BRIDGERTON Season 3 Episode 2 Reaction and Discussion 3x2 | How Bright the Moon 

This episode does a really good job of showcasing why Penelope created an alter ago like Lady Whistledown for herself. This is a young girl who is constantly pushed into the shadows by society and is ridiculed if she even tries to associate with someone in the spotlight, much less step into it herself. And it's not just society, her own family constantly undermines her, her interests, denies her the joy of feeling beautiful or wanted or even likeable. But, living life on the sidelines has also granted her the superpower of hearing every conversation around her without ever being noticed by anyone. Through Whistledown, Penelope is finally heard, acknowledged, appreciated, and respected by the ton. Imagine the kind of satisfaction she feels when her family, who've put her and her beliefs down all her life, drop everything they're doing and scramble to get their hands on the latest Whistledown sheet to read what she has to say. Whistledown is essential to Penelope's growth as an individual. It's given her a voice, agency, financial independence, and a purpose. Right now, the Featherington family is surviving on Lady Whistledown's money, they've just been made to believe it's an inherentance from a spinster aunt. Can you imagine how big of a deal it is for a woman to be the breadwinner of a noble household in the regency era? Penelope/Lady Whistledown is a grey character, for sure, because what she says hurts people, and yet, she's essentially a regency journalist cause she only tells the truth. So, when Penelope decides to use her platform to protect her identity, she does it because nobody has as much to lose as her in that situation. Penelope ends Eloise's friendship with Theo knowing she's saving Eloise from a much bigger scandal and that Eloise will still go back to a loving family and tons of respect in society for being a Bridgerton, at the end of the day. What Eloise doesn't realise at the end of season 2 is that when Pen says she gave up Whistledown for her, it means she gave up her whole life for her, and if I'm being honest, Eloise is just slightly too privileged to understand that. After Eloise says she never wants to see her again and Colin says he'd never dream of courting Penelope, she's a woman who's lost everything. I think it's pretty cool that she decides to pick up her pen again instead of pitying herself. I mean, society never gave her a chance, but atleast she does.

I understand why people dislike Penelope for being Lady Whistledown. But this season made it clear that Lady whistledown wasn't created by Penelope, it's just her echoing cruelty that Portia Featherington has taught her. Cressida and Penelope come from very cold and dismissive families. Cruelty and Manipulation is their first language. Another Masterpiece from Lady Shonda Rhimes.

"Inserts himself where?" The funniest line.

He is a little jealous. Penelope is more maturing, more womanly. She seemed more teenager before. The kiss is very beautifully filmed. For her, that she's basically having no hopes and letting go of him. For him, a realization of something else...

"... aaaand it flattens my hair" such perfect comic delivery on that line, it got me, too!

Francesca is neurodivergent coded leaning towards autistic. She’s very focused on her music and just wants a kind husband and her own household so she can have peace and quiet to do what she wants. Growing up in the Bridgerton house was anything but peaceful and for someone who is easily overstimulated she just wants out.

I know that some people aren’t too happy with Eloise being friends with Cressida, but I really love it. I think Cressida is teaching Eloise to actually listen to what people have to say, and Eloise is teaching Cressida what it’s like to have a friend. I loved Pen and Eloise’s friendship in previous seasons, but Eloise never listened to her, and always assumed they were on the same path in life. It’s only when El finally listened did she figure out Pen’s secret, which doesn’t excuse what Pen did. I’m really hoping they can reconcile.

Penelope doesn’t need to redeem herself other than making things right with Eloise, although I still think she ultimately saved her from the queen with the least damage she could. Other than that, the rest of the ton deserve what they get from Whistledown. They have been cruel to Penelope and her family all her life. Look at ep 1 of season 1 when Cressida gleefully humiliates her in front of Colin. Look at all those awful mothers, many whose daughters are unmarried ganging up on her. I don’t blame her utilising her wallflower status to collect gossip and earn an income which she could one day use to escape her awful family. Sure, Cressida was fine this week, but she’s been a nasty bully for years. I’m not letting her off the hook just yet. Loved the kiss. Penelope saying goodbye to any hope she had of love or happiness before she disappears to the shadows. But Colin’s world just flipped upside down.

