a critical point in her life: She&#8217;s about to get married. &#8220;I really wanted to explore Chantal and what she was going through,&#8221; Harris says. &#8220;She&#8217;s the driven working girl who isn&#8217;t sure she has time for a lot of other things that maybe needs to open up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Michael Bradway as Charlie and Abigail Cowen as Delilah on 'Every Year After'Credit: Cate Cameron\/amazon prime\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/J2gBGLqlNUloxot03jPa2Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/entertainment_weekly_785\/9f865ddfe5701f611c44e16f4b98972a\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Michael Bradway as Charlie and Abigail Cowen as Delilah on &#8216;Every Year After&#8217;<br \/>Credit: Cate Cameron\/amazon prime<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In other words, it&#8217;s safe to say there will be friendship. There will be love. There will be drama. And it will all happen at the magical place that is the lake, which is a core part of Fortune&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Because, as Harris puts it, &#8220;I wanted the book fans to have these beautiful little Easter eggs throughout. My whole goal was to just celebrate the book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Every Year After <\/em>premieres June 10 on Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/every-year-after-preview-amy-b-harris-exclusive-photos-11972773\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Entertainment Weekly;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Entertainment Weekly&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Every Year After is an upcoming adaptation of Carley Fortune&#8217;s book Every Summer After. 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