guys there DOES still seem to be an audio issue in the insert part right before the super spoilers - all I was saying was that there might be bigger spoilers than i realized when i recorded that warning so PLEASE be careful watching that part if you don't want spoilers for later in the show!!!
Book Colin - perpetual man child Book Pen - spreads vicious gossip but book treats it as if she's an angel and everyone is okay with it. loses weight to get the guy. Book Eloise - okay with Pen writing gossip about her family behind her back (whether good or malicious) Book Edwina - totally okay with Anthony secretly lusting after her older sister and them wanting to bump each other in the sheets Netflix Colin - has manners- treats Pen with care Netflix Pen - is a complex human being who is neither wholly good or wholly bad. She writes vicious things about her best friend and her family and no- no one is okay with it. Has a somewhat vicious personality while still being relatable and interesting and sympathetic to watch. Also does not have to lose weight to get with the guy. In fact. looks like she gained some. good for her. Netflix Eloise - is NOT okay with Pen writing gossip about her family behind her back. Netflix Edwina - is definitely not okay with Anthony and her sister's love tension behind her back. Netflix-realistic portrayals of human beings with a personality. Book- some weird fantasy that would never happen in real life. ever. not even remotely. .......................................................................so it's really not a bad thing for Netflix not to follow the books in this case. They are taking the meat of the story, but making sure these characters are not only relatable but also realistic emotions, reactions and tensions barring some embellishing of historical accuracy.
I’ll be unpopular here: I don’t care about the Mondriches. I don’t care about Cressida (although I don’t mind a little bit of a development arch). I dont even care about Francesca right now. Pollin feels like a side story to all the other plots going on, it actually feels more like Francesca’s season. I don’t think they developed pen and Collin enough for me to believe it, and the carriage scene felt forced and rushed and out of nowhere. They need more episodes of they’re going to have this many side stories
i 100% agree on needing more episodes, enough with this 8 episode season thing!! give me 22 episodes of pining and i am sat. The carriage scene was for sure rushed but im a sucker for that kind of scene so i loved it anyway!!
from what netflix is doing with there business, im just living with the polin crumbs like idc anymore if its not emmie winning show content. i am just thankful i will get to see my bitches be together. like im tired a lot of my ships being sunked by cancelations
the earl that francesca is interested it has the same name as the guy she married in the books (who died). sooo i think they just wanted to start her storyline in this season to show her second husband in her season
@@meredithnovacoand the guy she ends up actually falling in love with is Lord John Stirling’s cousin, Michael. When John dies, Michael actually inherits the title, further complicating the story. Not to mention, Michael always jokes about being a total cad and Francesca believes this and teases him about it.
The problem is that in the books theres actually a ton of overlap- but also the books cover a TON more time. So they're trying to cram in the fact that eloise/penelope/francesca's books all take place within a year, but those are supposed to be like, 10 years after daphne's book. so its just feeling extra crammed.
I liked that they are setting off Francesca's story already. Actually hers, Colin's and Eloise's need some built up time and they are also intertwined and basically take place at the same time. So I am not at all against having the focus on more than one sibling in the season. I do think they should connect the stories together a bit. At least that way they do not need to invent a ton of other characters not in the book 😄 Francesca needs some time to be happily married and then grieve before we can meet Michael. I don't think they will just drop Francesca's story. They just need to set it up first. What happened now imo is pretty much taken straight out of the book. I think it was implied Fran and John were indeed a love match, and it was a whirlwind happening in her first season. Eloise needs some time to establish the friendship with Philipp. Also from what I understood, it was quite common for british Gentry to spent the summer (?) at their country homes and then return to London for ball season, so I didn't think them mentioning Eloise beeing at the country side was a missed opportunity at all. For me, this was just to show/say that time had passed. I really didn't like Eloise's book though. Benedict's was alright. I loved Francesca though! I do felt the same about Colin and Penelope that you did though, both book and show. Edit: it's thought that Benedict is next... But his story also needs building up, which they also would need to do this season at least...