This is why I always find your reaction to Penelope so harsh lol yes, she has made mistakes, but I think that a lot of people keep forgetting that this is a teenager… and she made a lot of mistakes, but it was her dealing, badly, with being bullied in the ton and at home. She was never doing it maliciously, usually she was just trying to fix something and went about it the wrong way. Pen asked for a kiss because she really thought she would never be loved and she thought it would be her only kiss. He mom herself literally told her she was delusional basically. She has lost all hope.

Penelope is not a bully, she puts a mirror up to the Ton and makes them face themselves.

The same girls Penelope was praising on ep1 of this season in the LW column are the ones treating her like dirt. The ton deserved someone cruel and not just a gossip writer. They are lucky Penelope is not me. lol I mean, if people are going to judge Pen, then i can't understand or sympathize with Cressida, who physically bullied Penelope in season 1, throwing a drink on her, and tried to blackmail Daphne.

Francesca doesn't want to be the "sparkler." She doesn't want to make "the most brilliant match" as the Queen wants her to.

I know some might not get it but I love the Featherington family. I always say they wear these bright colors because they are the comic relief/ brightness the series needs! They truly make this series better lol

I am so glad you noticed the jealousy on Collin part on the ball. Nick Jones jealousy was playing in the background

It's worth remembering that Eloise was a huge fan of Lady Whistledown in the first season for speaking her mind and making money with it (being a woman), she only started to hate Lady Whistledown when her family started to be negatively cited. As we say here in Brazil, this is a classic example of "pimenta no cu dos outros é refresco" (pepper in other people's asses is refreshment)

Francesca is an introvert. As the introvert in my family of extroverts, it’s hard to make your presence known.

I think being constantly put down affects how Pen presents herself in society, people also look down on her because of it. She's attractive and smart so there should have been no reason for her mom to not have tried to get her married for 3 years or to at least introduce her Lady Danbury after seeing what she did for others. Eloise even laughs when she hears that Penelope is looking for a husband. I mean why wouldn't she with the family she has at home and their financial struggles? This makes me wonder if Pen keeps all that in or if Eloise just doesn't listen, because as a best friend how could you not know these things?

idk if you noticed because it was so quiet (i didnt know until i looked it up) but when Pen is talking to Lord Remington (the one who loves gossip) and Colin was looking at them, an orchestra version of Jealous by Nick Jonas was playing in the background

I love Francesca's character. A lot of people feel that she could be neurodivergent, maybe autistic and that's why you feel like you're not getting enough from her, even though we're getting the amount we're suppose to get. The next two episodes will showcase this a little bit more! Great reaction, and I'm here for the Pen redemption tour!!

It's a bit hypocritical to find Penelope's lookinh through Colin's stuff at his house disgusting, but not Eloise doing the same in Penelope's house. Eloise ruined herself, Penelope actually saved her and her sisters from becoming prostitutes, because that would have been the consequence of Eloise being alone with Theo, unchaperoned, after being warned multiple times it would be extremely dangerous, and it would ruin her and her entire family. You can read Jane Austen's books and read what fate would await ruined women in Regency era. For example Lydia (and by extention all the Bennett sisters) almost becoming a prostitute for eloping. Penelope just reports what's going on, and keeps saving the Bridgertons over and over again.

