#a plot device in kathony’s season?

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if we've had to tolerate gossip girl's entire family for two seasons before her story the sharmas should've been in the show from the beginning as well with a subplot about their life in india and sophie should have been introduced in s02 regardless of when she's to meet benedict

[stars-of-kyber]

I would love to hear your opinion about S3 !!1

Ooooooh girl! I have so many feelings here... This might get long, beware

Overall, I enjoyed this first part quite well.

I like how faithful some moments are to the book, although Colin's book is tied with Ben's as my least favourite and it was the one which took me the longest to read. I liked the Proposal, bc that's a scene I really like from the book and Colin's journals. I also like the glimpse of Colin's repressed anger.

I feel like the show could have mixed the Whistledown issue more with this first part. I felt like it was very separate. First, we deal with the love story, and then we bring the whole LW x Queen thing. The book actually starts with Lady D announcing she'd offer a reward for the person who gave her LW's identity. It didn't bother me that much during the episodes, but when the 1st part ended, it kinda gave me a feeling of... completion? Yeah, okay, we had the issue, we worked it out, the couple is together, we'll have a pretty epilogue moment and then yay. I know it's not just that bc I read the books, but even so it gave me that feeling. I don't know if splitting in two was a good plot device here, because the cliffhanger is... not actually a cliffhanger? There's nothing that makes us hold our breaths wondering what's coming next but that little trailer in the end. If it was me (not a professional obvs) I would either not have split this at all, or end the first part with Colin finding out Pen was LW. THAT would have been a cliffhanger worth holding your breath.

Particularly (Please don't come at me for that people), I don't feel the chemistry between the two of them, which is a bit sad. They were there, staring at each other about to kiss and I didn't feel that OH MY GOD YES KISS! They fell a bit flat for me, chemistry-wise. But again, I felt the same with the two of them the previous seasons so no big surprise here.

The Kathony, tho. God I love them. I want more of them. I need it. (I honestly think they were kept away from this beginning due to managing their schedules with other projects) But we'll see them in the next part being horny lovebirds together.

I really REALLY liked the sideplots too! Unlike season two and that god-forsaken annoying Eloise x Theo thing and Cousin Jack side-plots, I actually enjoyed the stories that were going around. I liked the Moldriches; I had some good laughs with Portia struggling with her daughters and sex ed;

Kudos to Lord Debling. I really liked him as a character and his interest in Penelope was nice to watch.

OH MY GOD FRANNIE AND JOHN! SUCH BABIES I LOVE THEM SO MUCH! NETFLIX PLEASE DON'T DO THIS TO ME, MY POOR HEART CAN'T TAKE IT! DON'T MAKE ME LOVE JOHN JUST TO WATCH HIM DIE PAINFULLY! (Also please can we get a bit of a shout-out for our baby boy Michael in part 2? Thanks)

The most surprising of all, I actually LIKED the Eloise and Cressida side plot, which I was really not expecting. I like the way Cressida is presented, not an angel but also not super bad. And I love that she managed to give Eloise some very important call-outs and threw some truths in her face that she desperately needed to hear and no one else had done in the previous seasons (at least not so directly).

A little hurray to baby Greg and Hyacinth being the most adorable little pre-teens god they are so big, I can't! I love them so much.

Also, I had quite a lot of fun with Benedict, especially him being called out by Lady Tilly for the EXACT same reason he was having a laugh at Anthony last season. I absolutely loved that one. And I want to know what's the deal with Lady Danbury's bro.

I didn't particularly care for the music in it as a whole BUT I have to say this: I did NOT expect Pitbull's Give Me Everything would work SO DAMN WELL SERIOUSLY I LOVED IT! I saw it on the setlist and I was like Oh my god grab somebody sexy tell them hey! How is this going to work? And IT DID! I VIBED SO HARD WITH IT! Seriously did not see THAT ONE coming.

I have ticked off 9 of my bingo predictions! Unfortunately, as we know, Anthony's butt in ep 1 was not one of that (so so so sad) Colin being chased by a duck was neither, which makes me really upset BUT we still have another 4 eps to go 🦆 (I know, I know, let me dream, leave me be).

I'll be watching it again later today with my mum, maybe tomorrow again with my Frannie. (ADHD hyper fixation yeah I know).

As I said, it had its ups and downs but overall I liked it very much. I can't wait for the next part.

[sukibenders]

Not only you need to shut the fuck up about Kate Sharma, you need to shut the fuck up about Anthony Bridgerton too. Imagine not wanting to be called out when you pollute their tags with posts and reblogs spewing hate on them. You're so fucking jealous Kate got to be a Viscountess and her sister ended up being a plot device even with the efforts by production to make her more important than Kate. Imagine being so fucking jealous to the point of hoping for an Edwina spin off when they should remake season two to give Kate the importance she deserves since you know, her sister got to be a bride, her sister got to have a centric episode about her, Kate didn't even have a fucking poster alone or alone with Anthony and people want to see a Edwina spin off even if season two was basically Edwina's show. Fucking shame on you.

Also readinng your hate posts about Kate, when the fuck did Mary ever show she cared about Kate? I can't fucking believe you said she was right when she didn't stop and listened to Kate after the dinner and that it was simply sad that Kate was alone in a closet and Mary had to stay with Edwina. How fucking hateful. Not surprising at all since you think caring for Kate is summarized by Mary brushing her arm a couple of times and giving her that gaslighting speech about forgivness as soon as she woke up from the coma. LEAVE KATE SHARMA OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. Also since you like to call people blind and liars, your tags about Edwina and Mary are, surprise surprise, devoid of any criticism. You don't fucking fool me.

Darn, you really made this whole essay in my inbox when you could have just blocked me and moved on, that's sad. Imagine saying you like Kate, but then acting like Anthony didn't deserve some smoke too for how he treated her. He constantly humiliated her in front of others, called her the bane of his existence, a thorn easily removed, blamed her for so many things (during moments where she was already highly emotional), and kept advancing her even when she wanted him to stop but just because he said some romantic lines you all go "oh, he'd perfect". Shut the fuck up. I enjoy Kathony, but there is a lot that Anthony needs to make up for, so maybe instead of coming to my inbox with your underwear in a twist, you can kindly mind your business. Not that hard. And what are you going to do? Considering you couldn't even recognize Anthony doing Kate dirty, not much. And it isn't even me "not wanting to be called out" as you said (not my fault you all blow things out of proportion and act like any criticism towards your fictional character is me coming after your family), it's about yall lack any decency whatsoever and it shows. To be honest, I could care less because it lets me see how some of y'all are, like yes, let those true colors show. Like even if I knew who you were, you know if you weren't using anonymous, I'd still be better than you and not come into your inbox the way you did to me. I'd simply block you, easy as that.