I don't remember eloise writing letter to sir philip and running away at the end of the last episode. She was sneaking out to go to the printer guy and we can see her at the end of the last episode i think. She didn't stay at pen's house but she didn't run away from home...
@jh-hh6vs yes i know, i think it's awful too. I was referring to what the girl in the video said, she said that in the last season eloise was writing mysterious letters but she never did that. I hope they don't let her marry sir Philip he's awful
My biggest issue with s2 is that I left the show still not liking Kates sister and I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the goal. I wish they would have kept her character specifically more like the book because it would make it more realistic to have the couple forgiven in the end. For S3 I wish we would have stayed away from Pen wanting to marry cause that wasn’t a part of the book and it makes Colin’s yearn for Penelope more genuine. But to be fair we haven’t seen all of s3 so I’ll give it grace.
I agree with you that the main characters (and really only the main characters) in this season seem more like their book selves than in last season. This season seems almost fanfiction-y to me in the way that whole scenes are lifted almost verbatim from the book while the plot is practically unrecognizable. Crucially, book Colin already knew about Whistledown prior to asking Pen to marry him. Book Eloise is the last to know, and her finding out was super anti-climactic. There is a level of heightened drama that really does feel like fanfiction. With as much as things have changed in these first three (or two and a half, anyway) seasons, I have no idea where they are or even can go with every other story.
yeah it feels kind of like outlander where they've made decisions now that makes it so hard for them to stick to the later books, like they've backed themselves into changing things now which is disappointing but hopefully the seasons are still good!
7:52 Same!! Finally found youtuber who has same thought about main couple in s2. I thought I was the only one, well actually i think I saw maybe few people who didn't get Kanthony together or separately, majority liked them for some reason 🤷♀️. While I felt bad for Edwina. However they (Kathony) are completely fine in s3. Did 180° turn on their characters - They are completely different people in s3.
That was precisely the point Kate explained why they can no longer be those people and how they have to change together. It wasn’t great writing and was really fast to happen but a person changing like that in marriage is pretty common.
Acording to Julia its not innthe contract to folow the books. The Show does what feels more natruel to them vs the books Ther even go as far as mayby not foing a book couple abd changing it completly
I read the first 2 bridgerton books after i watched the show and the rest of the books after I watched the show as well and honestly. I prefer the show in both instances.
My main saying for book to film adaptations is: "Stick as close to the books as possible EXCEPT íf the source material contans sth1. problematic thats romantacised, 2. illogical or just doesn´t make any sense or 3. it´s not neccessarily bad but bc book and film are two different medias, it wouldn´t work". And that´s why im extremely torn apart regarding season 3 bc I feel like there are too many changes but I don´t really know how they could´ve done it more accurately with the so far canon of the show
I’m glad they don’t follow the books. I’m not too fond of book Polin and from what I’ve heard of the other books, I’m glad the show made some changes 🤷🏾♀️
*SPOILER* This comment contains spoilers for future seasons. Francesca's presence in this season is set up for her book, this is what happens prior to her story as in her story she is a widow. Her romance is with the brother of her late husband who receives the title because she was not able to "produce" an heir. At the end of this season I also expect to set up the opening scene for Benedict's story where he will meet Sophie for the first time. It's also quite possible they combine his season with Eloise's story if they follow the book.
I am not sure how familiar you are with the producer Shonda and Shondaland shows in general - but she does tend to think very far ahead but is also conscious of current circumstances. I do think (hope) they will revisit Eloise’s book storyline that they set up in some capacity, but that dialing back what they did set up in the previous two seasons had a lot to do with the personal happenings with the actress who played Marina and specifically her IRL mental health struggles and her public criticism of the streamer and producers for not taking proper care and consideration or providing support. I just found your channel and I enjoyed this video and commentary and perspective!
oh i didnt know that! thank you for commenting!! ill have to look into that, i hope they also revisit Eloise's season in the way they set it up but we'll just have to wait and see!!