In my opinion, Penelope isn't a bullied, a villain, or whatever people want to define her. She is complex, and like any human being she has light and shadows inside of her (all of us have inside of us this good verse evil, angel verse devil), she definitely chooses everyday good with a bit of salt/shadow, like the ying and yang, because even doing mistakes that may hurt people, she also do it while she tries to fix it, even in a twisted way, she does. Knowing that when she started lw at the age of 16-17, when our brains only becomes completely mature around 25 years of age, and our emotions it is in its highest pick of a constant rollercoster during our teen years, Penelope managing such power with her emotions so highlighted, where everyone reads every single word that she writes while also being bullied and belittled in society and she still managed to not write anything to get revenge on those people, it is already impressive on its one. Us as viewers seeing how she is overlooked by the ton, by her own family and even by herself who thinks so lowly of herself, can we blame her to have such a pride and a strong attachment of lw who shines in world who cares so much about appearance, property and looks? Which gives her a purpose beyond being a girl looking to be a wife (plus unsuccessfully)? Which gives her a voice when, as Penelope, no one listens to her? As Penelope Featherington, she is person who is/can be kind, warm, shy, cleaver, understanding of others feelings, a good listener to her friends she gives her fully attention and tries to give them good advice that they ignore or don't listen to, she wants to help people and she is comprehensive, she is witty, smart and wants/wanted to be friendly to people of the ton. But people ignores her, overlooked her, underestimate her, she is in most of the corners in society, people and herself in part put there, in part because she is shy being one of the reasons that she holds that position where no one gives a second glance even with the brightest of dresses, hopeful eyes and sweet smiles. Since her very first appearance in society, when she and her sisters were presented to the queen who ignored them, she was put as a wallflower, in the background of people stories, seeing stories developing right in front of her eyes, while is stuck in the corners because no one comes to give her attention, let's not forget at this time period only the men could aproche the girls. Because of it, she saw and heard things (about herself and about others) that made her in part to lose slowly that hope and naivety that she had in the beginning, she saw what society truly was : hypocrites, superficial people and some of them being the cruelest (in episode 1 of this season for example, Pen/lw published good impressions of some of debutantes/I think are girls in "risk" of becoming spinster to help them up/uplift their spirits and in this episode 2, those same girls were now mocking her because Colin was helping her). We need also to understand that Queen Charlotte by choosing a diamond, it is just adding more to the superficiality of the ton and how or who or the type of women the men/people need to give their attention when searching for a match, only because of their looks and social connections ( I am not sure what is the criteria that Charlotte chooses the diamond). And even the Queen herself is always eager to read about the ton gossip. So much so that last season, when Charlotte thought that Eloise is LW, she suggested that LW could be more than a gossip sheet, but also, an ally to the crown. With LW, is Penelope's shadow figure who hides in a secret identity, where she can speak/write freely her truths as a girl/woman who doesn't have a voice (or even rarely are the people who listen to her as Penelope) or having power in society ruled majority by men, who are the ones who can only choose the girls they want to aproche, speak and dance with and the ones who choose to call on the girl or not. She can use her wit to show how hypocritical the ton can be. As Lw, she is cunning, harsh at times by telling truths that may hurt but are truthful, criticising their behaviour and ways of thinking and judging the society she lived all her live, and obviously she too can at times make mistakes and use wrong words, or even with hot-head to write something she will/could regreat in the future. But we also see she doesn't publish everything she finds out when she sees that it is too much. For example, in the last episode of the 2nd season, Penelope hears the servants talk about how Lord Fife went to a closet with Miss Goring and they stay there for a few minutes, then we see the girl trying to fix her dress. She tells this to Eloise, there is how she gets suspicious of Penelope. However, Penelope as LW never published a thing about this incident between lord Fife and Miss Goring, because it would be a scandal of big proportion for her and her family and very likely Lord Fife would be forced to married this girl. Also, we need to understand that she holds so much power with LW, because she does this by also using through something she likes but the ton too loves to talk about it (including the Bridgertons and Eloise like we saw right in one of the first scenes where they were dressing and all in group read lw) : gossip. Almost everything she writes is about what she hears people gossiping about in the ball rooms, how they are perceiving the situation of the events that are unfolding infront of them throughout the season, adding comments about it with facts, harsh truths, criticism, funny comments and helpful comments aswell when it is necessary. When she said, for example, that Daphne was ineligible it was because Anthony started to drive away all the men who went to the Bridgerton house, that let to men not going anymore to call on Daphne, which we can assume people started to talk about it on why the diamond that the queen chose didn't have suitors and started to speculate about it, and obviously it could never be because the fault of the men, no, the ton blamed on a woman, and so LW needed to write about it to not create any suspicion. When she speaks about the Bridgerton, obviously she may have a more intimate understanding what may happened because she has direct access to the house and even Eloise perhaps speaking about it of certain situations, but even Eloise didn't know what was happening between Anthony and Kate, for example, and so for the ton not having suspicious of why LW would write only good reviews of the Bridgerton she needs to write what she hears, what is her opinion on the matter and what they are speaking/gossiping about the scandals made by the Bridgerton themselves. But when it is necessary to intervene and try to help them out to dissuade the public opinion, she does without creating suspicious to the Bridgerton or herself. I also see people speaking about lw commenting about George's illness, and obviously, I don't agree it was wrong, but it was also accurate to the time period. George was literally known as the mad king, who his oldest son George IV was regent, that is why this time period is known as regency. Mental illness wasn't a thing that was spoken of. In the early 19th century, care for the mentally ill was almost non-existent. Mental illness was highly stigmatized, viewed as demonic possession or moral deviance, and “mad” people were believed to have no abilities to “reason” and needed to be “tamed”. So, it is no surprise that Penelope learned such a thing since birth that she would make such a comment when she heard society speaking about it. It wasn't out of evil intentions or shaming the king or queen. It was how it was viewed by everyone. And even, the parliament were trying to hid the situation, so people were must likely speculating what was happening to their king. Of course, we can argue that Bridgerton is everything but historically accurate and they could have change that, but it is how the writes proceeded to write, and even George called himself as "madman" too, even him couldn't understand it. And well, if I speak about Marina or Eloise situation, it would be another essay😂 (sorry about that, but I already saw others in the last video speaking about it). But basically, for me, all of them have reasons to act the way they did, and they had reasons to do what they did. All of them made mistakes and hurt people, but all was made by love, too. Who here can say that they didn't say or do something harsh in their life, perhaps you regret it or not, but it was out of desperation, wanting to help someone, or out of love? Perhaps the other person/people couldn't understand your feelings too or why you did it, and it was hard to explain, but you did it because of love, because you believe it was the correct thing to do even if for another perhaps believe it wasn't or find it unfair. Penelope wanted to save Eloise, Eloise is mad because Pen didn't told her it was her all along. Penelope wanted to save Colin, which she is friends with for years, for a loveless marriage. Regardless, Penelope, aka LW, isn't some monster irredeemable as some people say, but she is a human with flaws who can do wrongdoings and do good as well, for the people she loves. She needs to make amends/apologise to Eloise (if she let her speak and listen to her, that would be nice Eloise), but it isn't like Penelope did it out of pure evil either.

