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Sex, Gossip and All Things 'Bridgerton' · Pop Culture Junkie®

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♫Entertain me, entertain me right now♫
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Dearest gentle listeners,
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Welcome to another episode of the Pop Culture JunkyiePodcast.
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I'm Shauna joined by Olivia.
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How are you doing on this blessed... I'm done. I'm done with that.
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Thank God. Thank God.
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Yeah, we're done. We will be talking for Richard Hinn today,
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but first, how the hell are you, Olivia?
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You know, we are seeing the sun another day.
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So that's about all we can say.
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We're touching grass. We're touching grass.
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Ziggy's looking extra cute.
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I can always tell how well I'm doing,
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based off of the number of outfits I want to buy him.
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It's at an all-time high.
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He's got a start. He needs this outfit.
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It's a true indication of my mental health.
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So if Ziggy is rocking a fit, you know, I'm not doing well.
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Same if my house is spotless clean.
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Not doing well. That's fair.
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I think Ziggy needs a Bridgerton Regency Era outfit.
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I think that would be cute. Are we getting him like a Queen Charlotte level wig?
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Oh my God, of course.
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I take care that the actress who plays Queen Charlotte has to have like a neck brace on
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to balance those wigs on her head though.
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Dude, they look so heavy by saying.
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Yeah, season one maybe. She was rocking like natural neck to hold those up,
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but then they just like really leaned in to everything,
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Bridgerton, more bonkers. I mean, Ziggy does have a buff neck.
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There's one thing I know about him.
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Yeah, that's about the whole guy.
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Big buff.
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I'm hanging in there too.
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I'm thinking about, were you thinking about getting another cat?
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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My listeners, my poor doggy, my buffy, passed away recently.
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My sweet little vampire slayer at 15.
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But now my cat is very lonely.
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And now that I'm not--
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Poor toast.
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I've dug myself out of the depression a bit, a little bit, a little bit now.
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That's good.
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And I'm like, I think toast needs a kiddie friend, so.
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Yeah.
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Trying to decide.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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I think a cat is a good option there.
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Yeah.
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I'm not ready for a show.
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Especially if you already have one cat.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Definitely not ready for another dog.
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But I think I think a little, a little black cat.
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I don't know.
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We went to eight cat shelters on Sunday.
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Oh.
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Okay.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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Well, if you didn't find one, you liked it.
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I think that was your answer.
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We found two.
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We found two puts in a cat.
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So like, but we're just, we're being very picky.
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We're like, none of you are good enough for our toast.
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None of you gets away from me.
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Next, please.
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I feel like Queen Charlotte with the ladies in waiting.
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Next.
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Okay.
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Well, that's good.
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That's probably a good discerning quality.
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To have right now instead of just like sad buying an animal.
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Oh my god.
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There.
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The I keep you almost dead.
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I did.
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I found a dog that looked just like Buffy.
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Like three days after she died.
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And I was like, oh god.
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He needs to come home with me.
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And everyone had to talk me off of the ledge.
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I don't know.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We go maybe, maybe we leave for a minute.
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Oh, he was sad.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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But yeah.
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I can do it.
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I think I can do a cat.
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I would love to get a little pomeranian or something.
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Like Queen Charlotte.
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We're already in the Richardson talk.
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We're already.
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Yeah.
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Well, let's be honest.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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I love to.
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So if you are like us,
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we have absolutely been bridged, Bridgerton.
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And we wanted to just talk a little bit about
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its fourth season.
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What we're seeing, everything we've learned,
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what we do and don't like about this season.
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I have lots of thoughts.
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I have lots and thoughts too.
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I don't like Benedict Bridgerton, but here we are.
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I like him better now that this season has ended.
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Think of us as your lady whistle downs going into this.
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We're going to give you all of the hot goss from the ton.
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So let's start right from season one or right from the top.
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I guess these are based on novels.
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Sorry.
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Let me get one more of that.
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So Bridgerton is a Netflix series.
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It is based on eight historical romance novels by Julia Quinn.
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The books were published between 2000 to 2006.
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Each book focuses on one of the eight Bridgerton siblings
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and their journey to finding love in the region.
