The thing that gets me abt Colin is that they leaned into the wrong trope. Colin's charm comes from his boy-next-door, puppy dog eyes, curious and sunshine-y personality. Instead of giving us that they tried to make him this hunky sex symbol and it just didn't translate well which is a shame
@@StephanieStar-xq3io but nothing was done about it in the show, he changes and then what, nothing happens, there is no character development either, its just disappointing
i wish that season three could’ve been for benedict so that in the side plots we could’ve seen way more development with penelope and colin instead of whatever tf that was… like wdym one second “i would never dream of courting her” to the next “i would die for her” MAKE UP YOUR MIND SIDEBURNS
@@Peayou... maybe they could’ve made lady whistle down insult the queen down somehow so she would’ve have to lay low, creating a barrier between colin and pen, and then having that in the background while benedict has his storyline
if feel like a lot of ppl r missing the point, he loses himself because he’s been on his travels for so long and hasn’t had any contact w pen. He tries to become someone he’s not, and conform to societies standards of what a man should act like, he also gets validation from his brothers (instead of pen) by acting more like them. But then Colin realises that when he is with pen he can act like his sweet self because she loves him the way he is. He doesn’t have to change. They sorta rushed it but you can see Colin becoming himself again and not this ‘playboy’ at the end of pt2.
I think my biggest problem this season was that they prioritized the drama over the romance in a romance show. I mean we all love for the drama, but if the mid-season cliffhanger had been Colin finding out about Whistledown then we could have dealt with his whiney boy era before the sexy times and maybe we could have actually enjoyed them instead of cringing through them thinking about what was coming up when he found out. He also could have gotten over himself faster. It just felt like a wasted season because they were only really happily married for like 5 minutes at the end.
@@StephanieStar-xq3io I mean sure but in the books he was so worried about her being protected by the queens wrath he still married her but in the show it seems like he only went through it because of “entrapment”. He was whiny for too long
@@StephanieStar-xq3ioif "rightfully whiny" was their mark, they hit it. He went from not caring about Whistledown for 2 seasons, then does? Convenient. What i wanted to see? That he knew the whole time, he put it together from her letters & hearing his sisters read the Sheets aloud, etc. He would be the only one who could recognize her writing, because he's the only one she's writing to. That would have been a very romantic twist, that he supported her completely and was chill about it. The relief we all would have felt? Cathartic. 🤷🏼♀️
Inexplicably making Colin the 8699th rake of the show even though it doesn’t fit his character, while simultaneously dropping hints that he’s pretending bc the writers know it doesn’t make sense either but he’s being a rake either way.
@@already8use but his character is way different from the show since season 1 so it doesn't make sense. Every time they try to explain that he's not being himself on purpose is such a poor excuse for poor terrible writing because it doesn't make sense. They ruined him.
I am so over the story of 'woman who does not fit modern beauty standards only gets over her body insecurities because of male validation'. In actual life, I have see no correlation between 'fitting conventional beauty standards' and 'not being insecure'. Confidence is a gift we gift ourselves, it is not sustainable if it's only created through external validation.
i kinda thought she saw beauty in herself without colin’s validation especially during that one scene beginning of ep 2 when she’s looking at herself in the mirror it just meant more from colin bc shes been pining for him for so long
I really need Eloise to get off her high horse. She’s so stuck up and holier than thou. We get it, you’re a MODERN WOMAN who DON’T NEED NO MAN but that doesn’t make those who seek romance less than you.
REALL ME TOO😭idk i sympathized with her so much after seeing her family dynamic 💔tbh i wanted her with lord Debling😖since he could've been used as her way to redefine herself to the Ton, ESP since he wasnt familiar with her being the resident mean girl😢
So Penelope being a spinster makes more sense in the books timeline. Because Netflix decided to do the storyline out of order, it kind of messes up a lot of things. In the book timeline, Penelope is 28 during this period. So whenever people think she's a spinster or she talks about how she's a spinster, it makes a lot more sense in the books. Netflix pushing up her timeline, yet keeping all the elements and comments of her being a spinster made it really confusing and laughable. It also makes more sense that it is difficult for her to part ways with her "Lady Whistledown" persona since she's been writing her for 10 years. It became a huge part of her identity.
@@erinandthe1580 not to get too doom and gloom, but julie andrews is 88 years old. at the rate that they're going, she is likely not going to be alive for long enough to provide the whistledown voiceovers forever 😢
I think Lady Danbury’s anger makes more sense when you consider it with the context we gained in Queen Charlotte. Agatha was groomed, from a very young age, to be her geriatric husband’s perfect wife. She had to love his favorite color, eat his favorite foods, be the type of woman he desired. Her individuality was stripped away to suit him. Then she was repeatedly raped over the course of their marriage and forced to bear his children. In QC, we see that Agatha LOATHED her husband. She would scrub her skin after being raped and feared getting pregnant again. That level of intense and pervasive trauma doesn’t go away easily. He might have been 10 but Agatha’s marriage benefitted his family, especially when her husband became part of the Ton/titled. Also, trauma doesn’t have an expiration date. This was their first time seeing each other since he ratted her out, it makes sense that her hurt would bubble back to the surface.
Being mad at a 10yr old child is not ok that women is 60yrs old that man been dead for about 40yrs it's time to move especially since she been fucking on violent daddy.. that's an excuse tbh
@@commentsforthealgorithm, probably one of the most heinous parts about it. She literally was groomed from toddlerdom to be an old man’s fuck doll. It’s horrific.
Also, Lady Danbury wasn't running TO the love of her life, she was running AWAY from her arranged marriage, to the half dead zombie she was married to in the Queen Charlotte series.
im a little confused, I haven't watched queen Charlotte, but I watched season 2 of Bridgeton a few weeks ago and there's a scene where Agatha is talking to Kate. Kate says she wants to live like her, an independent woman who doesn't desire a husband. but then Agatha says something along the lines that she didn't choose that life, she had a husband that she picked out of love but he died. and tells Kate not to give up on love or something. I may be remembering wrong tho
@@rutealmeida3331she didn't marry the love of her life.. she had an affair with him and I think he dies.. it's lady brdgertons father .. but she hated her hisband
@@rutealmeida3331her quote I’m pretty sure was “I have loved and lost,” she never said she married out of love. And the one she loved wasn’t her raggedy old husband in QC, it was…. Well, someone close to Violet LOL
@@rutealmeida3331 technically he's lord ledger since he's violet's dad and violet married into the bridgerton family/is not a bridgerton by blood but yes it was kind of crazy
Making this season about Colin and Penelope was such a massive mistake. Because the tension in regard to them, their love story and everything with Whistledown is over now. Everything expected with that storyline of everything I just mentioned was absolutely wasted. Colin’s undying love for Pen came out of absolutely nowhere. Pen’s character development is non existent. The whole reveal to everyone about Whistledown felt like it didn’t even matter. And everything about this season is so painfully rushed and all over the place. I know none of us watch Bridgerton for the good writing but Jesus Christ, at least the first two seasons didn’t feel like this one.
The entire build up was S1/S2. The only thing that is different from this season to prior is that it did have build up. All the allusions to past season show Colin had strong feelings for Penelope but he never realized she can be more than a friend. Colin is the one who seeks her out at the dances, Colin is the one who asks her to dance, Colin is the one who writes her letters and is happy she responds. It wasn't rushed at all...i'd argue waiting til Ep 4 for them to come together was still too slow in some ways.
@@funkycrawler619 Seasons 1 and 2 had very poor buildup when it came to these two. It was practically blink and you'll miss it since Colin has never mattered to this show until this season. So when it was time for the show to play catch up and make it their love story, it was too late and it didn't have the execution needed to make it work.
@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 What poor build up are you referring to if I may ask? Colin gave Cressida the cut direct episode 1 to dance with Penelope after she ruined the dress Pen just told him she loved, he made an active attempt to talk to Pen during the Marina calling hour (after her mom said talk to her other daughters), he actively talked to her even while courting Marina and Pen trying to stop him from being trapped, the whole Jack scandal with him saving her, he calls her Pen only...like there is a LOT there that indicates they have a strong friendship. If you're referring to more raunchyness, its pretty clear Colin does not like sex for sex sake without intimacy but he was far more romantic than any other lead with his actions and dialogue.
@@funkycrawler619 You said it, strong "Friendship" but we didn't get a good development of it turning into romantic love, it's not the same. Hell, just a season back in the finale we had him saying he would never court her and it was not one of those instances where she just didn't hear the whole convo, he was serious, so how did this change so drastically? We never actually saw him falling for her or at least executed well. And no it's not about raunchiness and Colin does not like sex for sex sake... season 1 & 2 Colin, cause who tf is this season's Colin? And sexual attraction is indeed an important part of a "friends to lovers" trope cause that's one of the things that changes when one of them never saw the other that way. Their story could've been executed so much better.
I agree entirely with her take on disliking Collin, I just don’t think there was ever a chance after Anthony and Kate…like they set the bar so high after season 2 when it came to charisma and chemistry
@@Peayou...please Daphne and Simon fans are not people who I take seriously. Boring, no chemistry and meh acting from both of them plus their awful romance and let’s not forget SA!!
I'm okay with Penelope's makeover in this case because this isn't a case of "nerdy girl needs to look like this and is made to by the patriarchy." They establish from season one that she doesn't like the way her mother dresses her and that she was uncomfortable in her old look. Even Portia says she thought Penelope's glow up was for her amusement.
Colin is not charismatic leading man, because colin's characteristic is not a charismatic character, He is sensitive and a lover, He is a middle child who did not get much respect from his family, only Pen takes him seriously.
*SPOILERS (kinda)* I’m pretty they said they won’t time jump because, QC dies in 1818 and doing a ten year time jump would kill off that character. I mean this is regency fantasy so I don’t know why they even care about that historical detail
@@erinandthe1580they’re gonna kill her off? 😭😭 but the show already goes against a lot of what happened historically, why would they set that boundary for themselves…
@@MarcyStevonshy there was an article saying they don’t want to do massive time jumps because of it, so it seems they are going to be accurate in THAT regard, like it really matters. I’m not well versed in British history so I wouldn’t even have known when she died until they brought it up. I really want these characters to not be teen aged anymore, so maybe it’s time 💀
I hated that they ruined John & Francesca's love. I don't care Michael's a woman, but they should have done a slow burn unrequited love from Michaela's POV NOT Francesca.
Yeah it's wrong to have her crushing on Michaela WHILE she *just* got married. They could've introduced Michaela without the blushing looks on Francesca's part.
I don't understand why the showrunner didn't understand what you said, and what a lot of people perceived. That scene didn't just magically happen or appear. The showrunner directed the editor to put Francesca's reaction in the playlist. The showrunner is not stupid. So what was the showrunner trying to accomplish? The showrunner read the book "When He Was Wicked." The showrunner admitted that she knew that story was a fan favorite. So again why did the showrunner set up that introduction the she did? You clearly understand the John and Francesca's relationship was "ruined." I'm sure the showrunners understood that. So why did she allow it to happen?
I would like to preface this by saying I haven’t read the books so please take everything I say with a grain of salt. Watching the season and John and Francesca’s relationship play out it kind of makes sense to me that she would have a bit of a crush John’s sister. Throughout the season it never seemed to me that Francesca had any real interest in any of the men that pursued her, while John was different, there still seemed to be something that wasn’t completely right for Francesca. Yes that something could have just been nerves, but the way that they were focusing so much on those ‘nerves’ made it seem like much more. In the context of the show this sort of crush or admiration she seems to have makes sense to me, but again I have not read the original source material and I am also looking at this from the lenses of a queer girl so please grain of salt.
