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Anonymous wrote:Just finished episode 4. Goddamn. This is way better than Season 2 or 3. It might even top Season 1. The scene with Benedict and Sophie in the stairwell was so hot…he licked two of his fingers….omg! I need a cold shower. Of course it was totally ruined with the whole “Be my mistress” line.

Violet was a trip with the whole inviting Lady Danbury’s brother over for tea.

That may have been the hottest scene of the entire series. Damn, Luke Thompson! The smirk, that neck, those fingers.

Doesn’t it make Colin and Penelope seem totally cringey and ridiculous?!

No. Sorry. I think Colin is cuter.

Can we make predictions?

How will the wicked witch fall?
How big is the secret dowery?
Will we get to see lesbian s&x?
What's the unhappy maid going to do?
Is the queen involved in the big reveal or is Lady Danbury?

What I don't need:
More of that cold fish sister and her husband. boring.
More of that younger sister who is superficial.

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished episode 4. Goddamn. This is way better than Season 2 or 3. It might even top Season 1. The scene with Benedict and Sophie in the stairwell was so hot…he licked two of his fingers….omg! I need a cold shower. Of course it was totally ruined with the whole “Be my mistress” line.

Violet was a trip with the whole inviting Lady Danbury’s brother over for tea.

That may have been the hottest scene of the entire series. Damn, Luke Thompson! The smirk, that neck, those fingers.

Doesn’t it make Colin and Penelope seem totally cringey and ridiculous?!

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished episode 4. Goddamn. This is way better than Season 2 or 3. It might even top Season 1. The scene with Benedict and Sophie in the stairwell was so hot…he licked two of his fingers….omg! I need a cold shower. Of course it was totally ruined with the whole “Be my mistress” line.

Violet was a trip with the whole inviting Lady Danbury’s brother over for tea.

That may have been the hottest scene of the entire series. Damn, Luke Thompson! The smirk, that neck, those fingers.

Agree. Wow.

+100 I’m going to definitely rewatch it!

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Anonymous wrote:I wish that if they were going to do an upstairs/downstairs season he just fell in love with an actual maid. Why does she have to be secretly noble, or whatever?

The original book was setup like a Cinderella story. Running away at midnight, loss of a clothing items, etc. In the story of Cinderella, the family has some means but the dead father's daughter is made into a servant.

I don't remember if Sophie was illegitimate in the book. In the show, she is.

Is she really, or is this only what the stepmother told her. I am not sure I believe it. I also don't believe her father left her penniless. That doesn't make sense and stepmom hid the truth, and poor Sophie never questioned the lie.

The father introduced her to his new wife as "My ward". Also her name is said over and over to be Sophie Baek. His name was Viscount Li and although that could be a title, it appears to be his last name.

I’m a little irked by this season because Benedict is such a rake that I don’t see her being okay with that, and I don’t see him reforming long term.

Plus, at some point during one of the other seasons, I looked up the syphilis rates for regency London and they were really appalling. (Much lower in the countryside!) So for sure Benedict has syphilis and probably herpes and the clap too, which probably means he’s infertile and destined for an early death or insanity. Also the fact that all these prostituyes are mostly poor girls who got “ruined” (r@ped) by their former employers or the local rich guy, or are alcoholics who were thrown out by their families, so I feel like any guy patronizing 18th century prositites is inherently gross, even if he’s hot.

The Francesca plot line is also irritating me. She is so dead eyed.

I am curious to see what they do with the bookish sister next season. She’s sort of a Joe March character so needs some crotcehdly German tutor rather than a rich pretty boy.

Finally, I am a little irritated that the mother is so set on marrying all her sons off to fancy aristocratic girls. There is not money for that and it’s not realistic. Excess sons need to go into the British navy or the clergy to make a solid income with which they can marry a middle class girl who knows how to cook and can get by with one or two servants. Or maybe they can be a solicitor but I feel like that’s not a great spot until the Industrial Revolution really takes off. British east India company is another option.

