Bridgerton Season 3 May 16th binge watch together

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I’m not a telly addict but I became obsessed with Bridgerton during Covid times. I love the casting, the settings, the dances, the music, the yearning, and the guarantee of a happy ending.

I’m embarrassed to admit how much I love it in real life because it’s so shallow.

Is anyone else planning to binge watch season 3 when it’s released next Thursday? If so, can we set up a MN support group please?

That’s very interesting thank you

A gentlewoman couldn’t earn money and was wholly dependent on their father/brother/husband. At best maybe they could be a companion or governess.

I always felt bad for Mrs Bennet !
yes she’s silly and pushy and over the top dramatic with her poor nerves and all!
but all she really wanted for her daughters is to see them financially secured , by the only means possible back then , that is marriage.

I think I'd rather it was just hinted at, like in the books, rather than in your face as per the show. It kind of spoils the romance of the carriage scene with Penelope when he was snogging two prostitutes about an hour before!

I'm rewatching Queen Charlotte to tide me over till part 2. I didn't really enjoy it the first time as it was so dark and everyone mumbling all the time. Watching it on a different TV with subtitles makes the world of difference 🤣

I think that’s what bugged me - ok he said he was lonely and didn’t want to hang out with his mates but hey he still went along and paid and watched. Makes him less of a catch - but yes through a modern lens perhaps

I think my problem with the prostitution is the glamourised presentation of it that plays into the Happy Hooker trope. The girls are pretty, dressed in silks and ribbons, giggly and happy to waft about the place topless. Ok maybe they are meant to be VERY high class putting on a show for Colin who would have been paying a lot - but surely real life wasn’t like that? Or am I just being daft expecting prostitution in Bridgerton to be gritty when nothing else is?
I think it bugs me because it was the same in Game of Thrones and it feels like an excuse to get tits on screen in a very 1970s/ ratings-chasing way. Ugh.

Also watching Queen Charlotte and really enjoying it.

I wish there had been more between Colin & Pen in terms of her becoming more confident & him seeing as more than a friend.

Instead of the Lord Debling stuff.

Also loathe Cressida.

Perhaps she could marry Debling & disappear!

I think it was realistic for it to have happened so it’s glamorised to be all nice and escapist for the audience.

Who currently knows that Penelope is Lady Whistledown?

Eloise
The Modiste
??

Possibly the coachman or footman who regularly took her to the printers. But that’s it.

Where do her mum & Varley think that the money came from?
(That they are currently all living on?)

The money they are living on is the money that Jack Featherington conned everyone out of last season and that Portia nabbed.

Portia is saying they had an inheritance from an Aunt to explain to the Ton how they suddenly have money. They aren't using the LW money at all.

What happened to the Benedict/ Modiste affair. Thought they really liked each other. I think Colin is now very cute especially with his coller undone, but he could have ruined Penelope in that coach, naughty boy.😏

Well I guess Penelope used it for her new dresses but will still have plenty of cashes under her floorboards still.

The money they are living on is the money that Jack Featherington conned everyone out of last season and that Portia nabbed.

Ah yes.

I'd thought that neither of them had ended up with any money!

Why does Amanda's outfit tonight on BGT remind me of Cressida's dresses

Was Eloise in love with Theo shar ( think that was his name ?)
Do you think she will ever make up with Penelope ? I have mixed feelings about Pen now I have watched series 2

I really dislike the Theo storyline. It wasn’t in the books, don’t know why it was introduced in the series.

I completely agree.

When I was young and naive, I thought Mrs Bennet was a horrible woman.
But now I am an old woman (😁) I completely understand where she was coming from.

And the same thought popped into my head watching the scene between Mrs Featherington (the mother) and Penelope.

It's the scene where Mrs Featherington is trying to convince Penelope to marry Lord Debling.
She says something like - "true romance/love is security or stability.".

On the face of it, Mrs Featherinton I coming across as quite cold, but I can see where she is coming from.
Mrs Featherinton was in a cold, pretty shitty marriage, but at least she had money. But when Mr Featherinton died in season 2, all the money was gone, she had to sell the bloody candlesticks to pay the bills and to top it all off the entire estate was going to some man she had never met.

So from her perspective, I can completely understand why financial security was the number 1 priority for her.

I haven't had the slightest interest in Bridgerton, at all, until the last week! I have now binge watched all episodes only to find out that I have to wait until JUNE 13th to find out what happens next! I can't wait!

Yes agree with you both.
Lots of mother’s of marriageable daughters in these shows/books are often portrayed as grasping or pushy. However in reality they had to be, there was no place for romance. Marriages were almost arranged for security on both sides. If the lady was from a good family-daughter of an earl, had a dowry and was attractive, then she would prob have no problem marrying. Men with titles and no money would need to find an heiress, gentlemen with money and from the aristrocracy had their pick in the marriage mart, they were often in their 30’s and married 18 year olds. Women with no dowry would have to set their sights lower. Women were in a very precarious position of having to marry well.

And considering she didn’t know that she was in a Bridgerton love story, of course pen should have taken such a fantastic option!

And I always think - imagine if you left a stable guy to marry someone you were ‘in love with’ when you were 19? 😱 I don’t think that would have worked out for most of us. I cringe to think of who I would have ended up marrying back then!

Whereas with a stable, kind person your love would have grown in time and even if not, you’d be able to get through life.

I’m on the Bridgerton Reddit groups and they’re going mad for some questionable rumours that the showrunner is going to alter one of the future season’s couples to a same sex relationship.

Am I the only one that thinks this is incredibly unlikely?