The writing for Colin was also very ass. He felt like a prop in his own season and we know so much about Penelope. Why is it so unbalanced and he's the Bridgerton?!
@@uniquenewyork3325 the reason why it was so unbearable was because the writing was so bad and didn't even make sense for him. Every time they try to explain that his "glow up" and sleeping around us suppose to make us feel weird and uncomfortable because he's not being himself is SO bad of an excuse to me for such terrible writing choices. There's literally no explanation on why he decided to change on a whim like that. He could've done that in season 2 since it was right after his Marina scandal, but he didn't which makes me feel, due to the bad writing, that he likes Marina more than Penelope. Nothing makes sense for him. I need justice for his writing. Where is my awkward, dad joke making, foodie sweet boy? That would've been so refreshing to see. And why didn't we get that side of him after him and Penelope finally decided to make it official? He's a prop in his own season because they gave us no seasoning.
I was SO ANNOYED by the queen interrupting the wedding just to poke someone who writes gossip without one single proof about their identity...like, OMG, get a life lol. I liked Lord Debling over Colin as a pair for Penelope because their "friends to lovers" trope wasn't good developed and really lacked the begging and love affirmations from him towards her - ALSO, that hole conversation with Cressida about writing and privilege should had been with Pen, for God's sake!!! Pen's speech at the ball, saying that she was fascinated about the life of those people was also so lame...When her sister released the "bugs" no one gave a damn anymore about all the mean things and exposure Pen did on that paper...
Your Colin opinions are so true and so brave. And no shade to the actor, because it wouldn't be as bad for him if the writers didn't try to force him to be the debonair "rake" trope (again, we already got that with every other male lead anyway), they should have just let him be the dweeb we know him to be. That could have been cute and different. Also, I think Penelope changed her look because she was wearing the clothes her mom told her to, not what she wanted to wear. Anyway, love the vid!
There is explicit dialogue stating he isn't a raking and trying to be one for the sake of conforming to society...if you hated him as a rake then you should cause that is what is explictly stated...he isn't a rake and he is the only man to get down on his knees to profess his love so...
Back in regency era they didn’t consider 19 yo girls to be spinsters!! Please don’t believe that bridgerton is an accurate portrayal of the period that they’re trying to represent. Women would be called spinsters once they turned 30 and had no husband and would often debute at the age of 18-20. Society back then was awful to women but not THAT bad
Yes, but I think the way they worked around that was implying they'd also be labeled a spinster if they hadn't found a husband by their 3rd season out. That may just be a show thing.
It's because the show is doing things out of order, without changing the dialogue. Pen is almost 30 by the time this plot point happens in the books, so it makes more sense
I agree, they had me rooting for their slow burn just to immediately undo everything by hinting at the cousin and Francesca falling in love some day. I loved how Francesca wanted to go slow unlike her siblings. I loved their match and the chemistry they had. And I think it's way more compelling if they have a great marriage and the cousin pines for her from afar, until they can some day end up. I don't want a spicy story about cheating on a sweet man who did nothing wrong.
@@steffimeier3238 I really enjoyed it as well! They both seemed like they were "representation" as well, for autistic and or asexual people. Showing that love doesn't have to be "sexual" for some people (Asexual =\= aromantic)
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I actually hate the way this season LOOKS. After the disaster that was season three, I wanted to go back and watch the previous seasons to see just what exactly rubbed me the wrong way (besides the bad writing and even worse pacing), and I found it. It’s the way the whole thing looks, lighting, makeup and costuming mainly. In s1 and 2, the lighting was so gorgeous and it fit the context of the characters and scene. S1 is very blue tinted, the night tends to be more of a cool shade to fit Daphne’s colour palette, and s2 is very pink tinted, as the sharmas generally wear warmer shades. It just gave an air of true personality to everything. In s3, the lighting is….normal? Dull? I think it might be something to do with the type of camera they used (probably digital). Idk it just took away some of that bridgerton spark for me. And then there’s the issue of Colin and Penelope’s makeup. Oh boy. When Penelope walked into the ball with a literal bold glamour filter on, I was like..what? I get it’s not supposed to be historically accurate, but it threw me off so bad. I wasn’t thinking about pen’s big moment, I was thinking about why the hell she was suddenly wearing eyelash extensions. I know she’s supposed to look more mature, but Kate in s2 achieved that just fine with minimal makeup. And Colin looks like he just had Botox, which is not something I want in my period piece romance show. And those costumes…. I’m sorry but yikes. For a show that is marketed as a regency/fantasy romance show, there was BARELY any regency in those costumes. The fabrics were far too modern and I know that bridgerton is no stranger to modern fabrics but literally every character was suddenly wearing three different ones at once and it gave me the ickkkkk. Like it’s not regency anymore besides a very loose interpretation of the empire waistline, and it, again, took away from the general experience, the LAST thing a showrunner wants a viewer to think. In s1 and 2, bridgerton’s costuming was the perfect mix of period accurate and modern. Modern enough to stand out, period accurate enough for it to still be a period drama. S3’s costuming was simply a mess.
They murdered Colin "MY WIFE" Bridgerton 😣 Penelope totally deserved better! You'd think after 2+ seasons of her pining over him we'd see him earn her... We barely got 2 episodes of him completely besotted with her and then he's so blinded by anger/jealousy/hurt he doesn't even think of how his actions/words come across. Then they try to wrap it up with a beautiful love confession where he's lucky he gets to stand by her side. Like when has he stood by her side?! Philipa is the one that breaks the tension when the ton is staring at her. He could have shown his support but no he just stands there. Plus he says that AFTER the Queen/ ton have kind of accepted Pen. It would have hit so much stronger if he'd have said it before no matter what society's reaction would be... Whoever thought this season was beyond mediocrity needs to rethink things
I didnt like the spinster thing. Book pen was 28 which back then is around spinsterage but netflix push this story but didnt change this fact. So now 19yo are spinsters lol
I think Pen is supposed to be 21 in season 3. Or at least around that age. Definitely not 19. She came out at the same time Daphne did, which was in season 1, and coming out usually happens at 18. And in this case, I believe, that the spinster label was more due to her being out for 3 seasons and not having any prospects, than her being 21. But of course, book Pen was 28, which indeed is spinster age.
I don’t think she’s an actual spinster though, right? She calls herself that in the first episode, but even Colin pushes back like “girl no you aren’t”. The reason she’s looked down on isn’t cuz she’s a spinster but because she’s had no marriage prospects for 3 years of being out in society, and Cressida looked down on similarly because it’s also been 3 years and every man she pursued stopped pursuing her for one reason or another
Honestly, Cressida deserves better. The show did her dirty, and honestly, I like a reverse Odysseus, so I'm team Pen and Colin. Plus, I forgot about season 2. The biggest villain this season was Eloise where is her character development.
@@sao-me1lt that wasn't a redemption arc. Cressida still continued to be mean in this season. that's why the writing is so messed up. If that was supposed to be a redemption arc, then what the hell was that? It was awful. I just take it as a villain (cressida) getting what she deserves.
I genuinely felt bad for Cressida despite her being a total B*tch. I feel she acts that way considering she was never shown love in her household the same way Bridgertons were. And the fact that she had no genuine friends. Even Eloise just befriended her to make Pen jealous. Everyone kinda just uses her. She did what she had to do to run away and get out, doing horrendous things along the way. Her speech about how not everyone is lucky enough to be born into a family that loves them really made me sympathize with her alot.
Yeah I was really hoping that Cressida and Eloise would be friends at the very least. Eloise doesn't really grow as much in this season. She's still very much a Privileged and entitled rich woman while Cressida came from the same lvl of class, but had to struggle in order to get married. Eloise would learn that not all of the women in the Ton would have the same opportunities like she did: A strong support network, a rich and wealthy background like she does. Eloise could have grown into a better person and helped Cressida with getting a husband due to her connections. I can sympathize with Cressida and I feel so bad for her at the end of the season. She was screwed over so many times. She was a product of the times and shackled into a role which she wanted to get out of through a better marriage. If the roles were reversed and we saw things from Cressida's POV (Her abusive father and dismissive, critical mother) I can see the audience wanting to side with a woman who tried to better herself and getting a better match within her own class. Just sucks all around. We could have had a very complicated story between women who were born into very different backgrounds and how they could have changed each other for the better. But alas we have this.... so.... :(
When you mentioned how "Shonda Rhimes loves an interracial couple, but damn!" I cracked up because it is so true! When I first watched season 3 to the end, and they showed Colin & Penelope's son, the FIRST thing I said was, *"Wow. That is Violet Bridgerton's first white grandbaby."* (think about it: Simon & Daphne have two Black kids, and even though you don't see them, it's been a year which means Kate & Anthony have had their Indian kids. 😁)
ugh from the minute he appeared on camera Colin was just not doing it for me!! I found him so much more attractive in s2, they really didn’t need to yassify him and cosplay him as a pirate to try and make him more appealing. He looked so wholesome, sweet and sensitive before, and while I get that he was apparently just doing the whole rake thing for show, it wasn’t made clear why he felt the need to change himself so much. Especially after travelling and going away so often in previous seasons, and claiming to ‘find himself’ each time he returned. ugh idk. His bouffant hair and high collared cloaks were highkey giving me creepy vampire vibes. There was also something going on with his eyes that put me off…they just never seemed tender or to express enough. He showed more tenderness of expression when he had a storyline with Marina, not sure why he struggled with that with Pen. But perhaps that’s on the actors own abilities. For me, Penelope really carried their interactions, and their entire relationship if i’m honest. She had more chemistry with that naturalist Lord D, and I’m not ashamed to say I was even rooting for them! He was the first man to actually see and appreciate Pen without having to be taught or enlightened to her. Colin was just…there. They made him a shell of a character this season and it’s such a shame considering the potential Colin had. Not one flashback scene of his and Pen’s early friendship, or of his travels abroad, or the letters he and Pen exchanged…If anything this season was more about the unravelling of the Whistledown secret than about the love story between Polin. And that’s where they messed up, by making Polin’s long awaited love story a subplot to the main plot of Whistledown’s unveiling. *sigh* Season 3 was badly written, ill-thought out, and just truly unsatisfying. I will say though, they had a mountain to climb trying follow Kanthony. Season 2 completely set the bar for Brigerton, it was the shows high water mark without question. Sadly, Kanthony’s scenes in Season 3 were the only thing motivating me to keep going.
What pisses me off is that in season 1-2 colin was so gentle with miss marina and did not wanna taint her honour when she herself tried to kiss him but he just makes out with Penelope in a carriage? That set me off not to mention he was very harsh when he was angry with Penelope but I don't recall him being that harsh with miss marina when they meet in Daphne's house?
Season 3 was a flop for me and I can’t believe we have to wait another 2 years for 8 more episodes. They need to have another Spinoff. Preferably for Violet and Edmund and Kate and Anthony (since they like to hide all their milestones offscreen) 🙄
You need to watch Queen Charlotte:A Bridgerton story. It has background information about Lady Danbury. She was forced to marry an old super gross man and had four kids with him. You can see the friendship between the Queen and Lady Danbury since their youth.
