""It's like the human body," Conrad says, his face emptied of affect by this attempt at impromptu philosophy. "If you try to make sense of it organ by organ, it's a Sisyphean task-it's overwhelming. But if you're able to take a step back and look at it as a whole, and see how the body works together in concert, suddenly it makes sense. And it's fucking miraculous.""
"(Belly had been engaged to Conrad's very tall brother Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), but then Conrad made a dramatic declaration of his love for Belly, causing the engagement to go up in flames. Somebody sort of summarizes this all for you during the finale.) Soon the pair stand on a rooftop, looking out at the skyline, talking about how a city only coheres when you can see it from above."
ABC abruptly and indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show, a move that seems particularly troubling. The Summer I Turned Pretty concludes with Belly living in Paris and Conrad visiting unannounced on the eve of her birthday. Conrad's dramatic declaration of love previously ended Belly's engagement to Jeremiah, and the finale revisits those entanglements before the pair converse on a rooftop about seeing the city from above. The rooftop exchange compares the city to the human body and frames understanding as taking a step back to see how parts work together. The series drew about twenty-five million for its season premiere and inspired fervent Team Conrad versus Team Jeremiah fandom online.
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