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See era of London high society.
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The TV series generally adapts one sibling story per season.
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The order kind of has started kind of in the order a little bit of the books.
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Yeah, they've made some some things around.
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They've shifted.
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Yeah, book one and book two are Daphne and Simon for book one.
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And then book two is Anthony and Kate.
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Yes, it just occurred to me like more recently than I should admit
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that they are ABCD like alphabetical order like with the siblings.
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Like okay, so there's Anthony Benedict, Colin, Daphne,
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Eloise, Francesca, Gregory and Hyacinth.
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Okay.
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Wow, I actually didn't realize that either.
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So yeah.
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And then one of the characters mentions it in season four.
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She's like trying to name all them and she's doing the ABCs that are fingers.
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Oh wow.
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Yeah, that's a great way to know who's who and who's the oldest.
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Yes, Mama Bridgeton be popmo's babies.
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Oh,
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happen.
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So season one is based on the book of the Duke and I.
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And the main couple is Daphne and Simon.
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I really liked the first season.
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I think it's probably just because it's his name Renee Jean Page.
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I'm probably not saying that right.
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Is so hot.
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Oh my god, he's hot.
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dummy hot dummy hot.
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Yeah, I recently went back and watched season one of Bridgeton.
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And it is quite interesting.
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I think if you watch season four now, everything is so like turned up.
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Like we mentioned like bean charlots wigs.
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Like the colors that they're wearing,
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I really did like going back and watching it when Bridgeton like wasn't so lived in
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and it didn't know who it was.
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And these are like bra buster.
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That's what they call them, right?
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Like boostier.
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Yeah, their tether up to their chin.
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Bottas ripper.
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Bottas ripper novels.
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Would you say boob rippers?
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Bra, I don't even remember at the point.
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I like it.
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But bra busters.
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Yeah, that's all the bluster.
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You stop being a bra bus to you.
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Yeah, we're in the East Coast now.
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And the book itself really follows like the kind of a similar like love arc,
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but really early on the show is adapted by Shonda Rhymes.
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And she ultimately like brings in a lot of elements kind of quickly that aren't within the books as well.
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So we have queen charlotte as a central character.
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She actually doesn't exist in the books in that's really any any way outside of like she's the queen.
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A brief image.
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Yeah, did you read the books?
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I like have skimmed them, but I am quite familiar with them because you know book talk early.
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Yeah, I got you.
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But ultimately looking at it like queen charlotte didn't exist.
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Now queen charlotte exists in our real time.
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And she has been rumored to have been of African descent.
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As well.
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So she has been reading about that recently.
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Yeah, it's interesting.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. And if you look at pictures of her, she is like tan for photos of that time,
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but they really wash her within her like royal portrait.
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So it is quite interesting.
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She's a real life queen brought into this and expanded upon that.
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That is kind of funny like a real a real historical figure.
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And we're just I don't know watching this show about her.
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She loves gossip.
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She says.
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Yeah, that woman is starved for some hot gauze and I love it.
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Season one I did like I do like in hindsight think that Simon.
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Like they were obviously into each other, but Simon.
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I don't know was he really that into Daphne?
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I don't know.
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Yeah, there are some weird plots.
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I'm in that.
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So I will say they do in this in this season probably stick to the books the most.
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In season four, you mean?
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In season one.
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No season four they change of time.
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And for good.
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The one that we're talking about right now, season one.
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Yes.
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Yes, season one.
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Yeah, so Daphne obviously violates consent forces Simon into a very like
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calculating side of yeah, like we do not get content.
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We are not asking for individuals to consent.
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We're not forcing anybody to
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ejaculate where they don't want to or have a child of us.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And it does seem like their marriage is just I mean,
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obviously they're into each other in the beginning or that least
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lusting after each other, but they're basically forced to get married because
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they're caught kissing, right?
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So it's and they start like in this fake relationship and then it turns into a real one.
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I don't know.
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That one like sure it's hot and there's you know, that's right off the bat.
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How Richard Hengot known is by like having really good sex scenes.
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Like that's why yeah, it took me a while to want to watch it.
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Because I'm not much of like a Regency Arab period piece person.
