#Charlotte Finch

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New promotional stills for 'Bridgerton' Season 3 (Liam Daniel/Netflix)

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BRIDGERTON SEASON 3 (PART 2) BTS

03x06

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Bridgerton Memes Part 3, because they make my mom laugh

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

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Bridgerton 3x06

Behind the Scenes: The Mondrich's Ball

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Edith Payne and Charlie Rowland (Chapter 4)

“And just because I changed my clothes or my slang doesn't mean that I want you to change," Charlie says, "I like you old-fashioned. I like you buttoned up. I like you when your posture is too straight and your accent is too posh and you are the very picture of a girl out of time. Because you have always been different, Eddie. Unique. Pretty brills, really. And I wouldn't have you any other way.”

Edith’s breath is a remembered thing, a physical presence, because it is catching in her throat.

“Now,” Charlie says, fingers curling around Edith’s jaw, “You like taking me apart. So let me put you back together.”

Then Charlie kisses Edwin’s cheek, and her mouth, and her jaw, and her neck, as she pushes Edith up against the desk, and Edith’s heart is shuddering, thundering, in her chest, a storm brewing inside of her, a quake shaking the earth.

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It’s Polin Season

*Spoilers ahead for Bridgerton Season 3 part 1*

so i finished part 1 and oh my god. it was great. i’m gonna rewatch it later, but i want to list some of my favorite things after first watch (i’ll probably forget things I have been awake all night and am sleep deprived but oh well)

colin and el being elusive with one another about their activities

colin having a wet dream after one kiss

colin groping penelope like she was gonna float away

penelope’s new wardrobe and hair (they suit her so well)

PRUDANK

FROHN

phillipa not understanding how a baby is made or born and wondering why her husband has to change his pants after they kiss

surprisingly the music choices! when they were initially released i was wary but they all seem to fit the moment (aside from dynamite which was kinda just there?)

the carriage ride was even better than i imagined and i have imagined it many different ways so bravo team

ending with an almost direct book quote (for gods sake penelope featherington are you going to marry me or not?) chefs kiss. absolutely zero notes

for the show i’m glad the whistledown reveal wasn’t before the carriage scene it wouldn’t have made sense and there wouldn’t have been enough time to resolve it

honestly cressida makes much more sense as a character to me this season but it still doesn’t excuse her being a bully ( i like her but i love pen so)

marcus anderson seems like a good match for violet and i want to learn more about him

we got to see happy kanthony without them overshadowing the new couple (much like daphne in the first season)

things i didn’t like very much

another plot about benedict sleeping with some woman who will no longer be relevant next season

cressida being straight. this is wrong, do it again and get it right this time.

i honestly would have preferred penelope break off the engagement because she’s still in love with colin than debling doing it for her, but the tension cause of the broken engagement was sweet

though i’m glad kanthony wasn’t overused i still wish they showed up more in part 1, i know they will be back but still. at least one other episode

lady danbury and penelope’s relationship isn’t as strong as it is in the books. mind you polin names their first kid after her.

summary:

with what I have seen so far i almost wish we had gotten weekly releases instead. ideally we’d get the whole thing at once but if that wasn’t an option weekly would have been nice. i’m kinda tired of the binge model. overall i loved part 1 and will definitely be rewatching it later

more thoughts to come! thank you nicola and luke for doing our polin justice

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#WhenWeWereYoung 2023 is the perfect festival line-up, change my mind.

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Bridgerton Season 3 Rambles

Warning: Spoilers for Romancing Mister Bridgerton and Season 3 of Bridgerton on Netflix

Just a compilation of thoughts that I have had about Netflix's adaptation of Romancing Mister Bridgerton for Season 3.

The combination of writing and/or editing was definitely different, and not necessarily in a way that I enjoyed. I am not a cinematographer, so I can't necessarily say why, but this season definitely felt like a much faster pace than S1 & S2. This is especially true for part 1. Prior seasons felt like they were meant to be watched casually and understood easily on the first watch. This season was so dense that I ended up re-watching part 1 again just to make sure that I didn't miss anything. Part 2 did feel like a slightly more reasonable pace, but still faster and more chaotic than any other Bridgerton season. Given that Netflix controls exactly how many episodes and how long they are, I wish they had decided to do 10 episodes so that the story could be slowed down to a more enjoyable pace and less context for each storyline had to be cut for time.

I liked all of the side stories. There are no characters in this show that I don't want to watch. Knowing the backstory from Queen Charlotte, it was so great to see Violet with Marcus (her garden is most certainly in bloom 🌸) and to see Lady Danbury get some closure from the past. It was also great to see more of the continuation of Lady Danbury and Queen Charlotte's friendship. Watching the Featherington women reconcile with each other was probably my favorite of the side plots. I enjoyed the Mondrich storyline. (🎉 Welcome to the ton, officially, Mondrich family! 🎉) I was a little skeptical about how the Benedict/Lady Tilly storyline was going to prep him for S4 (🤞) at the end of part 1, but fully onboard after part 2! I just wish we had more time to see the romance between Colin and Pen build before and after their wedding.