You being mad about Edwina having a wedding and putting that on me is lazy, especially when, if you read my post, you'd know that I wanted more scenes with Kate, her family, and Anthony and wished certain side plots had been scapped for it. You being mad at Edwina fans when you could've just put your anger towards the show itself, but I guess that took much effort. And even with Edwina getting all the things you said (why can't another woc also share happy moments?) they weren't even good for her, so yeah most Edwina fans aren't even happy about that. That seems more like a show issue for you to complain about instead of you bohooig about it in someone's inbox.

And you're so wrapped up in your Edwina hate that you forgot about the actual posters, because there were ones of not only Kathony, but Kate by herself so maybe look it up first, not that hard. From what it looks like, Edwina is the one who doesn't have a solo poster of her own nor with her and Anthony by themselves. But you don't see me complaining about it in your inbox, do you? You under the pretense of Edwina taking all the fame in the show (never mind the problems with putting two of the only few woc on the show against one another in this way) when, if she was, wouldn't she have the same amount of posters as Kate, or more? And I can want an Edwina spin off because the show itself hardly gave us anything with her character, and simply because I want too. I also want a Marina spin off too, but don't think that'll happen, shame really. The show hardly gave much of anything for any of the Sharmas, which I talked about but you're too pressed to see apparently, but gives more plot to their white counterparts. Not that hard to see the problem with that rather than coming into my inbox being ignorant as hell.

And Mary did show that she cared for Kate, you all are just busy with your heads up your butt and wanting to paint her as some evil stepmother. Like you and others like you always do the most whenever someone says they want the Sharmas to be a happy family, when you quite literally just have to block people and move on, like you all make this more tiring on yourselves. You'll villainize a brown woman showing a moment of an emotion other than joy or happiness, and run with it. And not you acting like you actually care about Kate in that moment but then go and pretend, a few words ago, that Anthony didn't do anything to her that needs to be addressed. You know damn well that if someone had courted Anthony's sisters the way he did Kate, he'd duel them at dawn. He literally has tried for something even less than what he's done. But sure, it's Mary who is the problem.

And of course you're going to stalk my account, with nothing better to do, and then act as if the criticism isn't there for other Bridgerton characters. Coming from someone who ignores Anthony's actions and paints Mary as the villain, I'm not all that surprised that you can't read any of the context on my post correctly because I have, not only, criticized Mary and Edwina but wasn't even that harsh about Kate as you believe, you all just can't help but blow things out proportion. Not my problem.

So, how about you go somewhere and get off your high horse thinking you get to tell me or anyone else what to do for that matter. Watch your fucking mouth and just block me, because you're turning yourself out given the fact that you can't read my post properly or are just so warranted on hating Mary and Edwina that anyone who likes them pisses you off (not my problem, still).

[megapandas]

OK it's been close to a full day since the trailer dropped. I am not worried. I am incredibly impatient but not worried. My takeaways:

The mythical chemistry is real! This is all I needed to see really, it is the reason kathony are so beloved. I had doubts it could be recreated on screen, doubts are gone.

They're giving Edwina actual character. Edwina is a sweet pure cinnamon role, but looking at the book critically, she is a smiling plot device and nothing more. This is a good idea. We'll see if they stick the landing.

The Haldi is a red herring. They feel they have to drum up the 🔺️ angle. So they pull a trailer trick to make people who haven't read the book think that Edwina is the bride and get some goodwill from the desi community at the same time. It is a very CVD thing to do. Of course Edwina is going to get married this season, if she didn't it would be an ugly dangling plot thread they'd have to deal with next season when she won't be a principle any longer. They'll want to wrap it up and it will provide a nice catalyst for married kathony to stop being idiots.

They look to be extending the post first kiss - wedding phase of their story. This makes me very happy. TVWLM is a very short story and imo JQ completely skips over the most delicious parts. Honestly after the bee they spend at most 40 mins together total before the wedding itself. I especially want to see more of kate interacting with Mary, Edwina and the other Bridgertons during this time.

They seem to have toned down Anthony's rage mode, I feel if it was still there we'd have got at least one shot by now. I am ecstatic about this. I know this may be controversial in the fandom but I don't think it fits the rest of his characterisation or kates for that matter. I know, hot take, historical romance has a toxic male behaviour problem but it is possible and better imo to steer away from it. If they're doing that I will be thankful.

The Bridgerton family dynamic is on point yet again, Violet and Benedict both stole the show with one line apiece. The chaotic comedic vibe we all fell in love with is certainly still going strong.

There is my tea spillage, mind the puddle.

[starhallows]

THANK YOU for saying what you said on twitter! I was seriously disappointed by this season and I’m tired of walking on eggshells around it. The heart of the Kathony story is their shared love for their families. And their families treated them terribly. Especially the Sharmas. I cannot forgive how Mary and Edwina treated Kate. And there was no resolution to that at all. The whole triangle storyline was yucky. Edwina was not “fleshed out” she was a plot device. I only rewatch Kathony scenes.

For context, this was my tweet:

Prompted by, but not limited to, CVDs and Shonda's comments yesterday.

Am I about to get in trouble? I think I'm about to get in trouble.

I have seen the tweets and the reaction some people have to any kind of criticism regarding season 2, and that's just not for me. It seems to be contained to Twitter, so I've been curating my timeline for the past month. I said it yesterday, and I'll repeat it: no one should be attacking anyone as long as you are respectfully stating your opinion. The fact that some people are doing it says more about them than I think they realise. Be respectful but call shit out; there are at least 2 other seasons left, we need to try and get heard.

I've been pretty much silent about the season so far because I didn't know what to say when I finished it the first (and only) time. It was pretty late when we finished binge-watching, and I'd had a long week, so I blamed the hype and my high expectations for the way I felt.

Instead, I created this happy bubble, reblogged gifs, read fic, gushed over edits and fanart... and I've been reluctant to burst that bubble. I did read the deep dives and the reviews that fans were writing, but there are aspects I can't comment on (because I'm white as snow).

Having said that: the season has issues.

