Colin Got STURDY | Bridgerton Ep 3x1 Reaction & Review | Netflix 

What Penelope wrote was not truly that damaging considering she framed as political and not as a romantic fling with a guy from the working class and poor birth. THAT would have ruined Eloise. I'm sorry but i think Eloise forced Penelope's hand and she didn't care to put the workers and poor people involved in the print shop at risk. Eloise preaches a lot but never follows through. Her behavior was careless to say the least and even after Penelope beg her to not do anything, with the queen on her tail, during her brother's wedding, Eloise went for it. Penelope could potentially lose everything or use something that could've save them both, what she did. Would you lose your 'job', possibly your freedom and your family because your friend didn't care about the consequences of her actions? I would not. And Eloise basically befriended a bully herself, Penelope's bully who threw a drink on her for fun, constantly bullied her in S2, for her looks and that now is ripping her dress for no reason, so Eloise needs some self-reflection as well.

Rolling at the "ruined Eloise's life" comment. Our girl had a couple months of social discomfort due to the lesser scandal of her actions being public knowledge, before coming back to plenty of potential popularity. She's had her feelings hurt, but socially she's pretty much back to normal.

I get that what Penelope wrote about Eloise was damaging, but she was trying to save her. The Queen was suspicious of Eloise and in her searching may have uncovered that Eloise was seeing Theo, who is a commoner, unchaperoned, which not only would’ve ruined Eloise but also the whole Bridgerton family. If you go back and watch what she wrote about Eloise she said she was seen unchaperoned with political radicals, which, while still damaging, is more recoverable than the fact that she’d been alone with a man. Also, Penelope begs Eloise not to leave her brother’s wedding. If she’d listened to her, Eloise wouldn’t have been seen by the queens men at the print house. Finally, Penelope kind of also saves Theo. I think he says guards from the palace were already harassing him about Whistledown because of Eloise, so by throwing suspension off Eloise, she also threw suspicion off Theo. Again, I’m not saying it was 100% the right thing to do, but she wasn’t trying to be cruel and I love grey characters, they are more interesting. Not addressing the Marina incident in this comment as I believe Penelope did the right thing there.

Not to comment a second time, but the issue isn’t just that Colin said he’d never court Penelope, it’s that the Bridgerton’s have influence and he told a group of available suitors that the idea of him courting Penelope was laughable. It makes her seem like a worse choice than she probably already was to that group of guys. He embarrasses her and discredits her to potential suitors.

100% Team Penelope.

“Eloise did nothing wrong”. Eloise would have gotten that boy killed if Anthony had found out. How do you not think that was a bad idea? Forget Penelope. Eloise being caught with Theo WOULD HAVE GOTTEN HIM KILLED.

Eloise is really good at getting herself into trouble. That’s what happens when you don’t listen and you charge through like a bull in a china shop. She DOESN’T listen. Eloise was going down a dangerous path. I don’t entirely say that Pen is blameless but to go Team Cressida is too much. Cressida has been a bully Pen for many years. I just can’t support Eloise making friends with Cressida, especially since she KNOWS how awful Cressida is to Pen.

They eating you up in the comments sir

I'm tired, boss. Are we supporting someone bullying another since they were teenagers? Are you liking what Cressida did? Did you like S1 and S2 too what she did? wtf. To quote: " LW helped the Bridgertons a lot actually. It saved them to have Daphne married to a creep ( and see how Violet wanted people to talk to reach LW and spread), saved Colin from a loveless marriage with another man's children that he didn't know anything about it and saved Eloise. Eloise suffered a few weeks of ostracism and she's back without a problem, without a romantic entanglement to ruin her. One that she clearly didn't really thought was deep enough to face society and fight for." Eloise created the situation in which she put her and Penelope as target. Should Penelope put herself at the hands of someone like Eloise who thinks she knows better than anyone else how people should act and does it without regarding the consequences or what others want?

I know you are team Eloise but what Cressida did to Pen is not good at all, she does it not for Eloise but out of bad intentions, remember season 1 she threw drink on Pen.. Cressida always had bad blood with Pen because she's an easy target, to see you laughing at that does not sit well with me..

Very minor point about Madame Delacroix; she may be pretending to BE French, but she very much IS a professional dressmaker. And as a dressmaker during this time, she has to travel to places like Paris to keep up with the latest trends (I think she mentions going there during the tons 'off season'). So she would definitely know what they're wearing over there. Loved the reaction!