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But then everyone was like, Sean others some doing it.
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They're doing it in this show.
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And I was like, yeah, all right, maybe I'll give it a whirl and then it worked for me.
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Yeah.
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And you know, bringing or like I
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I like the changes that they made.
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They made it like ultimately much better of a story.
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Yeah.
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And bringing in Queen Charlotte like allows them to talk about race in the show.
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It's a reimagine like social social structure that is tied to the Queen's marriage, right?
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Yeah.
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That's something really really cool.
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They bring it in.
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Otherwise the show would have been like entirely all white, very rich aristocracy.
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So I think season one really brought people in.
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But where people got hooked in and ultimately fell in love with season two.
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Would you agree with that?
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Season two is my favorite.
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Season two is my favorite.
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Actually, I will say Queen Charlotte is my favorite.
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I have a whole of the show.
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Charlotte, yeah.
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I know.
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I know I need to.
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It is on my list of shows.
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I just finished a show last night.
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So that's going to be my next is to watch the Queen Charlotte show.
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Queen Charlotte.
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Yes.
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Season two is based on the book The Vi Count Who Loved Me
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and The Man Couple is Anthony Bridgerton
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and Kate Sharma, who is originally Kate Sheffield in the books.
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But it's changed to be of Indian descent in the TV show.
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I love Anthony Bridgerton.
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He's so handsome and so kind of like bitchy.
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Jonathan Bailey.
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Jonathan Bailey.
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Oh my god.
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Jonathan Bailey is the sexiest man alive.
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And I'm so glad that they shaved off those terrible mutton chop sideburns.
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From season one.
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From season one.
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Yeah.
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The boys all had goofy fucking hair in season one.
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They all looked like big goobers.
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But they all grow into their handsomeness.
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Another thing that we should mention that makes Bridgerton unique is
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the use of modern music.
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But they said it to be like classical.
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I love that too.
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Yeah.
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So I hit you with a full list of them because I would love that.
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Yes, I would love that.
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Okay.
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Season one.
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We have violin or piano covers.
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Here thank you next by Ariana Grande.
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Girls like you, Maroon 5, in my blood, Shawn Mendes,
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bad guy, Billie Eilish, iconic of all iconic while the streams by Taylor Swift
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strange by Celeste.
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Season two.
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We have material girl by Madonna, Diamonds by Rihanna.
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Stay away by Nirvana dancing on my own Robin.
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You ought to know Alana's more set.
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Yes.
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What about us by Pink and how deep is your love by Calvin Harris?
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Season three.
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The iconic finger blasting cheap it will give me everything.
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Yeah.
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In the carriage.
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I want to be finger blasted to put.
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Ask him you shall receive.
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I'm going to tell you right now.
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The end of the adress.
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By Patown, right that town.
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By Patown.
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Okay.
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Cheap thrills by Sia.
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Snow on the Beach by Taylor Swift.
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Happier than ever by Billie Eilish.
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Jellis by Nick Jonas.
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ABCDEFU by Gail.
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POV by Ariana Grande.
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And confident by Demi Labato.
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Love that forever.
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Just ultimately some amazing covers there.
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I mean honestly I could listen to the Bridgerton play last all day while I work.
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And probably.
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I love it.
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It's it definitely like brings the Shawn Delay and into it all.
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And as the seasons go on.
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You know we see their makeup get more glamorous.
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Their nails are getting done.
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Their hair is more glamorous.
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The costumes.
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The set pieces.
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And you know that's what the show getting more money.
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But I think it's also just kind of the audience's word.
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Bunch of.
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I do.
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I'm listening after season two.
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They turn up the color palette a little bit too much.
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Where it just looks like pastel.
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Throw up on everything.
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That's a personal choice.
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I could see that.
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But I do think that season two was just so such a good like love story.
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It brought us strong then Bailey.
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The yearning in season two.
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Simone Ashley, her eyebrows,
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her yearning face is the best the way she looks at him.
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Just like, oh she wants to be with him so bad.
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But they can't.
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He's engaged to her sister.
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They are enemies to lovers, which is my favorite romance trope of all.
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Which is probably why I like this one so much.
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And I think that they just love her.