This is why whatsername needs the Cinderella story of being a hidden noble. Otherwise she and Benedict will starve because his brother inherited the title and lands and he has no career or income at all. She’s gonna have to bring the bacon to this relationship.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand where Sophie lived before. They were close enough to London that her stepsisters were invited to the ball, but far away enough that no one knew about her? She wasn’t a maid until after her father died. And now the stepmom is moving next door to the Bridgertons? Even if you were super wealthy would you ip and move like that?

I think they have a country estate where they live but they would take a home in th city (maybe rented) for th season because the girls are now on the marriage market (which wasn’t true in previous seasons). It seems unlikely that one would switch rentals mid season though.

I wonder if the premise will be that the stepmom's ambitions for her daughters made her decide to rent a more fashionable house closer to more influential families. The Bridgerton house is well known and in some kind of square (across from the Featherington house) and I could see it being very desirable to be closer to those homes with two marriageable daughters. She might still have designs on Benedict, or might assume that simply being close to the Bridgerton house will put her girls in the line of sight of more bachelors, given how many kids they have coming and going with friends.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand where Sophie lived before. They were close enough to London that her stepsisters were invited to the ball, but far away enough that no one knew about her? She wasn’t a maid until after her father died. And now the stepmom is moving next door to the Bridgertons? Even if you were super wealthy would you ip and move like that?

I think they have a country estate where they live but they would take a home in th city (maybe rented) for th season because the girls are now on the marriage market (which wasn’t true in previous seasons). It seems unlikely that one would switch rentals mid season though.

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciated the lesson in power imbalance that Benedict got from the cottage caretaker. Curious if they’re going to revisit that so directly again in the rest of the season.

I like Benedict well enough this season, but then that dolt went ahead and pissed me right off. Ooooo, I wanted to throw something at my TV with that mistress line. Make him crawl, Sophie.

It's realistic though, the most she could hope for due to the limitations of class. It was a different time. However, she'd of course be better off with a stable job for life versus a temporarily-more-luxurious mistress position that could end at any moment.

If you go back to the time period, being the mistress of a powerful man could actually be a pretty good power play and set you up pretty well for life. It depended very much on the couple — sometimes it was a true love situation where the man really did want to take care of her for life. Nelson’s mistress “lady hamilton” was born in poverty but did quite well for herself and his dying wish was that she be taken care of.

I’m not sure there was such a thing as a stable job for life in the 18th century — a housekeeper at a manor house is probably the closest you would get, but even that would depend on the family caring enough to provide for you in old age, as you wouldn’t be able to put much by.

Anonymous wrote:I liked the first four episodes. Fairly good chemistry between Benedict and Sophie. But the real standout for me is Lady Penwood. I only know Katie Leung as Cho Chang from Harry Potter. She grew up into such a great actress!

I kept trying to figure out where I knew that actress from! Of course Cho Chang! Actress is great as evil stepmother. Is this basically just Cinderella?

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished episode 4. Goddamn. This is way better than Season 2 or 3. It might even top Season 1. The scene with Benedict and Sophie in the stairwell was so hot…he licked two of his fingers….omg! I need a cold shower. Of course it was totally ruined with the whole “Be my mistress” line.

Violet was a trip with the whole inviting Lady Danbury’s brother over for tea.

That may have been the hottest scene of the entire series. Damn, Luke Thompson! The smirk, that neck, those fingers.

Agree. Wow.

Anonymous wrote:Just finished episode 4. Goddamn. This is way better than Season 2 or 3. It might even top Season 1. The scene with Benedict and Sophie in the stairwell was so hot…he licked two of his fingers….omg! I need a cold shower. Of course it was totally ruined with the whole “Be my mistress” line.

Violet was a trip with the whole inviting Lady Danbury’s brother over for tea.

That may have been the hottest scene of the entire series. Damn, Luke Thompson! The smirk, that neck, those fingers.

Anonymous wrote:I F'ing hate this trend of breaking up seasons over months or years. Pisses me off to no end.

Especially when we've waited 2 years for a new season!

But, I guess if they came out weekly it would take us to about the same place for the next release.

I F'ing hate this trend of breaking up seasons over months or years. Pisses me off to no end.

Where is Cressida Calpa this year? Or the Modiste?