Published June 11, 2026, 3:00 p.m. ET
Prime Video‘s Every Year After gave both fans of Carley Fortune‘s Every Summer After and those who had never turned a page of the author’s 2022 novel all the feels, already leaving viewers wanting more following its June 10 binge release. But how did Percy Fraser’s (Sadie Soverall) and Sam Florek’s (Matt Cornett) love story end?
BEWARE! Spoilers ahead for Every Year After, now streaming on Prime Video.
It all stems back to the summer of 2016 — as we see in Episode 7, “The Boathouse” — which also marked the last summer before Percy would head to the University of Washington, and Sam would attend Stanford. However, Sam failed to mention that he was accepted into Stanford’s summer intensive program, which would cut his and Percy’s time together down to two weeks before he was required on campus.
While they promised to FaceTime and text constantly, Sam quickly becomes distracted by coursework and college life, while Percy finds comfort in the Florek family matriarch, Sue (Elisha Cuthbert), and in Sam’s brother, Charlie (Michael Bradway). Sam ultimately breaks things off with her over email, lamenting the “disappointment” he sees in Percy when he can’t give her the time and effort she deserves.
After having spent the rest of the summer together, Percy and Charlie go against their better judgment and hook up in her time of need. The two swear each other to secrecy, and both proceeded to spend time away from Barry’s Bay. A decade later, the secret is forced to come out after Sam ends things with his near-fiance Taylor (Roan Curtis), and proposes reconciling with Percy, who eventually shares her and Charlie’s long-hidden secret in an effort to maintain “no secrets” with Sam. Revealing her and Charlie’s secret to Sam—while she is there to pay her respects for Sue’s passing, no less—has turned both Florek brothers against Percy, which leaves Percy in an extremely difficult spot as she determines how to pay her respects to Sue in the appropriate way.
But there’s a whole lot more where that came from! Wondering how Every Year After on Prime Video ends? Give DECIDER’s Every Year After ending explained a read.
In Every Year After Episode 8, “Goodbye…,” Percy takes on Delilah’s (Abigail Cowen)—who is still griieving the fallout of her divorce—responsibilities to prepare for Sue’s memorial service, aiming to accomplish everything before Sam and Charlie even notice her. She unearths a pink tutu and a tiara that Sue once wore while cooking with her, a fond memory that prompts Percy to put them on in her honor. After Sam catches Percy whipping up Sue’s favorite meal — breakfast for dinner — in The Tavern’s kitchen in her whimsical get-up, he realizes that his mother would want Percy at her memorial service, and decides to put aside his complicated feelings about Percy, inviting her to the service.
In the reception held at The Tavern, Percy and Sam lock eyes as she’s dancing—initially with Fortune in a sneaky cameo from the author—to Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again,” a song she fondly recalls dancing with Sue to under The Tavern’s disco ball. Later that night, Percy finds Sam outside his truck, where he asks why she came back to Barry’s Bay. The scene is then paralleled with a flashback to the summer of 2016, when Sam surprises Percy by returning to the lake amid his Stanford summer program. After Sam confesses his love for Percy in 2016, she can’t take him back. However, she doesn’t reveal explicitly why, just that “everything” has changed. In the present, Percy steps into Sam’s shoes, sharing her love for him.
“We have quite a history of messy goodbyes, and I think we’re owed a proper one,” she says, as the two approach each other.
They embrace, and proceed to have their “proper” goodbye inside Sam’s truck (wink, wink).
“I missed us,” Sam says mid-kiss.
Percy replies, “I missed you so much it hurts.”
Afterwards, the two lay together naked in the truck, as Sam tells Percy that he “loved” her and that she “broke [his] heart,” both statements she tearfully confirms that she knows.
“I want so much to forgive you, but I don’t think I can do this,” Sam concedes.
Percy responds, “I know.”
Upon leaving Barry’s Bay with Chantal (Aurora Perrineau), her workaholic best friend, Percy feels like she did what she needed to do, which was that she “said goodbye.”
Percy invokes the story of her namesake — the Greek goddess of the underworld, Persephone — in a work of her own, as viewers see what everyone in the Every Year After story is up to. Time goes by, and Percy receives a note from Sam holding the key to The Tavern, which she was given in Sue’s will.
