The Reel Rejects - BRIDGERTON 1x3 REVIEW – THE SEXUAL TENSION IS OFF THE CHARTS!

Starting point is 00:00:00 Thank you to Hewle for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. I know we were, we did one and two back to back. We're going to watch one at a time for a little bit. Maybe we'll double up again. We don't know yet. It's just a time thing mainly. These are long episodes of television.

Starting point is 00:00:21 Sick boys and they're each literary. Yeah, there is a lot of info. But we're excited because we enjoyed the heck out of them last two. You ready to do this, John? We're ready to watch an episode called Art of the Swoon? left off. Good shit. I'm enjoying drama.

Starting point is 00:00:39 Yeah, me too. Me too. There's a spinoff here called Bridgetton Fireplace. There's a spin off here called Queen Charlotte or Bridgeton store. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Bridgeton Fireplace, you're right.

Starting point is 00:00:51 We'll react to the whole fireplace next time. Ladies and gentlemen, if this is your first time being with us, we are the Normies. Yes. I'm excited to be here. And we, I want to thank Prepper for editing down the highlights, I advise that you

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Starting point is 00:01:41 you out like we will do today for I think just one question is here because we have not started uploading these yet and normally we have to start uploading them in order to start getting more questions in here. A couple though. We got two. We got two.

Starting point is 00:01:57 And buy a shirt would you? There's Mark out here on screen. Which is... We just boss fine shit. Just buy his shirt. lot of his shirt now, would you? Wrap it around your peaches and pears. Yeah, stairs, actually. Unfortunately, my bad.

Starting point is 00:02:16 John. Greg. All right, look, I'm going to write down everything we have to, like, quickly touch on because we've got to get you out of here. So, no, no, no. We're on a good time. I have to get out of here. All right, we both got to get out of here.

Starting point is 00:02:33 Get the hell out of here. And that means we aim for sure. And then we end up shooting longer. Now how we always do. Every time we're like, we've got to get out of here. And now we're talking way longer than we expected. It's okay.

Starting point is 00:02:44 And it's like we're doing now. Just in the point of just getting out of here, we haven't even started to get in to get out yet. Yeah. You're talking, which is enabling you to make, unenabling you to make bullet points. What are just the bullet points?

Starting point is 00:02:57 Or anyone's name. Simon and Daphne. Yeah. Oh, no, we'll put. Oh, no. Simon Daphne. touching dash and touching Prince Vigilante

Starting point is 00:03:09 Russian not Prussia Yeah A queen I suspect Dingleberry Bridgerton What's the brother's name? Colin? Isn't it Anthony?

Starting point is 00:03:26 Anthony I should know that Anthony Bridgerton I do want to say this is that like You know yeah Opera singer We will get there This is definitely a Game of Thrones type of thing where there is a wide enough ensemble and we watch a lot of stuff in between each episode. So like there is a part of me that does kind of need to sit down each time and go, okay, let's look over the cast list to make sure we have everybody.

Starting point is 00:03:52 Oh, I know her name Marina, Marina. Yes, Marina. I remember Marina. I look not racist now. Hey. And let's see here. I can't remember her name. I love her.

Starting point is 00:04:04 every time I see her. Penelope. Penelope featherington. Penelope featherington. I don't know why I'm specifically saying to her. Not much really happen with her. The sister. Is that her? Harriet?

Starting point is 00:04:18 I mean, Harry? Wait, which sister? I mean, Eloise is the one who's the writer's sister. Who's Harriet? She's another sister. I don't think she's been as prominent yet. Because like prudent, like the other sisters feel like they're a round, but Penelope is the one you actually

Starting point is 00:04:37 You're right, but there is a Colin Bridgerton. There is a calling, Bridgett. What's the wrong about that? No, no, and I hope, I do hope Who's Colin? The other brother who can't draw, I think. No, that's Benedict. No, that's Benedict.

Starting point is 00:04:50 Shit, he's another. I don't even recognize this guy. He's another Bridgerton. I do hope. What's happening in this show? I am very much enjoying this so far, and I do hope that people are willing to extend us some grace you know, committing

Starting point is 00:05:06 because we're not able to binge this the same way I think a lot of people are where you get to just kind of sit and like immerse yourself in it and that's kind of I'm sure other people hop around but to the degree at which we hop around it takes a little bit of time to commit everything. Dude Sabrina Bartlett who plays

Starting point is 00:05:22 opera singer Oh I know her name oh God Sienna. Sienna is born one year after us cool but nine days after me. Cool.

