![]() “There’s very little room for nuance of characterization. As she devoured both shows, she honed in on what she believed made them work: the total absence of moralization, particularly when it came to depicting their characters. Rosenblum started working on Bad Summer People in the summer of 2021 when The White Lotushad first premiered and Succession’s third season was about to air. “It was super freeing fun for me to recreate those kinds of gossipy, back-stabby conversations, which isn’t something I’d seen reflected that often in fiction.” She leaned into this ugly truth when writing about a group of upper-class New Yorkers whose idyllic small-town summer is upended when a dead body is discovered. I thought maybe this would shift as you age, but it’s exactly the same as high school,” says Rosenblum, who’s the chief content officer of BDG, which owns Bustle. ![]() ![]() “Women are taught very early to be nice to everybody’s faces, which sometimes pushes them to be even meaner behind people’s backs. And in Emma Rosenblum’s Bad Summer People, thankfully, the characters do too. Make the cutting comment to our best friend. ![]()
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