I want Benedict from books so much. I loved Cinderella's retelling and all characters in it😭 and now i feel like we got really far from that with the movie and im so saaaad
This was such a well thought out review of this season! Especially as someone who hasn't read the books. I expected a bit more classic "love story" from this season but there's still 4 episodes left. So we'll see. You should make another analysis once the second part comes out! Also off topic but your hair is so pretty❤️
I haven't finished watching the video yet, but I feel like I should write something. I soo much agree that in the second season the two main characters were unlikable, I hated them the whole season and at one point I didn't even care what was going to happen to them, the only thing I hoped was that they would stop pretending that they can't stand each other just because I didn't want them to ruin the life of poor Edwina who was clueless. And I share that feeling of loneliness, because everyone loved the second season and its main characters, but it really bothered me how they behaved and how they were literally about to ruin a little girl's life just because they both thought they knew better what was right for other people, when in fact they didn't even know what was right for themselves. I still struggle to understand how so many people could have liked this couple and what they mean when they talk about tension between the two, I just felt extreme annoyance and wanted to scream when they were on the scene.
@@catelyngrace6903 “I would never dream of” could be interpreted as “I am not good enough for her, I would not as she’s out of my league”, if he would have said “I would not court Penelope Featherington ever” that would have been a straight up insult…
I feel like my expectations of what the show is doing to line up with the books is completely different from your interpretation. my interpretation of the francesca season we are seeing right now is that its the relationship with John that the book just glosses over so that when she has her own season its better set up than the movies. Also for Elosies story, i think they are still 100% setting up sir phillip as her love interest, why else would they bring him in season 1?.
I don’t like show Penelope and it’s so weird that people do…like it seems like people who got bullied are projecting into Penelope when she’s also a mean ass girl. -Was jealous of Marina and almost ruined her family and got Marina kicked out on the street. Marina almost killed herself to get an abortion because of what she did. She could have gone to Eloise, Anthony, hell even Violet and told the truth but she wanted to make sure that marina was ruined to guarantee no wedding because she knew colin would want to marry marina anyway if he knew the truth. She acts like she owns Colin she’s a female incel when it comes to Colin I swear. - bankrupted a random modiste to save her ass. I repeat bankrupted a random woman -called Daphne unmarriagable -called Kate a prickly BEAST???? Hello??? -ELOISE -antagonized queen charlotte and made fun of a death in her family. Penelope fans are WEIRD and the show rewards her why couldn’t they follow the books and write Penelope like that.
Only Book Penelope was no better, she spread vicious rummors about people (including Bridgerton) and the book treated it as girl-bossing. I mean Eloise (unlike Netflix's version) was absolutely okay with the fact that Lady Whistledown was spreading rummors about her and her family after she found out that Pen is Whistledown. At the end of the book when Colin announced to Bridgerton that Penelope is Lady Whistledown what did they do? They congratulated, celebrated her. As if she wasn't the one to gossip about them Come on, yes, Penelope in the show is no better, but at least the show doesn't glorify her the way the books did. Eloise casts her away, there is drama with the Queen (and possible consequences of the game Lady Whistledown plays), we are shown how Penelope herself suffers consequences of her own work But it's kind of the point of the show you know? Lady Whistledown is imperative part of the story and her gossip is necessity (and to be honest one of not many truly interesting parts of this show). I doubt many people would watch this show if it wasn't for Lady Whistledown and her scandals. I wouldn't for sure. This show would be boring to no end if it was just about one couple that falls in love and gets married and has a child. Lady Whistledown would be boring if her entire purpose was to just notify people about events with no drama and no spice. Nobody says that Penelope is the best character in the show, or even morally good character. But she's interesting, and it's enough to make people like her (just like people like Joker or Loki or any other ethnically ambiguous character - and those are literally criminals)
Thanks for this analysis. I've read only _The Duke and I_ and I've just watched all of the TV series, one episode a day. I decided it wasn't worth watching the rest. The TV series is too scattered and too modernized for me. I like Regency romances, and the TV series is so far from any degree of historical accuracy it isn't one. I was wondering if the books were worth reading, and it doesn't sound like they are.