“This is as it should be, Persephone – Goddess of this world,” the note, signed by Sam, reads.
As Percy and Delilah prepare for The Tavern’s reopening—Percy recruits Delilah to help her—viewers learn that Percy has a book deal with a “looming deadline,” as she eagerly anticipates being a “published horror writer.” She doesn’t expect Sam or Charlie to head back for the reopening of The Tavern.
The series experiences a sort of full-circle moment, as Sam finds Percy washing dishes in the kitchen of The Tavern at the end of their first night back in business, just like where she found him in Episode 1, “Every Summer After.” After he calls her name, Percy turns around and says, “You came home,” in what feels like the start of a happy reconciliation for the couple.
Every Summer After‘s fanbase of yearners were thrilled for the “you came home” of it all, as were the Ever Year After cast in charge of bringing it to life.
“I know for me, in the ‘you came home’ scene,” Cornett recalled to DECIDER, “I was like, when I turn around and look at Sadie, I was trying to think of any moment I could of seeing someone when I was in a relationship with [them]. I was just like, trying to throw myself into it as much as possible to try to get myself there.”
At the start of the series, Chantal, Percy’s best friend who is a certified workaholic lawyer, didn’t expect to let loose upon accompanying her to Barry’s Bay, nor did she expect to develop feelings for Jordie (Joseph Chiu) — especially because she is engaged to Drew (Karl Walcott). In Episode 8’s time jump back to the present, Percy is surprised to see Chantal in Barry’s Bay, a whole day earlier than expected, as Chantal admits that she changed her plans so she could spend time with Jordie. Viewers learn that Chantal and Jordie have at least “hooked up a few times” since we last saw them, and she concedes that she is “trying not to define” their relationship, which she deemed to be “murky.”
Percy tells her, “Okay, but you don’t like gray. In fact, you hate it.”
Chantal replies, “Yeah, but the law’s not black and white, and I’m starting to think life isn’t either.”
While enjoying drinks (on the house) at The Tavern’s reopening, Jordie tells Chantal that he “doesn’t want to do murky” anymore, and assures Chantal that he just wants her to be herself, but with him. The two seal the deal with a kiss, catching the potentially hurt eyes of Delilah.
As those who have read Every Summer After know, Chantal and Jordie’s roles are significantly expanded from Fortune’s 2022 novel, which according to Perrineau, meant “there like” there was a lot more freedom” for her and Chiu when cameras were rolling.
“We got to improv a lot and play more, and I think we didn’t have to be as precious with some of the dialogue because of that, and also have less pressure than Abby and Matt and Michael and Sadie for sure,”she explained to DECIDER.
Chiu echoed Perrineau’s sentiments, noting that they “definitely got to play a lot more, especially on the table reads,” and “snuck in a few bits of improv.”
One of the series’ final moments sees Charlie in the office on a Saturday, chatting with his boss. As he steps into his boss’ office and gazes at his wall, he spots a startlingly familiar picture — one he is in! The photograph is of him, Sam, and Percy on his father’s boat in the lake at Barry’s Bay. His boss says his wife purchased the picture for him as a reminder of what they are working towards for themselves and their kids. After his boss leaves for the night, Charlie suffers a heart attack on the floor of his office. Charlie and Sam’s father passed away from a heart attack prior to the events that take place in both the series Every Year After and Fortune’s novel Every Summer After.
Fans of author Carley Fortune’s work will recognize the moment as a precursor for her 2025 novel One Golden Summer, which explores Charlie’s love story with a photographer named Alice, and also sees Charlie navigating health issues pertaining to his heart. While a second season of Every Year After has not been officially confirmed by Prime Video, showrunner Amy B. Harris told Entertainment Weekly that she “see[s] five seasons” for the series.
“Obviously, there’s another book that’s connected to Barry’s Bay that I think will be a very exciting blueprint for us for a potential season 2,” she added.
Fortune also confirmed to DECIDER that “Amazon has the rights to One Golden Summer.”
“I know Amy has talked about this, and I know it’s kind of my understanding that that story will be wrapped into a second season if we get one,” she said. “If you watch Every Year After to the end of the first season, it really sets us up for One Golden Summer for sure.”
So, fingers crossed that we get to go back to Barry’s Bay!
Every Year After is streaming on Prime Video.
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