It has issues with characterisation (hello, Edwina, my love, how's the whiplash?), plot, character motivations, pacing... I could make a 2000 word essay about it - I sent a 15-minute voice note to a friend of mine the other day ranting about the show, and I hadn't even moved past Kate and Anthony - so I'll try to summarise some "hot takes" (that aren't hot because everyone has already talked about it). Don't get me started with the Featheringtons, Benedict, Polin and Philloise... OR FRANCESCA (honestly, Frannie, babes. Just run away to Bath with Aunty Winnie, and we'll write you fic, we promise. We'll make Franchael Week a thing if we have to)

Edwina:

Let's start with the elephant in the room. The only "nice" way I can describe my feelings about the Edwina arc is: I see what you were trying to do, but you didn't do it.

What we know about Edwina from the books is that, yes, she is innocent, but she is also intelligent. Edwina knows that her family is not doing great financially, no matter how much Kate and Mary try to hide it from her, and that's why she pushes for Anthony - she knows that Anthony will give her the security she and her family need.

What we see from Edwina in the show is that she is young and naive, and incredibly sweet. You understand why Kate wants to protect her, it makes the audience want to protect her, I was in love with her from the beginning. When we meet Edwina at the beginning, we very quickly see a side of her that is unsure, almost as if she knows this is their big chance, and she feels all the pressure she is hiding. "I hope they like me," she says, and you feel for her. Then, she tells Kate she wants Anthony because he is honest in episode 2, and there was this moment in episode 3 when I had hope for her character development and depth. When Edwina doesn't get proposed to at dinner, and she cries when Kate is doing her hair, she chastises herself, "I should have been better, I should've known better..." and I thought we were going to see what was under the surface of this perfect diamond. And then, we just didn't.

They made Edwina fall in love with this perfect persona Anthony kept presenting, and she wouldn't listen to anyone: not her sister, not Daphne, not all the noise Anthony's eyes must've made while he looked at Kate like I look at chocolate cake.

And still, even after the proposal, there would have been hope for something more. They could have fixed it, which brings me to...

Mary:

*long and deep sigh* I will never forgive them for turning Mary into a doormat. You can take Mary out of the entire season, plop her in for episodes 7 and 8 and nothing changes, and it breaks my heart because I LOVE Mary. She could've just tried to find Kate in ep 6, and she would've won so many browny points in my book.

Kate is completely alone until she falls off that horse (aka Mufasa the horse pulls a Scar):

I don't have words to explain how much this hurts. Kate, who sacrifices her future and happiness for her sister; who is ready to let the man she loves go so Edwina can marry and love him instead; Kate, who has no prospects and is going to leave once the season is over to go back home and will be forced to live through others. Kate is isolated from everyone the entire season, and all everyone can do is be angry at her for things.

Anthony is angry because he can't feel feelings, and now he has them for her, and it's all her fault.

Lady Danbury gets angry because she knows that there's something between K&A while Anthony is pursuing Edwina. You know, the match that Kate has been against since the very beginning? The one LD pushed for? The same LD that will talk to Kate about her part in the emotional affair but never calls Anthony out?

Edwina is angry, and she's not even angry with Kate for the right reasons! Be angry because your sister pushed you until you met all these standards, and she was projecting her idea of perfection onto you, not because she is willing to sacrifice everything for you even if it destroys her! What? Episode 6 is a shitshow, and it shouldn't exist.

I could go on, but I think I've ranted enough. My asks are always open if anyone wants to talk about the season and its characters.

[spaceofunknown]

Bridgerton season 2 thoughts based on the parts that I actually watched

I fast-forwarded through the featherington scenes and if you didn’t I commend your patience.

the romance was 🔥🔥🔥much better than season 1. They had better source material to work with, but also the actors were really good and the chemistry was amazing. I was happy with the lack of painfully long sex montages. Might actually rewatch with my mom.

Simone Ashley supremacy. She killed it. An absolutely beautiful and talented woman. Jonathan Bailey also gave a great performance. I cared about these characters more than I thought I would and it was completely down to them.

Anthony is a fool. An absolute buffoon. Kate knows this and she loves him and she’s really mad about it. I loved every minute they interacted.

Potentially controversial opinion, but everything they changed from the book either A) Was kinda dumb to begin with (sucking venom out of the bee sting) or B) worked on the page but wouldn’t be translated well on screen (Kathony being married but still having tension cause he’s still determined not to fall in love with her) or C) was unnecessary (Anthony convinced he would die younger than his father, I thought the way they dealt with his trauma was much more realistic in the show). I also liked that Edwina got to be an actual dynamic character rather than a plot device (to be clear, this isn’t to disparage the book, you’re allowed to have static characters). The show just gave her so much agency. She realized what was going on herself, she realized that she was never really in love with Anthony because she didn’t really know herself. She insisted on having her own agency and making her own decisions. I just love her so much.

I loved how they used Daphne this season. Somebody needed to tell Anthony he was a stupid idiot and she filled that role flawlessly. I missed the duke because I know he would also have mercilessly bullied Anthony. Actually I loved all the Bridgerton family dynamics.

Speaking of family dynamics, I loved the Sharmas. You really got a sense that it was the three of them against the world, so it hit much harder when they fell out near the end of the season. Also the scene where Mary told Kate she never had to earn her love of earn her place as her daughter 🥺🥺🥺

I actually like that the supporting cast’s storylines tie in very little to the main story. You can choose how much of your time you want to invest into this show, which is great for people with short attention spans (most of us nowadays)

[lostinafictionaluniverse]

Ok I have a lot of S2 thoughts and most of them spoilery so will put them under the cut

First off, I’m glad I saw the spoilers. TVWLM is my favorite book, and if I had gone into this season not knowing how much they’d changed it, I’d have been disappointed to the point of being enraged and that would have taken away from me enjoying what was good about the season. And I so wanna like this one because it’s still Kate and Anthony, and also because it’s Jonny and Simone and they deserve EVERYTHING! And also because they seem to have kept the core of their characters intact. The Anthony I know and love from the books will still be there (and in Jonny’s capable hands he’s been elevated a notch) and from what I’ve seen so far, Simone looks like she’s gonna knock Kate out of the park. 

Secondly, Julia’s books, although entertaining, offer very little material to make good or even satisfying TV. The bulk of her books are based on some back and forth conversations and characters’ reactions to other characters - In fact when I re-read RMB recently this was more glaringly obvious to me since nothing seemed to be happening at all! It was just one convo after another, and scenes just seemed to drag, so I can see how the writers thought this would not make for compelling TV. JQ said so too - she gave up creative control because she had no idea how her books would look on screen, and yes, even though they are two different media and people will always prefer one over the other, no adaptation stays fully faithful to the books.