I. What do you guys think: *no thoughts, brain empty* II. Did you watch the show yet: no idea what the show is III. Have you read the books: ...books? IV. Do you agree with my theories: Queen Meredith is always right 🤲 V. How we all feeling: great, the video was very fun! Thanks!
I’m more than okay with changes on some cases like for example is they were to change Eloise’s entire story I would be so happy. That book was awful and it doesn’t make any sense for show Eloise’s personality.
guys there DOES still seem to be an audio issue in the insert part right before the super spoilers - all I was saying was that there might be bigger spoilers than i realized when i recorded that warning so PLEASE be careful watching that part if you don't want spoilers for later in the show!!!
I love spoilers lol
Book Colin - perpetual man child
Book Pen - spreads vicious gossip but book treats it as if she's an angel and everyone is okay with it. loses weight to get the guy.
Book Eloise - okay with Pen writing gossip about her family behind her back (whether good or malicious)
Book Edwina - totally okay with Anthony secretly lusting after her older sister and them wanting to bump each other in the sheets
Netflix Colin - has manners- treats Pen with care
Netflix Pen - is a complex human being who is neither wholly good or wholly bad. She writes vicious things about her best friend and her family and no- no one is okay with it. Has a somewhat vicious personality while still being relatable and interesting and sympathetic to watch. Also does not have to lose weight to get with the guy. In fact. looks like she gained some. good for her.
Netflix Eloise - is NOT okay with Pen writing gossip about her family behind her back.
Netflix Edwina - is definitely not okay with Anthony and her sister's love tension behind her back.
Netflix-realistic portrayals of human beings with a personality.
Book- some weird fantasy that would never happen in real life. ever. not even remotely.
.......................................................................so it's really not a bad thing for Netflix not to follow the books in this case. They are taking the meat of the story, but making sure these characters are not only relatable but also realistic emotions, reactions and tensions barring some embellishing of historical accuracy.
Agree completely!
🎯 my thoughts exactly
I’ll be unpopular here: I don’t care about the Mondriches. I don’t care about Cressida (although I don’t mind a little bit of a development arch). I dont even care about Francesca right now. Pollin feels like a side story to all the other plots going on, it actually feels more like Francesca’s season. I don’t think they developed pen and Collin enough for me to believe it, and the carriage scene felt forced and rushed and out of nowhere. They need more episodes of they’re going to have this many side stories
I don't think it's unpopular, I totally agree!
i 100% agree on needing more episodes, enough with this 8 episode season thing!! give me 22 episodes of pining and i am sat. The carriage scene was for sure rushed but im a sucker for that kind of scene so i loved it anyway!!
from what netflix is doing with there business, im just living with the polin crumbs like idc anymore if its not emmie winning show content. i am just thankful i will get to see my bitches be together. like im tired a lot of my ships being sunked by cancelations
the earl that francesca is interested it has the same name as the guy she married in the books (who died). sooo i think they just wanted to start her storyline in this season to show her second husband in her season
oof rip in advance... poor guy
@@meredithnovacoand the guy she ends up actually falling in love with is Lord John Stirling’s cousin, Michael. When John dies, Michael actually inherits the title, further complicating the story. Not to mention, Michael always jokes about being a total cad and Francesca believes this and teases him about it.
It makes a lot more sense - just as they did with Eloise’s eventual turn
The problem is that in the books theres actually a ton of overlap- but also the books cover a TON more time. So they're trying to cram in the fact that eloise/penelope/francesca's books all take place within a year, but those are supposed to be like, 10 years after daphne's book. so its just feeling extra crammed.
