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Connor and Zegler are radiant as the young lovers, though the chemistry between them is more of an idea than a palpable reality.

It’s a radiant Golden State swagger that’s easier to identify than it is to explain; it comes with being not just the most populous U.S. state but also home to the bulk of the country’s agriculture, the birthplace of its aerospace industry, the home of Hollywood and the epicenter of the legal weed movement.

Between fall’s radiant foliage and the year’s first snow, it’s “a time between two worlds, between two phases of the year,” and “a way of marking that ambiguous moment when you didn’t know who you were about to become, or what the future would hold.”

A few omissions from the show are surprising — especially the so-called “erotic thermometers” formed in industrially colored plastic relief that Craig Kaufmann made in the 1960s, as well as a radiant light-environment by Doug Wheeler.

Two years ago, one of the nation’s biggest political upsets took place here amid the radiant greenery of the Pacific Northwest.