#bridgerton 2x03

[forbescaroline]

235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 17. anthony bridgerton and kate sharma - bridgerton

[alokarotativa]

If I got a coin every time my favorite ship did a scene where a panic attack was comforted with a steady hand above the heartbeat

I'd have two.

Not that much but it's AMAZING that it happened twice.

[kajaono]

Keep on thinking about Anything crying a single tear after he nearly kissed Kate at the end of 2x03 (after the bee scene).

And I think you have to read the book to fully understand where this tear is coming from. He grew up thinking he would die young, he would never outlive his father. So he never made future plans for himself, only for his family, making sure the money stays in the family. His happiness was never important to him, because he dies anyway. So why bother?

The moment he nearly kisses Kate is the moment his heart finally starts beating again. And where he realizes that he doesn't want to die, that there is future for him out there. But he still thinks that he doesn't deserve this future, that he will never be able to witness this future. And for the first time his heart starts mourning this future. Because he realize he could have it, he COULD. if he wouldn't die young.

This tear isn't about Edwina imo. He is crying because Kate showed him his future... and he believes, that even when he agrees to marry Kate, he would die young and leaving her behind, mourning and suffering. So he closes himself from all desires and hopes

[autumnrory]

she wrote one helpful thing about madame delacroix and she's like okay now can you help me with my business skjdjkfs

[chenfordsbee]

Bonus:

“I see you are not one for losing.”

[dailybridgerton]

BRIDGERTON — S1E3 | S2E3 | S3E4

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[waltricia]

Bridgerton season 2 episode 3, “A Bee in Your Bonnet” is ✨magic✨ and let me tell you why.

For those of us who didn’t read the book and knew nothing of what was going to happen, we truly went on an incredible and surprising roller coaster of an experience.

We start the episode with seeing the guy from Hellboy and being like ‘oh yay, it’s the guy from Hellboy!’

… only for him to die three minutes later. And that scene is rough. It’s sudden and abrasive. And the sounds are jarring. The death is scored by tense strings. Then a moment of quiet. Then the AMAZING Ruth Gemmell begins taking us on Violet’s traumatic grief journey, which starts with her jolting Anthony (and us) out of the quiet.

And a thunderous heartbeat threatens him as he walks toward this entirely altered, unwanted life path. And that’s obviously the beginning of his PTSD.

In the other flashbacks throughout the episode, we continue to hear horrific, heart-rending pain radiate out of Violet while Anthony must not only attempt to endure it, but cover his own grief. Anthony and his siblings (and again, we the audience) all have to listen to Violet grieve while she’s giving birth! Screams on top of screams.

And the last flashback is technically quiet, but just as devastating because, like the moment of Edmund’s death, the quiet is weaponized. It signifies the death inside Violet.

It should go without saying that Jonathan Bailey is also a brilliant actor, but I’ll say it now anyway. Damn, he good! He and Ruth partnered perfectly in this grief journey. Serious props to them both because I felt this shit.

And then finally we come to the end. We had been immersed in the horrible aftermath of that striking tragedy. Between the flashbacks- in the present day- we had followed Anthony through the rooms and grounds where he had suffered silently. We had seen Edmund’s grave. We had learned that Anthony’s greatest fears and insecurities all stemmed from that tragic event ten years prior.

And then another fucking bee comes along.

And I swear to god, the first time I watched this, when Kate got stung, my heart was pounding, I was terrified, and my instinctive reaction was “oh my god, is she going to die?!” In hindsight, it’s obviously insane to think that she would be killed off at all, let alone in this scene. But the very fact that, for a moment, that was a legitimate fear I had is exactly why this episode is so god damn brilliant. I felt what Anthony felt. And I’m not the only one! I’ve seen other people’s similar reactions to this scene. The episode really is a roller coaster; easy, lighthearted moments (pall mall, drug tea), interspersed with the terrifying drops and loops that are Anthony’s painful memories which constantly haunt him. And then it brought us right back to that first traumatic moment. Because Anthony has PTSD! And that’s what PTSD does. Anthony is right back where he was, literally not far from the same spot outside Aubrey Hall, standing in front of a person he loves, watching them get stung by a bee on almost the same spot on their body. The tense string scoring comes back and Anthony panics because he’s completely helpless again.

And all of those elements- the setting, the scoring, the acting- combined to terrify us and make us forget something critical: most people don’t die from beestings.

And here’s where it gets really profound for me. Because it’s not just about how we feel Anthony’s fear. It’s also about how Kate completely obliterates it. Without knowing that history and without realizing the full extent of what her actions would mean, she does exactly the right thing. Rather than die and rather than also panic or shy away from his vulnerability, she meets it with her own in the form of care and steady assurance, which is true strength. And in so doing, she stops this cyclical moment in its tracks and completely alters the trauma. She puts his hand on her heart, and the heartbeat comes back. But this time, it’s not threatening. It’s inviting.

And just like in the first scene, the moment is over all too quickly. Just like in that scene, Anthony is thrust onto a new path. But where that moment was damaging, this one is healing. And we feel that too. And it’s the greatest experience that art can give us.

It’s catharsis.

And that’s why this episode is magic. 🐝✨

[kanthonydaily]

@kateanthonyweek Kate Sharma Appreciation Week | day 3: “Newton is an excellent judge of character”

[dailyeloise]

ELOISE BRIDGERTON 2.03 | A Bee in Your Bonnet

[forbescaroline]

TOP 5/10 CHARACTERS PER SHOW (as voted by my followers) ↳ bridgerton edition #1. Kate Sharma portrayed by Simone Ashley

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BRIDGERTON 1.01 ‘Diamond of the First Water’ & 2.03 ‘A Bee in Your Bonnet’ ↳ requested by @mimix007; side-by-side of Anthony during the Vauxhall dance and Kate during Pall-Mall, angrily watching their siblings with suitors.

[autumnrory]

omg kate's immediate reaction to the bridgerton home this IS so pride and prejudice

[chenfordsbee]

the kanthony nod

[dailybridgerton]

QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY (2023) — BRIDGERTON (2020-)