I liked that they are setting off Francesca's story already. Actually hers, Colin's and Eloise's need some built up time and they are also intertwined and basically take place at the same time. So I am not at all against having the focus on more than one sibling in the season. I do think they should connect the stories together a bit. At least that way they do not need to invent a ton of other characters not in the book 😄
Francesca needs some time to be happily married and then grieve before we can meet Michael. I don't think they will just drop Francesca's story. They just need to set it up first. What happened now imo is pretty much taken straight out of the book. I think it was implied Fran and John were indeed a love match, and it was a whirlwind happening in her first season.
Eloise needs some time to establish the friendship with Philipp. Also from what I understood, it was quite common for british Gentry to spent the summer (?) at their country homes and then return to London for ball season, so I didn't think them mentioning Eloise beeing at the country side was a missed opportunity at all. For me, this was just to show/say that time had passed.
I really didn't like Eloise's book though. Benedict's was alright. I loved Francesca though! I do felt the same about Colin and Penelope that you did though, both book and show.
Edit: it's thought that Benedict is next... But his story also needs building up, which they also would need to do this season at least...
I don't remember eloise writing letter to sir philip and running away at the end of the last episode. She was sneaking out to go to the printer guy and we can see her at the end of the last episode i think. She didn't stay at pen's house but she didn't run away from home...
The book Eloise writes Sir Philip letters and leaves to visit him after Pen marries Colin. Eloise’s book is in my opinion is awful.
@jh-hh6vs yes i know, i think it's awful too. I was referring to what the girl in the video said, she said that in the last season eloise was writing mysterious letters but she never did that. I hope they don't let her marry sir Philip he's awful
100 years or more ago people would have looked at us today and thought we were crazy for essentially staring at a wall and talking to ourselves.
My biggest issue with s2 is that I left the show still not liking Kates sister and I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the goal. I wish they would have kept her character specifically more like the book because it would make it more realistic to have the couple forgiven in the end.
For S3 I wish we would have stayed away from Pen wanting to marry cause that wasn’t a part of the book and it makes Colin’s yearn for Penelope more genuine. But to be fair we haven’t seen all of s3 so I’ll give it grace.
I really wished they’d kept Kate’s abject terror of thunderstorms in. It was a perfect tie to Anthony’s fear of bees.
Good to see the reupload. I thought it was weird it just cut. Happy to watch the video again, it’s a good video.
Thank you!! I’m glad I could figure it out, there was a point yesterday that I thought I’d have to scrap the video 😭
I agree with you that the main characters (and really only the main characters) in this season seem more like their book selves than in last season. This season seems almost fanfiction-y to me in the way that whole scenes are lifted almost verbatim from the book while the plot is practically unrecognizable. Crucially, book Colin already knew about Whistledown prior to asking Pen to marry him. Book Eloise is the last to know, and her finding out was super anti-climactic. There is a level of heightened drama that really does feel like fanfiction. With as much as things have changed in these first three (or two and a half, anyway) seasons, I have no idea where they are or even can go with every other story.
yeah it feels kind of like outlander where they've made decisions now that makes it so hard for them to stick to the later books, like they've backed themselves into changing things now which is disappointing but hopefully the seasons are still good!
7:52 Same!! Finally found youtuber who has same thought about main couple in s2. I thought I was the only one, well actually i think I saw maybe few people who didn't get Kanthony together or separately, majority liked them for some reason 🤷♀️. While I felt bad for Edwina.
However they (Kathony) are completely fine in s3. Did 180° turn on their characters - They are completely different people in s3.
Love and comfort can change a person
That was precisely the point Kate explained why they can no longer be those people and how they have to change together. It wasn’t great writing and was really fast to happen but a person changing like that in marriage is pretty common.
Yes! I felt like I was the only one who felt this way. I think Shondaland 100% made Kate and Anthony worse people, which sucks.
Acording to Julia its not innthe contract to folow the books.