Side note: Do we think that Netflix/Shondaland had always planned for Benedict to be bi/polyamorous, or do we think that choice was made after they were heavily accused of queerbaiting in their characterization of Benedict?

Colin's realization of love seemed rushed even in RMB, but it seemed out of place as it happened in the series. There needed to be more development. Maybe we were meant to see his feelings growing through Colin's conversations with Eloise about Penelope and Cressida, but due to his characterization as "good guy Colin", it mostly just seemed like an older brother who wanted his two friends to reconcile? There was something missing. If the show had gone in book order and Kanthony/Benophie had been around, Colin maybe could have realized his love based on witnessing how those couples interacted?

In my opinion, all of the time in part 1 spent on the Queen coming up with a new name for a diamond ("sparkler") and then agonizing about naming one could have been put to better use. I know that the show doesn't want to bore watchers by automatically having the female Bridgerton lead of the season being named the diamond on repeat, but it's functionally the same and 10ish minutes of screentime that could have been better served elsewhere. Especially with the Queen playing such a big role in the potential match between Francesca and Lord Samadani as well as the reveal of Whistledown, I could do without the agonizing over the special title the female lead will get.

I really missed Lady Danbury playing the role of encouraging Penelope to be herself the way she did in the books. I know Lord Debling might have taken on some of that role in the Netflix series, but there's a different dynamic when Penelope realizes her worth based on a suitor compared to the objective perspective of a smart woman in the ton. To me, Netflix Pen felt like she gained some confidence simply based on that Debling was interested and not that she actually realized she was desirable. Whereas in the books, Lady Danbury encourages Pen to be more confident and show more of her personality because it makes her more authentic and fun to be around.

Speaking of Lord Debling, we were promised during the press tour that Debling wasn't going to be used as a plot device to make Colin propose, and that Colin would express his feelings to Penelope without that sword hanging over his head. But what we got was Violet mentioning to Colin that Lord Debling was planning to propose to Penelope which prompted Colin to rudely interrupt them and cause Debling to rescind his proposal????? I really did enjoy that book!Colin loved Penelope for being Penelope and proposed to her even though he knew that nobody else would and it would lower his social standing to marry the unpopular spinster girl who read romance novels.

In general, past seasons have felt like even where Netflix/Shondaland changed plot points in the books, the changes were still correct in the characterization. While the above might be correct to Colin's characterization it's a significant downgrade from the story that was already written. Why did that need to be changed?

Speaking of characterizations, I really enjoyed the characterizations for Francesca and John. They're such different characters to the other leads on the show and I really appreciated that both seemed to be characterized as neurodivergent in some way. It's nice to see the show acknowledging that gay people, neurodivergent people, etc. still existed in regency times even if the public awareness/conception of them was different.

I wish we had seen more of Colin and Pen repairing their relationship after Colin learned that Pen was LW. I know they were trying to build the drama, but the whole time it felt like Colin was two seconds from applying for an annulment, which was not even mentioned in RMB. Again, it just felt like too much was implied and not shown here, or that the show's characterizations were off from the books.

I enjoyed the peek into Cressida Cowper's world that we got this season. She's no longer just an antagonist cardboard cutout that's moved around the ballroom to create conflict. It's nice to understand her motivations. I really appreciated her storyline this season and I'd love to see a spinoff about her life in Wales and her eventually making her way to the continent or back into the ton. The scene where her mother threw her under the bus as she was counseling her that it was every woman for herself in the ton was beautifully sad. I think it was only in that moment that Cressida realized the only way for a young woman to do well for herself in the ton is to befriend and rely on her peers. I appreciated the aspect of tragedy that Cressida only realized her bad moves when it was far too late to go back and correct them.

Another issue with the writing: some of the modern language was slightly jarring. I know Bridgerton flirts with the modern/regency dichotomy because there are multiple parts of the show that aren't period-accurate. That being said, you're really on the cusp when a character in a regency period drama says "Don't come for my cane". I'm not saying I want it to be 100% period accurate with bonnets, etc. However, I think maintaining the use of Regency slang and slightly modernized regency phrases/syntax is part of what helps make it feel "regency" even though the fashion, music, and social norms about race and sexuality are not accurate to the regency period. The same can be said for obviously acrylic nails. Not everything needs to be period accurate, but some things are definitely a step too far. Big disparities like this are distracting and remove people from the story.

I know people have a lot of feelings about Michaela Stirling, however, I want to let Netflix/Shondaland cook. We don't know yet whether Francesca is also going to be bi or whether she's going to be a late-to-life lesbian. We truly have no idea. I have liked how they've handled Francesca/John so far, so I'm just going to wait to see how this plays out.

I think that's all for now. I'd love to hear anything you'd like to add, as I could yap about Bridgerton for hours.

Varley . . . release the BUGS!