19 yo woman wasn't actually considered spinster at that time. Spinster was a woman in her late 20s. In the books Penelope is 29 not 19. That's why she's called a spinster.
oh ive BEEN NEEDING a video like this. Ppl thirsting for that mid yt man like he was the last man alive were making me feel crazy. I know I can always rely on other black girls to speak the truth though, always the best side of commentary ytb
My only issue with the queen’s swan wig is that they use LED rgb lights which really took me out. I can believe there is some mechanical aspects since roughly around then we had music boxes but don’t be using streamer lights 😂
I LOVE you being excited about micheala! Everybody’s been so negative and extremely hateful about it, so seeing you being just as excited as me about is is so refreshing!
She probably didn’t read the books (totally assuming) the reasoning behind the hate is not necessarily because Francesca is bisexual but because making Michael a woman changes her entire story
Personally I really connected with her love story becuase it wasn't grand and she was able to be awkward and sweet not this big thing. So when she stumbled over herself it devalued her love story with the man she just married
Honestly. This season was boring to me & drew too much attention away from the main couple. And I hate Colin’s reason to love Penelope. I’m not convinced he loves her for herself, but more so how she makes him feel & validates his ego. I’m more invested in Francesca’s story. It’s upsetting that a main character with a bigger body has the worst season too. I’m not a season 1 truther, and obviously season 2 will most likely never be topped because it was dripping with chemistry & everyone being developed in a stronger sense, but this season just fell flatter than flat for me. And that made me sad. I wanted more for Pen.
It's interesting that you saw parallels with Cinderella and the Pollen storyline because in the books, Benedicts' story is a Cinderella retelling basically.
The reason why it was so unbearable was because the writing was so bad and didn't even make sense for Colin. Every time they tried to explain that his "glow up" and sleeping around is suppose to make us feel weird and uncomfortable because he's not being himself is just a poor excuse to me for such terrible writing choices. There's literally no explanation on why he decided to change on a whim like that. He could've done that in season 2 since it was right after his Marina scandal, but he didn't and he still visited her being himself which makes me feel, due to the bad writing in his own season, that he likes Marina more than he does Penelope. Nothing makes sense for him. I need justice for his writing. Where is my awkward, dad joke making, foodie sweet boy? That would've been so refreshing to see. And why didn't we get that side of him after him and Penelope finally decided to make it official? Wasn't that the point? That he stops being a rake and back to himself? He's a prop in his own season because they gave him no seasoning. Look how they massacred my boy.
ahh appreciate your well-balanced takes!! your vibes remind me a bit of Kennie JD and her bad movies in a beat series, your makeup is deadly!! i feel as though the story for this season is the first draft for me. [this opinion comes from reading and writing too many fanfics so pls take a grain of salt] what's a common but unspoken hurdle in writing is that you can't just apply all of your ideas into one story with an even shorter run time, because like you said!! there are EIGHT children we have to experience. so i noticed the ideas each bridgerton was given but it's the execution is where it's awkward. And so when a season rolls around i like to view it as an 'all-you-can=eat buffet' where i choose which story line to follow and skip the rest because of the 'meh execution' we’ve come to expect. i dont know if youre aware of this movie, but Emma [2020] was what i expected from Pen and Colin because of the similiar traits they both have. Emma and Mr Knightley are the classic friends to lovers trope [jane austen you will ALWAYS be famous] and!!! not only it established their dynamic by showing the casual intimacy [that pen and colin did NAWT have] but we the audience were able to empathise and root for them to be together. I found myself confused at best with this season because I’m not confident of their casual intimacy. like yeah they’re friends…… but where’s the sauce??
Honestly I wish they had really pressed their addiction to each other. When she goes out to print another whistle down and he sees her, they fight, and they make out. I wish we got more of that yearning. Even though he is pissed and she doesn’t want to give up her dreams, they are just so in love and lustful for each other they can’t keep their hands off. Just feels stupid to have that steamy make out sesh if they weren’t goinn to go down that route. Immediately after that he returns to not wanting to be around her 🙄
i've watched multiple reactions/explanations about the Bridgerton show and book series, and you've got my favorite energy. the way you are HERE for these girls is unmatched, and your mannerisms and hand-talking just make me go "yeah... yeah! YEAH!!" and it helps make you a delight to watch and listen to. also, if you like penelope from the show, you would LOVE book penelope. she's like 28 and a spinster and has a glow up to show the world that she's deserving of love and respect and, basically, because she frickin can.
Hot take Penelope should have been the ending sesone and should of shown that she's lady whistledown halfway throw the sesones. I know this show is on a book, but they are already off-book with half of Anthony’s love story. Pen is such a strong character and the poster child of the series since she's lady whistledown. I sorta felt let down since they tried to follow the book more but they cut half of Colin growth to put it all off screen. 🗿 why…and Colin was a terrible guy in the books too bc he is constantly jealous of pen’s writing achievements.
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I've no idea why they thought changing Colin into a lady-killer rake was the best move. We already have those everywhere in this show. In the previous seasons, Colin was a wonderful character - he was sweet, naive and gentle, completely different from Anthony, and you could see why Penelope loved him. Now he's an arrogant bad boy, who pursues and abandons women with no care for their virtue or affection? Why? I could see it if the show made it clear he was uncomfortable as a rake, and putting on a charade at being what his brother is, but he seems completely in his element acting this way?
No cause I swear Francesca had feelings for Penelope because there were a few instances I can recall where they showed Francesca looking at Penelope with Colin and making a face portraying sadness like she was looking at her crush being with someone else. I thought I was going crazy and I was GAGGED at the end when it was revealed she is actually interested in women!
Fran's looking wasn't admiration for pen ffs, she likes women just not her. She was upset cause violet was so thrilled and accepting of pen and not as much with John. She calls her out for that later that episode too. Her look was more like, "Why can't you be this happy for me too, mom?"
WELL YES! and i completely agree with u abt the sentiments on colin.. HES NOT DOIN IT FOR ME! and i can never get over the comments he made in s2 either 😒
GOD FORBID A WOMAN HAVE A HOBBY! pen is my girl idc i support women’s wrongs. this seasons writing is so messy why does colin suddenly now gaf 🙄 u can never make me hate penelope idc. her one outlet after being outcasted by society!
@@cass422 talking shit about others is a good hobby? Really? She could’ve used her writing talents to write book or something. Not some dumb gossip Column
@@AshleyAlvarez-rq9ue be for real women couldn’t properly publish books or they weren’t taken seriously back in that time period. publishing an anonymous gossip column was unfortunately one of the only ways for her work to be known! y’all hate on lady whistle down but if it weren’t for her the series would not be nearly half as interesting
i recently watched your awkward and atm video and gosh i just love your voice. it works so well for the content you make and you’re gorgeous btw! and i know this video is going to be amazingg
Umm Lady Danbury wasn’t to run away with the love of her life.. and she wasn’t alone since as you said…. she was supposed to run away the night she was to be married to an old man she didn’t want to marry. Her brother told their father she was going to run. Did you not watch Queen Charlotte?
I kinda blame the shift in power behind the scenes because after two great seasons. Then this sudden shift to someone who wants to change absolutely everything. It gave a little whiplash. (Idc if you call me a hater. It’s how I feel.) It was too ambitious for what was going on. Each season focused on one character being the A plot and lady Whistledown being the B plot. Then they DID have the time crunch with only the 8 episodes. So maybe they should’ve just focused on like one big A plot and small B plot for the season. Then at the VERY end. Focus more on the B plot and the start of the C plot with Cressida. Cut out everything else that doesn’t have to do with the Bridgerton family.
I love Penelope so much. She is my favourite character and I was so let down by season 3. I was so looking forward to it. Colin needed more. He needed to be more interesting and sweet. I’m a nerd (gonna own it) and I adore fandom Colin from fanfics and so on. The fandom writes him ten times better! They make him funny, sweet and interesting! Like I so badly wish Colin was written like that in canon…and I wish Penelope had rejected the proposal and we got the fandom version of Colin grovelling to his brothers about Penelope not wanting him anymore! Also I wanted Colin to know about Penelope being Mrs Whistledown before he proposed and to be frank, when he asked her if she was going to marry him or not, I thought she was going to just say ‘I’m lady whistledown’ ALSO the comment about Penelope entrapping him! And Penelope didn’t react! Like gal! Please!!
Fyi the reason why "Simon" didn't show up in season 2 was because he turned down the role for a movie career. They wanted Daphne and Simon to be in season 2. We did see Daphne a little bit but without Simon it was odd. So seeing Anthony & Kate is not surprising at all. Especially since everyone is literally living in his house. It's not like Daphne, whom was physically living elsewhere.
ia. the modernizations/fantastical elements of this show kinda take me out of the setting in a not good way but the reworking pop songs was genius. love figuring out the song too lmao
i will watch every video about bridgerton s3 and when i saw yours was over an hour long, i clicked it so fast. time to watch your entire backlist of videos!
I watched the whole season, I didn't even really like it, but girl I watched this video from beginning to end, you are so entertaining and charming And SO gorgeous, I'd die for you to be any Bridjerton season main character, you’d be incredibly beautiful in the show’s aesthetic
I’m so glad you loved that michalea and francesca moment as much as me. some of the book purists in the fandom are being really gross and hateful (homophobic) about it but I can NOT wait for their season.
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I think Pen "thinks" she is the laughing stock of the Ton more than she truly is... it's a nod to her insecurity after being out in society a year early, entering her 3rd year, and never being asked to dance once except from Colin, only to be alone in a room with him (exposing cousin Jack) but she is thinking "whoah is this how babies are made?!" To moments later losing El and being "found out" about LW -- a huge threat, only to hear Colin break her heart and embarrass her saying he would never court her. The lack of attention to her for two seasons, plus the eligible men's laughter and her family belittling her for her entire life all fueled her beliefs. When men did talk to her, she struggled and that also led to real evidence of rejection. It's like picking up a top thinking you might like it and putting it on the rack quickly because you realize it's wrong.
I was looking at my mother in laws marriage certificate the other day. She was married at 25 and it stated on the dam thing she’s a spinster while her husband was put down as a bachelor 😅. Crazy times
Very unpopular opinion: I would've LOVED for Penelope to choose Lord Deplin & that they didn't let her go trough this whole "Glow-up". Penelope is an extremly interessting and layerd Character. She was allways pretty & at the same time allways very flawed, her writings as Whistledown shown over an over again that the constant shunning off the Society got to her. And that on a point where she grew so angry that she destroit EVERYONE puplicly just bcs she wasn't treathed right. That's why I HATE the Polin trope. Penelope HAD to become "PRETTY" to be worth off Colins love. Wich further knocks home the message: if you are big & just the way you are you are not worth to be loved. No, no you need to become better first and apeal to the male gaze. In this case penelope starting to wear Bridgerton blue. Its would've been such a better story if she didn't change, she and Lord Deblin fell in love & THEN Penelope could've gone trough some styling changes to show her blooming in love. And then havind Colin seen how blind he was, but penelope having someone now who loves and apreciate her the way she is. I hate how she begged for the Kiss, for him. It's the: the big fat ugly girl that no one wants, begs for the Boy to finally see her, but she needs to become pretty first!" Trope. Its pathetic, it's humiliating. The only thing that was missing is that the show have her loose weight to. 🙄 I get that they look cute togheter & that they wanted to have the "big women get price charming" but my god they did it in such an unworthy & pathetic way. It's a shame
I honestly never liked the Polin coupling, I honestly do think that Lord Debbling was better for her, he at least always respected her whereas Colin clearly cared for her but has certainly not always respected her. I agree with others that are saying the flip from "I would never court Penelope Featherington" to being madly in love with her was too quick, I maybe could've rooted for it if the arc had taken its time. I also think that Franchesca and Debbling would've been a good practical match, she would've had literally all the time in the world to focus on her music but I'm also happy with the direction they took it. I would like to see Debbling again in the future honestly and I predict if we do, he will probably end up with Cressida as a practical match which I think will be an interesting and funny dynamic.