TVWLM might have offered itself to a scene-by-scene adaptation if they were making a 90 min rom-com. But they’re not. They’re making a whole 8 hour season, with other characters and sub-plots thrown in. TVWLM just does not have enough juicy material to fill up 8 hours of compelling drama. When I watched S1, I was initially outraged at how much they had changed from TDAI (and I didn’t even like the book that much) but on re-watching I realized that the book had very little material and that they had to add in the ‘masala’ (as we desis would call it) to spice up the content. And I think that’s what will happen going forward too - setting expectations for S3 and 4 if we’re gonna see Ben and Colin’s stories. They will keep the core of the characters and perhaps the central conflict intact but everything else is up for change.

And lbr, even if Kathony content was 50% of the 8 hours we’ll watch it would be just boring if scenes from the book played out. Cute, yes, but kinda boring because in the book it’s almost too easy. They start out as enemies, there’s bantering, some fun, they talk, and slowly realize they ‘like’ each other, but even then Anthony was still going to marry Edwina. Beegate happens (rather conveniently) and A and K marry, and have sex legitimately because they are married. And then the rest of it is about facing their fears.

See, I wasn’t happy about the triangle when I first heard about it either. It felt to me that after all the talk about fleshing out Edwina’s role, they’re still using her as a plot device to keep Kathony apart. But since I’ve had time to process it, and have thought a little bit about it, now it seems all the more exciting to me. It won’t just be an enemies-to-lovers trope with Kathony, they’ve also added ‘Forbidden love’. Idk about y’all but something in this romance trope is very satisfying for me - the fact that this one feeling that you’re feeling for this other person, love - gets so overwhelming and all-encompassing that you let go of everything you’ve held dear - your principles, your sense of duty to your family, and a little bit of who you thought you were as a person because you want this other person so much. The conflict will be A and K fighting the feeling until they know they cannot and for A that moment will possibly come when he realizes he’s going to marry Edwina and lose Kate forever (And quite possibly for Kate too). So they had to bring it to that moment. That one event that shakes things up for them and makes them realize they cannot live without each other. Everything else be damned. 

There will be angst, there will be pining, there will be conflict - and I just know Jonny and Simone will play this beautifully. They will fight this emotion because it will feel wrong to them, but the moment they succumb to it will be so beautiful (just imagine the dialogues we’ll get here!). And I think that the trailer emphasizes this in the bit when Violet says: ‘True Love is worth it’ and we’ll see that it comes true for Kate and Anthony. They will come to the realization that being with the person you love is not selfish - it’s the right thing to do. And in the journey to get there they will also evolve as characters - and that will be beautiful, don’t you think?  

I know in all this Edwina will suffer but even for her there will be character growth. It’s an opportunity for her to show her strong self - and like CVD and Simone too have kept saying - the two sisters are soulmates. I think if that scene happens where Edwina goes ballistic at Kate, it’s a necessary scene and will help the sisters iron out a lot of what they’ve been assuming about each other, and what Kate’s problems are. She might think she’s protecting Edwina but in doing so she’s not giving Edwina credit to protect herself. It’s like the scene in the book where K tells A: “She only has to be strong for herself, but I have to be strong for both of us.” This is what A feels too as the oldest, he feels the need to protect his family, but they both don’t realize that they’re taking away another person’s choice by doing so. So that showdown I think will help Kate realize a few things, and in the end we want their coming together to be smooth and not fraught with guilt right? There will be an emotional catharsis for Kate and Edwina and there will be forgiveness and everyone can move on happily. 

And in the end, it will all make for compelling drama. And that’s my take anyway and I’m still super excited for this season, mainly to see Jimone as Kathony.

[kathanisharmaa]

heyo! so as promised i'm bringing you my thoughts about kathony season two:

warning: this is a totally biased opinion of a kathony little bitch p.s. english is not my first language so be kind and let me know if(or better, when) you find any mistakes.

first of all, it was so great seeing the bridgertons together again (and, believe me or not, francesca included) and i can’t express this enough. they’re by far the best part of the show, it’s heartwarming seeing this big family interacting and i could just sit down and watch them all day, we can see how comfortable they are being part of this group of people who been living together for their whole existence and this is family ties are something i value way more than lady whistledown gossips.

and speaking of lady whistledown, what a fucking mess. from what i remember from the books, lady w was a gossip column but at the end of the day it served more like a writing device but in the show she’s just a way to a bitter girl attack and try to destroy the bridgertons season after season. i was highly annoyed by penelope’s acting as a victim and then being mean as fuck as lw and i could like her if she truly despised the ton but she is just mad that she’ll never be a diamond of first water. i adore seeing flaws on characters but i penelope’s whole personality it’s being obsessed with colin (i mean, him? from all the bridgertons? okay then…) and the bridgertons, and as lw she’s is just like cressida cowper.

as for the featheringtons sometimes i’m like “why we still seeing them?” i’m feeling stuck on featherington house when all i truly want is to go bridgerton house and spend the whole season watching bridgerton big brother, but i’ll be honest i like lady featherington and phillipa (who finally is a happily and truly in love married lady yaaay). the cousin jack plot was a big waste of time and i’ll happily skip all of his scenes if i’ll ever put myself through this path of suffering of rewatching season 2.

now quickly talking about the bridgerton siblings: how the fuck did they choose an actress who can’t be in the show to shoot the freaking scenes? bc i don’t even care about book francesca but it’s downrigth ridiculous how she’s ignored as a bridgerton. hyacinth is a perfect flower and together with gregory i’ll say right here i would give my life to protect my two babies, they’re the cutest (i loved so much seeing anthony interacting with them since he’s the paternal figure for gregory and hyacinth). benedict was charming as ever and even more funnier than in season one, i love every scene with him and i’ll never get over when he was high during dinner with his family! colin was… colin. i wasn’t interested in seeing him, to me the actor lacks of charisma and i don’t care about him and penelope at all, at least for now, and i’m hoping for some improvement bc they have high chances of being the most boring bridgerton couple. i have mixed feelings about eloise, her body language it’s so off and feels forced, and i’ll say she’s having way to much screen time and that time was stealed from kathony so this is unforgivable!!! (i can only expect to see A LOT of kathony in her season bc i’m this petty) i’m expecting she learn a thing or two bc so far she’s just a white and privileged girl who have means and time to pursue her interests and thinks she’s better than other women, using feminism to belittle her sisters (specially daphne who is very happy with marrying and having kids). daphne was adorable as aways, funny, perfect and a true princess (ALSO BABY AUGIE YOU GUYS 🥺🥺🥺) and a very pleasing surprise for me as she managed to be the smartest in the room everytime. anthony was a perfect character, jonny bailey delivered a deep character and i could see the ocean of emotions in his face all the time. i can’t think anyone better to play the viscount and he carries half of this season on his shoulders.