The Show does what feels more natruel to them vs the books
Ther even go as far as mayby not foing a book couple abd changing it completly
Penelope gave some of her money to them by acting as the aunt that's why the mother referenced the money under the floorboards
I read the first 2 bridgerton books after i watched the show and the rest of the books after I watched the show as well and honestly. I prefer the show in both instances.
My main saying for book to film adaptations is: "Stick as close to the books as possible EXCEPT íf the source material contans sth1. problematic thats romantacised, 2. illogical or just doesn´t make any sense or 3. it´s not neccessarily bad but bc book and film are two different medias, it wouldn´t work". And that´s why im extremely torn apart regarding season 3 bc I feel like there are too many changes but I don´t really know how they could´ve done it more accurately with the so far canon of the show
I’m glad they don’t follow the books. I’m not too fond of book Polin and from what I’ve heard of the other books, I’m glad the show made some changes 🤷🏾♀️
*SPOILER*
This comment contains spoilers for future seasons.
Francesca's presence in this season is set up for her book, this is what happens prior to her story as in her story she is a widow. Her romance is with the brother of her late husband who receives the title because she was not able to "produce" an heir.
At the end of this season I also expect to set up the opening scene for Benedict's story where he will meet Sophie for the first time. It's also quite possible they combine his season with Eloise's story if they follow the book.
Thanks so much for the thorough spoiler warnings!!
I think Eloise season she’s going to runaway and everybody in London scrambling to find her while trying to avoid a scandal in the process
I am not sure how familiar you are with the producer Shonda and Shondaland shows in general - but she does tend to think very far ahead but is also conscious of current circumstances. I do think (hope) they will revisit Eloise’s book storyline that they set up in some capacity, but that dialing back what they did set up in the previous two seasons had a lot to do with the personal happenings with the actress who played Marina and specifically her IRL mental health struggles and her public criticism of the streamer and producers for not taking proper care and consideration or providing support.
I just found your channel and I enjoyed this video and commentary and perspective!
oh i didnt know that! thank you for commenting!! ill have to look into that, i hope they also revisit Eloise's season in the way they set it up but we'll just have to wait and see!!
They had to start Fran’s story this season because of what’s going to happen in her own season.
I want Benedict from books so much. I loved Cinderella's retelling and all characters in it😭 and now i feel like we got really far from that with the movie and im so saaaad
I’m so confused … when in season 2 did Eloise write letters to someone or run off to the country??
This was such a well thought out review of this season! Especially as someone who hasn't read the books. I expected a bit more classic "love story" from this season but there's still 4 episodes left. So we'll see. You should make another analysis once the second part comes out! Also off topic but your hair is so pretty❤️
Thank you so much!! I definitely will cover the back half of the season too!
I haven't finished watching the video yet, but I feel like I should write something. I soo much agree that in the second season the two main characters were unlikable, I hated them the whole season and at one point I didn't even care what was going to happen to them, the only thing I hoped was that they would stop pretending that they can't stand each other just because I didn't want them to ruin the life of poor Edwina who was clueless. And I share that feeling of loneliness, because everyone loved the second season and its main characters, but it really bothered me how they behaved and how they were literally about to ruin a little girl's life just because they both thought they knew better what was right for other people, when in fact they didn't even know what was right for themselves. I still struggle to understand how so many people could have liked this couple and what they mean when they talk about tension between the two, I just felt extreme annoyance and wanted to scream when they were on the scene.
Colin said “I would never dream of courting Penelope Featherington”, he didn’t say he would not… 🧐
What distinction between the two do you find?
@@catelyngrace6903 “I would never dream of” could be interpreted as “I am not good enough for her, I would not as she’s out of my league”, if he would have said “I would not court Penelope Featherington ever” that would have been a straight up insult…
I feel like my expectations of what the show is doing to line up with the books is completely different from your interpretation. my interpretation of the francesca season we are seeing right now is that its the relationship with John that the book just glosses over so that when she has her own season its better set up than the movies. Also for Elosies story, i think they are still 100% setting up sir phillip as her love interest, why else would they bring him in season 1?.
