Spoilers ahead for The Summer I Turned Pretty season three .

“Hey, friend,” breakout Summer I Turned Pretty star Isabella Briggs says in a gentle voice. “I’m gonna put you over here. Is that okay?” She’s speaking to an unidentified bug, using a spoon to carefully scoop the critter off the edge of my plate before depositing it onto a nearby surface.

The 25-year-old is navigating the minor indignities of dining al fresco at Café Paulette, a small French restaurant in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. It’s roughly a week before The Summer I Turned Pretty ’s hotly anticipated series finale—the conclusion to Briggs’s breakout arc as Denise, an ambitious senior associate at Breaker Capital, the company cofounded by the father ( Tom Everett Scott ) of Conrad ( Christopher Briney ) and

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