Peach scene!!

Any Conrad/Laurel conversation

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1. Watching Conrad help Belly with the wedding like Jeremiah should have been doing. Even convincing Laurel to go to the wedding.
2. I'm really looking forward to seeing how incompatible Jelly is on screen considering how much they are trying to hide that within the promos. They're trying to paint jelly's relationship with rose colored glasses. When in the book there was drama.
3. Looking forward to watching how they write the scenes after the cancelled wedding.
4. Looking forward to watching the scenes around the cancelled wedding.

Belly fuming jealous that Conrad made Anika laugh.

Conrad telling Belly not to marry Jeremiah after he finds out about Cabo

No, I don’t think they are. He is in the background of 4 July with Nicole and Belly is on the deck. When they are playing volleyball in the pool in an earlier scene Conrad and Nicole are sitting with their feet in while the others play.

I have always kind of thought it was emblematic of them not quite being ready to take the plunge so to speak, or Conrad’s inability to go all in, and get in the water. They drag each other into the surf after the first kiss but it’s not so much swimming in the full sense.

You can take the analogy further by saying that when they are in together in that first sequence at Cousins he pulls her right under they have this intense moment and they both don’t kind of know what to do with it (definitely electricity) and quickly spring awkwardly apart.

Jere on the other hand gets in the pool with her multiple times and it is a back drop for many meaningful moments between the two.

My headcanon is he wanted to talk (not necessarily about themselves or their relationship, just to reconnect) but she said pool is that one place where she can leave all the drama behind, so he decided to give her some space.

But from Belly's pov: He left again.

I think he absolutely wanted to be close to her, a sort of olive branch or testing the waters so to speak but she was closed off and he decided she needed more space, that she didn’t feel drawn to him like he did her. She fell first but he absolutely fell harder

This is from S2 right? Yeah! Totally, when she swims away he just takes this as a confirmation of what you said. If she stayed he would open up a bit, they would end up talking more without Jeremiah around

Gotta say folks, I desperately want him to get in the pool with her. That scene from S1, Ep 1 where they are underwater is magic.

Yesss and the fact that Belly could sense that something was wrong with him. Like she clocked it within the first 10 mins of the episode, and the facttt that he was ABOUT to tell her 😩 😩 

I'm not one for sappy, love story stuff, but find myself obsessed with TSITP. I think that's why. It's not all mushy and lovey-dovey. It has drama, it has real world scenarios such as navigating illness and dealing with grief and succession stuff and what not after loss. The love story side of it, while not applicable to everyone, is very relatable, especially for close family friends like on the show, coaches' kids, etc. The show is real, and that's what makes it enjoyable. It's not too deep into the sad stuff, or the happy go lucky, or anything in between. It bounces across everything and depicts what families can actually face.

ig for s2 it’s kinda true but i still its a lighthearted drama. imo we don’t see that much focus on the grief

Absolutely. As someone who has also experienced loss of close loved ones, I agree. Not comedy in any way. There is humour in amongst the sadness though but it’s not the focus. I think the portrayal of the variance of grief, and its differing effects on people is right on the nose. Grief is not the same for everyone nor does it follow a linear course. Also that there are lots of different types of love - adult best friends, young love, family love etc.

Having read the books a decade ago, I think the heavy emotional toll dimmed over the years, but absolutely yes. I remember reading the second book as a kid and that intro KILLED me. When she’s like “Susannah is dead.”

If you finished both seasons, the good news is that s3 will probably be the light and fun watch you are hoping to find. Definitely still a lot of drama, but I think it will be a lot of fun, too.

Such a change from the pool scene in Season 1.

Love that he respects her by calling her Isabel in front of her new friends and not belly

Like a year later and they’re still going with the champagne😭😭

Also love how this means the memory is just as important to him as it is to Belly

i can’t believe i actually ended up liking him

And they kept staring at each other without any disturbance, it's so fcking hot. Conrad couldn't move his eyes even when passing the weed ahhhhhhhhhhhhh and belly kept staring too ahhhhhhhhhh

Adam constantly bringing out this wedding champagne is cracking me up 🤣

Right lmao btw this whole scene is too sexy I just can't handle it lol

My wedding actually went through and we had extras for at least 6 months! Haha

It really shows how much they have changed, as people.

