After three books, three seasons, a devastating demise, an engagement, a peach scene, a visit to Michaels, a canceled marriage ceremony, two tickets to Paris, greater than two dozen Taylor Swift songs, and one in all TV’s most highly-debated love triangles of all time, The Summer time I Turned Fairly‘s third and last season has come to an finish. And sure — in the end, we lastly know who Stomach (Lola Tung) finally ends up with.
Forward of TSITP‘s Season 3 finale, even followers of Jenny Han’s beloved guide trilogy have been in uncharted territory, left to marvel what would occur when Conrad (Christopher Briney) touched down in Paris forward of Stomach’s twenty second birthday.
“There may be a lot that’s going to shock followers about how a lot we’re exhibiting of Stomach in Paris and the entire ending,” Han instructed Leisure Weekly. “It’s not simply an epilogue.”
So what occurred throughout The Summer time I Turned Fairly‘s Season 3/sequence finale? Did Jenny keep true to the books? Stomach and Conrad find yourself collectively?! Did Stomach and Benito (Fernando Cattori) break up? And did Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) find yourself with Denise (Isabella Briggs)?
From the second detail-oriented followers see TSITP‘s important sequence finale title, “At Final,” they’ll know the way the story ends. However the pleasure lies within the journey, so buckle up, seize the tissues, and prepare to go to Paris! We’ve ready for solutions lengthy sufficient! So with out additional ado, Decider’s The Summer time I Turned Fairly Season 3 finale recap awaits. Simply be warned, main (probably life-ruining, relying should you’re Crew Conrad/Crew Jeremiah/Crew Benito/Crew Stomach) spoilers lie forward!
The Summer time I Turned Fairly Season 3 Ending Defined: TSITP Season 3, Episode 11 Recap, “At Final”
TSITP‘s Season 3 finale picks up with Conrad in Paris, wanting up on the door of Stomach’s condominium constructing. He rings the bell, however there’s no reply. Then, after ready for some time, he’s concurrently exhilarated and crushed to see Stomach journey up on the again of Benito’s scooter. She takes her helmet off to disclose her contemporary birthday bob, and as Conrad’s emotions for her flood over him, he flashes again to them on the seashore collectively.
After Benito takes off, Stomach is visibly rattled by Conrad’s presence. He tries to downplay his go to, saying he’s there for a Brussels convention, he casually remembered it was her birthday, and it’s completely tremendous if she’s too busy for him. For a number of seconds, Stomach hesitates to let him again into her coronary heart and present him her new world, however she agrees to indicate him the sights till her plans at 8:00 p.m. It isn’t till she drops his bag inside her condominium and reapplies crimson lipstick that we get a peek behind the scenes at her true emotions. “What the fuck are you doing. Simply play tour information for a number of hours after which ship him on his method,“ her voiceover says as she stares within the mirror.
Again dwelling, Jeremiah is occurring six months crashing at Denise’s condominium and he’s furiously cooking a make-it-or-break-it meal for 30 meals influencers, after a TikTok of him that Taylor posted popped off and gave him the possibility to turn into “Boston’s hottest up-and-coming chef.” As he preps for his huge day, he tells Denise that Conrad is in Paris with Stomach and he’s lastly OK with them. She shares some information of her personal: That she’s transferring to San Francisco in a month as a result of her and Steven lastly acquired seed funding for his or her online game. The one drawback? Steven hadn’t instructed Taylor but, and he or she overheard Denise break the information whereas coming to inform Jere the venue for his dinner flooded and so they wanted to discover a backup. A lot to Jere’s dismay, Denise considered the proper place: the Cousins seashore home.
In the meantime, in Paris, Stomach and Conrad have been seeing the sights as palpable stress loomed between them. When Conrad requested Stomach stop the everyday vacationer tour and present him Paris by means of her eyes, she took him to a rooftop that missed the town and revealed she used to go there so much when she first arrived and was struggling to slot in. “In the future I got here up right here to observe the solar rise, and I remembered that factor you stated in regards to the first time you noticed the Pacific. You stated that it felt such as you have been standing on one other planet. Like something was doable. Paris has turn into that for me. It was actually exhausting however I caught it out and now I get to stay in essentially the most lovely metropolis on this planet,” she admitted. “Paris by no means stood an opportunity,” Conrad mused. And after the genuine second of connection, Stomach invited him to remain for her pre-birthday dinner with associates.
