so after binge watching the show for like a million times, i made a list of all " the look " Conrad gave belly throughout the show which icannot stop thinking about. The more I see them, the more I just... whew.
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first, The entire deb ball dance sequence blew me away. I felt like I was intruding on an intimate and deeply personal moment between them, like I should look away almost. The eye contact alone and the way it is unbroken throughout the dance was enough to set me on fire, but the way he looks at her, the look in his eyes...is so intense but soft at the same time. you can see how he's totally captivated by her, and how he's madly, deeply in love with her and always has been. And at the same time you can see how he cannot believe this is happening and it's a total dream come true for him, like he's terrified she's going to disappear at any moment. No matter how many times I watch it still gives me goosebumps and makes me shiver. It was like no one and nothing else existed in that moment besides the two of them. Laurel said Conrad is Belly's sun but in that scene it's also clear that Belly is Conrad's sun.
second, The club scene when he's in the doorway waving...first of all, he just looks so damn attractive in that moment. But then you could see how happy he was at the house as he was leaving from the almost kiss and how excited he is to go see her, and then when he does finally get there and his eyes fall on her...oh my LORD. He's so blissfully content to stand there and wave at her. One little glimpse of her gave him so much happiness. And then the way he smiled at her with that softness and all that love in his eyes...I was unwell. I felt SO BAD for Nicole in that moment. Because Conrad hardly notices Jeremiah walking away- though Jere sees him- and it's like there is literally nobody else in the room besides Belly. She's the only person he can even see in that moment.
The pool moment is also really special. I feel like he's always watching what she's doing, like he can't even help his eyes following her and there's this quiet, soft admiration in his eyes too.
Some other honorable mention "Conrad looks" :
- when he's sitting on the edge of the pool in the first episode, as he delivers the "what'll you give me if I do?" line when she says he can only smoke if she can and he puts the joint away...there's this look in his eyes. it's so soft. - when they almost kiss on the 4th of July, and before that when she's drunk and barges in on him in the shower the look in his eyes when he's talking to Cleveland about Belly. so sweet, so soft. and the love he feels for her is so clearly written on his face, he can't keep from smiling. - at Nicole's party on Belly's birthday, when she looks across the room at him and he's staring back. he takes a sip of beer but still the eye contact is unbroken. the way you can tell he wishes he was talking to her instead of the dudes he's standing there with - the look on his face when she shows up to the bonfire, and then during the fight with the random guy, right after the guy hits Belly there's like 0.5 second where the camera slows down on Conrad's face, and the look on his face is just...i can't- - the look on his face during their argument, when she's confronting him about his feelings and the way he's acted all summer - when she's opening Susannah's pearls on her birthday, and the camera pans to Conrad to show him hiding the necklace and you can see him watching her open the pearls, watching her reaction closely and then when he sees how happy she is about the pearl necklace, there's this look on his face they show for like 2 seconds, when he's getting ready to give her the necklace right before Jeremiah jumps in. There's this look on his face I can't explain. and then his face just falls as soon as Jere hands her his gift. - the way they look at each other in the final scene...Conrad had me feeling all sorts of things. - also at the family dinner with Cam! when Cam kisses Belly at the table, the camera pans over to Conrad. and the jealousy and sadness in his face in that moment...it's so clear how much he loves her - the dancing flashback...the way young Conrad looks at her while they're dancing, the softness in his eyes when he gets up from the card game, the happiness when they're dancing...I loved it
There's so many small looks and nuances with Conrad and the way Chris played him is top tier. I felt like you could feel the pining looks, jealous stares, and just emotion and power of Conrad's expression and the way he looked at her, even from Belly's POV. I don't think i'm ever getting over them-