The scene Penelope reading Colins Journal is from the book and have a important meaning afterwards there.... I don't know if they will show us that in the show. And the kiss scene is from the book also. Made us Bookfans happy.

About their ages. According to my research Penelope is 19 and Colin is 22

I'm living for your Bridgerton reactions 😂😂

Penelope trying to flirt with the group of gentlemen in the park, she’s definitely basing her awkward behavior on her mother.

A lot of people think the Mondrich storyline is being used to usher in a main character from another book. I love the couple! And it kinda makes sense to get more of them this season because they are such good friends with Colin and Benedict

I live that each character here so far is very human, very gray. They have their flaws and make mistakes. Except for Violet, so far she’s been perfect lol

You can literally see the lightning bolt hit Colin after that kiss. And? Jealous Colin. I’m here for it.

I love Penelope and Colin together.

I completely agree with your assessment of Pen. Completely!! I'm really enjoying the Mondrich storyline and the Featheringtons are comedy gold! My favorite storyline rn is Eloise and Cressida. I've always hoped that there was more to her than just being a mean girl. When Pen ruined Eloise Cressida befriended her when nobody else would. It doesn't excuse her past behavior but I'm always up for a good redemption arc. Enjoyed y'all's reactions and commentary as always!

Featherington has 3 girls; that's 3 dowries. I think there's part of her that's subconsciously seeing Penelope up to be the spinster daughter who takes care of her once the older daughters marry and move out to run their own households. Penelope is bookish and smart, none of which is valued in this society, but these are great qualities to care for an aging mother.

I think Lady Featherington is cynical and very familiar with the cruel truths of the world. Just like in season one with Marina, she tells it how it is and doesn’t sugar coat anything. Her POV is that life is hard and even harder as a woman. Suck it up, accept it and find a way to put it to your advantage. I think she was just telling Penelope the hard life truths as she sees them. But I also think that she cannot think outside the box of society’s prescribed norms and see how her daughter can be exceptional outside of those confinements. She doesn’t offer Penelope hope or encouragement and that leads to Penelopes complete lack of self-confidence. Despite how horrible Porshe can be, I love her character! She is such a great foil to Violet Bridgerton who gives nothing BUT encouragement to her children, but she’s also a great advantage of a cunning woman who fights for her and her daughter’s survival despite society and huge personal obstacles. Plus, she’s just hilarious!

You bring up a good point about the Mondriches. I think this show has a problem (I don't know whether _problem_ is the right word) because it started out like an AU where there was no racism (but still plenty of classism and sexism and probably ableism) but then they had the explanation partway through season one for how high society integrated, which kind of derailed that a bit. Then that was expanded on in QC, of course. So this gave the show a bit of a split personality about how race affects things in society. I do wonder whether the extras were less varied when the Mondriches went to their first party. They've usually had a background characters of various colors, but, of course, the two main families are white and the family we follow the most of all is the Bridgertons. For the most part, the main show operates as if racism is solved while every other kind of oppression is in full swing. Simon was a sought-after marriage prospect, and the Mondriches may soon have to deal with people who try to court their acquaintance with an eye for when the young baron becomes marriage mart material. Lady Danbury throws the much-anticipated first ball of the season. The Queen is -- the Queen. But we know it isn't that long ago that society -- or at least high society -- was integrated. What is society like as a whole, then? And how does that affect Will and Alice, in addition to suddenly being upper class?