Starting point is 00:05:37 She's a Virgo. Cool. So she'd be a pain in the ass to be with. Cool. She put us together in a room. Cool. Gosh. Interview.

Starting point is 00:05:45 Let's do it. Podcast. Yeah. With, Are we analyzing each other? Now we're fighting. I hate you. We can never be friends.

Starting point is 00:05:54 Anyway, it's about time we start talking about this show. Let's not get it to it. What do you mean? What's the first thing you want to talk about? How are you feeling? I mean, obviously Simon and Daphne. we'll get back together. They have to, but I love the,

Starting point is 00:06:06 I love the drama in between, you know, because come on, like Simon is one of the, he's like your classic literature brooding character out of some type of romantic novel. You're like, I know you're pulling away and pushing, but dude, you're going to have to ask for her hand. Something's got to propel you, right? I don't know if it's going to be a final episode.

Starting point is 00:06:26 I don't know, there's going to be a midpoint episode. I don't know what's going to happen. It could be something where they get married and shit goes, hey, wire. But I, I'm in just, enjoying their chemistry a lot. It feels incredibly natural to the point it's got into, and now she's touching herself here.

Starting point is 00:06:41 Touch myself. That was a fascinating thing to include. I do appreciate the thing about this show so far to me. I forget their sexual stuff. I do too sometimes, which is nice. I mean, like, you know, a part of this journey into more romance-based material anyway has been fun for a lot of different reasons, but one of them is we started, like, heated rivalry kind of largely kicked off this journey,

Starting point is 00:07:03 and that show has a very strong sexual element. And this show has its own sexual element that is not as prominent, but is there. And, you know, like, I keep forgetting, like, today that, like, in the first episode, like, we saw, like, a good amount of skin, you know, like when Jonathan Bailey and Sienna, when Anthony and Sienna are together and stuff like that.

Starting point is 00:07:26 And, like, you know, we've seen some pretty steamy stuff. But, yeah, it doesn't seem like it is, like, beholden to doing that. And yeah, like this existed at fun crossroads. True. Because it's very, it's like right at the crossroads of pulp and class. Because, you know, obviously like the setting necessitates a certain amount of lofty dialogue and beautiful production value and you're in this luxurious world. But at the same time, it is like soapy and it is about the gossip and it is about the

Starting point is 00:07:59 sort of affairs of people. And then it's also a little bit about how things were at the time and what that, you know, means for people in different classes and different, you know, roles in society. And so you have all those things together. And it's dense in a way. And it definitely, like, is a bit dizzying to behold sometimes. But it is, like, very fun and addictive.

Starting point is 00:08:21 And it's one of those shows where even if I don't always feel like the smartest while I'm watching it, and even if I do feel like I need to pause sometimes and collect the board from a bird's eye view, I've never like lost on the important stuff Or at least I don't feel like I am And like it's really engaging And it's really fun

Starting point is 00:08:38 And I'm just yeah I'm tied up in the way you're supposed to be With the whole like I know they're gonna get together But like oh god With the prince and he seems okay And I don't know it's tension I mean the whole thing's just There's some central boiling points

Starting point is 00:08:51 You can always bring yourself back to It's like a North Star It's yeah totally It's a political machinations of who you marry You know Who you hook up with And you have to be with someone of some type of royalty or importance and you can't be with someone who's not that and being pregnant like there's the tradition the pregnancies have to be after being wed while men can still sleep around while women cannot woman must be pure like the virgin mary everyone has to appear pure but women actually have to be pure yeah yeah you have i like it a lot no it's a really really fun show and oh i didn't remember

Starting point is 00:09:31 her name down did I this is her Eloise is the writer sister I don't even see her here oh here she is yes Claudia Jessie Jessie Claudia Jessie she's cool

Starting point is 00:09:43 is this another case where somebody took their middle name and made it last name she was more one year before us John everyone in high school everyone here on this show is around our age and phenomenally more successful that's the age we're at right now when you watch television you're like

Starting point is 00:10:00 oh everyone I watch on TV is like my age but successful. Everyone I am enjoying watching is now making me sad about my lack of accomplishment. Or younger. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Starting point is 00:10:12 Crossing a threshold. Mortality. Well, yeah, her storyline. I still find her to be a really delightful presence. Not much really happens with her here. It seems like they're building up something nice. I like her and Penelope a lot. Like you pointed out.

