To All the Boys: Always and Forever ending explained

The To All the Boys movies have come to an end. Let’s breakdown the ending of To All the Boys: Always and Forever. What happened in the end?

I’m not sure what I’ll do in 2022 without another To All the Boys movie. This has been one of the best YA rom-com trilogies in a while, with all three movies standing out for their own reasons.

Of course, everyone wants to know how the final movie ends. Going into it knowing if there’s going to be a happy ending or not is important. There are also plenty of questions left over about our favorite characters.

Here’s our breakdown of the To All the Boys: Always and Forever ending.

Lara Jean goes to college, but which one?

We knew from the trailer for the movie that Lara Jean wouldn’t get into Stanford. At first, she was devastated. All her plans with Peter were over.

Then she got into Berkeley. With it only being an hour away from Stanford, things would be fine. They’d be able to make it work.

Then she’d get accepted to NYU. This was more of a backup college, but she ended up falling in love with the city. At first, Peter is angry that she wants to choose the college that is as far away from him as she can get, but then he puts things into perspective. This is the best choice for her future.

In the end, Lara Jean chooses NYU. We see her at the end putting up pictures around her new dorm.

What happens to Lara Jean and Peter on To All the Boys: Always and Forever?

With the decision of college comes the thought of whether a long-distance relationship can work. An hour’s drive wouldn’t be too bad. They’d see each other at weekends and get to explore San Francisco.

When Lara Jean chooses New York, Peter starts to pull away. And then she starts to pull away.

It looks like this is it. Peter doesn’t feel like a long-distance relationship will work, and he’s hurt that Lara Jean has chosen a college so far away from him. They break up on prom night.

However, it’s not LJ that’s the problem here. Peter realizes that his feelings of abandonment come from his father. When LJ tells him not to come to her dad’s wedding, Peter decides to go to the diner with his dad, something his dad has been trying to get him to do for the whole movie. The two manage to air things out, and Peter realizes that Lara Jean isn’t abandoning him. She’s following her dream.

Peter ends up forming a plan through Kitty to make it up to Lara Jean. He writes her a letter in her yearbook, sharing about the first time they met. It was definitely a meet cute, hinting that they can make it through four years of college. At the same time, Peter acknowledges that Lara Jean needs to follow her own dreams, and NYU is that dream.

They can make it work. They will make it work. There isn’t a fourth book to tell us that it won’t!

And so, the two get back together at the very end of To All the Boys: Always and Forever. And what I love the most is that it’s Peter apologizing for his actions and not Lara Jean feeling like she was the one at fault here.

To All the Boys: Always and Forever is now streaming on Netflix.