"Let's get this straight: Rachel Blanchard thinks Susannah is in heaven. "She's having a good time," Blanchard says of the afterlife for her The Summer I Turned Prettycharacter. As the deceased mother of Conrad and Jeremiah and pseudo-auntie to Belly Conklin, Susannah haunts season three's love triangle heavily, to the point that after Belly and Conrad hook up in the finale, Belly's first postcoital thoughts aren't about the love of her life but his mom."
""How are we supposed to know if we love each other because we want to and not because we were told to?" she asks Conrad. "If we didn't lose Susannah, would it loom so large for us? What if you only love me because that's what your mom wanted, and then your mom died?" If there were a "haunting the narrative" competition between Susannah Fisher, The Bear's Michael Berzatto, and Steven Universe's Rose Quartz, it could very well end in a three-way tie."
""I don't really think there is a villain. You'd have to ask Jenny [Han, the show's creator], but I don't think that was her intention. And I don't think it was Susannah's intention, either," she says. "She just really wanted everyone to be happy and to be true to their feelings. I think some stuff just got lost in translation.""
Susannah is envisioned as being in heaven and enjoying the afterlife. Her death looms over season three, shaping a central love triangle between Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah and coloring Belly's thoughts even after intimacy. Belly questions whether their love is influenced by Susannah's wishes and whether her absence amplifies unresolved expectations. Fans attribute family enmeshment to Susannah's posthumous influence, citing a letter that favored one romantic outcome. The intention attributed to Susannah, however, is goodwill and encouragement to follow true feelings rather than manipulation. Early bereavement magnifies the importance of the deceased's words and actions.
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