Pen reading the journal was needed to further the plot. That is all I am going to say. I don’t want to spoil it.

Penelope saved Eloise life people tends to forget that.

Its always strange to me when people are surprised that Lady Featherington said what she said but then I remember not everyone's family is like that. I identify with Penelope so much in that scene, it's sad. From personal experience, it hurts just as much as you fear it will when your hear all the negative things you think about yourself from someone whose opinion matters to you no matter how deeply you know they are toxic to you. When Lady Featherington changes tac/tone it makes me hopeful she's learning, maybe more nebulously than literally, the difference between tough love and abuse. If she can communicate that to Penelope at some point this season, I'd love it so much, as I'll never see it from my "but they're family" mother.

Hii :) i've found you guys because of your Ted Lasso reactions and I love it here. But while I used to agree you with on the Ted Lasso reactions, I think you guys are a bit off beat here about Penelope. Penelope is a knowledgeable young lady (probably around 19 here. it's her 3rd season and they usually debut around 17) with many interests, a very good writer but constantly ostracized or ignored... probably because of her appearance and family status. Lady Whistledown is so popular cause she's writing what everyone want to read. They're all gossipy in that kind of society. These people are too rich to work, gossiping is all they do. Cressida's arc is great, but she's been mean and a true bully for 2 seasons and you've been quite fast to forgive her. Penelope deserves at least that. At 18 last season, I believe Penelope truly thought she was protecting Eloise by outing her. Her dealings with Theo were very dangerous! She knew Eloise had the support to recover, but she had been gone further with Theo she'd be ruined. And Penelope is completely oblivious of her privilege as a middle child with no pressure to marry and being from a respectful family. And what Whistledown said about Colin looking like he changed personalities is not wrong or cruel at all, I'm sure many thought it and he didn't feel any repercussions from it at all (another side of male privilege too). Both of them used to be the two nerds and he's faking being cool, cause he's a 20 something year old trying to find himself too and discovering women. My theory is that Penelope nowadays would have been a real good writer but in those times she can't cause she's a woman. And her reading Colin's diary had nothing to do with Whistledown, it was a 19 year old in love and she's truly remorseful. And she could be judgy by him fooling around all around Europe for the second summer in a row (which would ruin a woman but doesn't ruin him!!) but instead she looked just surprised and probably touched to know they share that love for writing. How beautiful that they as a couple could share that love for books and writing? If she could write her own books as a female author, i'm sure she'd prefer that to being Lady Whistledown. just to end this (waaaay too long, i'm sorry) comment, how heartbreaking is it that Penelope really feels she's finished for society, so lost that she wants a kiss just not to die without knowing how it feels? She has no friends, no social status although she's probably one of the richest and financially independent women there and still doesn't feel like that gives her the power to get free from her family (she's conditioned to think only marriage will) and her family and society ridicule her. And if you pay attention, the most vicious she's been to anyone was herself in this episode. She, as Whistledown, was never has cruel to anyone as she was to herself here. She deserves our love. and yes, you probably already know, this is actualy Colin and Pen's season. :) Keep up the great reactions. :D

This is a great episode. For me seeing Cressida begin to try to care about her friendship with Eloise makes me think we’re going to get a bit more of her and I will be interested in seeing where Cressida goes. I love when characters are able to redeem themselves. Eloise is always going to be my ride or die and I appreciate Cressida making the effort to befriend her after she was humiliated last season. I really want a big Benedict love story. He’s so funny and charming and I would love to have a season focused on him primarily. Once again I agree with what think about Penelope. So far I’ve enjoyed this season. I can’t wait for the next episodes to drop!

