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Let\u2019s get this straight: Rachel Blanchard thinks Susannah is in heaven. \u201cShe\u2019s having a good time,\u201d Blanchard says of the afterlife for her The Summer I Turned Pretty<\/a> character. As the deceased mother of Conrad and Jeremiah and pseudo-auntie to Belly Conklin, Susannah haunts season three\u2019s love triangle heavily, to the point that after Belly and Conrad hook up in the finale<\/a>, Belly\u2019s first postcoital thoughts aren\u2019t about the love of her life but his mom. \u201cHow are we supposed to know if we love each other because we want to and not because we were told to?\u201d she asks Conrad. \u201cIf we didn\u2019t lose Susannah, would it loom so large for us? What if you only love me because that\u2019s what your mom wanted, and then your mom died?\u201d<\/p>\n If there were a \u201chaunting the narrative\u201d competition between Susannah Fisher, The Bear\u2019s Michael Berzatto<\/a>, and Steven Universe\u2019s Rose Quartz, it could very well end in a three-way tie. Fans see Susannah, who died between seasons one and two of the Amazon Prime series, as the architect of her family\u2019s enmeshment issues: If she hadn\u2019t proclaimed #TeamBonrad canon in a letter<\/a>, could #TeamJellyfish have flourished? Or could Belly have just made her own choices without a Ghost Mom in her head? Blanchard won\u2019t accept this villain edit of her character. \u201cI don\u2019t really think there is a villain. You\u2019d have to ask Jenny [Han, the show\u2019s creator<\/a>], but I don\u2019t think that was her intention. And I don\u2019t think it was Susannah\u2019s intention, either,\u201d she says. \u201cShe just really wanted everyone to be happy and to be true to their feelings. I think some stuff just got lost in translation.\u201d<\/p>\n In a way, Belly is right: Susannah\u2019s feelings loom because she died. In the first few years of bereavement, everything the deceased said and did takes on such importance. But that was never Susannah\u2019s intention, says Blanchard. \u201cI think she always saw there was something between Conrad and Belly,\u201d she says, \u201cbut I don\u2019t think it was ever etched in stone for her.\u201d<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: John Merrick\/Prime Video Let\u2019s get this straight: Rachel Blanchard thinks Susannah is in heaven. \u201cShe\u2019s having a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,87650,87651,75,87649,1913,80609,348],"class_list":["post-170487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dead-moms","tag-endgame","tag-entertainment","tag-rachel-blanchard","tag-the-summer-i-turned-pretty","tag-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-season-3","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}