BRIDGERTON 2x03 REVIEW – THAT BEE STING SCENE ALMOST KILLED US! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

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So yeah, man, that was a crazy ending.

That was that was intense.

I was kind of worried.

Oh, like after what I liked one and two,

but I wasn't like enthralled when I was like everyone said

this season's like great and better.

And and I wasn't like quite captivated.

I was trying to express my.

Like maybe what some of my resistance was because of like trying to

acclimate to the fact that we don't really have our leads now.

And it's a completely different shift.

Yeah.

But this one like kind of removed all that.

I think actually having Daphne around kind of soft into transition

love for me.

Yeah.

All my all my own subjective level.

But even before she showed up, I was very much like,

oh, this is like the Richard didn't show I love.

Yeah.

I was really fucking hooked into that man.

Yeah.

That was gripping from the flashbacks to learning about the dad

and the mom and understanding.

Anthony became to be who he is to everything going on with Kate and

Ed Wienham and even down to the feathering tens.

That was all amazing, man.

Yeah.

Every day, every plot line was fascinating.

And yeah, it's like after having Anthony as a prominent one of your

main supporting characters of season one, but not the main character,

not one of the main couple of season one, you know,

to expound upon him here in ways that also incorporate like Lady Bridgerton.

I thought we're really, really fantastic because yeah,

you watched this transition of like, oh shit,

you are just like a boy in way over your head after this freak occurrence.

Yeah.

And now you're not only having to like learn about the world and make

those adult decisions, but now you're also having to like take on way too

much, you know, harsh grieving nuance all at once.

Yeah.

And yeah, it's just really tempered as it just does nicely.

You can already tell what might be lurking under the surface.

And they've hinted at the history of, you know,

the great love between Lady and Edmund Bridgerton.

But yeah, it like finally witnessed that he was very impacting.

And then yeah, you start to see, especially knowing then what,

Kate and Edwina's history a little bit is, you know,

there's like so much connective tissue there.

And, and it's really fun to watch because it's like,

him courting Edwina is like, you can see the plan.

You're like, yeah, they're, they're fun together.

Like these two could be like content-ish,

but she deserves freaking love.

And like, and, and Anthony and Kate are so clearly made for each other

in ways that neither of them can see yet.

And so like, that's a great classic romance game.

And I think this season, especially as of an episode like this

is really like drawing it well.

I wonder if in the book if they're actually biological sisters.

Yeah.

I think it softens the blow when they're not,

it's like when I say softens the blow,

I mean, like maybe five percent softens the blow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And when you're like pure biological, it's like,

so you're switching from a little funky,

a little funky, but, uh, but yeah,

yeah, it softens the sort of context a little bit for you.

So you can be like, oh, yeah, they're two,

they're, they're sisters by circumstance.

Yeah.

You know, but, but yeah, the,

the lines of etiquette seem a little less rigid there

if they're not like full sisters.

Well, similar to season one,

when we got Simon's flashback,

where we understood why he's such a hard ass.

It's like we kind of knew why Anthony was a hard ass,

but we didn't quite get the details,

or get the chance to feel it,

outside of knowing the information that he became head of the family,

but understanding specifically the point and time

of when that occurred,

does add so much nuance to the situation.

And now, I don't,

for the bees in the season one opening credits,

or they just really heavily emphasize them here now,

because yeah, that's,

it's like the same opening credits, right?

Sort of, but.

I think so. I think the bee shows up.

I remember season one had a couple moments

where the bee would appear in episodes

as like a motif,

but I think it shows up in the intro card.

I like the bookend of it,

about how the bee takes life in the beginning,

and then now it's like breathing new life in with the heartbeats,

like you lose a heartbeat in the beginning,

and now they are bringing two heartbeats.

You have 60 heartbeats.

Yeah, amplifying some deep there.

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Yeah, man, the bees are the cruel architects

of the universe here.

Yeah.

They could show up one instant,

kill your dad,

show up another instant,

get you dangerously close to a romance

that we know should happen,

but right now it's messed up.

Yeah.

Well, the traumatic half of the flashbacks

too feels sincerely dramatic and sad

where like the cruelty of Simon

and when we're comparing flashbacks

the cruelty of Simon's felt like

soap opera evil,

even though people like that definitely exist.

Yeah.

There was something about the execution

that felt a little hammed up.

It's so extreme.

The circumstance is very extreme.

And it was the capturing of how they did it.

There was none of that in these flashbacks.

Yeah.

And in terms of the present day storyline

with the game that they were playing

and the way they built up the tension

leading to the ending moment,

I thought they earned it quite well

because, and I'm so glad of you,

because that was like,

I was like, all right,

those are bad.

And it was, yeah, great, great kiss tension.

It really was, yeah.

Great, like all the little looks

and all the like, oh shit,

they're starting to feel it.

They're both starting to feel it.