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juniper, her husband charlie, her father oz, her mother charlotte, and her cousin finch. they are all, in their own way, major players in the 60s/70s celebrity scene, particularly in music, TV, and art. fame and fortune have done a number on all of them, to varying degrees

read about them here!

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(Other Thoughts) Big Bridgerton Watch B4 Season 3

1x01

How is Anthony just f***ing Siena with his footman there to guard as if he doesn't have a care in the world?? (*future thought-poor Sienna & how she's viewed)

1st spotting of Edmund's watch w/Anthony

Violet coming @ Anthony for being late (can't wait for her to have moments like this w/Colin possibly??)

The queen & her many dogs xx

I wonder if we'll still be seeing some stress plaguing Anthony due to any responsibilities in S3 or not [juxtaposition to how he handled Daphne to how he'll handle now]

Anthony is such a hater even this early; lol (re: Saphne).

How can Anthony take Violet's criticisms of being overbearing as a prompt to match Daphne w/that old af man when there were other options right there?!

1x02

Don't (do) talk to me about how Lady Danbury wasn't around much for her own child, but treated Simon as her own, nurturing him while his own father never did instead putting him down. 😭😢

You really see how young Daphne truly is. The scene where Violet tries to tell her there is something to look forward to in raising children, to throw herself into as she is to have an unsatisfactory marriage with Berbrooke--she expresses how she looked up to Violet's marriage with Edmund and to think how young the Bridgerton siblings were and how it's affected even Daphne as one of the younger siblings really makes me interested to explore the feelings of all of them (the different ways it shaped them). Daphne idolized them; it would be interesting to see the spin off of Violet & Edmund after QCABS.

1x03

Lady Whistledown reading: "I have always thought that an appreciation of the arts is what lifts us beyond mere animals. It stirs the passions and moves the spirits." (I don't have substantial thought here for s3, it's just a potential tidbit)

Same sentiment as above- "These days a modern young lady must display a miscellany of talents in her quest for a suitor. She must be a witty conversationalist, an accomplished musician, and an expert in the art of the swoon." (LW)

Violet & ABC at the ball: Violet trying to set up her children is never not classic TV humor I do hope we get more of it in the future!

1x04

Can't wait for more Philippa and Cheese Man

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WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY MY FATHER TOOK ME INTO THE CITY TO SEE A MARCHING BAND! HE SAID "SON, WHEN YOU GROW UP, WOULD YOU BE THE SAVIOR OF THE BROKEN, THE BEATEN, AND THE DAMNED?"

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This is truly "Hamilpton"

" Hamilpton" tell it story here a STORY ANYONE FORGOT IN HISTORY BOOKS THANKS SCHOOL......😡😡😡

ANYONE SKIPPED HER STORY POOR BELLE....🥺🥺🥺 BELLE FORGOT HER IN HER HER STORYLINE & MIXED FAMILY TOO....🥺🥺🥺

It's especially reminding the princess and the frog of best friend??? " we don't know...🤨🤨🤨" We know they're painting together

Belle is beautiful she looks like Tiana in painting, NOT ONLY THAT SHE MIXED FAMILY TOO... MAYBE??? 🤨🤨🤨

Belle deserves.... MORE "HER STORYLINE!" KNOWS OF BELLE!!!😡😡😡

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BRIDGERTON SEASON 3 (PART 2)

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Bridgerton Season 3

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Sapphic Payneland Chapter 3: A Cat, A Crow, and Two Dead Girls

Edith scowls. “I am not your toy to yank around. I will count your cats and then Charlotte and I shall leave your pitiful kingdom.” She spits the word like the insult is. “You will never have what Charlotte has.”

“Boo, you’re no fun,” the Cat King pouts, “You and your Achilles’ heel.”

Absolutely not. How could the very earth, a quake shaking the very ground, ever be a chink in the armor? Charlie has never been Edith’s weakness; she is Edith’s strength. She is Edith’s guiding miracle, her smile light in the bowels of Hell, her cricket bat Edith’s armor, her tenderness the one thing that keeps Edith human.

Once, in a moment of weakness in Hell, Edith thought them a tragedy. Or, rather, thought herself a tragedy.

But Charlie was there to cradle her face and to urge her onward, a tsunami carrying Edith to shore.

They are not Patroclus and Achilles. They are not a tragedy. They never could be.

(We go to Port Townsend for a hot sec in the '80s, and having an established Payneland makes things VERY different.)

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American Assassin (Movie Review) | Formulaic But O'Brien Shines

While the script may feel familiar #AmericanAssassin, has the action and the electrifying performances for this thrilling tale. Check it out! #MovieReview #DylanOBrien #MovieAdaptation #VinceFlynn #TaylorKitsch #MichaelKeaton

Michael Cuesta (Director), Vince Flynn (Novels) CASTDylan O’BrienMichael KeatonSanaa LathanShiva NegarTaylor Kitsch Review Michael Cuesta’s American Assassin presents a familiar tale of revenge and espionage, but unfortunately, its script by Stephen Schiff, Michael Finch, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz falls victim to predictability and a sense of déjà vu. While the storyline follows…