Tbf in this version of the story a 19yr old Pen wouldn’t be considered a “spinster”. In the books, this occurs after a timeskip and Pen is like 28 so by then she’d be considered a “spinster”.
I really just feel bad for Cressida lol. I know she’s supposed to be a bitch but like…I kinda get it. She’s got a horrifically abusive dad and a mom who’s been through years of physical abuse (and probably other kinds that we’re not aware of). Cressida was going to be married off to a man who’s like four times her age, she was clearly desperate and when an opportunity arose in the form of the idea that Lady Whistledown wouldn’t have any marriage prospects, she jumped at the chance to make sure she wouldn’t have to marry someone that she didn’t want to. And she didn’t really have anyone to talk to about this, because even though Eloise became her friend, Eloise didn’t care about Cressida and it seems like she just wanted to make Penelope jealous. Cressida is completely on her own emotionally, and while she did a lot of shitty things, I want her to be happy. My biggest hope for season four is that Cressida is dealing with her issues and has at least one genuine friend who cares about her and wants her to be happy.
Sigh. It had so much potential, but to me it failed the standards of the romance genre. Colin wasn't believable as a rake (and PS. we were told Anthony & Simon were rakes, but never had to SEE it) so why make him one? In previous seasons he was cutie 3rd brother who took courting seriously, and looked down on the rake lifestyles. It would have been a nice switch-up to see the man be a virgin too, make them equals and it would make it more meaningful as the "first time" both of them have been seen as their whole, true selves. I thought they would build on the erotic journalling and they would tease each other with love letters while they were engaged, nope, no emotional connection needed apparently! 😂 Premarital sex is also fine apparently, for **Colin Bridgerton**, established as a man who cares so much about honour! It's before marriage in the book too, but it feels different, as it's after the secrets are out and amidst all the conflict, it's part of an affirmation that he loves and supports her no matter what. We didn't get that cathartic happy ever after feeling at the end, not for me anyway. It was suffering for all of Part 2 😢 A good romance does need conflict and angst, but usually like 30% building a connection, 30% actually falling in love or a honeymoon phase, 30% big conflict that threatens to ruin everything, 10% happy ending. The balance was off, character development was really inconsistent, and it just didn't work! And I'm sad about it 😭
We did see Anthony and Simon as rakes...Anthony had a whole brothel montage in the first episode of S2 , he also had that affair with Sienna in S1 and in S1 you saw Simon at brothels as well...Colin had 1 short moment at a brothel and the second time he chose not to participate, but everyone is all hating on him for this? Even Benedict was having threesomes in S1...so why are we sex shaming Colin in particular? This was also the norm at the time, after schooling, the men were encouraged to go to brothels and "sew their wild oats." Anthony even told Colin that he should have brought him to more brothels. If this was a woman we would totally be like YEAH get some, but if a man does we are already hating on him. Colin wasn't dating anyone, he is allowed to have sexual experiences. I also don't think Colin was a rake...he was just exploring his sexuality. The point of showing us the brothel scenes, is that he was not emotionally connecting to these women...his journals also show how he is trying to understand why he is so emotionally distant .... Colin's whole arc is him trying to fit in and protect himself from heartache that happened in prior seasons...but failing to find happiness in this new fake persona, but when he drops his walls and allows himself to be that sensitive individual...especially with Pen, who has never judged him for that sensitivity and has even encouraged it...he finds that after that kiss the emotional connection he has been YEARNING for was right there in front of him all along and that he realizes he has always had feelings for Pen, he just didn't realize that that is what those feelings were - love. I don't understand how people aren't see this. It is either no one really paid attention to Colin in past seasons, or they choose to ignore what we know about him and see him as a totally different character. Also with so many people making fun of the actor because you don't find him attractive is disgusting...saying Colin gives them the ICK because he isn't as attractive as Anthony or Simon is gross. I understand people not liking Colin's fake charm...but that is the point...he is being fake in the first episode....but after he starts hanging out with Pen he is his normal sensitive and dorky self! Sorry for the rant, I just feel like so many people are overlooking Colin and aren't even paying attention...his story arc doesn't start in S3, it began in S1 and it is a really interesting arc actually. To me this is the best season, I think Colin and Pen are the most interesting and layered characters in the show. S3 was always going to feel different because we had that relationship lead up in 2 prior seasons, so the balance of the season was always going to be different. Plus the whole LW drama was integral to the Polin relationship. And that cathartic HEA feeling really hit me in the Butterfly Ball with Pen coming forward as LW, Colin seeing Pen for who she truly is and being accepting and proud of her, seeing their last intimate moment with Pen being fulling confident in herself and being on top with Colin looking sooooo into it.....then seeing that flash forward with them being sooo happily in love and new parents, really made me tear up! Also with people complaining the Polin didn't get as much screen time as Daphne/Simon or Kate/Anthony....each couple got around 20% of screentime. So those complaining that the show runner and the writers did Polin dirty...well they had the same amount of time as the prior couples...actually more since they had moments in S1 & S2.
Pen's excuses for writing about Colin were a bit gross. She was lashing out at him because she was angry, hurt and jealous, but as you said, that is the sort of conversation that should be kept between the two of them. The conversation they did have about it was great, but also soured by her initial response. She wants him the way she wants him, and didn't like that he changed, yet she's never once bothered to ask him why. Him believing that she lacks respect for him is completely understandable. I know she's a gossip, and a fundamental lack of consideration for other people's feelings and privacy is a given, but he was her friend for a long time. He always protected her, and saw her when nobody else did. What happened in 2x08 sucks, but one incident shouldn't negate all those years. Besides, Pen's intentional, pre-meditated, public attack on him was much worse than Colin's one-off, spur-of-the-moment comment to a limited number of people. All their conversations in S3 have been primarily focussed on her, largely because she let him believe he needed to earn back her friendship, when she'd already gotten her petty revenge. Her crush on him may have been one-sided in the first two seasons, but their friendship never was, until this season. Whether it's because the writers listened to all that toxic, entitled nonsense people kept saying about wanting to see Colin grovel, which is really gross, or for some other reason, that does not make for a healthy dynamic. I mean, she wanted him so badly for so long, but now that she has his love, she cares more about her ego? She'd really choose trashy gossip over the life she could have with him? Really?! Also, you were spot on about Eloise and Colin loyally keeping Pen's secrets, no matter how hurt and angry they were about them. Which is kind of ironic, since Penelope herself has little respect for anyone else's secrets.
Yes. I really wished she let go of LW for her love of Eloise and Colin. Is not fun to have a friend who's letting the world know your secrets. I love Pen, but LW should have ended. There are other ways she could have been a writer.
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The thing that gets me abt Colin is that they leaned into the wrong trope. Colin's charm comes from his boy-next-door, puppy dog eyes, curious and sunshine-y personality. Instead of giving us that they tried to make him this hunky sex symbol and it just didn't translate well which is a shame
Well at least we now have Mr. Finch.
Hunky sex symbol? I didnt see that
It was about colin to fit into society's expectations and pretending to be someone he isn't
@@StephanieStar-xq3io but nothing was done about it in the show, he changes and then what, nothing happens, there is no character development either, its just disappointing
They've made him a casanova so he can seduce Pen instead of cute two virging figuring our love scenario 😭
i wish that season three could’ve been for benedict so that in the side plots we could’ve seen way more development with penelope and colin instead of whatever tf that was… like wdym one second “i would never dream of courting her” to the next “i would die for her” MAKE UP YOUR MIND SIDEBURNS
Agree agree agree
They couldn't drag out lady w storyline line out longer tho. Truth is this story could have been accomplished with good writing
@@Peayou... maybe they could’ve made lady whistle down insult the queen down somehow so she would’ve have to lay low, creating a barrier between colin and pen, and then having that in the background while benedict has his storyline
EXACTLY
Yes, especially because Benedict’s story in season 3 was completely pointless 😩
Colin suddenly being a playboy like his brothers was a whole ick, I liked his character because he seemed different from them.
And they use him sleeping around as a sign of "maturity" why do men need to be having sex to act grown??? Be serious
EXACTLY.
if feel like a lot of ppl r missing the point, he loses himself because he’s been on his travels for so long and hasn’t had any contact w pen. He tries to become someone he’s not, and conform to societies standards of what a man should act like, he also gets validation from his brothers (instead of pen) by acting more like them.
But then Colin realises that when he is with pen he can act like his sweet self because she loves him the way he is. He doesn’t have to change. They sorta rushed it but you can see Colin becoming himself again and not this ‘playboy’ at the end of pt2.
No cus I was so confused by that. Especially the whole thing with his comment about pen I was so confused like… that’s not MY Colin
that was SO forced
I think my biggest problem this season was that they prioritized the drama over the romance in a romance show. I mean we all love for the drama, but if the mid-season cliffhanger had been Colin finding out about Whistledown then we could have dealt with his whiney boy era before the sexy times and maybe we could have actually enjoyed them instead of cringing through them thinking about what was coming up when he found out. He also could have gotten over himself faster. It just felt like a wasted season because they were only really happily married for like 5 minutes at the end.
“Whiney boy era before the sexy times” I fucking love this sentence
I mean Colin was rightfully upset @@SamFerro
@@StephanieStar-xq3io I mean sure but in the books he was so worried about her being protected by the queens wrath he still married her but in the show it seems like he only went through it because of “entrapment”. He was whiny for too long
Well said.
@@StephanieStar-xq3ioif "rightfully whiny" was their mark, they hit it. He went from not caring about Whistledown for 2 seasons, then does? Convenient.
What i wanted to see?
That he knew the whole time, he put it together from her letters & hearing his sisters read the Sheets aloud, etc. He would be the only one who could recognize her writing, because he's the only one she's writing to. That would have been a very romantic twist, that he supported her completely and was chill about it. The relief we all would have felt? Cathartic. 🤷🏼♀️
Inexplicably making Colin the 8699th rake of the show even though it doesn’t fit his character, while simultaneously dropping hints that he’s pretending bc the writers know it doesn’t make sense either but he’s being a rake either way.
He was in the books ..
@@already8use terrible books. The show is at its best when it ignores them.
@@already8use but his character is way different from the show since season 1 so it doesn't make sense. Every time they try to explain that he's not being himself on purpose is such a poor excuse for poor terrible writing because it doesn't make sense. They ruined him.
I am so over the story of 'woman who does not fit modern beauty standards only gets over her body insecurities because of male validation'. In actual life, I have see no correlation between 'fitting conventional beauty standards' and 'not being insecure'. Confidence is a gift we gift ourselves, it is not sustainable if it's only created through external validation.