Conrad is staying because he saw her crying. Nobody talk to me.

But could we talk about the fact that Belly is really upset by the fact Conrad don't to be his brother best man at the wedding with the girl he still loves...

Them mocking Conrad on the pool literally pmo so much. I was praying for Conrad to leave and never come back 😭😭

Belly is really annoying especially in this past episode.. I mean I don't understand if she is really over Conrad, i don't think so but she is pretending so well

I'm assuming they are making us dislike her for a reason. She will end up going to Paris, do a little growing up and then will be ready for Conrad... at least I freaking hope so cause giiirrrrrl what are you doing.

I gasp so hard i chocked on my water

i dont understand what conrad sees in her anymore because all of her likeability is gone

I hope Conrad will open up and tells Belly he still loves her... I mean we know Susannah wanted Conrad to be the one for Belly.

One of the best reactors. Rob squinting when Jere pulled out the ring lmaooo

Obsessed with their reactions.

I loved it 🥰

Ohhhhh love them !!!!! Pro Team Conrad 🙌🏻❤

I love these guys so much! Have you seen Sammy Bates too? Her reactions to the recent episode helped me a lot tbh

*in seventh grade teacher voice* where‘s the evidence for your points? Pls Elaborate.

in all seriousness, you left out the subplot about the tension between Steven and those rich people w/ their microaggressions, Jeremiah being bi (which I hope will be expanded on in season 2), one of the debutantes being able to have another girl be her escort. And the title is meant to refer to coming-of-age and Belly blossoming from a nerdy little sister-type to a young woman who is seen in a different way by her longtime friends.

It‘s cool if you didn’t like it, others will disagree.

It’s not even about ugly becoming pretty but growing out of her preteen awkward phase into a young woman

It's just the summer where she's on the other side of puberty. In the show obviously it doesn't really work because they use the same actress to portray her in the flashbacks from a year ago. But normally you're supposed to understand that the summer before she still looked like a kid and that summer she shows up looking different.

I personally never had a year where I became "hot" or never had a stark transformation because my growing up was just kind of gradual and putting on muscles (even though I'm a woman my puberty was mostly muscle), but I have a cousin who was a hot girl and it was pretty clear which year she went from a kid to a hot girl and all of a sudden all the boys were after her. You couldn't really say she was hot the year before because she still looked like a kid. But then one year of puberty magic and she had a hot body, her skin cleared, she started doing something to her hair to remove the frizz, and she got contacts.

So I assume it's just some girls have a transformation like this, others not really.

The awkward acting was spot on. Made me feel like I’m in my teens again.

The worst acting I've ever seen outside of YouTube

exactly....I got a "she's all that vibe"....just let your hair down and remove the glasses and braces and you're now "pretty". oh turns out they were pretty all along.

>The actors had to literally force themselves to exhibit raw emotions during crucial scenes

Isn't that the entire premise of acting?

> displayed themes of glorifying classism, promoting sexism, and overall had a terrible plot

What you're describing just sounds like standard teen/YA oriented programming, not sure why this one stuck in your crawl - the whole genre has been like this for decades.

>You don't become pretty if you remove your glasses and braces. WTF. CRINGE

*cough*Uglybetty

I kept watching because I wanted to see where the moms stories were going.

Also to see if their dad would show up again because Colin Ferguson is awesome.

No surprise this scene had more chemistry then any jelly scenes.

this scene did things to me FALSE GOD???

The tension, the yearning, the taking care of each other, the slow burn that just keeps getting hotter. This is the foundations of the romance genre

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Blessing all today's post with this... 🤗

The sound of heart beating is cheery on the top! Also it's so sexy when both Conrad and Belly being dizzy😭😭 the chemistry is so good!! But this is seriously the only good scene in this episode