SOULMATE CLARITY: The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3, Episode 11 “At Last” doesn’t just tie a bow on the series—it PROVES Belly & Conrad are soulmates in every possible way 😱💔

From Conrad flying into Paris for her birthday, to Belly ripping off past doubts and chasing him down at the train station, their final dance shouts chemistry, growth, and love that survived everything. It’s the kind of ending that makes your heart ache and hope soar.

The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3, Episode 11 Review: I’ve Never Been More Convinced That Belly & Conrad Are Soulmates

The entirety of The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 has been an emotional rollercoaster, and the series finale was no different. While there were a few loose ends left to tie up with other characters’ storylines in The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3, episode 11, “At Last,” the main attraction was Conrad’s (Christopher Briney) spontaneous trip to Paris and the declaration of his undying love for Belly – aka, Isabel (Lola Tung).

And yet, for an episode that was roughly 20 minutes longer than the last few installments have been, Conrad and Belly’s rekindled relationship still felt tragically rushed – even if they did, somehow, manage to visit Versailles.

While I appreciated author and creator Jenny Han’s design to bring all the other characters together in Cousins for one final blowout, meaning the episode only had to switch between two narratives rather than several, too much time was spent on Jeremiah’s (Gavin Casalegno) career, his romance with Denise (Isabella Briggs), and Steven (Sean Kaufman) and Taylor’s (Rain Spencer) relationship.

Did Steven and Taylor really need to get into a fight about moving to San Francisco, when it was so clear they were going to end up together anyway? Did we have to see Jeremiah move on with Denise, even though her presence in his life as a friend has clearly been good for him? (Though I would like to thank her for calling out Jeremiah’s obsession with Conrad).

Any time we were in Cousins during The Summer I Turned Pretty’s season 3 finale, I was waiting to return to Paris. Nobody yearns quite like Conrad Fisher and Isabel Conklin.

We’ll Always Have Paris In The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Season 3 Finale (But Sadly, Little Else)

Belly and Conrad’s reunion in Paris was beautiful, sexy, heartbreaking, and honest. I would have happily watched 80 minutes of them together both during and after Europe, and not just because I’ve been rooting for Belly and Conrad since the beginning.

There was something really vulnerable about the way they found each other again. What started as something awkward grew into something mature and real, and their love scene, which began on the banks of the Seine and ended in Belly’s apartment (via a steamy taxi ride and a thankfully abandoned stairwell), far surpassed anything shared by Belly and Jeremiah. The spark that was rekindled in Conrad’s POV episode finally materialized in the series finale.

What I appreciated, perhaps more than anything, was the way both Belly and Conrad acknowledged where things went wrong between them. This wasn’t just a whirlwind romantic interlude. It was a reconnection, a time for them to lay all their cards out on the table, and Briney and Tung’s performances played off each other beautifully.

So much of Briney’s performance has hinged on his body language, especially Conrad’s anxiety, and it was nice to see Conrad let loose a little in this episode, owning his feelings fully. The same is true for Tung’s portrayal of Belly, especially when Belly voiced her fear of Susannah’s lingering influence on their relationship. There were no more secrets between them. And who doesn’t love a last-minute train station confession of love?

As much as I enjoyed Paris, though, it’s regretful that we got to see very little else of their relationship afterward. There’s a quick time skip, they’re driving down the road into Cousins, and The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s final shot is a drone shot of everyone’s favorite beach house.

Yes, we know they’re still together and happy, but given everything that’s happened, and what occurs in the book’s four-page epilogue (Belly tells the reader that she and Conrad got married), those last few moments felt unfinished, somehow.

This might have something to do with Belly’s final narration, which, for such a monumental episode, felt oddly generic. It didn’t really address her and Conrad’s relationship at all; instead, it included a few platitudes about coming home and the “promise of summer.” It was lovely to see them walk into the house together after everything, but something was missing, and those cute Christmas pictures just didn’t cut it.

Considering how much time was spent on Belly and Jeremiah’s relationship this season, it almost feels like we’ve been cheated out of more time with Belly and Conrad. That said, most of this episode was a dream. Jenny Han and co-writer Sarah Kucserska perfectly captured that all-important, life-changing romance, and The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3, episode 11, ended the way it needed to: with Belly and Conrad, in love and free.

All episodes of The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 are streaming now on Prime Video.