The Summer I Turned Pretty Finale Teases Part YOU, Part Emily in Paris & All Unhinged CHAOS

Hello, TSITP Fanatics. It’s me, a perpetually tired Millennial waiting for this final season to end so I can be released from this hellscape.

Forgive me, it’s Friday, and I have a steaming hot cup of tea, no damns left, and a new The Summer I Turned Pretty trailer that has me in disbelief and entertained.

The series is in its final stretch, and after the absolutely explosive The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Episode 8, we were left to wonder what these last three episodes would even look like now.

The trailer gives us an idea, and what we have is a combination of Emily in Paris and YOU.

Except, it’s Belly in Paris trying to finally live her best life like any of us auntie types have wanted, and Conrad stealing Susannah’s thunder by writing Belly letters that seem eerily close to YOU‘s Joe Goldberg.

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As an aside, from snarky Conrad to his totally unhinged self in the latest installment, I am most looking forward to the series conclusion so that Christopher Briney can finally step into the roles that he was made for: psychos in horror flicks, the hot guy who turns on a dime in Lifetime thrillers, and the killer in some of the best procedurals.

Seriously, has anyone ever listened to his narration in the deliciously creeptastic audiobook Influencer?

I need this man to be freed from the shackles of “romantic lead” hearthrob and placed in a limited series where he plays an unsuspecting serial killer or something, because that is where he THRIVES.

Ahem, but I digress.

For many TSITP who followed along with the book series, they know that for the most part, we’re headed into uncharted territory.

Belly has taken off to Paris with all of her clothes in a backpack and her mother presumably unaware.

The epilogue of this series results in another pesky time jump, as Conrad sends Belly “love letters” while she globetrots, and the two of them find their way back to each other permanently.

No shade, but this pairing is like that ultimate toxic couple that everyone gossips about at school functions and neighborhood barbecues. Actually, that was shady, but am I wrong?

In the final stretch of the season, we have a trailer that feels as if they’re launching a whole other series.

No, I’m not exaggerating. The final three episodes, according to this trailer, look as if Belly is on some XO, Kitty series of her own. It’s jarring, but I’m both intrigued and confused.

Why? Because it teases some of the things that some of us (ME, it’s been ME) have been begging for all season long: Belly coming into her own, figuring herself out, getting away from the Fisher boys, and having her own life.

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In the trailer, we get her narration, blessedly, in which she admits that she doesn’t even know who she is anymore. She references that Cousins, her family, and the Fisher Boys were like pillars of support for her and a source of safety.

Now? Belly is headed into the unknown, and it fits perfectly with the needle drop of Ellie Goulding’s “Anything Can Happen.” Like, she sang it, and the series took that personally. Go off, you guys!

The funny thing about this song is that it serves as both a hopeful proclamation and a threat. And in the trailer, it serves as both, at least with how it’s edited.

Because we see the hopeful nature of Belly making a life for herself in Paris, working at a shop or cafe, meeting a handsome new guy, and making new friends, even dancing with Taylor.

It’s all well-shot snapshots of European adventure, whimsy, and self-discovery.

And then, she returns to her little Parisian apartment to see handwritten letters from Conrad. We hear his voice as he starts his letter, ‘Dear Belly.’

Yes, anything can happen indeed.

For some viewers, this plays out like the perfect romantic story roaring toward an exciting conclusion in which Conrad manages to track Belly down across the world and writes frantically to her, expressing all of his feelings, because the dam has broken and suddenly he can’t stop sharing all the things he withheld for literal years.

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And for other viewers, it’s this highlight that Belly cannot even escape to Europe and live her life on her own terms without Conrad impeding on that and dictating things again.

This is a Rorschach test for romance. Everyone will see what they want to see and feel what they want to feel.

Anything can happen!

And thus, that’s how we head into the final stretch of this uneven and oddly constructed season, in which some of the best moments that they could actually produce regarding Belly finally feeling like a full-fleshed character again are about to be jampacked into the final three episodes like a feature film.

Just when I was excited about Belly FINALLY being able to pass the Bechdel Test, the Fisher Boy drama doesn’t stop.

Alright, mama needs a refill. So I’m turning it over to you. What’s your impression of this trailer and what’s to come?

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