Jeremiah telling Conrad to admit that he loves Belly makes no sense
One of my biggest complaints with book adaptations is that there are different plot points dropped or changed (which is fine and often necessary to do in a tv adaptation) but then there are lingering effects from those plot points that no longer make sense in the context of the show.
It’s hard to explain but my main example is when Jeremiah yells at Conrad in season 3, “Even now you can’t admit how you feel about her to my face.”
…Except he did. Conrad admitted to Jeremiah at the motel in season 2 that he loved Belly.
Jeremiah’s line is almost directly from the book and it made sense in the book because Conrad had never admitted to anyone that he loved Belly.
They changed this plot point which is fine but then they left the effects of that plot point.
You can also see it with the way everyone treats Conrad. In the book, Conrad was an asshole very often and pretty much never apologized or owned up to it (still love him tho) and that’s why everyone was always treating him like a dick because he was one.
Again, this made sense in the context of the book, but Conrad is not anywhere near as cruel in the show as he was in the book yet everyone acts as if he is.
Same goes for Jeremiah but opposite. In the show, everyone acts like he’s a golden retriever and in the book he was very golden retriever-esque, but show Jeremiah is a manipulative crybaby. Yet he somehow stills gets treated like he’s a sweetheart by everyone.
For anyone who watched Every Summer After. That dumpster fire had this issue allll over the place. So many inconsistencies with the changes made.