Nick Jonas’ “Jealous” was playing in the background while Colin was watching Pen talk to Lord Remington by the refreshment table lol it was my favorite scene to be honest 😂😂

Polin forever 😍😍😍😍😍

0:58 Dying at your banter "Dudes ain't be like OMG look at the beautiful flowers! OH MY GODDD!!!!" Looooooool

Your opinions are too strong and misguided towards a young girl who has been bullied by basically everyone around her except the Bridgerton family. The only reason she is successful is because the ton feeds off of gossip. She is making profit at a time when women were just tools of bearing children. And she is young. And in love with a guy she knows is out of her reach. And you are disgusted because she is reading the diary of the guy she has loved all her life. It was open and yes she got curious but as she later explains, the writing was so good, she couldn’t stop. Don’t put people in water tight compartments.

Your Bridgerton reactions are so entertaining!! 😊😊 thank you

Now you are going make me start looking at his eyebrows

She talks normally with Colin, and she's in love with him. What nervousness does to us all.

I had so much fun with you guys! Thank you 😊 it was great🫰

LOVE your reactions!!

Benedict's book was the third one, but they decided to switch it and the fourth book on the show, or we would be getting Benedict's season now. Unfortunately, they don't seem to know what to do with him having made the switch. I think it was a mistake to quit the art school (both for the character and on a narrative level). I guess he is probably doing some of Anthony's work again since he and Kate have gone into seclusion again, but that isn't getting screen time.

finally caught up to all your Bridgerton videos !!

I’m so glad yall are on season 3!!

I don't get how Colin can fix his mouth to say you shouldn't care about the estimation of others and then immediately act a fool for any lady that turns her face in his direction. I've seen ppl saying Colin isn't himself for this first part and I really hope that's the case BC Colin fooling around with randoms in the name of being a society 'approved' basic rake is not what I signed up for😔

Loooove y'alls reactions. I'd rather watch with y'all, than on my own🤣🤣🤣

The white version is “she’s all that” with Freddie prince jr!

I'm always team Penelope 💅🫶🏾

4:27 IM CRYING😭😭😂😂

Identity also plays into Colin's and Eloise's stories. Eloise has been damaged by the events of last season and now tries to acquiesce more while still hiding. She turns down Colin's feminist book because she thinks there is no hope. She seems a bit depressed, despite her humorous remarks. I hope she will eventually take the book. I'm glad that you love Eloise. The livestream was so against her last night, and it made me sad. She is just as young as Penelope, and the only one besides Benedict who even questions privilege (which she has less of than he; he could have stayed in art school while the woman artist he met could only attend lectures by being a nude model, something I don't think is in Eloise to do -- she is more interested in writing than art, but just as an example) and she's supposed to invent intersectional feminism as a teen girl, somehow, even though the first time she puts a toe out of her class, she is punished for it. And she broke things with Theo because she was worried for him, not herself. /Sorry for the rant./ Yes, she was wrong to tell Cressida about the lessons, although I think she needed to talk to someone and she has Penelope's secrets pressing on her right now. I think you are the only reactors I've seen who didn't think Cressida turned around and told everyone. It's interesting to see what effect she and Eloise will have on each other. Francesca is a shy, internal character, and I can't tell you how amazing it is to see such a character get any focus. Lady Featherington made her daughters that way. Who was supposed to tell them about sex? According to her, she found a husband for Prudence, but doesn't lift a finger for Penelope? Which may be lucky for Penelope, I don't know.

Pen and LW is complicated for me because Pen is so very different from LW, tbh even with the reveak back in S1 I still didn't think they're one and the same.

Can’t Buy Me Love is an 80s movie with Patrick Dempsey that came out in 1987. The one with Nick Cannon and Christina Milian was in Love Don’t Cost a Thing in 2003. There was another one called Drive Me Crazy that came out in 1999 with Melissa Joan Hart.

We LOVED to walk campus in college. To see and to be seen

Francesca is my favorite character this season, but I do understand why you need more meat. I think starting next episode you will get the meat. I think Pen looks beautiful this season but I still don't root for her. She has done so really bad things and most time it was intentional. I will be interested to see how I feel once she gets her happy ending. It's so true about instantly looking for people that look like us when we enter a new environment. We have to steel ourselves for what's to come if we are the only black or POC in the room.

It's Love don't cost a thing

I think at this point Penelope is 20 and Colin is 22. They both got the makeover bc it’s their season as the leads S3. It’s interesting bc they both have a part of themselves they hide but once they embrace their true selves and own up to their mistakes they can grow in this beautiful friends to lovers plot of S3. Great reactions guys.