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I do.
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And I think that they just embody like lust and longing so well.
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And like, oh my god, when by the way,
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we're going to have a few Bridgerton spoilers.
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It too.
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We haven't said that already.
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Yeah, it's too late.
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This season came out four years ago.
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I think that's okay.
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When we find out that his dad died from the
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beasting and then the bee lands on her stings.
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Her and he's like grabs her.
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Like he's just freaking out.
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Oh my god.
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I love that scene.
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Yes, it is very, very good.
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And yeah, I think that really,
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again, that's when Bridgerton captured kind of everyone's attention as well.
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Going from season two to season three,
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we have quite an important distinction and switch in the order.
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Yes.
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Really what we see.
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Season three, it was Colin and Penelope.
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It's romancing Mr. Bridgerton,
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but it actually skips Benedict's book and moves to Colin.
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So that's probably like the first like narrative arc where we really changed like the order.
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That was a while.
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And I think it's just because they had built up
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Penelope and Colin.
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Like Penelope had this big crush on Colin and they've been building it up for seasons.
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She's secretly lady whistle down, right?
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And so I think that they could only drag on that
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whose lady whistle down the tonne not knowing for so long
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that we had to they refueled to the audience that she was lady whistle down at the end of season two,
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if I remember correctly, right?
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Yeah, when did we find out?
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Yes, you figured out and then nobody else knows.
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Yeah, until season three.
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Obviously Colin figured us it out.
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Yeah, season three.
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And we get to see Nicolak Hofflin who plays Penelope,
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Featherington definitely coming to her own.
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She's kind of the the wall flower kind of quiet one, the first two seasons.
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She is wearing those
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god it awful like gaudy colors from the Featherington house of like their yellows and oranges
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and just terrible hairdos.
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And her mom's a bitch and doesn't really think that she's ever going to get married and then
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she snags Colin Bridgerton.
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Bridgerton.
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Bridgerton.
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It's played by Luke Newton and
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and they've studied what they have these men do.
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Took a little up because
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he has.
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Luke Newton in in this show was like not cute in my opinion.
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No.
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Going into season three, I think they
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they gave him a little too strong of a lip flip like every time I see it.
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Now I was again I was re-ratching Bridgerton and I was like man his like the lip flip from season two
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to season three a little too much.
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It kind of takes me out of the moment.
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Yeah, he definitely had the actor had something done between two and three and he's really handsome.
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But it's definitely very noticeable that like he went from
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to oh he's very handsome but yeah what happened.
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He's kind of a little shit.
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Yeah.
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I think it so the Shonda does a really good job at like modernizing these men for this audience.
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But I think that like and we'll talk about this when we get to Benedict as well.
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They're kind of not great people like Colin really doesn't pay attention to
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penalty like all the time is like saying mean things about her and so in the show they go into
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like a linear timeline in the book.
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It's a 10 year time jump so there's like time between it.
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Oh they did not know that interesting.
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That's why they flipped it.
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Yeah does she have like a glow up in the book too where she kind of goes from like the
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mousey kind of you know wall flower to like being a hottie.
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Yeah.
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Yeah and I think she's also just like older and more independent as well.
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Yeah no I totally agree and the actress I believe is 38 years old and all the
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several are definitely older than they are playing.
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Like the Bridgerton men I want to say are supposed to be and like they're early to mid 20s.
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The girls I think you enter like the marriage market at like 17 which God.
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Yeah so these girls are all very young but they're being played by older actresses especially
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because they be they be doing it they be getting things to pay to pit bull in the back of a carriage.
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Another thing that should be said for Bridgerton I think in addition to kind of like the
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the race aspects of it is like the body diversity that they show.
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So Nicola Copplyn is definitely like a curvy or woman and there was a lot of conversation
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around her body which is still going on right now and she's just kind of like shut up and stop
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talking about my body as I bring it up but I do think that you know it's it's nice to see like
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you know diverse body shapes and types and diverse humans on TV.