ranking my favorites from the bridgertons this season: 1. anthony 2. benedict 3. daphne 4. hyacinth and gregory 5. eloise 6. colin being 1, 2, 3 and 4 characters i love and 5 and 6, having a lot of room for improvement. and i'm not sure where should i put francesca since she was barely a part of the season…

violet was breathtaking this season and “edmund was the air that i breathed. and now there is no air” will forever remain as one of my favorite bridgerton quotes. all the flashback scenes were award worthy and her conversations with anthony got me in tears. as a big fan of her being so desperate to marry all her children, i amvery happy with her this season and got zero complains.

lady danbury was so different from season one! i hate so much how she acted towards kate!!! seriously, what a disappointment… sat down to watch expecting her to be an ally to kate and episode after episode she worked very hard to make kate feel bad about herself when she should be helding mary accountable. i’ll need time to forgive her after season 2.

will mondrich plot was badly handled, it was overall very disconected without the duke's presence and i was bored by his drama and felt like the writers lost de opportunity to use his club to give us more scenes from the three bridgerton brothers and also making his plot useful while serving more bridgerton content.

now, let’s talk about the sharmas.

first of all, what the actual fuck, bridgerton writers??? why did you take something perfect and felt the need to destroy it? why???? the sharmas were supposed to be a very close family but what i saw was mary and edwina being two spoiled and dumb aristocratic girls and kate was their maid, she was way more like a governess than part of the family and that hurted SO MUCH.

mary, i hope i never have to see your face again. i despise you and know that you’re the worst mother in the world and i’m not saying much more because everything i have to say about her it’s bad. i hate everyone that made kate feel so alone like she was this season and losing her husband is no excuse to treat bad one of your kids, take violet as example ffs. seriously guys, i can’t believe my baby kate lived 26 years like that and thank god now she have the bridgertons who clearly adore her as she deserves!

edwina is a brat, a spoiled child made to be hated, that’s the only explanation for everything i watched during the last eitgh episodes. she was sweet until page two and then i had to sit and watch her going against kate’s only advice “don’t go near viscount bridgerton”, act like a teenager obsessed (to the point the almost fucking marries anthony and says she is in love with him AND LOVE HIM) with being a viscountess to after having her fanfic destroyed throw a tantrum like a kid who lost her favorite toy. the episode six was pratically unberable to watch and after the whole wedding scene i felt in my heart i could never like her. it was heartbreaking seeing how kate was treated by her own family and yet the show kept trying to sell edwina’s pov as a innocent girl who was played by her bitter and jealous sister which makes zero sense. i hate her plot, i hate love triangles and i hate bridgerton writers for destroying a beautiful friendship between kate and edwina.

finally talking about kate!!!

she is the love of my life and i have no doubts about it. even being different from kate in the books, i loved her, i felt her pain, her insecurities, i understood her. i wouldn’t change a thing about kate sharma and can say with certain that she’s one of the best female characters on television these days.

it was unfortunately we lost time being her act as edwina’s mother when i wanted to see her exploring the world, talking with another girls (I WANT MORE KATE AND ELOISE!!! AND KATE WITH DAPHNE PLS), doing her own thing, actually talking and knowing more about anthony bc i feel like they have a lot in common even as friends.

and while we’re talking kate and anthony WHAT IS THIS CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THESE TWO, YOU GUYS??? I MEAN, I WAS LEFT OUT OF BREATH EVERYTIME THEY INTERACTED, JESUS CHRIST! i want to scream about how perfect they are and i need a whole season just showing kate and anthony living, just the two of them talking, sharing gossip about the ton, pushing each others buttons etc. episodes 7 and 8 weren’t enough to feed my emotional need for kathony. i already watched 10 times every single one of the scenes were they interact in the last 2 episodes and they never stop being everything i’ve always wanted to see.

final considerations:

bridgerton family moments 10/10 eloise treating very bad the poor boys approaching her -10/10 kate and anthony 10000/10 kate and anthony screen time -10/10 bridgerton writters: why do you guys hate so much kate sharma? i cannot put in words how much i dislike you all. i could say you’re tried to wrote a bad fanfic but that would be an insult to all of our amazing fanfiction writers that serving the best content we deserve. cvd: wtf man? how dare you saying kathony wedding happened at the end of episode 6? why are you so evil? who hurted you?

did i forget to mention anything? pls let me know!

[viscountessevie]

Why would you reblog that ask saying S2 should be colorblind? Wtf

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I think I know who you are anon, if it is you, feel free to come off anon in my DMs and we can have a more open discussion about this if you'd like.

If this is not one of my followers who left a really bizarre essay on the post you're talking about (linked above), I would still like to address the comments on that post:A

[More aka fully essay under the cut cos as always it got long 😂]

I am begging you to look up what colourblind casting is. We are not trying to erase their race or culture but it gives these white ass writers an out from writing about incredibly nuanced, complicated and mess history of oppression and colonisation. Because we know and have seen that these writers cannot handle the race conversation with any amount of tact. Why? Because they only have one token writer to represent each love interest every season and no sensitivity writers. Apparently white writers know best to write a poc's experience.

Colourblind casting allows the actors and characters to exist as their characters without being reduced to being their race. Hate to break it to you but being black (with Simon) and Indian (with the Sharmas) is a part of their identity but it is not a personality trait. Also just because they are colourblind cast doesn't mean the show would erase their culture and identity. Rather it allows the universe to ignore and not have a need to address why all these characters of colour are suddenly rich aristocrats in Regency London aka one of the whitest part of real history.

Now we have this limbo in the Bridgerton universe because these idiot writers wanted to talk about race but half-assed it and didn't follow through. In S1, we get a throwaway line with Lady D explaining why black people made it big in their times. I highly doubt the frivolous Queen Charlotte we got in S1 & 2 was powerful enough to eradicate all racism and slavery against black people in her 30-40 years of marriage but okay:

Honestly, Simon's father losing his mind over losing his title because his kid is not perfect - aka displaying trauma of having Model Minority Syndrome and wanting to uphold the perfect image of the Hastings name - did more for me discussing race on the show than Lady D's throwaway line.

