Heartbeats crash like waves on Cousins Beach as Belly stands at the edge of forever, torn between the sun-kissed ease of one brother’s smile and the storm-swept pull of another’s gaze. One choice seals a summer’s end in shattered glass and whispered regrets—will the safe harbor become a sinking ship, or does true love demand the risk of drowning? 🌊💔

Echoes of boardwalk lights and stolen kisses linger like salt on skin… what if the heart’s quietest ache is the loudest truth? Feel that twist of fate tightening its grip—who breaks, and who blooms from the ruins?

Catch the trailer that rips the veil off it all—tap below and let the tide decide. Who’s forever team storm?

There’s a certain ache that only comes from watching someone you root for—fiercely, messily, with your whole chest—face the kind of crossroads that reshapes everything. In the sun-drenched, heartbreak-laced world of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly Conklin has always been that girl: the one whose summers in Cousins Beach weren’t just vacations but lifelines, woven with the Fisher brothers’ shadows and Susannah’s unwavering light. Now, as Season 3—the final, 11-episode bow to Jenny Han’s beloved trilogy—barrels toward its September 17, 2025, finale on Prime Video, Episode 11’s trailer drops like a rogue wave, teasing “Belly Chooses Her True Love… Jeremiah’s Heart SHATTERS.” It’s not just a title; it’s the gut-punch culmination of a love triangle that’s simmered since Belly’s awkward first kiss with Conrad under the boardwalk lights. Airing Wednesday at midnight PT/3 a.m. ET, this episode isn’t closure—it’s the kind of raw unraveling that leaves you replaying beachside confessions until dawn.

To really feel the sting of this trailer, you have to wade back through the surf of what got us here. The Summer I Turned Pretty—that rare YA adaptation that honors its source without pandering—kicked off in 2022 with Lola Tung’s Belly blooming from awkward teen to a woman grappling with desires that pull like undertow. Season 1 was all tentative sparks: Belly’s first love with Conrad (Christopher Briney, brooding like a storm cloud with eyes that hold oceans), complicated by his younger brother Jeremiah’s (Gavin Casalegno, all golden retriever charm and hidden depths) easy affection. By Season 2’s 2024 drop, the triangle sharpened into a blade—Jeremiah’s confession at Susannah’s funeral, Conrad’s retreat into med school isolation, Belly caught in the riptide. Han, doubling as showrunner, has always played fast and loose with her books, amplifying the messiness: In It’s Not Summer Without You, Belly chooses Jeremiah after Conrad ghosts her, but the show stretched that ache across episodes, letting Belly’s volleyball dreams and Taylor’s (Rain Spencer) brutal honesty ground the swoon.

Season 3, premiering July 16, 2025, after a two-year hiatus that had fans rioting on X, dives straight into We’ll Always Have Summer‘s endgame. It’s Belly’s junior year wrap-up, her future seemingly moored to Jeremiah—her “soulmate,” as the trailer purrs in those early, honeyed montages. They’re engaged by Episode 3, the ring a glittering promise amid Susannah’s lingering letters and Laurel’s (Jackie Chung) wary side-eyes. But cracks spiderweb fast: Jeremiah’s infidelity with Lacie—a drunken slip during a “break” that Belly clocks as betrayal—mirrors the book’s drama but amps the fallout with a motel confrontation that leaves her sobbing on the dunes. Conrad, states away in California burying himself in textbooks, pens anonymous postcards that scream his unspoken “I still love you.” By mid-season, the wedding looms like a thunderhead—Belly in white, Jeremiah beaming, but flashbacks to Conrad’s hand in hers at the arcade twist the knife. Episode 7’s beachside blowout? Belly, tipsy and fierce, shuts Conrad down cold: “You’ll never be to me what Jeremiah is,” she spits, but her eyes betray the lie, pulling fans into Team Conrad vs. Team Jeremiah wars that flood X with memes of polarized beach towels.

The back half of the season—Episodes 9 through 11—shifts to Paris, a sunlit exile where Belly flees post-canceled wedding, her heart a bruise she can’t ice. Episode 9 drops her in a cramped flat with three French roommates, juggling under-the-table bar gigs and lit classes that feel like echoes of home. She’s homesick, voicemailing Laurel about solo Thanksgivings that taste like ash, but Paris starts to stitch her back: A saucy Vespa ride with new suitor Benito (a fresh face announced in the August 29 trailer drop), late-night crepes with friends who don’t know her scars. Back stateside, Jeremiah spirals—hooking up with Taylor’s orbit to numb the void, crashing at Denise’s (a platonic anchor from Episode 10) while resentment festers toward Conrad, who’s pining in her old room, clutching that stuffed polar bear like a lifeline. Their brothers’ reunion at Susannah’s grave? A tearjerker—Jeremiah admitting Conrad’s shadow loomed over his pursuit of Belly, Conrad confessing the guilt that’s chained him. “I promised Mom I’d never let anyone come between us,” Jeremiah chokes out, and they hug it out, raw and real, before Jeremiah nudges: “Don’t miss your shot with her.”