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Yeah absolutely I I like how they're doing it because again it's like Regency Air it's quite antiquated
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ideas and yeah I think the show and the books really as we mentioned start to diverge in season 3 and
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season 4 and I think with what we saw in season 4 it's gonna be like a common theme so before we
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like really just dive into it how did you like season 4 overall I really liked season 4 it's
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definitely a Cinderella story that we've seen a million times yeah and I was screaming okay now
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I'll do a spoiler warning because this season just ended like a couple weeks ago yeah so spoiler
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for season 4 Bridgerton if you haven't watched it yet he's so fucking dumb oh yeah
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it's he's so obviously her he meets the lady in silver falls for her and then it meets so
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fair it like kisses them both come on bro and it keeps it will zoom me into her mouth and her lips
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because he's trying to look for the lady in silver okay yes sorry season 4 let me I'm getting
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so ahead of myself season 4 is based off the book and offer from a gentleman it is following the
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story of Benedict Bridgerton and Sophie Beckett slash Sophie Beck and it is a Cinderella story he meets
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her at a masquerade ball she is a maid who sneaks away to go to the ball and has to leave by midnight
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and leaves behind her glove and he's smitten later in the season he falls for a maid who happens to
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shocking and surprisingly be the lady in silver and bro can't figure out that they're the same person
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which leads to a classic line slash cliffhanger between part one and part two of Sophie will you be
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my mistress yeah so do that he thought he ate with that yeah the book is so much worse he black
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males her in he says be my mistress or work for my mother and like he like absolutely like coerces her
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into being his mistress what fucked up yeah it's really bad I knew I did my bed I knew it yeah what's
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funny though is I liked Benedict the most until this season and I think that you know I I like
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like Tim he's a by king I say you love a bisexual guys I love a bisexual man I do I do and I like
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Luke Thompson as a side character he really didn't do it for me as a main character which was sad
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and then yeah a storyline he was just kind of an asshole so they really made it like so much better
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than it could have been like it could have been like very coercive and creepy and we don't want that
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right like I mean at the end of the day this is a but a show made for the girls gots and gays
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the she she's like it's it's a girly fun time pop show right like we don't need coerce and we don't
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need even though the first season definitely has some if he you know yeah things going on there
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we want them to fall in love and be happy right which they do in the end and I'm very happy about
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that we also get to see um mama Bridgerton what's her name again oh violet Bridgerton violet
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Bridgerton gets so much in this season if you like violet story you need to watch queen charlotte
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it's so good it's like all like it's like a prequel so it's like the queen lady whistle down
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violet um it's amazing it's so funny lady whistle down lady Danbury yeah lady Danbury that's
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what I mean yeah I love lady Danbury oh she's so cool I'm gonna miss her next season yeah I think
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this is the first season where the like I think that uh Sophie Beckett was like fine but I think the more
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interesting storylines really were the subplots so we had yeah our sweet sweet Francesca and John
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Francesca oh my god so Francesca Mary's a man named John Sterling um and they have you know a quiet
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quick little down to earth romance which I loved which we saw on season three yeah yeah and everyone
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else is getting these will they won't they push pool oh dramatic yearning and she just meets a man
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and they fall in love and get married and it's very sweet and season four shows you know they're romance
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blossoming and she's having trouble reaching up and it go all the way which happens listen yeah
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and all the while his cousin Michaela is there who in the books is named Michael and we get to see
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Francesca and Michaela start off and Francesca's kind of annoyed by her but it seems like there's
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something else there there's like tension there yeah yeah the ender need the surface and they become friends
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yeah and then John Sterling passes away yeah you want to know how much that fucked me up my dad's name
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is John no and I was like well I'm watching Bridgerton now I'm crying about my dad dad so that's
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fun damn it stop and then I did think that the the way they did the um the Irish wake was quite beautiful
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yeah we had that for your dad yeah yeah and we did that for my dad so I was I was ugly crying um for sure
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maybe happy but yeah I think like the subplots for the first time were more interesting to me and
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yeah I think Luke just did not do it for me Benedict as the the leading man I that's it I just I don't
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mind Luke but like I saw some funny um Instagram post or something you know when it it goes in on his
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lips because she's like looking at his mouth and they were like they really thought they were doing
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something here and it's his like thin little lips with his chin stubble yeah yeah yeah just not
