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Wed, September 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM UTC
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Lola Tung in The Summer I Turned Pretty. (Prime Video/Youtube)
The Summer I Turned Pretty stans: We good? The ninth episode of Season 3 began streaming on Prime Video on Wednesday, and the fandom, it seems, is less than thrilled by what happened — or didn’t happen. With only two episodes left of the series, fans are wondering how Jenny Han, the show’s creator, who also penned The Summer I Turned Pretty books, plans to wrap this all up.
Perhaps the overarching gripe among fans is the feeling that nothing actually happens in this episode. Sure, we see Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung) make the triumphant — albeit impromptu and poorly planned — decision to travel to Paris, but the plot, fans argue, doesn’t necessarily advance.
We do, however, watch Belly’s single-and-independent-in-Paris origin story unfold. We learn why she ends up there, how she meets her new friends and what prompts her to actually stay in the French capital indefinitely. But as the clock ticks and the remaining number of episodes dwindles, the biggest question still remains: When will she reconcile with Conrad Fisher (Chris Briney)?!
Below, we’ve rounded up three plot points fans are most irked by from the latest episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty. But you’ve been warned: Spoilers ahead.
Conrad can’t catch a break
Let’s just put the biggest gripe up top: Why is everybody mad at Connie baby?
Conrad, of course, isn’t without his faults: Did he have to wait until the night before Belly was set to marry his younger brother, Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), to tell her he’s still in love with her?! Like, probably not.
For many fans, Wednesday’s episode feels like yet another installment of Conrad getting dumped on. For the majority, if not all season long, Conrad has been a major sad boy. He’s been pining over Belly. He’s been tortured by his own feelings and has opted to suffer in silence, thinking it’s what’s best for everyone else.
Conrad spends Episode 9 trying to check in on Jeremiah to see how he’s holding up after the wedding gets called off. And by the end of the episode, when Jeremiah reveals that Belly’s in Paris — and that she called him and not Conrad — the eldest Fisher brother is left gutted, once again.
With only two episodes left, fans wonder if he’ll ever get a moment of happiness. TBD, it seems.
Jeremiah and Belly’s phone call
Phew. Belly finally calls Jeremiah, which marks the first time they’re speaking since they called off the wedding. Jeremiah’s in real bad shape and has hardly left his hotel bed. When Belly calls, Jeremiah tries to convince her to come back home. He tells her that everything can go back to normal — back to the way things were before the whole wedding fiasco — but Belly disagrees.
Belly tells Jer that she’s planning on staying in Paris to figure out who she is outside of their relationship, and he doesn’t respond well. There’s an immediate shift in the way Jeremiah talks to Belly. He snaps back and tells her not to call him ever again.
Described by some as Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” personified, the fandom isn’t pleased with the way Jeremiah spoke to Belly in this scene.
Steven’s reaction to Cabo
We’ve been waiting for the moment Steven (Sean Kauffman) learns that Jeremiah, his supposed best friend, cheated on Belly, his sister, while in Cabo over spring break. Well, Steven finally finds out in Wednesday’s episode, and his reaction couldn’t have been more divisive.
Online, several fans are voicing their disappointment at how he handled the news — that rather than wanting to defend his sister and empathize with Conrad, he somehow makes the cheating revelation about him and Taylor (Rain Spencer).
Steven and Taylor, as fans know, were embroiled in their own infidelity scandal early into Season 3 when they were cheating on their respective partners with each other. That Steven is using the news of Jeremiah cheating as a way to justify his own actions, some fans argued, is pretty uncalled for.
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