Episode 10, released September 10, 2025, builds the swell: Belly’s three months in feel like a lifetime, her address shared impulsively with Conrad during a vulnerable call. Jeremiah claws toward footing, forgiving himself amid hookups that ring hollow; Conrad, urged by their talk, starts the letters—handwritten confessions that arrive like contraband in her mailbox. The episode closes on dual cliffs: Belly at a salon, scissors poised for a chop that screams reinvention, and Conrad buckling into a flight to Paris, his face a map of resolve and ruin. It’s a departure from the books, where Conrad waits three years before writing; here, he’s proactive, the show flipping his passivity into a bold leap that has X erupting: “Conrad’s flying in? Belly’s haircut glow-up? This finale’s gonna DESTROY us,” one thread with 20k likes laments, clips of Briney’s haunted stare looping like heartbreak vinyl.

Then, the trailer for Episode 11—”Last Year,” a title that twists like a knife—hits on September 12, and it’s pure devastation wrapped in golden-hour glow. Clocking two minutes of voiceover and vignettes, it opens on Belly’s Paris reinvention: Laughing over espresso with Benito, her hair now a sleek bob that frames eyes less haunted, but a letter slips under her door—”Dear Belly…”—Conrad’s voice cracking like waves on rocks. Cut to Jeremiah, adrift in Cousins, staring at engagement photos that mock him, his easy grin fractured into something jagged. “A year is a lifetime,” Belly narrates, as flashbacks collide: Her and Jeremiah’s proposal under fireworks, Conrad’s motel pullback that gutted her, the wedding altar where she bolted, white dress trailing like a ghost. The hook? Belly’s voiceover: “I thought Jeremiah was my safe harbor… but Conrad? He’s the storm I can’t outrun.” We see her on a bridge, wind whipping, as Conrad’s plane touches down—his eyes locking on hers across a crowd, electric and inevitable. Jeremiah’s shatter moment? A gut-wrench: Him waving from afar, arm around a date (echoing the book’s wedding guest nod), blowing a kiss that lands like goodbye, his face crumpling as realization dawns—she’s chosen the one who breaks her open.

Fans are fracturing along fault lines. X is a battlefield: Team Conrad threads crow, “Belly’s always been his—Jeremiah was the detour,” with 30k engagements on a post dissecting her Paris epiphany: She convinced herself Jeremiah was Conrad, projecting arcade memories onto beach bonfires. Team Jeremiah counters, “He was the people-pleaser she needed—Conrad’s intensity would’ve drowned her,” citing her beach sobs post-confession as proof of fear, not fate. Theories swirl: Will Benito snag a rom-com subplot, or is he the rebound that forces her truth? One viral speculation ties to Han’s tweaks—Belly choosing “herself” in a Kelly Kapoor twist, ditching both for Paris permanence—but most bet on book fidelity with show spice: Conrad’s arrival sparking a birthday reunion that seals their endgame marriage, Jeremiah healing with Denise or a fresh start. “Jeremiah inserted himself knowing her heart,” a top post with 10k likes accuses, clips of his manipulative bachelor party push replaying like evidence.

Tung’s Belly carries it all with a quiet ferocity—her Paris arc isn’t escape but excavation, unearthing the girl who wants Conrad’s chaos over Jeremiah’s calm because, as she whispers in the trailer, “With Jere, everything’s easy… but easy isn’t everything.” Briney, post-The Sex Lives of College Girls, layers Conrad’s restraint with volcanic undercurrents—his letters aren’t grand gestures but lifelines, echoing the books’ epistolary romance but timed for maximum ache. Casalegno, though, steals the shatter: Jeremiah’s arc from golden boy to gutted man feels lived-in, his resentment toward Conrad (“You took everything”) a mirror to real sibling scars, amplified by Episode 10’s grave reconciliation. Supporting cast shines: Spencer’s Taylor calls out Belly’s denial (“You turned Jer into Con in your head”), Kaufman’s Steven brokers family truces, Chung’s Laurel mothers through gritted teeth.

Han has teased deviations since the June 2025 trailer—Belly’s Paris over Spain, the brothers’ direct heart-to-heart absent in print—keeping the end fluid. Historically, it’s YA gold: Echoing To All the Boys‘ self-discovery with The Fault in Our Stars‘ inevitable pull, but Black-led lenses on mixed-family dynamics and grief add depth. Production wrapped early 2025 in Wilmington’s sun-soaked proxies for Cousins, with a Taylor Swift-heavy soundtrack (that “Red” needle drop in the trailer? Chef’s kiss) underscoring the ache. Viewership? Season 3’s premiere week topped Prime’s charts in 50 countries, 150 million minutes streamed, per Nielsen—proof this triangle’s universal.

Episode 11’s promise? Not tidy bows but tidal shifts. Belly’s choice—teased as Conrad in flash-forwards of a beachside “I do”—doesn’t erase Jeremiah’s shatter; it humanizes it, his wave-and-kiss a nod to growth amid grief. X buzzes with pre-finale vigils: “Jeremiah’s heart breaking hits harder than any proposal,” one post with 15k shares mourns, while another hails, “Belly choosing storm over safe? Iconic.” Theories on Benito as red herring or queer-coded subplot for Steven abound, but the core? Love as the summer that never fades, even when it floods.

As September 15 ticks toward the 17th, with Episodes 9-10 still dominating rewatch lists, the trailer’s left us adrift—equal parts dread and delight. The Summer I Turned Pretty isn’t just ending a series; it’s bottling that first-heartbreak haze, the one where choices scar but shape. Belly’s true love? It’s the one that shatters to rebuild. Jeremiah’s heart? The casualty that proves not all waves crash gentle. Stream the buildup, steel your soul, and let Cousins pull you under one last time. Because in Han’s world, summer’s not over—it’s eternal, salty, and savagely sweet.