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that's fine he's fine I don't know he didn't do it for me this season there's sex scenes were nice
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asking her to be the mistress was not the move but you know it worked out in the end
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violet got laid in the store oh my god when she's like I'm the tea she looks so good I'm the tea
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will be happy and her man oh my god I know when he took his shirt off no I'm good I guessed out loud
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when he took a shirt off I was like oh my god that is the perfect man oh good for her good for her yeah
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overall I don't think it was the best one but I liked it yeah I like where they're setting a sub to go
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I agree too so that is where we're at right now um I do want to touch a little bit um we did
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mention it just kind of like race in Bridgerton some major race changes from the show and some
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gender swaps I guess Michaela was was Michaela the only gender swap that you know of from the book
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yeah awesome and I like you mentioned earlier like from the Queen Charlotte show I didn't watch it but
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I think that it kind of sets up why like there's more race in the show yeah right yep yep
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she what she is a black woman so she tries to elevate other people of color into it
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they kind of explain it there as well and then it is a big glimpse into how Queen Charlotte and
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Lady Danberry got close I'm really excited I hope they do another spin off but for Violet and
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Mr Bridgerton um I think they are probably gonna do that yeah Edwin yeah yeah I would love to see
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that the casting from what I've seen is really well done for Queen Charlotte story too like
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the young Queen Charlotte looks just like her but yeah I mean we have Queen Charlotte represented as a
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black woman Kate Nedwina Sharma are represented by Indian women Lady Danbury is white in the books as
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well Sophie Beckett is a white woman and she's Asian heritage in the show I loved her step sisters
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too I thought they were so fun like the really big issue one and then the sweet one I always like that
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um very Cinderella story yes and then her evil step mom is played by the actress who played um
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show Chang in the Harry Potter movies she did good she did good is like a villain I agree
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you know what I think it's funny I was looking up all the ages and everything to have all of the
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characters like versus their characters Katie Lung I want to say is like 37 years old she's like my age
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and she is I know and she's playing the mother of the main love interest and Luke Thompson is definitely
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also around that age you know and you just got to roll with it yeah and then yeah the actress who
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plays Penelope is older than me I don't know so we're stretching the imagination I'm pretty sure
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Eloise's actress is like 35 years old it's about playing like 19 I love it yeah so basically
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just to cap off this portion of the episode we need the skin routine of all of the actresses
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from Richard's in the important thing we should be asking that is the important thing how do I how do
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I play 19 as a 30th girl we're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna talk about what we think
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that was good I'm proud of you I love that you could be a julie andjou's impersonator thank you
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bow bow start doing that instead of old timey voice now um yep that's not true it's better it's better yeah
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I think our listeners would like you to julie andjou's more okay so season five and six because
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apparently we're doing both seasons we are because they have both been confirmed so what do you
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think we're gonna get in season five and six of Richard 10 so shonda rimes has not said um or any of
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the producers anyone has not said who season five will be about so it will either be lawee's or
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francesca but they have not um divulged that yet there was a recent award show and they had on in
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little like lapel or a thing that you stick in your pocket a little cloth you put your pocket no like a
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little piece of cloth I don't think it's important I think we got it yeah okay okay all of that for
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that thank you yes and e and an f like because they were trying to tease like ooh is he me e or f e or
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f see it was important at the end of the day so if it goes in order it will be elowisa's story and hers
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is based off of a kind of spoiler from the book title if you remember this person um to sir fill up with
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love yes our feminist independent elowies is false victim false prey to the grasp of love like all of us
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eventually so says the woman with a boyfriend a wonderful boyfriend nope catch me yeah can't catch me either
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so elowies it like what's interesting about her book is it isn't set in like the ton or whatever
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though so it's actually in the country so I think for them to like they're gonna really have to
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dramatically alter her storyline if they are gonna keep it kind of in that traditional setting
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is the only reason I don't see them doing that for season five why does she go to the country side
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just because she's like fuck this I want to escape and she's like I can't be around all these people
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and better than it so that is what hers isn't set in like the main town interesting that might be an
