Bridgerton

Anthony and Kate fight for dominance both on the race track and over Edwina's heart. ... What Lord Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) wants, Lord Anthony ...

Kate tries to counter by saying Lady Danbury is perfectly happy being alone, but Lady Danbury states that she is a widow that has had a happy life and that Kate will be sorry if she grows old without experiencing love. However, he does agree to write down an impromptu speech about what it means to truly love a woman that Anthony then takes to the soirée hoping to impress his intended. Alone with Mrs. Varley (Lorraine Ashbourne), Portia shares her fear that the new master of the household is just waiting to kick her out and bring some young, brainless girl into her home. A small victory in a much larger war, soon followed by the discovery that Mr. Dorset was no stranger to Lord Bridgerton, but a friend from Oxford tasked with keeping Kate distracted as the viscount woos Edwina. Once more, Kate grabs her sister and takes her away, much to Edwina’s and the viscount’s chagrin. As Eloise busies herself with her investigation, Anthony approaches the Sharmas and makes sure to show off his family to Edwina. After all, one can tell a lot about a gentleman just by looking at his family. If something like this ever happens, the Queen assures her, all she has to do is tell Her Majesty who she thinks is responsible. Back to the mystery of Lady Whistledown, Eloise pays her coachman some extra cash to take her to the Chancery Lane printer where she believes the Society Papers are published. But even if Anthony did decide to take his family to the races to get closer to Edwina, she’s not the one he ends up interacting with the most. During a visit to Her Majesty’s own personal zoo, Edwina is warned by Queen Charlotte herself about the many malicious rumors that might be spread about her. Now, if Penelope were to organize her problems by order of importance, Eloise would certainly be at the very top of her list. But, as Lady Whistledown (voiced by Julie Andrews) reminds us at the beginning of the second episode of Bridgerton Season 2, "Off to the Races," to get to Miss Edwina, the bachelors of London must first go through her much less amenable sister. His siblings are giving him a harder time at fencing and his favorite horse had to be sacrificed after the last race.

However, another feature that made the show stand out was the use of intriguing instrumental covers of pop hits. LA based group Vitamin String Quartet gained ...

Another musical highlight takes place in episode five as Kate and Anthony attempt to break off their illicit flirtation. A major moment in the relationship between Kate and Anthony happens during episode four. Still, fans can rest assured that the musical tributes remain.

Nicola Coughlan, who plays Penelope on Bridgerton, has teased what to expect from season 2 of the Netflix period drama.

And it's just if they're sort of arguing, and then it all gets very romantic, shall we say, but I think it will be such a good scene in the show. It terrifies me to think of filming but I think it would be really great." "So I know that it gets extremely racy in that scene. "I think I'm genuinely and I'm not kidding – going to ask Shondaland for a special family friendly cut. "Luke and I, we used to joke about it all the time, and then it becomes progressively less funny and more intimidating as time goes on [...] I'm really interested in how it's gonna play out because she's quite modern a lot of ways in that she, she's a businesswoman. And I know her love interest already, it's Colin Bridgerton."

Bridgerton. (L to R) Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma, Jonathan Bailey as Photo: Liam Daniel | Netflix. This Bridgerton review contains spoilers.

Bridgerton is a period drama and romance franchise that’s here to stay for the foreseeable future. Sharpe is a means to an end for developing the rift between Eloise and Penelope and should have had more screentime to show the audience a wider view of Regency London than seen in past productions. While these episodes spend a lot of time trying to establish that Anthony and Edwina really were only getting together out of familial duty and not true love, Bridgerton does not forget the supporting characters that are original to the series. Supporting and main characters’ plot lines tied to Benedict and Marina’s storylines may also appear racist if actors of color replace the white characters from the novels. The key reason for this change is that Kate is older and it is inferred possibly more experienced in life. The best change Season 2 makes is to delay the reveal of why Anthony’s father passed away a decade earlier. This thread of continuity dispels the notion that the show is going to stop featuring Black characters as other characters of color are added to the series. Queen Charlotte (Golda Roushevel) names Edwina the Diamond of the Season as a favor to Lady Danbury. The Featheringtons are recovering from the death of Lord Featherington and are awaiting the arrival of his distant cousin who inherited the title. The episode also establishes the Bridgerton family mythology which is key to later plot events. Benedict (Luke Thompson) is accepted to the royal academy to study visual arts, but he finds out he may not have been accepted purely on application merit. Bridgerton season 2 returns to Netflix today with a new Bridgerton sibling’s quest to make a suitable marriage match.

Claudia Jessie, who portrays Eloise on Netflix's 'Bridgerton,' talked to Vulture about playing the character and what to expect with season three.

A lot of the women in the show are quite bare and like to show a lot of arms and chest. I would love Eloise to find a clear objective and focus on one thing. Penelope knows how much Eloise loves Lady Whistledown and how much she probably wanted to be her. She talked a lot about how amazing she is and how they should aspire to be just like her. I liked that I got to unsubscribe a little bit and be a bit clumsy. There’s a firmness to the cut and the style of her clothes. I think they should be able to exist and be free and do what they want to do. A lot of us have cried when we watch them perform to the music. She, and also Penelope in a way, are signs of what’s to come. What do you mean I have to do this? Eloise is that beautiful, fresh, young mind who quite rightly is thinking about her right to autonomy and freedom and not to be a property of a man and to want to earn her own money. She’s a sign of what was to come.

And while the mistress of Aubrey Hall and her daughter, Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor), have their hands full making preparations and keeping the guests entertained, ...

He stares at his mother’s engagement ring and, for a moment, it looks like he has decided to listen to Daphne. But as Edwina is about to get into her carriage, Anthony strides out of the manor, gets down on one knee, and asks her to marry him. Instead of a wealthy bachelor, Jack is a penniless man, and all of his ruby mines in the Americas have failed. Anthony tries to explain himself to his sister, who compares the situation in which she found him with her compromising moment with the duke (Regé-Jean Page) in Season 1. The day of the ball finally arrives, and Eloise allows Penelope and her mother to convince her to accept her first foray into the dance floor. Edwina convinces her sister to take to the floor with Anthony in order to make the final arrangements for the proposal, but the dance doesn’t go exactly as planned. Inspired by a conversation with Prudence (Bessie Carter) about entrapping men into marriage, she arranges for her daughter and Jack to be found alone at the manor’s orangery by a number of Lady Bridgerton’s guests. Colin says that he wanted to apologize for his previous actions and to tell her he has forgiven her for trying to deceive him about her pregnancy. Miss Sharma tries to talk to the viscount about what happened the day before, but can’t seem to find her voice. Edwina blames her sister for the viscount’s failure to propose and asks her to smooth things out with him. Miss Sharma is initially reluctant, but after Anthony doubts her hunting skills, she decides to tag along, chaperoned by a poor maid that can’t seem to balance herself on her horse. The fact that Eloise seems to be legitimately interested in the pamphlets, and not just hunting for Lady Whistledown, offers some consolation, but poor Penelope never seems to catch a break: when Colin (Luke Newton) announces that he’s paying a visit to Marina (Ruby Barker), we can almost see her heart breaking into a million pieces. Upon arriving at Aubrey Hall, she’s horrified to learn that not only is Eloise (Claudia Jessie) still going back to the printer for more women's rights pamphlets, but that she even knows the shop’s apprentice by name.