Earlier than I am going on, let me stress simply how compelling the Paris components of this episode have been, and the way completely maddening and agonizing it was — regardless of our love of Cousins and different characters — to maintain bouncing again to the seashore to see Taylor passive aggressively baiting Steven in hopes that he’d inform her in regards to the San Francisco alternative, then Jeremiah navigating rising obstacles standing in the way in which of his excellent ceremonial dinner. So for the love of summer season, we’re preserving these sections brief! Adam arrived, uninvited and damaged up with Kayleigh. Steven and Tay Tay talked issues out. And Denise was constantly there for Jere each time he spiraled. Now again to the primary occasion!
As Stomach and Conrad acquired prepared for their very own huge night time, he flashed again to profitable Junior Mint for her, stated she appeared actually lovely, and helped put her bracelet on. That forcefield Jere described between them? It’s nonetheless there, and the extra they resist, the stronger it turns into. Stomach’s associates welcomed Conrad to her birthday dinner with open arms, however spared no playful punches. (Queen Celine couldn’t resist saying, “Fuck me sideways, you American slut! If this one’s this sizzling, what did the opposite one appear to be?!”) Throughout dinner, they deal with all of the elephants within the room, together with Stomach breaking apart with Benito pre-Mexico journey, the marriage that wasn’t, and the brother love triangle. “If anybody was the villain, it was me,” Stomach mirrored. However Conrad rapidly made it clear he didn’t consider her that method, revealing he switched his flight to deliver her somewhat piece of Cousins on her birthday.
After an particularly seductive joint-smoking scene, we discovered what, precisely, he meant by that. Conrad gifted Stomach a vial of Cousins Seaside sand that he collected once they have been there for that fateful Fourth of July a number of years again. “I knew that I wasn’t gonna be again for a very long time. And so, each time I actually miss dwelling, I take this out, and it makes me really feel nearer to all people. And I believed since, I don’t know, because you gained’t be again for some time, I believed you may need to have it.” SWOON CITY! Assist!
After cake, the 2 hit the city, and as they walked and talked alongside the water, Conrad admitted he thought she was hiding out in Paris, punishing herself for the whole lot that occurred, like he did for a very long time. Although she constructed a tremendous life for herself there, she stated he was proper, a minimum of at first, as a result of she couldn’t forgive herself for breaking apart his household. He tells her she didn’t, that Jere is aware of he’s there and wished him good luck. And instantly, below the total moon, one thing shifted. As they gradual danced in one in all Stomach’s favourite spots, they revisited their fallouts at promenade and Susannah’s funeral, which felt like “1,000,000 years in the past.” Stomach revealed that Conrad’s letters saved her entering into Paris, and the one purpose she took so lengthy to answer is as a result of she needed to transfer on and let go of the previous first, however as she stood there in entrance of him, she was proper again in it.
At LITERAL final, Isabela Conklin and Conrad Fisher shared a kiss! And one other! And one other! And sooooooooo many kisses, within the cab, on the steps to Stomach’s condominium, towards her wall, on her mattress — like, belief and consider, Jenny ATE with these scenes, set to Taylor Swift’s “gown.” As the 2 undressed on Stomach’s mattress, Conrad paused their passionate love-making sesh solely to announce, “I dream about this. You.” And tragically, the perfection of the second was dashed solely by my fears that no actual life man might ever stay as much as the expectations Miss Han’s pen and Connie Child set for us. ANYWAY, again to the present!
