Not If, But How

"More likely she'd choose herself, ending the show single or with some man named Benito in Paris. After all, it's objectively strange that this woman's list of sexual partners consists solely of two brothers, as Belly admitsin season three. What better time than a broken engagement to move across an ocean and process the deep programming that shut you off to the possibility of marrying anybody with a surname other than Fisher?"

""Susannah told me that when I was born she knew I was destined for one of her boys," Belly says in voiceover in season one. It's a summation of the show's central premise, repeated in "previously on" after "previously on," and some viewers would call it a curse dooming both Belly and the Fisher brothers to a lifetime of codependency and sexual competition."

Belly Conklin chooses Conrad Fisher in the series finale. Many viewers expected that outcome while a contingent still favors Jeremiah. Co-showrunner Jenny Han had latitude to diverge from the YA-novel trilogy source material and could have had Belly pick Jeremiah or choose independence and relocate. Belly's romantic history involves two brothers, which raises questions about codependency and ingrained expectations. Susannah's claim that Belly was destined for one of her boys frames a destiny motif. Some interpret Susannah as a controlling influence behind the love triangle. Fantasy elements remain central despite occasional darker moments.

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