Oh, it's like the body,

the instinct is taken over.

Yeah.

Interrupted and saved by the bell.

Saved by the name.

Well, the game of season one

is just a weird debacle of like,

you can clearly like each other.

Just say it.

It's got to get out of your own ways

a little bit.

Like this weird.

Like we're just pretending, you know.

We're just pretending.

We don't really,

but they really do.

Oh, really good at pretending.

We're like a pretending.

We're like a pretending.

Really selling this shit.

It's like an awesome,

it's exciting.

Yeah.

I'm downplaying it,

but this is like such a real,

there's something more real

in terms of this consequences

because there's sisters

and the heartbreak

that Aweena's going through.

Like it really feels

steak heavy.

It feels really precarious

and like anything could go very wrong

in a number of ways any second.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's such high stakes

because all three of them

you know deep down

want to experience that love

and each and only Aweena

is like really fully open to it right now.

Yeah.

So that all of that

is like high stakes

because these are like three hearts

in the balance.

And the diamond of the season,

but also yeah,

these two sort of

gatekeepers of their own families.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's cool.

Lady Bridgerton was amazing

this episode.

I loved

Benedict so much.

That was so fun.

I love him.

Congrats on our school buddy.

I mean, I've seen the season

for like main wallpaper images

and it's clearly season four

is going to be his season

and people have loved it.

Don't know anything specific

outside of an image I've seen

because we opened up in Netflix

and it's the first

like a thing you were seeing

because it was better to call it.

And so I'm like,

I'm liking how

because I enjoyed him in season one,

but this season,

I've been getting way more

and dear to him.

So it's nice.

It's interesting watching the series

being aware

that four will be his season.

Yeah.

So kind of paying more attention to him

than I probably would have

because of that.

Now you're collecting the early.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm really enjoying it.

Enjoyable ride.

And, it's Penelope.

And what's going on with it?

You want an Adam De La Qua?

That's a cool team up

forming an alliance,

love to see it.

But even the feathering team stuff

like they found a way

to make it fun.

That's what I mean.

This episode was fun.

This was a very fun one,

but it's the kind of drama fun

that I really enjoy

because while it's dramatic

and there's intensity to it,

there's great character be moment.

I like to see with Eloise

and Kate quite a bit too

when they're bonding

with each other.

Dan Berry and Lady Bridgerton, the way they're kind of like scheming together, but then Dan

Berry and I mean, Lady Featherington, not fucking out so many people, Lady Bridgerton and Lady

Sharma, the way they're bonding with each other, there was a lot of great interactions

and what this did for Anthony, this episode, really, because I've always enjoyed him, but

they, it's actually like really like a character, but then, oh my God, I really feel like I

get him now.

Yeah, they did really, this episode was so crucial for that, and maybe some of you guys already

did prior to this, but I didn't quite feel, I was like, you know what, if I mean totally

honest, I might have been some of my apprehension now that I think about it, was like, I'm

not as into Anthony as maybe this show wants me to mean so maybe I'm in a hard time

like, I like him more in the supporting role, and now I'm like, oh shit, now I'm really

fucking invested, and then having that panic moment at the end, I thought it was a great

way to get their, they're like, they put a wall up in the heart, their walls are fucking

breaking down in that moment, and they're literally touching each other's hearts, it was

a really well written and fucking exciting episode, I really love that one, that was great,

that was great, that was invigorating.

Because it's like, it's there's greater, there, not, there have been emotional depths

across the show, but this episode deftly balanced like a great amount of heartbreaking

emotional stuff with like kind of a hangout episode at points, like more so than others

in a way, especially when you're watching them play this game, and they're just kind of

out and around on the grounds and stuff, and then all the stuff with the feathering

tins, and yeah, I don't know, I think that like one thing that has gotten me increasingly

excited is, is sort of seeing now in these episodes a better sense of like what the

grander game of the show might be, which is like, yeah, each season will have different

members of the ensemble shuffling out, making room for new ones to take center stage, and

so yeah, I might have felt like, yeah, you know, like I like Jack, I like the actor whose

name I know Jonathan Bailey, Jonathan Bailey, there we go, I like Jonathan Bailey a lot,

yeah, in the first season, I'm like, cool, I thought he was going to be like a more

focal character, but he's partly ensemble great, and then yeah, here I'm like, oh, yeah,

I am now locked into this guy, get him, or at least I feel for, you know, his unique

set of baggage, and yeah, I'm looking forward to that now for other characters, potentially,

I've seen the wallpaper for season four, too, I don't know what season three is, yeah,

so, so yeah, like those things now, I'm like, oh, cool, what has hurt you, but, you

know, the idea that, yeah, we'll have these different characters who provide one function

proportionally in a season that's not all about them, we'll then take on a new shape

when the season is about them, just seems cool, yeah, cool device of the show.

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