You and I def have a similar algorithm, I’ve been seeing you everywhere. Hi! You have good taste in videos.
@@pink3rbellx Awww thanks so much. Yes, I definitely think we are on the good side of the algo! 🙂
i kinda thought she saw beauty in herself without colin’s validation especially during that one scene beginning of ep 2 when she’s looking at herself in the mirror it just meant more from colin bc shes been pining for him for so long
Absolutely 💯 this
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I was rooting for Cressida's redemption arc ... they did her so dirty!! Eloise was not a good friend!!
I really need Eloise to get off her high horse. She’s so stuck up and holier than thou. We get it, you’re a MODERN WOMAN who DON’T NEED NO MAN but that doesn’t make those who seek romance less than you.
REALL ME TOO😭idk i sympathized with her so much after seeing her family dynamic 💔tbh i wanted her with lord Debling😖since he could've been used as her way to redefine herself to the Ton, ESP since he wasnt familiar with her being the resident mean girl😢
So Penelope being a spinster makes more sense in the books timeline. Because Netflix decided to do the storyline out of order, it kind of messes up a lot of things. In the book timeline, Penelope is 28 during this period. So whenever people think she's a spinster or she talks about how she's a spinster, it makes a lot more sense in the books. Netflix pushing up her timeline, yet keeping all the elements and comments of her being a spinster made it really confusing and laughable.
It also makes more sense that it is difficult for her to part ways with her "Lady Whistledown" persona since she's been writing her for 10 years. It became a huge part of her identity.
yea this was so fast to get rid of Lady Whistledown like… it had some more potential, Julie Andrews not Penelope imo
@@erinandthe1580what is the normal timeline ?
@@erinandthe1580 not to get too doom and gloom, but julie andrews is 88 years old. at the rate that they're going, she is likely not going to be alive for long enough to provide the whistledown voiceovers forever 😢
@@fancybyfollyomg this is how I find out Julie andrews is 88😢
I think Lady Danbury’s anger makes more sense when you consider it with the context we gained in Queen Charlotte.
Agatha was groomed, from a very young age, to be her geriatric husband’s perfect wife. She had to love his favorite color, eat his favorite foods, be the type of woman he desired. Her individuality was stripped away to suit him. Then she was repeatedly raped over the course of their marriage and forced to bear his children. In QC, we see that Agatha LOATHED her husband. She would scrub her skin after being raped and feared getting pregnant again. That level of intense and pervasive trauma doesn’t go away easily. He might have been 10 but Agatha’s marriage benefitted his family, especially when her husband became part of the Ton/titled. Also, trauma doesn’t have an expiration date. This was their first time seeing each other since he ratted her out, it makes sense that her hurt would bubble back to the surface.
Being mad at a 10yr old child is not ok that women is 60yrs old that man been dead for about 40yrs it's time to move especially since she been fucking on violent daddy.. that's an excuse tbh
Promised to him at 3 years old 🤮
@@commentsforthealgorithm, probably one of the most heinous parts about it. She literally was groomed from toddlerdom to be an old man’s fuck doll. It’s horrific.
THANK YOU !!!!!!!
so eloquent and beautifully said! people totally forget about and push to the side others trauma
Woman, the blush is BLUSHING today in your look. Summer is definitely here!
Also, Lady Danbury wasn't running TO the love of her life, she was running AWAY from her arranged marriage, to the half dead zombie she was married to in the Queen Charlotte series.
im a little confused, I haven't watched queen Charlotte, but I watched season 2 of Bridgeton a few weeks ago and there's a scene where Agatha is talking to Kate. Kate says she wants to live like her, an independent woman who doesn't desire a husband. but then Agatha says something along the lines that she didn't choose that life, she had a husband that she picked out of love but he died. and tells Kate not to give up on love or something. I may be remembering wrong tho
@@rutealmeida3331she didn't marry the love of her life.. she had an affair with him and I think he dies.. it's lady brdgertons father .. but she hated her hisband
@@h33-q8w hold on Agatha liked lord bridgerton? Ooooooh
@@rutealmeida3331her quote I’m pretty sure was “I have loved and lost,” she never said she married out of love. And the one she loved wasn’t her raggedy old husband in QC, it was…. Well, someone close to Violet LOL
@@rutealmeida3331 technically he's lord ledger since he's violet's dad and violet married into the bridgerton family/is not a bridgerton by blood but yes it was kind of crazy
Making this season about Colin and Penelope was such a massive mistake. Because the tension in regard to them, their love story and everything with Whistledown is over now. Everything expected with that storyline of everything I just mentioned was absolutely wasted. Colin’s undying love for Pen came out of absolutely nowhere. Pen’s character development is non existent. The whole reveal to everyone about Whistledown felt like it didn’t even matter. And everything about this season is so painfully rushed and all over the place.
I know none of us watch Bridgerton for the good writing but Jesus Christ, at least the first two seasons didn’t feel like this one.
The entire build up was S1/S2. The only thing that is different from this season to prior is that it did have build up. All the allusions to past season show Colin had strong feelings for Penelope but he never realized she can be more than a friend. Colin is the one who seeks her out at the dances, Colin is the one who asks her to dance, Colin is the one who writes her letters and is happy she responds. It wasn't rushed at all...i'd argue waiting til Ep 4 for them to come together was still too slow in some ways.
@@funkycrawler619 Seasons 1 and 2 had very poor buildup when it came to these two. It was practically blink and you'll miss it since Colin has never mattered to this show until this season. So when it was time for the show to play catch up and make it their love story, it was too late and it didn't have the execution needed to make it work.
@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 What poor build up are you referring to if I may ask? Colin gave Cressida the cut direct episode 1 to dance with Penelope after she ruined the dress Pen just told him she loved, he made an active attempt to talk to Pen during the Marina calling hour (after her mom said talk to her other daughters), he actively talked to her even while courting Marina and Pen trying to stop him from being trapped, the whole Jack scandal with him saving her, he calls her Pen only...like there is a LOT there that indicates they have a strong friendship. If you're referring to more raunchyness, its pretty clear Colin does not like sex for sex sake without intimacy but he was far more romantic than any other lead with his actions and dialogue.
@@funkycrawler619 You said it, strong "Friendship" but we didn't get a good development of it turning into romantic love, it's not the same. Hell, just a season back in the finale we had him saying he would never court her and it was not one of those instances where she just didn't hear the whole convo, he was serious, so how did this change so drastically? We never actually saw him falling for her or at least executed well. And no it's not about raunchiness and Colin does not like sex for sex sake... season 1 & 2 Colin, cause who tf is this season's Colin? And sexual attraction is indeed an important part of a "friends to lovers" trope cause that's one of the things that changes when one of them never saw the other that way. Their story could've been executed so much better.
I agree entirely with her take on disliking Collin, I just don’t think there was ever a chance after Anthony and Kate…like they set the bar so high after season 2 when it came to charisma and chemistry
i think George was a good follow up collin is just unlikable on his own 😭💀 (not that kate and anthony didn’t set the bar high cause they def did)
Remember people thought that about Daphne and Simone. They could have easily appealed to 'friends to lovers' trope enjoyers w better writing
@@strawhatsmanagerColin is not unlikable at all. He is the least toxic male lead we’ve gotten so far. Y’all are so harsh on him for no damn reason.
@@Peayou...please Daphne and Simon fans are not people who I take seriously. Boring, no chemistry and meh acting from both of them plus their awful romance and let’s not forget SA!!
@@AshleyAlvarez-rq9uefr! 😫
I'm okay with Penelope's makeover in this case because this isn't a case of "nerdy girl needs to look like this and is made to by the patriarchy." They establish from season one that she doesn't like the way her mother dresses her and that she was uncomfortable in her old look. Even Portia says she thought Penelope's glow up was for her amusement.
very true!
Colin is not charismatic leading man, because colin's characteristic is not a charismatic character, He is sensitive and a lover, He is a middle child who did not get much respect from his family, only Pen takes him seriously.
This!!!!!
Thank you. The Colin they gave Pen ticked me off 😅
In the book Penelope was 28 when she married and by that time was considered a spinster. I wish they would’ve done time jumps in the show
*SPOILERS (kinda)*
I’m pretty they said they won’t time jump because, QC dies in 1818 and doing a ten year time jump would kill off that character. I mean this is regency fantasy so I don’t know why they even care about that historical detail
I'm a spinster now then 😂
@@erinandthe1580they’re gonna kill her off? 😭😭 but the show already goes against a lot of what happened historically, why would they set that boundary for themselves…
@@MarcyStevonshy there was an article saying they don’t want to do massive time jumps because of it, so it seems they are going to be accurate in THAT regard, like it really matters. I’m not well versed in British history so I wouldn’t even have known when she died until they brought it up. I really want these characters to not be teen aged anymore, so maybe it’s time 💀
I hated that they ruined John & Francesca's love. I don't care Michael's a woman, but they should have done a slow burn unrequited love from Michaela's POV NOT Francesca.
THAT’S WHAT I’M SAYINGGGG 😭
Yes! Good point
Yeah it's wrong to have her crushing on Michaela WHILE she *just* got married. They could've introduced Michaela without the blushing looks on Francesca's part.
I don't understand why the showrunner didn't understand what you said, and what a lot of people perceived. That scene didn't just magically happen or appear. The showrunner directed the editor to put Francesca's reaction in the playlist. The showrunner is not stupid. So what was the showrunner trying to accomplish? The showrunner read the book "When He Was Wicked." The showrunner admitted that she knew that story was a fan favorite. So again why did the showrunner set up that introduction the she did? You clearly understand the John and Francesca's relationship was "ruined." I'm sure the showrunners understood that. So why did she allow it to happen?
I would like to preface this by saying I haven’t read the books so please take everything I say with a grain of salt. Watching the season and John and Francesca’s relationship play out it kind of makes sense to me that she would have a bit of a crush John’s sister. Throughout the season it never seemed to me that Francesca had any real interest in any of the men that pursued her, while John was different, there still seemed to be something that wasn’t completely right for Francesca. Yes that something could have just been nerves, but the way that they were focusing so much on those ‘nerves’ made it seem like much more. In the context of the show this sort of crush or admiration she seems to have makes sense to me, but again I have not read the original source material and I am also looking at this from the lenses of a queer girl so please grain of salt.
The writing for Colin was also very ass. He felt like a prop in his own season and we know so much about Penelope. Why is it so unbalanced and he's the Bridgerton?!
Ngl I preferred it, but that's probably because his personality this season was UNBEARABLE. I didn't want them together frfr 😭
@@uniquenewyork3325 the reason why it was so unbearable was because the writing was so bad and didn't even make sense for him. Every time they try to explain that his "glow up" and sleeping around us suppose to make us feel weird and uncomfortable because he's not being himself is SO bad of an excuse to me for such terrible writing choices. There's literally no explanation on why he decided to change on a whim like that. He could've done that in season 2 since it was right after his Marina scandal, but he didn't which makes me feel, due to the bad writing, that he likes Marina more than Penelope. Nothing makes sense for him. I need justice for his writing. Where is my awkward, dad joke making, foodie sweet boy? That would've been so refreshing to see. And why didn't we get that side of him after him and Penelope finally decided to make it official? He's a prop in his own season because they gave us no seasoning.