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interesting little switch up especially because we're not getting Lady Danbury next season the queen
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did give her permission to go and live her life and find you know her family we might get a little
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pop in here and there yeah I think she'll be right now she's such a favorite but I do think we're gonna
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get the Francesca storyline so Francesca's book is actually about her falling in love with Michael
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in it it's they gender swap it to Michaela and having a child so it's gonna be really really with Michael
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it's gonna be really interesting they talk about a lot about fertility in season four so to be
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interesting to see how they bring in the LGBTQ storyline let's be in yeah and also them we kind of
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saw this with Violent Bridgerton this season where Sophie and Benedict really deal with class right
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yeah dating someone below it where she's like I will love you I will support you but like
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publicly I cannot be near you you have to go live in the country yeah they weren't allowed to get
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married until they've finagled it that she was you know of yeah actual or whatever but is
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Michaela not because she seems like she's in society um she she's a spinster for sure she is like
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rejected a man but she is educated she's Scottish as well so different customs there um but it is
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gonna be really really interesting because we just saw through Violet where she at the end of season
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for rejects um I can't remember it rejects him yeah she rejects the marriage proposal and says I
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want to be me and so I think it's gonna be really interesting to have that mirrored within Francesca
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and Violet like being reminded of what that is and like um that pain and and that feeling of it
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because when you are a mom of like eight children and your husband dies like you kind of just gotta
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keep going um but this happening to Francesca was quite interesting yes I agree um and her book is
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called when he was wicked um if for Francesca's story so it'll be one of those we don't know which
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order we're gonna get both of them at some point which is don't know which is gonna be first yeah
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do you think it'll be interesting to get some Eloise sex scenes if you like it's gonna be really
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awkward she's just gonna talk the whole time yeah she's been so like anti-man and anti-romance and then
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we just I don't know I don't think she's gonna get finger-banging in the back of a carriage but maybe
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maybe maybe maybe my I also think that we've been set up for high-sense also Charlie and CX
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the cover and Susan for oh my god they're a little dancing too they're a little stepping oh yeah
36:46
it was really cute I would like to see high-sense get a little older before she gets her um
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bridgerton bridgerton uh sex I don't know her her bed is she she's very close she's like a
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euro way in this season so it's gonna be the next season like it is also like the debut season like
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by me so that's true so yeah she will debut next season yeah and I think it'll kind of be like how
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we saw Francesca whenever her she was getting introduced or like even though it was penalty season
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but Francesca's like that the plot and then I think we'll have a high-sense move into it yeah that's
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what I was just thinking too is like she might not be the main storyline but we'll at least get like
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the seeds planted of maybe like a guy that she's into and then maybe grow into that romance like in
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season seven or eight if it gets renewed which at the rate that it's going I'm sure it will
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but like I said I need violent and Edwin bridgerton like it was yesterday oh my gosh I know
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I um I have a theory for who the new lady whistle down is see we see Penelope's retire as lady whistle
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down because now that she's outed the queen is just playing her like a fiddle and basically demanding
38:04
the gossip that she wants to see Penelope is like I'm sick of this I want to write my novel like any good
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hipster I think Violet bridgerton is lady whistle down hmm okay yeah I think that she gets I do
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I think that she at the end of the last season which seemed kind of rushed to me by the way all the
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sudden she just started remembering that she was once a use and I want to be I want to live my wild
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days again I think it's her either that hurts the queen herself just bored out of her mind I think it's
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actually still Penelope interesting yeah and she just tell the real she's face
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diary yeah because she can't like get good gossip anymore like she's not a wall feather or wallflower
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wall feather featherington wall featherington yeah interesting yeah so I'm very excited to see what it is
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consume it any day I think just like the queen and Penelope put a little wager on it you and I
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should have had a little wager on it I don't know what it is we're gonna have to think about it we're
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gonna have to think about what the wager is yeah something more interesting than money whoever's a
39:26
bright gets to dunk milk on the other person why is it always milk it's always comes back to milkies
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milkies yes okay you're here I'm dumping stuff on Chonaside stuff and if leave yeah
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milkies okay we're gonna wrap this one like like cow milk right like like like dairy cow milk
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time will tell time will tell okay yep I think we can wrap that up with the thought of Olivia being
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