Then during S2 promos (especially in articles), CVD and the team talked a BIG game about how India is SUPER relevant to the plot and it just ends up being a really silly and insignificant plot device to the raise the stakes of Kathony.

"I am leaving for India!"

"And that is not far enough!! Do you think there is a corner of the Earth that you can travel to far enough that could free me from this torment."

I guess these lines just don't have the same impact if she was from Somerset. They literally didn't need that but okay. The way they teased India, I fully expected to see the Sharmas to get off the ship and Lady D greeting them. Flashbacks to Kate growing up in India being doted on and loved by her parents and then completely having them ripped from her. But no where did all that screen time go?? TO COUSIN FUCKING JACK WHO WAS A ONE SEASON FLOP AND IS NEVER COMING BACK. That fucking nitwit had zero impact on the main plot like literally most of the side plots this season were SO FUCKING USELESS.

(Sidebar disclaimer: I adore Rupert Young!! And he did his best with the script he was given and was super slimy as Jack but if we cut out his scenes from S2, it literally affects nothing!! If yall wanna see him in a GOOD story where his character is utilised hella well, I recommend BBC's Merlin.

Also I didn't mind Eloise, Ben and Colin's arcs with Marina because the first two were developing the sibs for their respective seasons and the last one gave us some closure on Marina - a little shitty that in the end they made her a Pelican (alt ship name for P*lin) mouthpiece but whatever I'm at peace seeing my baby. Just too much Featheringtons and LW - the show is called Bridgerton after all not Featherington/Lady Whistledown 🙄)

All this to say, at the end of the day, all I wanted from Bridgerton was escapism. Just to watch pretty people who looked like me exist in a world where realistically it's not possible but it's fun to imagine. Just because it would have been blindcast doesn't mean we couldn't showcase some of our culture. It's like being in a diaspora and the Sharmas could have been Indians from a diaspora in the Somerset. It's that simple!!

I don't think that was unreasonable to ask or assume of the show the moment we watched the first S1 trailer. But whatever this is our problematic fave show we got and I love it even though I criticise it alot. Gotta be critical of the media you love.

Finally to directly answer that ask, babes it's my blog I can reblog whatever I want and if you don't like it feel free to unfollow or block me!

[That being said y'all if I didn't properly tag something as a trigger or squick, let me know. Same goes for ships or characters you don't like - I always do tag them so you can filter and block those tags! Just be open and polite with me about these things is all I ask].

As always if you aren't in my GC and read this far, thank you!!

[alrightsnaps]

As someone not a huge fan of Edwina, thank you for defending her lol. I am first and foremost a Kate defender/supporter. Do I agree with the way she went about some things? No. But she always put her family first in every scenario. You could see the love she had for Mary and Edwina and their well-being. Them and their love of her? I guess episode 8 showed it?

People need to realize that Edwina is only at fault for her cruelty against Kate and refusing to listen to her. Kate told her multiple times Anthony wouldn’t love her. He humiliated Kate at the races and Edwina didn’t care. She didn’t stick up for Kate or her father and mother after the Sheffields were cruel to them, etc. Anthony made enough “grand gestures” to imply that he had actual feelings for her - or at least what an 18 year old would believe to be love. Anthony. Is. At. Fault. when it comes to Edwina and her confusion.

Also people need to leave CC alone. Like you said, she has a right to ask for more as an actress, they didn’t have to do it. I won’t assume how she felt the direction the plot went, but I did side eye her a smidge during some Twitter debacles but I also kinda chalked it up to her being nervous about her first big role. I’m very glad she is no longer on there because I do not think that would’ve been good for her at all after the season dropped.

exactly, you perfectly summarised my feelings on edwina.

i found her behaviour towards kate to be horrible and that's something that merits criticism and was never addressed in the show. while kate may have made mistakes, her every decision was made with edwina in mind and i never felt like edwina acknowledged or appreciated that, or that she realised or cared about how much she hurt kate.

but yeah, for all anthony stans claim that he was upfront with her from the beginning bla bla bla, i found it perfectly reasonable that a teenager would romanticise his actions? even with kate as the voice of reason (thank god for older sisters) is an 18yo really expected to be on the receiving end of anthony’s speech in episode 2 and not romanticise it? teenagers fantasise for way less. of course what she took away from it was that Unlike Other Gentlemen who woo debutantes with pretty empty words, anthony was an honest and honourable man that may not wax poetry but would be there for her and she could always rely on. i’m not expecting someone that young and inexperienced to have the maturity of a grown woman and see the red flags when she's barely interacted with men in her life!

and yeah i’ve found cc annoying during the s2 promo (kinda felt like she'd built up a romantic version of edwina and anthony's relationship in her head that just wasn't there instead of acknowledging that anthony was an asshole to her character) plus the whole twitter debacle. i won't pretend she hasn't since received hate from the fandom cause she definitely has, but at the time of the whole poster mess kathony stans had absolutely no issue with her and were pretty excited to see her as edwina, which is why all the anger and blame was directed at the production.

but that's neither here nor there when it comes to her wanting more for her character, she was entitled to ask! it was up to the writers to say “yeah this is probably not a good idea but how about we go that direction?”. edwina could've had the same amount of screen time and cc the same amount of promo except it wouldn't be as a plot device that exists to stand between the leads, but as her own character. think anthony in s1. he got plenty of screen time and he was involved in simon and daphne’s story, but his character didn't solely exist to pose an obstacle in their story. he had an arc of his own that existed outside the main romance of the season.

[fayevalcntine]

I don’t know if you seen the EW article where Charithra explicitly says that she asked CVD to not make Edwina a plot device and to give her a story. I feel like that’s probably why a lot of the hate was targeted to her, since it seems like she may have asked for Edwina to be given more.

Also, apparently, Jonny was questioning the plot during filming because he was very confused on wether or not Kanthony get together.

As for interviews and press; They had moved around the other cast into different groups for interviews and you can see that the ‘date announcement’ Charithra was with Claudia and Luke Newton whereas all other videos in that set were the triangle.