I was SO ANNOYED by the queen interrupting the wedding just to poke someone who writes gossip without one single proof about their identity...like, OMG, get a life lol. I liked Lord Debling over Colin as a pair for Penelope because their "friends to lovers" trope wasn't good developed and really lacked the begging and love affirmations from him towards her - ALSO, that hole conversation with Cressida about writing and privilege should had been with Pen, for God's sake!!! Pen's speech at the ball, saying that she was fascinated about the life of those people was also so lame...When her sister released the "bugs" no one gave a damn anymore about all the mean things and exposure Pen did on that paper...
Your Colin opinions are so true and so brave. And no shade to the actor, because it wouldn't be as bad for him if the writers didn't try to force him to be the debonair "rake" trope (again, we already got that with every other male lead anyway), they should have just let him be the dweeb we know him to be. That could have been cute and different.
Also, I think Penelope changed her look because she was wearing the clothes her mom told her to, not what she wanted to wear. Anyway, love the vid!
They really messed up his character. Reading through comments, who does everyone love? Suave Colin? Nope. It's cheese loving Mr. Finch.
@@katiesmith2447and we see no depth in his character. colin did not work.
But Colin was never a rake, he tried to force himself to fit into society's expectations and Shonda wanted to fight toxic masculinty
There is explicit dialogue stating he isn't a raking and trying to be one for the sake of conforming to society...if you hated him as a rake then you should cause that is what is explictly stated...he isn't a rake and he is the only man to get down on his knees to profess his love so...
@@StephanieStar-xq3io rake is not just a mindset. He was sleeping around in his season, nobody asked him to do that he did that because he wanted to
Back in regency era they didn’t consider 19 yo girls to be spinsters!! Please don’t believe that bridgerton is an accurate portrayal of the period that they’re trying to represent. Women would be called spinsters once they turned 30 and had no husband and would often debute at the age of 18-20. Society back then was awful to women but not THAT bad
Yes, but I think the way they worked around that was implying they'd also be labeled a spinster if they hadn't found a husband by their 3rd season out. That may just be a show thing.
It's because the show is doing things out of order, without changing the dialogue. Pen is almost 30 by the time this plot point happens in the books, so it makes more sense
Girls debuted anywhere from 15 to 19, not 18-20
Lord Kilmartin had me shook, he was SO HANDSOME! It was an EXCELLENT match
I agree, they had me rooting for their slow burn just to immediately undo everything by hinting at the cousin and Francesca falling in love some day. I loved how Francesca wanted to go slow unlike her siblings. I loved their match and the chemistry they had. And I think it's way more compelling if they have a great marriage and the cousin pines for her from afar, until they can some day end up. I don't want a spicy story about cheating on a sweet man who did nothing wrong.
@@steffimeier3238have you read the books??????
Brightons got a fine taste in (chocolate) men 😭😭😭
@@steffimeier3238 I really enjoyed it as well! They both seemed like they were "representation" as well, for autistic and or asexual people.
Showing that love doesn't have to be "sexual" for some people (Asexual =\= aromantic)
@@absolutely_nottttwhy, is he a total douchbag in the books? 🫣
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I actually hate the way this season LOOKS. After the disaster that was season three, I wanted to go back and watch the previous seasons to see just what exactly rubbed me the wrong way (besides the bad writing and even worse pacing), and I found it. It’s the way the whole thing looks, lighting, makeup and costuming mainly. In s1 and 2, the lighting was so gorgeous and it fit the context of the characters and scene. S1 is very blue tinted, the night tends to be more of a cool shade to fit Daphne’s colour palette, and s2 is very pink tinted, as the sharmas generally wear warmer shades. It just gave an air of true personality to everything. In s3, the lighting is….normal? Dull? I think it might be something to do with the type of camera they used (probably digital). Idk it just took away some of that bridgerton spark for me. And then there’s the issue of Colin and Penelope’s makeup. Oh boy. When Penelope walked into the ball with a literal bold glamour filter on, I was like..what? I get it’s not supposed to be historically accurate, but it threw me off so bad. I wasn’t thinking about pen’s big moment, I was thinking about why the hell she was suddenly wearing eyelash extensions. I know she’s supposed to look more mature, but Kate in s2 achieved that just fine with minimal makeup. And Colin looks like he just had Botox, which is not something I want in my period piece romance show. And those costumes…. I’m sorry but yikes. For a show that is marketed as a regency/fantasy romance show, there was BARELY any regency in those costumes. The fabrics were far too modern and I know that bridgerton is no stranger to modern fabrics but literally every character was suddenly wearing three different ones at once and it gave me the ickkkkk. Like it’s not regency anymore besides a very loose interpretation of the empire waistline, and it, again, took away from the general experience, the LAST thing a showrunner wants a viewer to think. In s1 and 2, bridgerton’s costuming was the perfect mix of period accurate and modern. Modern enough to stand out, period accurate enough for it to still be a period drama. S3’s costuming was simply a mess.
They murdered Colin "MY WIFE" Bridgerton 😣 Penelope totally deserved better! You'd think after 2+ seasons of her pining over him we'd see him earn her... We barely got 2 episodes of him completely besotted with her and then he's so blinded by anger/jealousy/hurt he doesn't even think of how his actions/words come across. Then they try to wrap it up with a beautiful love confession where he's lucky he gets to stand by her side. Like when has he stood by her side?! Philipa is the one that breaks the tension when the ton is staring at her. He could have shown his support but no he just stands there. Plus he says that AFTER the Queen/ ton have kind of accepted Pen. It would have hit so much stronger if he'd have said it before no matter what society's reaction would be... Whoever thought this season was beyond mediocrity needs to rethink things
The Queen’s wigs were amazing this season. I’m not sure how Golda can actually wear them but she does it magnificently. 👑
I didnt like the spinster thing. Book pen was 28 which back then is around spinsterage but netflix push this story but didnt change this fact. So now 19yo are spinsters lol
Which is confusing because Daphne was like 22
I think Pen is supposed to be 21 in season 3. Or at least around that age. Definitely not 19. She came out at the same time Daphne did, which was in season 1, and coming out usually happens at 18.
And in this case, I believe, that the spinster label was more due to her being out for 3 seasons and not having any prospects, than her being 21. But of course, book Pen was 28, which indeed is spinster age.
I don’t think she’s an actual spinster though, right? She calls herself that in the first episode, but even Colin pushes back like “girl no you aren’t”. The reason she’s looked down on isn’t cuz she’s a spinster but because she’s had no marriage prospects for 3 years of being out in society, and Cressida looked down on similarly because it’s also been 3 years and every man she pursued stopped pursuing her for one reason or another
@@Lina-lq7jm if it usually happens at 18 why was Daphne 22?
Honestly, Cressida deserves better. The show did her dirty, and honestly, I like a reverse Odysseus, so I'm team Pen and Colin. Plus, I forgot about season 2. The biggest villain this season was Eloise where is her character development.
nah she was a genuinely a bad person
Yes she was so selfish
Agree...Yeah, Cressida was really mean, but what was the point of the show building up her character/redemption just to have her fall hard in the end?
@@sao-me1lt that wasn't a redemption arc. Cressida still continued to be mean in this season. that's why the writing is so messed up. If that was supposed to be a redemption arc, then what the hell was that? It was awful. I just take it as a villain (cressida) getting what she deserves.
Np cus that last scene had me feeling some type of way like wdym that’s it for her?? Like save my girl she being done HORRIBLE
I genuinely felt bad for Cressida despite her being a total B*tch. I feel she acts that way considering she was never shown love in her household the same way Bridgertons were. And the fact that she had no genuine friends. Even Eloise just befriended her to make Pen jealous. Everyone kinda just uses her. She did what she had to do to run away and get out, doing horrendous things along the way. Her speech about how not everyone is lucky enough to be born into a family that loves them really made me sympathize with her alot.
yep! she still went about things in a negative way, but i can really see the reasons behind them now, aside from her unnecessary cruelty
Yeah I was really hoping that Cressida and Eloise would be friends at the very least. Eloise doesn't really grow as much in this season. She's still very much a Privileged and entitled rich woman while Cressida came from the same lvl of class, but had to struggle in order to get married. Eloise would learn that not all of the women in the Ton would have the same opportunities like she did: A strong support network, a rich and wealthy background like she does.
Eloise could have grown into a better person and helped Cressida with getting a husband due to her connections. I can sympathize with Cressida and I feel so bad for her at the end of the season. She was screwed over so many times. She was a product of the times and shackled into a role which she wanted to get out of through a better marriage. If the roles were reversed and we saw things from Cressida's POV (Her abusive father and dismissive, critical mother) I can see the audience wanting to side with a woman who tried to better herself and getting a better match within her own class. Just sucks all around.
We could have had a very complicated story between women who were born into very different backgrounds and how they could have changed each other for the better.
But alas we have this.... so.... :(
When you mentioned how "Shonda Rhimes loves an interracial couple, but damn!" I cracked up because it is so true! When I first watched season 3 to the end, and they showed Colin & Penelope's son, the FIRST thing I said was, *"Wow. That is Violet Bridgerton's first white grandbaby."* (think about it: Simon & Daphne have two Black kids, and even though you don't see them, it's been a year which means Kate & Anthony have had their Indian kids. 😁)
ugh from the minute he appeared on camera Colin was just not doing it for me!! I found him so much more attractive in s2, they really didn’t need to yassify him and cosplay him as a pirate to try and make him more appealing. He looked so wholesome, sweet and sensitive before, and while I get that he was apparently just doing the whole rake thing for show, it wasn’t made clear why he felt the need to change himself so much. Especially after travelling and going away so often in previous seasons, and claiming to ‘find himself’ each time he returned.
ugh idk. His bouffant hair and high collared cloaks were highkey giving me creepy vampire vibes. There was also something going on with his eyes that put me off…they just never seemed tender or to express enough. He showed more tenderness of expression when he had a storyline with Marina, not sure why he struggled with that with Pen. But perhaps that’s on the actors own abilities.
For me, Penelope really carried their interactions, and their entire relationship if i’m honest. She had more chemistry with that naturalist Lord D, and I’m not ashamed to say I was even rooting for them! He was the first man to actually see and appreciate Pen without having to be taught or enlightened to her. Colin was just…there. They made him a shell of a character this season and it’s such a shame considering the potential Colin had. Not one flashback scene of his and Pen’s early friendship, or of his travels abroad, or the letters he and Pen exchanged…If anything this season was more about the unravelling of the Whistledown secret than about the love story between Polin. And that’s where they messed up, by making Polin’s long awaited love story a subplot to the main plot of Whistledown’s unveiling.
*sigh* Season 3 was badly written, ill-thought out, and just truly unsatisfying. I will say though, they had a mountain to climb trying follow Kanthony. Season 2 completely set the bar for Brigerton, it was the shows high water mark without question. Sadly, Kanthony’s scenes in Season 3 were the only thing motivating me to keep going.
I too was rooting for Pen and Lord D 😂
What pisses me off is that in season 1-2 colin was so gentle with miss marina and did not wanna taint her honour when she herself tried to kiss him but he just makes out with Penelope in a carriage? That set me off not to mention he was very harsh when he was angry with Penelope but I don't recall him being that harsh with miss marina when they meet in Daphne's house?