If I was the Queen and Mamas sent me jewels I’d be pissed. Like y’all don’t think I have enough?? I give you jewels you don’t give me jewels.

Re: Francesca, I think the show is purposefully doing a slower unraveling of her personality here because this isn’t technically her season. In the books, there is a time jump to account for in Francesca’s storyline, and while the show will likely have to truncate that out of necessity, they still need to allow for some time passing before the focus entirely falls on her. In addition, there’s some overlap in time in Benedict and Eloise’s storylines with Francesca’s, so we will likely see a lot more play out with her as we move on to Benedict and Eloise’s storylines in the upcoming seasons. How much the show will change from the books with the three of their storylines remains to be seen, so that will be interesting to see play out

If Prudence can find a husband, Penelope should be able to.

"Snuck" -- sneaked, Lady Whistledown.

I didn’t like what Pen did last season but I understand her intention and Elois off course has the right to be angry she felt betrayed but she didn’t need to become a friend with a bully/mean girl also people act like Pen was the bad friend when Elois was also a bad friend both where wrong Pen has the right to keep secrets she doesn’t need to tell Elois everything and her secrets wouldn’t have stayed secrets if Elois paid attention to Pen the only time she actually finally cared and paid attention to Pen was when she realized she was LW if she was a good friend from the beginning she would have find out long time ago and would have realized that Pen was LW and has felling for Colin. And I don’t get the hate for Pen when the bully is bad I don’t like her but I don’t hate and wish for her to die or have a sad ending while people act like they want Pen to have a sad ending because they hate her. I wish for Pen and Elois to become frieds again and for them both to talk and discuss about how both were wrong and how to do better as friends and for Elois to stay away from the mean girl, but I hope they become friends again I love Pen and Elois. Also people saying they are liking the bully and Elois friendship because she is getting redemption no she is not she was and still a bully to Pen the only reason that she didn’t gossip about Pen to the other girls is that Elois her friend she doesn’t care about others felling so that’s not a redemption arc her character still same as before she didn’t change also people acting like it’s not realistic for a bully to stay a bully yes there are people who change but there are people who don’t there are people who in school they are a bully and when they get older and go to college or get jobs they stay the same a bully and hasn’t matured at all also we don’t need a redemption arc to a bully in every tv series I am tired of that.

"It would have been suspicious if she had not." What an odd way to put it, Penelope. Why would it have been suspicious? People would just think she wasn't interested. There have always been things that haven't appeared in Whistledown.

Many reviewers are pointing out that Francesca may be Aspberger's or at least neuro-divergent. Which kinda of comes out more in the next 2 episodes.

Does anybody think Kate and Anthony keep to their separate rooms? It was a big thing when Daphne wanted to move to her unused bedroom when she and Simon were on the outs.

Yeah you're not the only one who thinks that about Francesca. Many people criticised her acting as flat and shared that 'Go girl, give us nothing' meme. Hopefully her character becomes well rounded till the last episode.

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When you look into the theory that Francesca is Autistic, it seems very plausible and adds depth to how she interacts with the world around her.

Love Dont Cost A Thing..blackversion lol. great comparison.

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I dont think you guys have said so, b ut Francesca is portrayed as kind of neurodivergent, maybe sensory-sentive/autistic to some extent. The show is really big on inclusion, so I think if you looked at her scenes through that lense she seems less bland as it's very different to see someone like that as a sub-lead, soon to be major lead in a romance drama like this

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Colin, like all his changes aren't for the estimation of others. Or a lot, anyway.

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Penelope is meant to be in her early to mid 20s in this season. In the books, the girls debut in society at the age of 18, but for the shows, they aged them up a couple of years as the actors are quite a bit older than 18. So for S1, Daphne was ~21; S2 had Anthony ~29 and Kate ~26 (Edwina ~21); S3 has Penelope ~24 and Colin ~26.

I dont understand how u can feel bad for Cressida and not Penelope, Cressida is cruel to her core she always has been since season 1 with Daphne, she does it for fun. Penelope wrote what she did about Eloise to save her from potentially being unalived by the queen she couldn't have come clean otherwise she herself may have been unalived so exposing Eloise was the only way to save them both she had no ill intent in her heart. She exposed Marina to save Colin from being tricked into being father to kids that aren't his the only thing she was in the wrong a little for is Colin which she didn't even say anything that crazy and after what he said about Penelope he really deserved it. Penelope never does things with Mal intent only to save others Cressida is an actually mean person.