Starting point is 00:10:29 Like those two is like, you know, kind of fringe eye line characters who exist like at the cusp of but like just below the weight of all this responsibility like they have that to look forward to and it seems like penelope or uh eluese will certainly have like an adjustment to make there's there's something to interrupt before i forget my thoughts is i keep forgetting my thoughts i'm sorry john i'm really forgetful right now remember is there's something about who plays penelope featherington oh nicola nicholas nicholas Nicholas Nicola Coughlin

Starting point is 00:11:03 I think her name is Cofflin I was here there you go Nicola Coughlin okay yeah there's something about when I see her

Starting point is 00:11:11 and when I see Joe Locke on Heart Stopper where my heart is just wanting to cry I don't know it's so dear there's so dear and sweet

Starting point is 00:11:20 there's so good nature oh my God he's just like there's something about watching you guys it's just like it tugs at my heart like

Starting point is 00:11:27 the second you pop up on screen I don't know what it is about it's like when we saw it's a weird comparison but the um fucking that when we watch witcher the first time before super hot yennifer was not hot yenifer oh yeah and we had no idea she'd be hot yennafer

Starting point is 00:11:40 yes where they made her whole character you're hot do you remember that first time i very vividly remember her her no you're wrong i feel like who plays her again i actually i actually think she's a really really pretty woman uh nicola coflin yeah the and joe lock very pretty man too there's something about when they pop up on screen they're like they have my heart and I do like the chemistry between them because Eloise seems very much like out of a different time she's very modern

Starting point is 00:12:09 where she Penelope actually feels out of this time period but there's she's this character there who reeks of acceptance and empathy and not in judgment so that that sweetness really carries over and of course is the reason why she I think can bond with Eloise seamlessly

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Starting point is 00:14:05 And yes, this is an ad. However, this is something I have genuinely come back to. So thank you, Hewell, for sponsoring this video. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, they're fun yin and yang in a way because Eloise is so opposed to so much of what the society is. Whereas as Penelope, just kind of has a wide-eyed, she's. just sort of taking it all in and she's sort of involved with everything and she doesn't seem to

Starting point is 00:14:31 you know she has there are struggles in there and certainly like her trying to support marina is like you know a pretty heartbreaking moment but you know she brings whereas like an eluese character is more jaded you know penelope has that like wide-eyed earnestness and they make a fun pairing and also a good contrast to each other and uh yeah i mean there's so much of that throughout this like and there are fun flavors to getting, especially like, you know, the whole element of friendship I really liked having as a theme here on this idea of like, like, you're who you marry should be, you know, your best friend or something like that. And there's a lot to be said for that idea in general. And like getting to watch in these, in this episode is Daphne and Simon become actually just

Starting point is 00:15:16 kind of naturally like friends, like buds, like two people sort of pit it. It's us against everybody else kind of situation is like really endearing. And I like how natural. that has felt in development. I'm glad that we got to check back in with Sienna. Yeah. That was, that fucking, yeah. I was sad. But she looked at that doorframe.

Starting point is 00:15:38 She's like really putting herself out there and to get that level of rejection. Oh, that sucks. Big sad. I know what that's like. Big sad. Like when that stripper at the strip club didn't call me back.

Starting point is 00:15:50 Yeah. Oh, I really thought she would. You waited there. $2,000 I gave her that night. had to go to four ATMs. And I just sat there looking this way for hours. Hours through that doorframe. My neck hurts so bad.

Starting point is 00:16:02 Eating my jack in the box. That's right. It's four in the morning. Where is she? Crying into my... She said if I, you know, left my number. She said she'd be here. I don't get it, Matt.

Starting point is 00:16:13 They wouldn't just say that. It's false advertising. Yeah, that was a good day. And I like getting some empathy on her. And, you know, that bit where she's doing the song and everyone's taking notice, it was really touching. Yeah, well, it's telling because in the earlier scene, she was talking with Simon about, you know, he's like, what do you actually think about it? She's pretty much saying, you know, sometimes I'm just kind of thinking about what the words are or think about lunch. But there she was actually like feeling the words.

Starting point is 00:16:48 You see the impact that it has the resonance. So it was a cool way of saying that she's, she's channeling. her pain right now versus whatever she was being dismissive about a conversation. Doing the job of performing. Yeah, it was good stuff. I still think the queen's the

Starting point is 00:17:06 Lady Whistledown. Yeah. All right. I'm not letting that go. Come on. I mean, she's perfectly poised to be. It just seems likely. It just seems like. And I mean, yeah, and too, with these people,

Starting point is 00:17:17 like the queen, the more we see, she's out here. She's like hanging out with people. You know, she's not with everybody on the social ladder, but, you know, people towards the top. she's hanging out so like i can't wait for marina to get her to come up ands oh yeah they are so mean to her in the show to god start dishing out some of that medicine it is like the real abusive