Let's be real there was no romance, the show did Colin dirty in terms of writing and it was Pen's plus everyone elses season not his
I really wish they had developed Colin more as a character like they did for Anthony, Simon, and even Benedict
Season 3 was a flop for me and I can’t believe we have to wait another 2 years for 8 more episodes. They need to have another Spinoff. Preferably for Violet and Edmund and Kate and Anthony (since they like to hide all their milestones offscreen) 🙄
A spin off series where we see Kate and Anthony welcome their new child into the world in India would be STUNNING
@@chantellem6457 i would eat that up
Lady Danbury deserves proper love. She suffered enough.
How long until she realizes that Pen's last name is Featherington because a feather pen is a quill?
You need to watch Queen Charlotte:A Bridgerton story. It has background information about Lady Danbury. She was forced to marry an old super gross man and had four kids with him. You can see the friendship between the Queen and Lady Danbury since their youth.
19 yo woman wasn't actually considered spinster at that time. Spinster was a woman in her late 20s. In the books Penelope is 29 not 19. That's why she's called a spinster.
oh ive BEEN NEEDING a video like this. Ppl thirsting for that mid yt man like he was the last man alive were making me feel crazy. I know I can always rely on other black girls to speak the truth though, always the best side of commentary ytb
he cute tho but yeah agreed.
Thank you!! Same, I was waiting for someone to say these things.
@@rezza_lynsaii he cute, but sex symbol… bring back Simon
@@erinandthe1580ong Simon n Daphne’s storyline was so deep and entertaining
My only issue with the queen’s swan wig is that they use LED rgb lights which really took me out. I can believe there is some mechanical aspects since roughly around then we had music boxes but don’t be using streamer lights 😂
I LOVE you being excited about micheala! Everybody’s been so negative and extremely hateful about it, so seeing you being just as excited as me about is is so refreshing!
She probably didn’t read the books (totally assuming) the reasoning behind the hate is not necessarily because Francesca is bisexual but because making Michael a woman changes her entire story
Literally they basically already set eloise up for this story and it would actually improve her story. Francescas was already great!
And it feels cheap having fran get attracted so early despite just getting married @@loladexploradora5567
Personally I really connected with her love story becuase it wasn't grand and she was able to be awkward and sweet not this big thing. So when she stumbled over herself it devalued her love story with the man she just married
I’ve warmed up to Michaela, but I’m ultra curious how they’ll update it
Personally i think you could really Tell that the show runner changed. I want the Old one back
Honestly. This season was boring to me & drew too much attention away from the main couple. And I hate Colin’s reason to love Penelope. I’m not convinced he loves her for herself, but more so how she makes him feel & validates his ego. I’m more invested in Francesca’s story. It’s upsetting that a main character with a bigger body has the worst season too. I’m not a season 1 truther, and obviously season 2 will most likely never be topped because it was dripping with chemistry & everyone being developed in a stronger sense, but this season just fell flatter than flat for me. And that made me sad. I wanted more for Pen.
this has nothing to do with the video but girl oh my god that blush shade is made for you. it is so stunning on you.
So glad I’m not the only one who thought this season-and Colin-was lackluster.
It's interesting that you saw parallels with Cinderella and the Pollen storyline because in the books, Benedicts' story is a Cinderella retelling basically.
The reason why it was so unbearable was because the writing was so bad and didn't even make sense for Colin. Every time they tried to explain that his "glow up" and sleeping around is suppose to make us feel weird and uncomfortable because he's not being himself is just a poor excuse to me for such terrible writing choices. There's literally no explanation on why he decided to change on a whim like that. He could've done that in season 2 since it was right after his Marina scandal, but he didn't and he still visited her being himself which makes me feel, due to the bad writing in his own season, that he likes Marina more than he does Penelope. Nothing makes sense for him. I need justice for his writing. Where is my awkward, dad joke making, foodie sweet boy? That would've been so refreshing to see. And why didn't we get that side of him after him and Penelope finally decided to make it official? Wasn't that the point? That he stops being a rake and back to himself? He's a prop in his own season because they gave him no seasoning. Look how they massacred my boy.
ahh appreciate your well-balanced takes!! your vibes remind me a bit of Kennie JD and her bad movies in a beat series, your makeup is deadly!!
i feel as though the story for this season is the first draft for me. [this opinion comes from reading and writing too many fanfics so pls take a grain of salt] what's a common but unspoken hurdle in writing is that you can't just apply all of your ideas into one story with an even shorter run time, because like you said!! there are EIGHT children we have to experience. so i noticed the ideas each bridgerton was given but it's the execution is where it's awkward.
And so when a season rolls around i like to view it as an 'all-you-can=eat buffet' where i choose which story line to follow and skip the rest because of the 'meh execution' we’ve come to expect.
i dont know if youre aware of this movie, but Emma [2020] was what i expected from Pen and Colin because of the similiar traits they both have. Emma and Mr Knightley are the classic friends to lovers trope [jane austen you will ALWAYS be famous] and!!! not only it established their dynamic by showing the casual intimacy [that pen and colin did NAWT have] but we the audience were able to empathise and root for them to be together. I found myself confused at best with this season because I’m not confident of their casual intimacy. like yeah they’re friends…… but where’s the sauce??
Honestly I wish they had really pressed their addiction to each other. When she goes out to print another whistle down and he sees her, they fight, and they make out. I wish we got more of that yearning. Even though he is pissed and she doesn’t want to give up her dreams, they are just so in love and lustful for each other they can’t keep their hands off. Just feels stupid to have that steamy make out sesh if they weren’t goinn to go down that route. Immediately after that he returns to not wanting to be around her 🙄
Two years of wasted waiting, unnecessary hypes and eagerly hoping for a fabulous story. They did the characters, story and actors dirty.
man look what lady danbury had to go through .. id also hate him !!
i've watched multiple reactions/explanations about the Bridgerton show and book series, and you've got my favorite energy. the way you are HERE for these girls is unmatched, and your mannerisms and hand-talking just make me go "yeah... yeah! YEAH!!" and it helps make you a delight to watch and listen to. also, if you like penelope from the show, you would LOVE book penelope. she's like 28 and a spinster and has a glow up to show the world that she's deserving of love and respect and, basically, because she frickin can.
Hot take Penelope should have been the ending sesone and should of shown that she's lady whistledown halfway throw the sesones. I know this show is on a book, but they are already off-book with half of Anthony’s love story. Pen is such a strong character and the poster child of the series since she's lady whistledown. I sorta felt let down since they tried to follow the book more but they cut half of Colin growth to put it all off screen. 🗿 why…and Colin was a terrible guy in the books too bc he is constantly jealous of pen’s writing achievements.
i cant lie guys i clicked on this video coz the most beautiful woman i've ever seen was on the thumbnail but stayed for the great discussion and smooth editing 🗣🗣‼
I've no idea why they thought changing Colin into a lady-killer rake was the best move. We already have those everywhere in this show. In the previous seasons, Colin was a wonderful character - he was sweet, naive and gentle, completely different from Anthony, and you could see why Penelope loved him. Now he's an arrogant bad boy, who pursues and abandons women with no care for their virtue or affection? Why?
I could see it if the show made it clear he was uncomfortable as a rake, and putting on a charade at being what his brother is, but he seems completely in his element acting this way?
No cause I swear Francesca had feelings for Penelope because there were a few instances I can recall where they showed Francesca looking at Penelope with Colin and making a face portraying sadness like she was looking at her crush being with someone else. I thought I was going crazy and I was GAGGED at the end when it was revealed she is actually interested in women!
Fran's looking wasn't admiration for pen ffs, she likes women just not her. She was upset cause violet was so thrilled and accepting of pen and not as much with John. She calls her out for that later that episode too. Her look was more like, "Why can't you be this happy for me too, mom?"
I feel like Portia Featherington is kinda based off of or inspired by Kris Jenner
WELL YES! and i completely agree with u abt the sentiments on colin.. HES NOT DOIN IT FOR ME! and i can never get over the comments he made in s2 either 😒
But yall can get over wht pen was saying in her article about their family constantly lol ok
But you have no problem with Pen talking shit about everyone for no reason. Colin deserves better
GOD FORBID A WOMAN HAVE A HOBBY! pen is my girl idc i support women’s wrongs. this seasons writing is so messy why does colin suddenly now gaf 🙄 u can never make me hate penelope idc. her one outlet after being outcasted by society!
@@cass422 talking shit about others is a good hobby? Really? She could’ve used her writing talents to write book or something. Not some dumb gossip
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@@AshleyAlvarez-rq9ue be for real women couldn’t properly publish books or they weren’t taken seriously back in that time period. publishing an anonymous gossip column was unfortunately one of the only ways for her work to be known! y’all hate on lady whistle down but if it weren’t for her the series would not be nearly half as interesting
Thank you for watching these, summarizing, & snarking! I've enjoyed this hour *way* more than I'd likely have enjoyed the season. You rock.
i recently watched your awkward and atm video and gosh i just love your voice. it works so well for the content you make and you’re gorgeous btw! and i know this video is going to be amazingg
Umm Lady Danbury wasn’t to run away with the love of her life.. and she wasn’t alone since as you said…. she was supposed to run away the night she was to be married to an old man she didn’t want to marry. Her brother told their father she was going to run. Did you not watch Queen Charlotte?
spinster ganggg. girl i don’t even watch bridgerton, i just like hearing you speak 😂 and seeing you! you’re beautiful! hope you’re well 🩷
I kinda blame the shift in power behind the scenes because after two great seasons. Then this sudden shift to someone who wants to change absolutely everything. It gave a little whiplash. (Idc if you call me a hater. It’s how I feel.) It was too ambitious for what was going on. Each season focused on one character being the A plot and lady Whistledown being the B plot. Then they DID have the time crunch with only the 8 episodes. So maybe they should’ve just focused on like one big A plot and small B plot for the season. Then at the VERY end. Focus more on the B plot and the start of the C plot with Cressida. Cut out everything else that doesn’t have to do with the Bridgerton family.
And the cut the Colin 3 ways.
I find the Colin actor so annoying because he WILL NOT CLOSE HIS MOUTH. He's just there slack jawed all the time and it looks so goofy.
I love Penelope so much. She is my favourite character and I was so let down by season 3. I was so looking forward to it. Colin needed more. He needed to be more interesting and sweet. I’m a nerd (gonna own it) and I adore fandom Colin from fanfics and so on. The fandom writes him ten times better! They make him funny, sweet and interesting! Like I so badly wish Colin was written like that in canon…and I wish Penelope had rejected the proposal and we got the fandom version of Colin grovelling to his brothers about Penelope not wanting him anymore!
Also I wanted Colin to know about Penelope being Mrs Whistledown before he proposed and to be frank, when he asked her if she was going to marry him or not, I thought she was going to just say ‘I’m lady whistledown’
ALSO the comment about Penelope entrapping him! And Penelope didn’t react! Like gal! Please!!
Fyi the reason why "Simon" didn't show up in season 2 was because he turned down the role for a movie career. They wanted Daphne and Simon to be in season 2. We did see Daphne a little bit but without Simon it was odd.
So seeing Anthony & Kate is not surprising at all. Especially since everyone is literally living in his house. It's not like Daphne, whom was physically living elsewhere.