I've heard about Charithra asking CVD to not make Edwina a plot device but to take that claim from a new actress that's just starting off and then making the assumption that she somehow "screwed" over Kate and Anthony makes no sense if you know how TV writing even works. Writers can ask or take note from actors who've played their characters for a longer time now and for someone like Jonny, who's made it very clear that he's planning on sticking around for future seasons of the show, it's believable for him to have asked for a scene with Gregory and Anthony and be given that since it would make sense for the character that he plays. If writers don't already have the season planned out or at least have a solid plan of what they want to do with the plot of it then whatever actors request or ask of them isn't gonna be taken into account unless they already want that. And Charithra asking for Edwina to not be a plot device isn't her thinking up the entire wedding episode, it's just her asking for her character to be more fleshed out. The writers could've easily done that in a different way if they wanted, but they went with the wedding route because a) drama, and b) they need a main conflict for Kate and Anthony and the original book's whole thing being "Anthony is afraid of dying young" would come off as very silly to audiences that expect some bigger high-stakes drama from a series like this. The way that Anthony is written on the show also makes it somewhat impossible for the main conflict to JUST be "Anthony can't tell his wife/himself that he loves her", since Anthony on the show, even while trying to be more detached, is still very emotional as a character and tied to what he feels. Whatever sort of detachment Anthony has in the books is taken away from the show when you have him witnessing his father's death first hand and then feeling overwhelmed but also witnessing his mother being depressed because of Edmund's death. That being said, I don't think the wedding was necessary as a plot point, but it's obvious that the writers didn't just insert it in because of Charithra.

Jonny questioning the plot for whether Kathony get together is fair because season 1 was still a closer adaptation for the first book since Simon and Daphne get married by the first half of it, and the same goes for Kate and Anthony as well. So to go from season 1 that adapts it's source material closely only to go into season 2 expecting for the main couple to get together by the middle yet not keep getting it can be definitely confusing.

[viscountess-sharma]

Hey this is a continuation of my thoughts

I think that because those pap pics showed such a huge wedding it’s Edwina and Anthony’s. Him being the viscount plus her being the diamond of the season leads me to believe that the ton is seriously going to want to watch this wedding. I also think thanks to Daphne marrying the duke last season there’s even more attention on the Bridgerton family. I don’t see Kate and Anthony having a huge wedding…it doesn’t seem their style in my opinion.

I think post Kate and Anthony being thrusted into marriage like the books after the wedding fiasco is gonna be angsty as hell. Like they’re gonna be longing for the other one but are still so scared to be vulnerable because of that hard ass exterior they present to protect themselves.

I’m sure in the carriage ride to their honeymoon is gonna be awkward as hell with a bunch of tension. It wouldn’t surprise me if Kate wants to be in her own room that night and Anthony goes to his own room.

But maybe in the middle of the night the thunderstorm happens and either Anthony knows Kate has a fear of storms and goes to him. Or maybe he doesn’t know and she goes to him for comfort. I’m sure sex is not far off from there.

I think the suitor for Kate is a great plot device for jealous Anthony. I mean he might be on the dance floor with Edwina but can’t pay attention because he keeps glancing over to see Kate who’s dancing with the suitor. Kate is looking over at Anthony doing the same thing. My bet is the look over at the other one…when the other one isn’t looking.

AWWW THEYRE SO DAMN STUBBORN LOVE THEM THO

But yeah that’s all I got

They could go with a big wedding for kathony for a lot of reasons in the show. It was a small private wedding for saphne in season 1 and they don't want to repeat the same for season 2 or they could proceed with that just because violet felt like having a big wedding for her son???!?

Btw you've got some great ideas for a very angsty, slow burn kathony fanfic right there!!! Thanks for sharing them!!!

[viscountessevie]

The main focus of a season should be the lead couple and for secondary characters the bridgertons and the family of the love interest. I think the key should be to make the audience care about the siblings separately (as secondary characters) so we can be invested for the season each are the focus, instead of focusing on other families (you know who), LW and dead-end romances used for plot devices (Sienna) or to prove a character is not gay (Theo). Lady D can have focus, as a treat

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You're so right anon!! Thanks for the ask and waiting paitently for me to get to yours 😁

So the very first bit you're totally right the main focus should be the Bridgertons, it is called Bridgerton after all! And yess secondary characters and plot should be fleshing out the latest future Bridgerton and their family but in the case of the Featherflops, cameos the last two seasons would have been nice then shove them down Pelicans' throats in their season.

The LW reveal was so fucking unnesscary in S1 it just got dragged out and boring knowing it's her. It would have been more interesting to keep the reveal for their season like the book and minimise her crimes cos now she's just completely irredeemable.

Okay so the 'dead-end' romances is where I gotta disagree with you, anon. I actually adored Siena and Anthony. Then again I did start out as a show viewer then I met the formidable Kate via the books. After becoming a Kathony, I realised I wouldn't change Ant's S1 arc it really fleshed him out and prepped him for his story with Kate in S2. Yes, I bitch about how they fundamentally changed TVWLM in S2, but the one good thing the writers surprisingly pull off was Anthony's arc. The parallels and stark differences between his relationship with Siena and Kate respectively were *chef's kiss* and that was more than enough so I don't understand why we needed to add Eddie into the mix. Anyways I disgress. That's my take on how Siena served Anthony's arc and it worked especially in the manner of fleshing out the other Bridgerton sibs. I'm not saying all of them need to have a romance before their endgame but sometimes it helps.

You're so right to say Theo (and by extension Tessa - Ben's model classmate) were used to make El and Ben straightified this season but God forbid we let a single Bridgerton be queer. 😤

However, I did like Theo's purpose - should have been Theodora - to open up El to a world she's not experienced before and finally put some action to all her preaching while introducing the notion that she could fall in love. Because we love our little funky aroace lesbian but we also need to see her open to being in love before she settles ends up with Phillip. Otherwise, just like in the books it's going to be jarring for her to be super againdt love and marriage and then ends up with plant boy making it seem like she was only doing it cos she felt left behind in life by her peers.

Lady D deserves a focus as a treat!! But I no longer want her involved in EVERY Bridgerton romance. I love her but S2 made me annoyed with her because they basically had her replace Mary like wtf. They should just stick her to the romances she was involved in the books (Pelican and Hyreth) but I did like the change that LD was involved with Saphne cos she was Simon's godmom. But in the meantime aside from S3 and a poential S7, she and QC can vibe in the background maybe get a cameo from a certain grandson (god I would kill for childhood besties Hyreth).

Honestly we should just overthrow the writers' room and write the show. I swear whatever we seem to have come up with is miles ahead better than the mess the last 2 seasons have been. (S1 was pretty good as an adaptation; just hated the rushed resolution)

If you made it this far, thank you for reading!