Starting point is 00:17:39 version of a cinderella's like the messed up Cinderella version man yeah that's already a messed up store now they're doing like a more harsh version of that yeah it's like she's already in such a hard position and then uh beating down her soul yeah and it's It's one of those, it's weird because it is one of those things. I think there are a lot of ways you could have played that storyline. Because like in ways you see what they're trying to do. You're like, given how all this works, you get why they would take the position of, we're protecting you by hiding these letters and forging one,

Starting point is 00:18:16 saying all the worst things that we told you this guy was saying. Like, it's so, it's weird. Like, you could have played that slightly differently. And I think for the fun of the show, it makes sense to go with this sort of soft flashback like, oh, here's what really happened. You know, it's a little mustache twirley.

Starting point is 00:18:33 And there's, even the way they play the acting in that scene is very much like, no, you know, we're doing the right thing, aren't we? Like, you know, it's, it doesn't seem as like earnest concern so much as they're like, this is messed up, but, you know, there's, you got to survive and we're doing our part. So, you know.

Starting point is 00:18:50 I agree what you mean. Yeah. Like, you get them, but they position in that in a pretty villainous way. So that like the nuance you don't have to think too heavily about, because it is messed up what they're doing at the end of the day regardless. No, they are poised. The Featherington family is outside of Penelope.

Starting point is 00:19:10 They are poised as like the villains. They're awful. You've got the bitchy sisters. Yeah. You've got the cruel, controlling mom. You've got the husband who's clearly not interested in his family or at least his wife anymore. Yeah. You know, they seem like there's this case where there's an underlying suffrage happening.

Starting point is 00:19:25 happening here and that's why there's a desperation of these times yeah and I like the contrast between lady featherington and lady Bridgerton yeah because British it's cool lady bridgeton is awesome yeah she's great and they both have like that that like clearly they understand the system very well and are able to move through it in a conscientious way but one takes a way better more holistic human approach to that thousand thousand million percent hey john they got questions questions go john take it away patricia carillo thank you for chiming in three episodes into the world now any element that perhaps surprised you because you weren't expecting it or expecting to enjoy it i've never watched

Starting point is 00:20:11 any of the high society period piece british shit ever you know like never seen like pride in prejudice or oh or anything really and that regard that i can think of and i've only only been caught like glimpses on TV or something growing up or someone background. It never quite pulled me in and I've never taken the time to like sit down and watch

Starting point is 00:20:36 and so Bridgetam was constantly a show that I intentionally kept at a distance just because it seemed like the exact thing like downtown abbey I've never seen like a moment of downtown I've just maybe seen like a trailer that played as like an AMC commercial before the actual

Starting point is 00:20:52 trailers played like something like that is the only thing. I've seen of it. So honestly, this is going to sound like the most baseline answer ever is the thing I've surprised by is how easy it is to watch the show and how easily enjoyable it is. I could see why it is a phenomenon of a series because it does have, like I imagine like fucking downtown abbey must have some type of effect too of like machinations in this high society royalty of a period piece.

Starting point is 00:21:23 Is it a peri piece? I think it's a periopee? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. It might be a little further up in time, but I could say it's definitely, yeah, like upper crust people, class foibles, hanging out in a big house. Well, I just,

Starting point is 00:21:37 or a big Abby. The idea of this plot of gossip and what these guys consider to be the most high-stakes situation of their lives and how soap-operie it is. Yeah. I'm surprised by how pulled it I am when watching it. So that's probably the number one thing is,

Starting point is 00:21:55 I'm just surprised by what the show is and how much I'm enjoying what the pitch of the show is. Sure, yeah. Oh, goodness. I mean, yeah, there are lots of surprises. I guess I am, I'm, it's fun to come in and behold what the actual mix of tones is like, because I'd had ideas for,

Starting point is 00:22:13 all I knew is this was steamy and British. Steamy. Yeah. I actually don't know that word with this show. Yeah, which at, which maybe is not, quite the right word maybe we just haven't gotten there yet they said to touch myself was like oh this is that kind of show well that was I was gonna say that was a surprising moment I feel like that drew attention to something that like appropriately for the time and place that this is set you know

Starting point is 00:22:37 would be a thing that maybe you get to that age especially as a young woman and you actually don't know and certainly no one's probably around trying to tell you yeah so uh that was when I went number two and white that's what it was for me that's right growing up feel so good I was like going number two. My stomach doesn't hurt anymore. But yeah, like having a direct conversation about