Because the Parisian lovebirds laid in mattress submit love-making, the temper shifted when Conrad supplied to skip the primary day of his convention to stick with Stomach longer. She instructed him he shouldn’t change his plans for her, and he or she had no intention of adjusting hers — or abandoning the life she made in Paris — for him. When the whole lot she’d wished from them was lastly inside attain once more, Stomach self-sabotaged. She coldly instructed him to take the subsequent practice, and when he requested what was flawed, she replied, “How are we speculated to know if we love one another as a result of we need to and never as a result of we have been instructed to? If we didn’t lose Susannah, wouldn’t it loom so massive for us? What should you solely love me as a result of that’s what your mother wished after which your mother died.”
A baffled Conrad delivered one of many present’s finest speeches, assuring Stomach, “That’s not why I like you. I’ve tried the whole lot to not love you, for the sake of Jere for the sake, of not dragging you down with me in my grief. I fought it, method earlier than the summer season my mother acquired sick. You’ve all the time been a valuable individual to me. I’ve all the time cared about you. After which in some unspecified time in the future I began to see you in another way and that scared me as a result of i didn’t need issues between us to vary, however the way in which that I really feel about you, Stomach has nothing to do with my mother. If I met you fort he first time tonight I’d love you. As a result of I’ve modified the whole lot about myself and the one factor that by no means modifications is that I like you!”
To that heartfelt present of vulnerability, an incredibly closed-off Stomach merely replied, “Conrad, I want that I May very well be as certain as you. However I can’t. I’m sorry.” He acquired dressed and tearfully left to seize the practice. In his absence, Stomach picked up Junior Mint and had her epiphany. “All this time I wished to consider I modified. That I’m not the identical woman I used to be. However I’m nonetheless her, and was that woman so unhealthy?” Stomach thought. “She adopted her coronary heart it doesn’t matter what. And regardless of all her errors, I’ve to consider she’s nonetheless worthy of affection. I nonetheless love her. And I nonetheless love him. I’ve brown hair and brown eyes and I’ll all the time love Conrad Fisher.”
Like so many good romances earlier than it, The Summer time I Turned Fairly switched into romantic chase mode, as Stomach raced to the practice station and frantically looked for her man. As “Out of the Woods (Taylor’s Model)” blared, Crew Conrad followers lastly AT LAST, acquired out of these fucking woods! Stomach noticed Conrad on the practice, requested “Is that this seat taken?” and stated, “I select you, of my very own free will. If there are infinite worlds, each model of me select you in each one in all them.” With a passionate kiss and an “I like you” trade, we acquired our endgame, our completely happy ending, after which some!
Again dwelling, Steven and Taylor talked by means of the San Fransisco dilemma and vowed to remain collectively, irrespective of the place life took them. Adam pulled Jeremiah apart and eventually instructed him he was so pleased with him and he liked him. And after Denise helped Jere construct his again confidence up, the 2 lastly kissed — within the Cousins home, no much less! (We approve, clearly! But in addition RIP Redbird/Jere endgame.)
So how did Stomach and Conrad get again dwelling? In her last TSITP voiceover, Stomach defined, “I didn’t return that summer season. However ultimately I did. Nothing beats coming dwelling after a protracted, very long time. And simply because it all the time had, the seashore home held 1,000,000 guarantees of summer season. And what simply is perhaps.”
Earlier than the sequence concluded, Conrad drove Stomach (who was sporting her infinity necklace once more) by means of Cousins, the 2 went again to the seashore home, and the ultimate shot was of them holding arms out again overlooking the seashore. Properly, nearly the ultimate shot. The sequence really ended with a “Christmas in Paris” scrapbook, which confirmed snapshots of Stomach, Conrad, and Junior Mint having fun with the vacations overseas after declaring their love for one another. And after getting a glimpse at their lives overseas, we acquired a goodbye letter from Jenny Han herself:
Thanks from the underside of my coronary heart for the love you’ve proven The Summer time I Turned Fairly all these years. Whether or not you’ve been with Stomach for the reason that very first guide or joined us with the present I’m so grateful you’ve made Stomach’s story a part of your summers.
We put our entire hearts into this present and we’re so grateful to you for coming together with us on the journey. Perhaps we’ll meet once more one summer season in Cousins.
Till then —
All of my love all the time, Jenny
The Summer time I Turned Fairly Seasons 1 by means of 3 at the moment are streaming on Prime Video.