[alrightsnaps]

I wouldn't worry at all about Edwina not coming back. There is almost no way she won't be coming back in some capacity for season 3. She was one of leads of this season, and just because she's not a Bridgerton doesn't mean that show can't focus on her character. They focus on so many non-Bridgerton characters already.

I think, most likely, Charithra is just feeling a little uncertain and nervous because she hasn't heard anything official yet 🥺

But I don't think she has anything to worry about :)

I really hope so! I'm just worried because Kathony was confirmed for future seasons but we haven't heard anything about Edwina yet and Charithra's comment doesn't make me feel hopeful.

I was pretty disappointed by the way Edwina and Mary's characters were treated by the production in general tbh. I had high hopes about their roles and was even hoping they'd keep them around as part of the ensemble in the future, but they couldn't even do them justice in the season that corresponds to Kate's story so I don't know how realistic that is. Edwina was reduced to a plot device and Mary barely got an arc. Her backstory was scrapped (through it was filmed), Shelley was completely excluded from promo and even Lady Danbury got to do more parenting than her when it comes to Kate for fuck's sake.

I guess not everyone can be a Featherington and be shoved down the audience's throats throughout the show.

[viscountessevie]

I may rushed it or it could just only be me—

But I must say this.

Anthony had his grand speech.

Edwina had her grand speech.

But Kate was all over the place. Why was she there for? For her sister? And found love for herself? My mother pointer out, very unsettling for me, that Kate doesn't seek to have any lasting effect on her as Edwina. She is the protagonist and yet......

It's definitely me and mum right????

Heya Anon! Thank you so much for the ask and for waiting while I let all my asks sit for the last two weeks. I've just been trying to process the season before answering asks about the new season and also managing some irl personal stuff but I digress.

Everything is under the cut because this got long as always lmao:

When I first saw this in my inbox I'll be honestly I had no idea how to answer it because the lasting impression bit dumbfounded me (so allow me to answer that bit first!).

To me, Kate wasn't lacking or forgettable. But that's my experience and how Kate had already made her place in my heart after I read TVWLM after S1. Even more so when Simone was cast as her because I saw a lot of myself in Kate Sheffield but now Kate Sharma reflected someone who looked like me on the outside as well!!

So no matter how little screen time she got, Kate was always going to blow me away and leave an impact on me.

However, rereading your ask and in retrospect given how much time Kathony and Eddie got compared to the useless B Plots *cough* stupid LW, Cousin Jack and while I love how entertaining Pru, Portia and Philly can be, their screen time this season was 15 mins too long *cough*

Kate was very much shortchanged and compared to Anthony who got his backstory and Kate didn't, it was a very glaring difference. It was really a disservice to the character we loved so much in the book. And it's even more disappointing that your mom had a more lasting impression of Edwina from her breakdown wedding day speech (can we PLEASE get Charithra the Emmy she deserves for that scene). I'm happy for Eddie getting the love she deserves and having a shiny new backbone and agency compared to the books but where was the enhancement and improved characterisation for Kate??

CVD and his team can't say they want to write three dimensional women and then go throw two sisters with the best bond into a love triangle like wtf.

On that note, even if he fleshed out Edwina this season, she was still reduced into a plot device role and was an obstacle for Kathony to overcome. It is SO ironic that CVD thought he did something with Eddie this season. Yes, she wasn't as docile like in the book but as Nia @missfairygodmother pointed out in her post here in a way Eddie had more of a personality in the books. Her main role this season just seemed to be the diamond.

Yes, we did get some insight of her being a nerd and studious but as Molly @newtonsheffield has pointed out in her Ton & Tea videos that while Edwina is very talented in all these things - a polygot, can dance all three dances on the regency dance floor, etc, she had to be taught somehow. It is implied that Kate taught her so Kate has to know all these things too. So I wish we got Book!Eddie's quirks of always carrying a book around, being bored with dumbass Anthony, unconditionally loving her sister. I honestly hated the love triangle with a passion because my fave comedy moments in the book was Anthony and Edwina platonic relationship. They literally had NO romantic chemistry, it was literally crickets every time they talked but like after he marries Kate, he takes her under his wing like a sister because she is Eloise's age so he should have always viewed as a younger sister type!

I'm just really upset that the creative team wanted to prop up Eddie but it was done at the expense of Kate's character. Eddie got to pop off in Episode 6 - WHERE WAS MY DAMN STORMS BACKSTORY IN EP 3 HMMM CVD?? If not Ep3, give it to us in Ep4 AT THE LITERAL LIBRARY STORM SCENE!! Do you know how excited I was to see the library still in the trailer? Super excited, it was one of the turning points of Kathony for me but we didn't get it SIGH.

All in all, anon if you read this far, please know that it's not just your mom and you. The writers did Simone and Kate SO DIRTY this season by not giving her enough screen time or explicit conversations about her past. They always say "Show, not tell" WELL THE WRITERS DID NEITHER FOR KATE THIS SEASON, Simone did it all her damn self. We love to see our queen take the reins of her character and shine on her own when Netflix and the promo are failing to promote her as their lead.

Thanks again for reading all of this unhinged takes from me if you made it this far!

[alrightsnaps]

The whole Netflix thing like yes Simone is there but she might as well be a side character? And where is Shelley Conn?? Where is charithra?? Why tf is there constant clips of the Queen and Penelope like no one gives a fuck. EW was a huge snub and do you see how people react to getting glimpses of Simone? Why wouldn't you promote her? I'm so sick of this.

I didn't mind the clip of the Queen because Golda was in the Graham Norton Show so it made sense.. Plus there will be the spin off show about the Queen so I don't think her character will be taking too much screen time away from mains or anything.

But I agree sooo much about Penelope. Seriously, who gave a fuck about the stupid Whistledown b-plot in s01? LW is a very successful plot device (bless Julie Andrews) but she's just that: A PLOT DEVICE. No one cares about some extended arc on trying to unmask her except Eloise lmao

Simone has been reduced to a side character while they're giving photoshoots and covers and interviews to Nicola for the minor role she has, and trying to sell her character as a protagonist or something. Shelley Conn is hidden away by the production and not even included in any promo. Charithra is the only one of their Sharmas they've put some minimal effort in giving some visibility but (of course!) nowhere near Nicola and her Honorary Main Character.

I'm getting so fucking frustrated by all of this, this season should be about Simone's breakout role, her and Jonathan teasing the public about Kathony and the world falling in love with Kate and Anthony’s love story, instead all I'm seeing is Nicola being pushed as the face of the show.