Starting point is 00:23:03 what's a YouTube self-love, auto-erotic whatnot is, was like very striking. Self pleasure. And one of those things that like, you know, in a romance is largely about relationships sparking off and interpersonal stuff, but

Starting point is 00:23:19 to enlighten this character with something that is like super personal and that, you know, is entwined with this whole ritual and, you know, with the, you know, the warnings that Marina is given is like, oh, once men discover, you know, the spoils of intimacy, you know, like, so like, there's so much that's like unspokenly to do with and governed by, you know, physical intimacy. So it's for him to present her with this gift of like, it's not everything, but it's a way you can kind of take further. control of your own situation and know yourself a little closer. It's just like a thing I wasn't expecting, especially in this time and place. Yeah. It's like, you know, because of what we know about the outer presentation of society,

Starting point is 00:24:05 you wouldn't expect anybody who would acknowledge it. So it's cool. They did. Dude, John, I feel you in every word you just said. Yes. Anna Corinne. Take it away. Hi, Greg.

Starting point is 00:24:15 Hi, Greg. And only Greg is so happy you're giving my bridge a chance. Hope you all are enjoying it. So we see Anthony and Daphne The struggling like the stove to heat milk for themselves. Yes, I know what it is like To struggle to heat a stove I have to wake up my wife often

Starting point is 00:24:31 Be like, I can't figure this out, baby. I need to do my pop tarts She's like, use the toaster And I'm like, no, I want to do it on the stove I want a pans-seared pop-tarts Put it on the boiler Yeah, I don't even need anything I just want to put it on the grate

Starting point is 00:24:48 Let that thing catch fire I like it to melt on the hot. on the stove and then and clean it up later. All the rejects lived in 1813 on the Bridgeton world. Who do you think would know how to light a stove? And who would definitely struggle or even be a danger? Oh, this is easy. Okay.

Starting point is 00:25:05 Who would know how to light a stove? We would all call John. He'd be the tech guy. I can probably figure it. To light a stove. I could probably figure it. I would need to know. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:25:15 I would need to go back and look at the stove that they were dealing with. I think Tara would figure out how to light a stove for sure. Sure. A struggle, I would say Coy. I say danger. I say danger to themselves, Coy and Roxy.

Starting point is 00:25:31 I'd say Aaron and Andrew would be a struggle. Michael would know how to lie to stuff. Michael Tesla would be fine, yeah. And I would put myself in the struggle camp. Yeah, I would be in the struggle and then I would get mad at Aaron and Andrew

Starting point is 00:25:47 and graduate to light, and then I judge them for still being. and struggle camp. Yeah, that's a good way to put that. That's the way I live my life. Yeah, I think it's... I level up and don't help people come up with me.

Starting point is 00:25:59 I'm gonna root for, let's say, I'm gonna say you got this. I'm pretty confident I can figure out the stove. I think Aaron and Andrew would blow something up. Tara, I think is a wild card. I think Tara has like a good chance of figuring it out

Starting point is 00:26:12 and would be gung-ho about doing it. Something might catch fire in the process, but I think she would get there. Oh, Tara's really good at figuring stuff out. And then she's like build stuff and everything. I used to hire her for that before she was like full time. I used to hire her.

Starting point is 00:26:25 He was like, build this for me clean of this stuff. She's like, Tara's number one. I'd take it back. And she's quick. Tara's number one. Dara would easily do it.

Starting point is 00:26:32 Real quick. Last thing I'll say is one thing that did strike me to the previous question. When I, I didn't know that this show would have like the casting that it does. And that's pretty cool. Because like it's not always like throwing it in your face. But from my vague knowledge of like British history, the,

Starting point is 00:26:46 you know, just mixture of cultures in society might not actually look like this. it's like cool that it exists in this show in a way that's not like super patting itself on the back or making it you know distracting or anything like that um so it's just a neat element you know and it seems like yeah they just cast a bunch of people who were really good performers so well i'm glad you got to get that out of your system john guys if you had to light a stove today. Who do you think? Who would you call? Who would you call? Because I need a number. Comment in the comment boxes below the number. We will make sure it's not marked to spam.

Starting point is 00:27:28 Thank you guys so much for joining us on this journey. This is a fun show. Really, really enjoying it. We've been really lucky with the shows we've been covering lately, honestly. So we'll see you guys soon. Bye, John. Bye, Pete. Hi, Greg. Bye, everyone.

The Reel Rejects - BRIDGERTON 1x3 REVIEW – THE SEXUAL TENSION IS OFF THE CHARTS!

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