Scenes from Bridgerton

I’m probably getting a lot of details wrong, but I didn’t take notes while watching the show so my thoughts here are pretty jumbled up:

-the scenes where the Duke (Simon) and Daphne are having fierce sex. Honestly this is the most intense sex I have seen in a while.

-Daphne and Simon are in town and there are three large pigs that people are betting on. Daphne decides to declare a tie so that no single pig wins. Later on a very pregnant woman in the village tells Daphne that no one wants to acknowledge her because she declared the tie for the pigs and that meant the farmers in the village lost money.

-Marina marries Colin and Penelope is jealous. She goes through Marina’s stuff to show that George (the guy who Marina fell in love with and the father of Marina’s child, who is abroad in Spain) misses Marina and doesn’t actually want to dump her, but Marina by this point is hellbent on marrying Colin. She soon finds out Penelope also loves Colin and she basically tells Penelope to deal with it. Unfortunately, Marina’s illegitimate pregnancy makes Lady Whistledown’s headlines and the Featherington family must carry their heads in shame. Eloise at first tries to help Penelope by distracting her one night. The night Eloise comes over is the night Marina admits her feelings for Colin and Penelope is secretly jealous. Eloise wants to tell Penelope she is figuring out who Lady Whistledown is but because Penelope is heartbroken she snaps at Eloise that she (Penelope) needs to go to sleep and now is not a good time to talk. Eloise is clearly heartbroken that Penelope yelled at her and won’t tell her what is going on.

-Eloise goes to Madame Delacroix because Mrs. Bridgerton (Violet) is getting her to try on dresses for when she gets married but Eloise doesn’t see marriage as a priority. Earlier, Madame Delacroix tries to ban Marina and Portia (Lady Featherington) from trying on a dress for Marina, but Marina starts talking to Madame Delacroix in rapid fluent French because Madame Delacroix’s French accent is fake. I found this out in one of the earlier episodes because her friend, Siena, comes over and Madame Delacroix drops her French accent and talks in her regular British accent.

-Queen Charlotte is married to a white man who probably has dementia. When she joins him for dinner, the King asks what happened to Amelia, their daughter, and Queen Charlotte reminds him that Amelia died of illness years ago and the King looks up at her and accuses her of killing Amelia and calls her a bitch and knocks his plate of dinner down on the floor, prompting her to leave the room in sheer fear.

-Daphne is excited to have kids but she is sad because she knows the Duke can’t give her kids. When they are having sex, Daphne suddenly positions herself on top of Simon to see if she can get pregnant and then she finds out that Simon isn’t impotent, he just doesn’t want kids. Anthony goes to Madame Delacroix’s looking for Siena, the opera singer soprano he often sleeps with, but she (Madame Delacroix) informs Anthony that Siena left town and doesn’t need to depend on Anthony’s money. Earlier, Anthony comes to Siena because he is still attracted to her, and they try to have passionate sex again but they end up breaking it off and Siena realizes she will never achieve the same status as Anthony and they can’t keep playing this game with each other when they are not meant for each other.

-After Marina’s pregnancy makes it to Lady Whistledown’s column, Portia and her daughters are banned from the party and kicked out. Earlier Marina meets with Colin and he is upset she didn’t tell him about her pregnancy. He thinks if she just told him earlier he would still love her. I wonder if Penelope is going to use this to seize her chance to tell Colin she loves him. The Duke and Anthony are about to have a duel before Simon leaves London, and they are about to position themselves for the duel, but Daphne finds out from Colin where they are and she intervenes, telling them to stop. Daphne insists on marrying the Duke but he tries to tell her he wouldn’t be good for her because he won’t be able to give her any children. When they move in together after getting married, Daphne often roams around the palace, which she and Simon try to make huge decorations and adjustments to. Simon, however, is managing the finances of the people in the village and always working in his office. Simon and Daphne have sex pretty much everywhere when they move into their new residence- they have it on the lawn, outside near the pond, pretty much anywhere because they know it’s their house. Even if there might be servants watching, they still talk about a lot of their personal lives and have sex outside.