I’m still team pen lol😭 Eloise is so self centered. Like how is she supposedly best friends with pen and not know that she has a crush on Colin or Lady Whistledown until the last minute. Etc Also Cressida is a bully she has bullied pen throughout the show not great. Pen is definitely in the wrong but so is Eloise but in other ways.

Ok so yes Penelope is responsible for lady whistledown and everything she writes but Eloise is also responsible for how many times she put herself in danger of ruin by going unchaperoned to a “poorer” part of town while Penelope constantly warned her against doing so. The only reason the queen threatened Eloise is because of her being suspicious. Do I agree with what Penelope did ? No. But do I think she did what she thought she had too ? Yes. The queen was not going to believe that Penelope was lady whistledown because she hates being proved wrong so she was going to make sure Eloise was lady whistledown no matter what was said until Eloise was “ruined” (which seeing as she has no trouble making friends and being in society was not really a ruin at all because of her name and money). And Eloise and Cressida would just piss me off seeing as Cressida is such a bully not only to Penelope but to Daphne and other women as well. Idk if Eloise is really such a girls girl she shouldn’t go after someone who clearly hates other women. As much as I want Eloise to be a girl kisser I’d rather her be with someone new that suites her better than a bully. Alright end of my rant lol

I don't hate Eloise but i want her to notice her own mistakes. I support what Penelope did, it was the best she could do in a dire situation.

I like Penelope more but i'm team teenager girls learning from their errors. They are very young and needed to mature. Penelope has traumas with her abusive family and Eloise lead a sheltered life that clouds her vision of things. They will mature.

Since when do you have to be French to know French fashion? "She doesn't know what they're wearing in Paris, because she's not actually French."

I get why you would be Team Eloise, even if I don't necessarily agree with your reasoning. The thing is, both of them were young and made poor choices. Penelope could have told Eloise the truth at any time but chose to keep her "Lady Whistledown" secret. At the same time, Eloise knew she was risking complete social ruin for both herself and her family if anyone found out she was seeing Theo unchaperoned. But she did it anyway. By saying Eloise is totally blameless, that's overlooking the point that Pen never would have had to choose between writing about Eloise or not, if Eloise hadn't put herself, her family and Theo (who could have lost his job over it, or worse) in that situation to begin with. If she was willing to take that risk (and she was), then she also should have been prepared to face the consequences. I wish Penelope had handled her side of the dilemma a little differently, but how can you not hold Eloise equally responsible when it was her own actions that created it? Fun reaction, by the way! You guys had me cracking up several times. So glad I found your channel, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the episodes.

"...save Eloise from Pen's bullshit" rubs me the wrong way tbh. Penelope didn't have to protect Eloise because Penelope had started a secret business of her own. She had to protect Eloise because Eloise wouldn't listen, wouldn't stop looking for LW, wouldn't stop making herself look suspicious to the queen, wouldn't stay away from the poor part of town. Eloise's own actions made her a target for the queen. And Cressida isn't bullying Penelope to be supportive of Eloise. Cressida was bullying Penelope even before Eloise switched sides.

The song that Pen walked down the stairs to in her new green dress was ABCDEFU. Perfection lol.

The pen gate feels really uncomfortable. It’s like watching mean girls.

Lol u like elosie bec of her witty one liner.. thats it, otherwise she has her flaws.. main one being self centered! She is a better friend to a bully like Cressida than she was ever to pen.

I prefer Penelope. i understand her struggles and her coping mechanisms. Eloise tends to be thoughtless and that bothers me. And Eloise was not ruined.

Like Eloise said about joining the winning side to Colin, he's also putting up a front and pretending to be somebody else, this heartless rake. He also conveys something similar to Penelope when he says 'Charm can be taught' meaning it's not authentic, it's something he learned how to be vs how he really is

Since I've not read the books yet, I'm not entirely sure why Pen decided to start the gossip rag. My first assumption is that she had a feeling deep down that she would never be married and would need a way to support herself because lord knows her sisters wouldn't/make her life hell. So if she were going to support herself she would need a way to make money. And since she's invisible every bit of gossip fell right into her lap. Perhaps she felt it was a better option than becoming a Governess, which is what many spinsters eventually do. She would make much more as the gossip writer and still be in control of her life. (as much control as women were allowed to have) . But as I've said, I've not read the books, so I'm probably wrong. . From what the show has shown me. Eloise is not that great of a friend. It hurts for Pen because she's Pen's only friend. But Eloise never really listened to Pen. She LOVED Lady Whistledown until she was the one in the rags. And she just can't wrap her head around people not having the same opinion as her. She may have "Joined the winning side." But really she just hid away her true feelings and decided to fake it to get into the main crowd she alienated thus far. She didn't want to be alone like Pen was going to be and now has to fight her true self to fit in with the others. She's become what she hated after all.

Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Daphne, Eloise, Francesca, Gregory, and Hyacinth. Hyacinth was born after her father's death.

The Bridgertons will never BEE on time.

As a Eloise and Penelope defender I’m in the trenches 😭

Well, if i have to pick one, i'm team Penelope. But i'm actually team Danbury. I'm sorry but Eloise makes me cringe so hard with her peak fake feminist persona & fetishizing the poor but the moment she thought her privilege could be challenged she backtracked and didn't even try. I hope her arc will be about her not hating other women for having different dreams and aspirations. I actually enjoyed this season so far, i was surprised by that, but Colin and Penelope worked for me. I didn't like the Mondrich storyline and Cressida was also irrelevant.

I get Eloise being mad, but I think Pen did what she thought she could do to save both Eloise and herself. Eloise can be a bit of a bulldozer and get caught up in her own privilege, and not listen. Were Pen's actions right no but I think she did what needed to be done and wrote something that would be bad but able to be recovered from, not if she wrote that she was meeting a male unchaperoned of a lower class, that would have completely effed her over which she didn't. Also the Queen was on Eloise's heels like a confrontation with the queen could me a loss of life so with those stakes in the mix Pen did what needed to be done in my opinion. Eloise has a right to be mad but some of the audience is a bit overly hateful to Penelope.

the full name of the modern piano IS the "pianoforte" (mostly, I guess, bc it can accommodate different dynamics based on key pressure as the name suggests). it's just a mouthful

Francesca Bridgerton is a different actress this season. The former actress decided to leave the show after season 2.

There is a difference between a piano today and a pianoforte (or fortepiano, if you prefer). Piano's today use hard or layered felt for the hammers, back in 1700 (when Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano) to the late 1800s, they used soft leather or wood for the hammers. Pianos weren't as loud as they are now because of that.

I found you through Wheel of Time reactions and this is now the COOLEST venn diagram in my life! ❤🎉😂

A bit disappointed on your take on Eloise and Cressida, but then again we are different people and it is normal to have different opinions:) Completely agree with @fenniahtvxq , that is exactly how is see things too. Also, my feeling is that if Pen would have confessed to Eloise that she is Lady W, Eloise would have hijacked the newspaper column with her ideas. Eloise doesn't really listens, but she loves to talk. Later on she is actually telling Cressida - "I don't understand why people don't see the things the way I do". Another prove that she is not really paying attention to her "best friend" is that she seems to have no clue that Pen is in loved with Colin during season 1 and 2. And also during season 3. It takes Lord Debling a few scenes to realize that Pen and Colin are a thing, but Eloise seems to be oblivious. Now, on the good side - I did appreciate the fact that she kept Pen's secret and I love how funny she is. I think I like this season because it features relatable characters, like really relatable and imperfect. And imperfect is good:) Also, first time seeing your reaction and enjoyed it a lot. You guys seem to be really funny. Can't wait your take on the next episodes.

11:32 Nerdy, if you ever wanted to see that, then I suggest Gentleman Jack, HBO, the Story of Anne Lister. The first, half out of the closet Lesbian living in Victorian England. Only two seasons, but very good.

Nerdy “I’d never have a gossip column because I’m nice”. Also nerdy “she kinda looks like that painting of King Charles. you can’t judge whistledown if you’re making jokes like that ya hypocrite… 😂

6:00 To be fair, a big theme in regency dramas is the intimacy of female friendship, so absolutely Pen is pining for Eloise.

The full name of the piano is pianoforte

Colin due to his family’s name has a lot of power. It’s also known that spends time with Pen bc he has danced with publicly on many occasions. For him to tell a group of eligible men that he would never dream of courting her as if she unworthy of his attention makes her seem less desirable. She was already awkward & generally overlooked bc of her weight & clothing. What he didn’t made it even more difficult when the whole point of the marriage mart is to draw attention & interest. Pen was wrong to write what she did but like Eloise she is a teenage girl that deserves to be given a bit of grace. Eloise also lacks accountability for her own actions. She left her brothers wedding to sneak off, meet Theo and chase whistledown. She was warned repeatedly by pen that her actions could have negative consequences for herself & her family but she didn’t care. Pen should’ve have to out herself to the queen to protect Eloise bc she is too stubborn to listen.

Omg so happy you're doing this!

Portia has the money they scammed from the fake ruby mines last year, which she is passing off as an inheritance.