THE SHEER JOY OF GETTING THIS VIDEO NOTIFICATION!! I need more gossip girl vids so the gg references were much appreciated
using classical renditions of modern music was such a good idea i love it so much
ia. the modernizations/fantastical elements of this show kinda take me out of the setting in a not good way but the reworking pop songs was genius. love figuring out the song too lmao
The way they kept nixing Kate and Anthony from the story was really irritating
just saw the thumbnail, and immediately rushed over to say your blush is stunning !!
i will watch every video about bridgerton s3 and when i saw yours was over an hour long, i clicked it so fast. time to watch your entire backlist of videos!
I watched the whole season, I didn't even really like it, but girl I watched this video from beginning to end, you are so entertaining and charming
And SO gorgeous, I'd die for you to be any Bridjerton season main character, you’d be incredibly beautiful in the show’s aesthetic
You talk about shows I don’t even watch but I stay and watch what you have to say because you’re strikingly beautiful
They really did Cressida so dirty. Like what did she do to get such poor treatment and an unhappy storyline. I need justice
This was fantastic. You did a great job bridging between regency England and today. Loved your character assessments. You did an awesome job! Thanks!
the most relatable thing you say, it's DONT PISS ME OFF after so many weird scenes
19 wasn't considered spinster territory at all in the Regency era. 23-24 was considered pushing spinster territory.
I genuine think NF shot themselfs in the leg by making Queen Charlotte that good bcs comparing to that series all Bridgerton seasons are crap
I hate how the lady whistledown plot was handled. also I hated cressida so much like why did the show want me to care about her:/
I loved the violin music, too. I think it was all Vitamin String Quartet this season
I need them to redo this season because Colin, Polin and Romance deserved better than being sidecharacters in their own season
I’m so glad you loved that michalea and francesca moment as much as me. some of the book purists in the fandom are being really gross and hateful (homophobic) about it but I can NOT wait for their season.
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I think Pen "thinks" she is the laughing stock of the Ton more than she truly is... it's a nod to her insecurity after being out in society a year early, entering her 3rd year, and never being asked to dance once except from Colin, only to be alone in a room with him (exposing cousin Jack) but she is thinking "whoah is this how babies are made?!" To moments later losing El and being "found out" about LW -- a huge threat, only to hear Colin break her heart and embarrass her saying he would never court her. The lack of attention to her for two seasons, plus the eligible men's laughter and her family belittling her for her entire life all fueled her beliefs. When men did talk to her, she struggled and that also led to real evidence of rejection. It's like picking up a top thinking you might like it and putting it on the rack quickly because you realize it's wrong.
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I was looking at my mother in laws marriage certificate the other day. She was married at 25 and it stated on the dam thing she’s a spinster while her husband was put down as a bachelor 😅. Crazy times
Very unpopular opinion: I would've LOVED for Penelope to choose Lord Deplin & that they didn't let her go trough this whole "Glow-up". Penelope is an extremly interessting and layerd Character. She was allways pretty & at the same time allways very flawed, her writings as Whistledown shown over an over again that the constant shunning off the Society got to her. And that on a point where she grew so angry that she destroit EVERYONE puplicly just bcs she wasn't treathed right.
That's why I HATE the Polin trope. Penelope HAD to become "PRETTY" to be worth off Colins love. Wich further knocks home the message: if you are big & just the way you are you are not worth to be loved. No, no you need to become better first and apeal to the male gaze. In this case penelope starting to wear Bridgerton blue.
Its would've been such a better story if she didn't change, she and Lord Deblin fell in love & THEN Penelope could've gone trough some styling changes to show her blooming in love. And then havind Colin seen how blind he was, but penelope having someone now who loves and apreciate her the way she is.
I hate how she begged for the Kiss, for him. It's the: the big fat ugly girl that no one wants, begs for the Boy to finally see her, but she needs to become pretty first!" Trope. Its pathetic, it's humiliating. The only thing that was missing is that the show have her loose weight to. 🙄
I get that they look cute togheter & that they wanted to have the "big women get price charming" but my god they did it in such an unworthy & pathetic way. It's a shame
I honestly never liked the Polin coupling, I honestly do think that Lord Debbling was better for her, he at least always respected her whereas Colin clearly cared for her but has certainly not always respected her. I agree with others that are saying the flip from "I would never court Penelope Featherington" to being madly in love with her was too quick, I maybe could've rooted for it if the arc had taken its time. I also think that Franchesca and Debbling would've been a good practical match, she would've had literally all the time in the world to focus on her music but I'm also happy with the direction they took it. I would like to see Debbling again in the future honestly and I predict if we do, he will probably end up with Cressida as a practical match which I think will be an interesting and funny dynamic.
Tbf in this version of the story a 19yr old Pen wouldn’t be considered a “spinster”. In the books, this occurs after a timeskip and Pen is like 28 so by then she’d be considered a “spinster”.
I really just feel bad for Cressida lol. I know she’s supposed to be a bitch but like…I kinda get it. She’s got a horrifically abusive dad and a mom who’s been through years of physical abuse (and probably other kinds that we’re not aware of). Cressida was going to be married off to a man who’s like four times her age, she was clearly desperate and when an opportunity arose in the form of the idea that Lady Whistledown wouldn’t have any marriage prospects, she jumped at the chance to make sure she wouldn’t have to marry someone that she didn’t want to. And she didn’t really have anyone to talk to about this, because even though Eloise became her friend, Eloise didn’t care about Cressida and it seems like she just wanted to make Penelope jealous. Cressida is completely on her own emotionally, and while she did a lot of shitty things, I want her to be happy. My biggest hope for season four is that Cressida is dealing with her issues and has at least one genuine friend who cares about her and wants her to be happy.
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9:56 this is cause they moved her book up by like a decade. In the book she was 27
I'm obsessed with your commentary. I was laughing right out the gate. #SpinsterGang
You should watch queen charlotte if you haven’t watched it yet it made me love her so much more
Sigh. It had so much potential, but to me it failed the standards of the romance genre.
Colin wasn't believable as a rake (and PS. we were told Anthony & Simon were rakes, but never had to SEE it) so why make him one?
In previous seasons he was cutie 3rd brother who took courting seriously, and looked down on the rake lifestyles.
It would have been a nice switch-up to see the man be a virgin too, make them equals and it would make it more meaningful as the "first time" both of them have been seen as their whole, true selves.
I thought they would build on the erotic journalling and they would tease each other with love letters while they were engaged, nope, no emotional connection needed apparently! 😂 Premarital sex is also fine apparently, for **Colin Bridgerton**, established as a man who cares so much about honour!
It's before marriage in the book too, but it feels different, as it's after the secrets are out and amidst all the conflict, it's part of an affirmation that he loves and supports her no matter what.
We didn't get that cathartic happy ever after feeling at the end, not for me anyway. It was suffering for all of Part 2 😢
A good romance does need conflict and angst, but usually like 30% building a connection, 30% actually falling in love or a honeymoon phase, 30% big conflict that threatens to ruin everything, 10% happy ending. The balance was off, character development was really inconsistent, and it just didn't work! And I'm sad about it 😭
We did see Anthony and Simon as rakes...Anthony had a whole brothel montage in the first episode of S2 , he also had that affair with Sienna in S1 and in S1 you saw Simon at brothels as well...Colin had 1 short moment at a brothel and the second time he chose not to participate, but everyone is all hating on him for this? Even Benedict was having threesomes in S1...so why are we sex shaming Colin in particular? This was also the norm at the time, after schooling, the men were encouraged to go to brothels and "sew their wild oats." Anthony even told Colin that he should have brought him to more brothels. If this was a woman we would totally be like YEAH get some, but if a man does we are already hating on him. Colin wasn't dating anyone, he is allowed to have sexual experiences. I also don't think Colin was a rake...he was just exploring his sexuality. The point of showing us the brothel scenes, is that he was not emotionally connecting to these women...his journals also show how he is trying to understand why he is so emotionally distant .... Colin's whole arc is him trying to fit in and protect himself from heartache that happened in prior seasons...but failing to find happiness in this new fake persona, but when he drops his walls and allows himself to be that sensitive individual...especially with Pen, who has never judged him for that sensitivity and has even encouraged it...he finds that after that kiss the emotional connection he has been YEARNING for was right there in front of him all along and that he realizes he has always had feelings for Pen, he just didn't realize that that is what those feelings were - love.
I don't understand how people aren't see this. It is either no one really paid attention to Colin in past seasons, or they choose to ignore what we know about him and see him as a totally different character. Also with so many people making fun of the actor because you don't find him attractive is disgusting...saying Colin gives them the ICK because he isn't as attractive as Anthony or Simon is gross. I understand people not liking Colin's fake charm...but that is the point...he is being fake in the first episode....but after he starts hanging out with Pen he is his normal sensitive and dorky self! Sorry for the rant, I just feel like so many people are overlooking Colin and aren't even paying attention...his story arc doesn't start in S3, it began in S1 and it is a really interesting arc actually.
To me this is the best season, I think Colin and Pen are the most interesting and layered characters in the show. S3 was always going to feel different because we had that relationship lead up in 2 prior seasons, so the balance of the season was always going to be different. Plus the whole LW drama was integral to the Polin relationship. And that cathartic HEA feeling really hit me in the Butterfly Ball with Pen coming forward as LW, Colin seeing Pen for who she truly is and being accepting and proud of her, seeing their last intimate moment with Pen being fulling confident in herself and being on top with Colin looking sooooo into it.....then seeing that flash forward with them being sooo happily in love and new parents, really made me tear up!
Also with people complaining the Polin didn't get as much screen time as Daphne/Simon or Kate/Anthony....each couple got around 20% of screentime. So those complaining that the show runner and the writers did Polin dirty...well they had the same amount of time as the prior couples...actually more since they had moments in S1 & S2.
Pen's excuses for writing about Colin were a bit gross. She was lashing out at him because she was angry, hurt and jealous, but as you said, that is the sort of conversation that should be kept between the two of them. The conversation they did have about it was great, but also soured by her initial response. She wants him the way she wants him, and didn't like that he changed, yet she's never once bothered to ask him why. Him believing that she lacks respect for him is completely understandable. I know she's a gossip, and a fundamental lack of consideration for other people's feelings and privacy is a given, but he was her friend for a long time. He always protected her, and saw her when nobody else did. What happened in 2x08 sucks, but one incident shouldn't negate all those years. Besides, Pen's intentional, pre-meditated, public attack on him was much worse than Colin's one-off, spur-of-the-moment comment to a limited number of people. All their conversations in S3 have been primarily focussed on her, largely because she let him believe he needed to earn back her friendship, when she'd already gotten her petty revenge. Her crush on him may have been one-sided in the first two seasons, but their friendship never was, until this season. Whether it's because the writers listened to all that toxic, entitled nonsense people kept saying about wanting to see Colin grovel, which is really gross, or for some other reason, that does not make for a healthy dynamic. I mean, she wanted him so badly for so long, but now that she has his love, she cares more about her ego? She'd really choose trashy gossip over the life she could have with him? Really?! Also, you were spot on about Eloise and Colin loyally keeping Pen's secrets, no matter how hurt and angry they were about them. Which is kind of ironic, since Penelope herself has little respect for anyone else's secrets.
Yes. I really wished she let go of LW for her love of Eloise and Colin. Is not fun to have a friend who's letting the world know your secrets. I love Pen, but LW should have ended. There are other ways she could have been a writer.
My girl Cressida deserved SO much better!
Girl the title summed up my thoughts
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You are the first TH-camr I’ve *personally* seen who is excited about Michaela & legit YES THANK YOU I was so hyped too 🎉