Recently, “The Summer I Turned Pretty” a coming-of-age romance aired on July 16th 2025, with the season finale coming out on September 18th 2025. Within the past years, this show has been trending with very different opinions causing major controversy. The story arc revolves around two brothers who are both in love with the same girl, constantly fighting for her attention. Some people are “Team Conrad”, while the others are “Team Jeremiah”. In the first season, Belly ultimately chooses Conrad, but changes it up in season 2, as well as the beginning of season 3 by going for Jeremiah.
With the third and final season being released this month, the show has sparked recent controversy on the opinions of the two brothers once again. As many people had been “Team Jeremiah” for the past two seasons,perspectives have been changed by the third season. In the first episode, Belly (the main character) is moving into college, to the same school as her current boyfriend Jeremiah. She later overhears at a party that Jeremiah had cheated on her over spring break. This minute is what leads the viewers to switch up and join “Team Conrad”.
As the season goes on, Belly forgives Jeremiah which signifies to him that he doesn’t want to lose her again, he then decides to propose to her out of the blue. Viewers realize that Jeremiah is just doing this because he doesn’t want to lose Belly again to Conrad. As the season progresses, the wedding is being planned, showing more and more red flags of Jeremiah. It shows his lustful side as well as the disrespect he shows towards her.. Conrad has loved her ever since they were children, Jeremiah only started loving her “the summer she turned pretty”.
In the later episodes, as the wedding is getting closer and closer, Belly realizes that she will forever be in love with Conrad and wouldn’t be able to go through with the wedding. On the day of the wedding Jeremiah asks Belly if she is still in love with Conrad and she admits “a small part of me will always love him”. This causes Jeremiah to call off the whole wedding and get into a physical fight with Conrad. Belly decides to remove herself from the conflict and makes an impulsive decision to move to Paris.
She lives her life in Paris slowly getting more and more comfortable with the new lifestyle. She makes new friends, finds new jobs, and even meets new lovers. On Belly’s 22nd birthday, she comes to a shock, a surprise visit from Conrad standing at her doorstep. Nothing could have prepared Belly for this moment. He convinces her to spend the day with him, showing him around different sights in Paris. As the day goes on, they get more and more comfortable with each other, eventually ending with them heading back to her apartment and spending the night together. In the morning, she reveals to Conrad that she isn’t sure if she wants to pursue a relationship with him, causing him to run off and leave the city. Minutes go by and she realizes she hasn’t made the right decision. She had loved him her whole life, and this was her chance to get her dream man back. She runs for him and chases him to the train station, getting on his train and surprising him. She spills her heart out to him and confesses her love, ending the series with a passionate kiss.