I usually like you guys but with the fat jokes I’m out. Done. Really disappointed.

Benedict was supposed to be this season (he has the third book) but they switched it around.

The song with pen on the steps was abcdefu.

The song that Pen walked down to was ABCDEFU by Gayle.

The song when Pen walks down the stairs in her dress is abcdefu by Gayle.

Penelope saved Eloise and her sisters. The Queen was hunting for her and she was meeting a lower class man unchaperoned. The moment she was caught (and she would, everyone gossips, Penelope just reports it), she would be ruined for marriage, and so would Francesca and Hyacinth by association. Yet, she would be fine because her brother is rich and loves her. Penelope never had this support. Her father was disgraced, her mother and sisters abuse her, she is ignored and ostracized by society. She just showed them how ugly they are, exposed them. Eloise liked LW until it was about her. She never listened to Penelope neither did she felt bad about how LW talked about her friend. I like her, but she is extremely self absorbed and she also isn’t aware of her own privilege. She can be reckless and selfish, acting in a way that can cause a scandal to her family and her brother would support her no matter what bc her family is the exception. Also, if she got caught with Theo he would most likely have died. Anthony almost killed Simon, and he is a duke and his friend, imagine an untitled lower class man against a Viscount. Penelope tried to warn her. I think Eloise has the right to be mad, but she is more mad bc Penelope is rebelling against society and making something of herself, as Eloise wants but never have so far. Also, my sympathy for her diminished the moment she befriended Cressida. She always bullied Penelope just for fun, being cruel to her for no reason. Penelope was never competition, so she didn’t even need to sabotage her. It was not society that put her against Penelope. She chose to do it. Penelope got a society that excluded her and showed them what they truly are.

We only watched a couple episodes of season 2 before giving up, but it looks like season 3 is going to be good. I feel like they are going full KDrama this season, its pretty funny so far

I recognized the song when Penelope walked down the stairs it’s that “ABCDE F U” song

There's something addictive in this show's utter ridiculousness and that it completely leans into it. 25:10 Wait until you watch the most recent episode of Doctor Who. LOL

We all have our own opinions and it's valid that you're team Eloise but I firmly can't stand Eloise because she is in *such* a privileged position. As one of the Bridgertons and not even the eldest, she is fine to just be out in her own second season without really being pressured to make a match or completely given up on, as Pen is. She will always have a home and comfort with her large family of siblings while Pen has horrible sisters and mother and zero financial security or friends. Eloise literally has siblings who are always there to support her, even thorough social ostracization while Pen has literally nobody but Eloise, who has frozen her out completely. As Theo points out, Eloise is having a fun little vacation on the rough side of town but is absolutely not brave enough to actually challenge society by being with him or doing anything truly radical. Pen just wants independence, financial and otherwise, and someone to care about her.

The song as Pen is coming down the stairs is a pop song abcdefu by Gayle

loved the reaction, glad were watching bridgerton now

apologies I'm not actually a Bridgerton watcher, but I clicked from my subs page based on the thumbnail thinking it was the Dr Who ep 😅😅 I'll click my thumbs up and be on my way, have fun everyone ya'll are great.

Have you seen queen charlotte

LORD DEBLING WAS CREATED FOR THIS SEASON TO BE A PENELOPE LOVE INTREST!!! HE'S NOT IN THE BOOKS!!! 😎👍🏻 Edit: I forgot to mention- HE'S AWESOME!!

#teamELOISE for life 🎉😂❤

1:56 cause he's a soft softboy

I tell you what. I've started to wonder (yes, this is a retcon) if Cressida's dislike of Penelope was more about Eloise, in some ways. Like sometimes Debling, but that's business. We saw Cressida try to befriend Eloise previous to this and get turned down. It would be easy for Eloise and Cressida to move in together as spinsters, really, if they had the money. This has happened historically. What happens really depends on how locked into the books they are.

Yeah, but is Francesca at ease in the chaos of her home?

You could say you agree with what Lady Whistledown wrote about Colin, but if you think that about your friend, do you discuss it with him or write about it in a popular blog with his name?

Eloise looks so sad and deflated now. I just want to give her a hug.

I'm Team Eloise also. Thank you. Yes, get a shirt!

i’m team eloise forever and always. they could never make me hate her

“Eloise did nothing wrong”. Eloise would have gotten that boy killed if Anthony had found out. How do you not think that was a bad idea? Forget Penelope. Eloise being caught with Theo WOULD HAVE GOTTEN HIM KILLED.