I hated polin’s book so much. The show definitely improved their story a lot. Benedict’s book was my fave by far.
Am I the only one that doesn't absolutely hate lady featherington? Lol
You aren't, I actually love her and her daughters. I'd rather watch her over any other side storylines.
@@AshleySamM I agree I find myself actually laughing and enjoying their storyline.
I don’t like show Penelope and it’s so weird that people do…like it seems like people who got bullied are projecting into Penelope when she’s also a mean ass girl.
-Was jealous of Marina and almost ruined her family and got Marina kicked out on the street. Marina almost killed herself to get an abortion because of what she did. She could have gone to Eloise, Anthony, hell even Violet and told the truth but she wanted to make sure that marina was ruined to guarantee no wedding because she knew colin would want to marry marina anyway if he knew the truth. She acts like she owns Colin she’s a female incel when it comes to Colin I swear.
- bankrupted a random modiste to save her ass. I repeat bankrupted a random woman
-called Daphne unmarriagable
-called Kate a prickly BEAST???? Hello???
-ELOISE
-antagonized queen charlotte and made fun of a death in her family.
Penelope fans are WEIRD and the show rewards her why couldn’t they follow the books and write Penelope like that.
Only Book Penelope was no better, she spread vicious rummors about people (including Bridgerton) and the book treated it as girl-bossing.
I mean Eloise (unlike Netflix's version) was absolutely okay with the fact that Lady Whistledown was spreading rummors about her and her family after she found out that Pen is Whistledown.
At the end of the book when Colin announced to Bridgerton that Penelope is Lady Whistledown what did they do? They congratulated, celebrated her. As if she wasn't the one to gossip about them
Come on, yes, Penelope in the show is no better, but at least the show doesn't glorify her the way the books did. Eloise casts her away, there is drama with the Queen (and possible consequences of the game Lady Whistledown plays), we are shown how Penelope herself suffers consequences of her own work
But it's kind of the point of the show you know? Lady Whistledown is imperative part of the story and her gossip is necessity (and to be honest one of not many truly interesting parts of this show). I doubt many people would watch this show if it wasn't for Lady Whistledown and her scandals. I wouldn't for sure.
This show would be boring to no end if it was just about one couple that falls in love and gets married and has a child. Lady Whistledown would be boring if her entire purpose was to just notify people about events with no drama and no spice.
Nobody says that Penelope is the best character in the show, or even morally good character. But she's interesting, and it's enough to make people like her (just like people like Joker or Loki or any other ethnically ambiguous character - and those are literally criminals)
Thanks for this analysis. I've read only _The Duke and I_ and I've just watched all of the TV series, one episode a day. I decided it wasn't worth watching the rest. The TV series is too scattered and too modernized for me. I like Regency romances, and the TV series is so far from any degree of historical accuracy it isn't one. I was wondering if the books were worth reading, and it doesn't sound like they are.
I. What do you guys think:
*no thoughts, brain empty*
II. Did you watch the show yet:
no idea what the show is
III. Have you read the books:
...books?
IV. Do you agree with my theories: Queen Meredith is always right 🤲
V. How we all feeling:
great, the video was very fun! Thanks!
Thank you!! The show IS really fun imo, the books are less worth it!!
I’m more than okay with changes on some cases like for example is they were to change Eloise’s entire story I would be so happy. That book was awful and it doesn’t make any sense for show Eloise’s personality.
And it's fine bc you can be surprise by what happen
It did? Where? Other than the OTP of the season? Tried reading the books, 3 times. Meh.
💖
They also changed the nationalities as well
I agree the sex scene had me🙈🙊
Sorry, but I thought Simon and Daphne’s sex scenes were way more dramatic and overacted than Polin’s. Like season 1 sex scenes make me cringe so bad