The Reel Rejects - BRIDGERTON 1x5 REVIEW – SIMON’S CONFESSION MELTED OUR HEARTS! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

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Starting point is 00:01:28 Guys, that was a really good episode. They got married, they lost. She lost her Virginia. opportunity. It's true. He banged the like 150th chick he's ever banged.

Starting point is 00:01:42 Yeah, man. He got to, you know, really demonstrate his expertise. Yeah. Here's what I want to say, guys. Yo. So many of you guys have been joining our page for you on page.

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Starting point is 00:02:10 Hey. Just that one. Just only this one. And that one. And Prepper. Thanks for a damn. These highlights. Blame them for why you can't see any sex on screen. It's not my fault there. They made the laws on YouTube. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. So much happened here. But here's what I know. Team Penelope.

Starting point is 00:02:31 Team Penelope. That's all I'm thinking about. That's what I care about. Penelope. Yeah. Just feel so sorry for her, man. I know. They're not actually

Starting point is 00:02:43 going to get married, are they? Let's lay it on this prediction. I think they're going to be on the brink of it and then Marina's guy is going to actually show up. He's got to show up.

Starting point is 00:02:52 But do we want it to be where he's like, oh, fine, you're not going to choose me and then do we want Penelope to be second choice? No. Right. We don't want that.

Starting point is 00:03:03 Penelope is number one all the way. Yeah. More than Simon. She should marry the prince. She should marry Simon. She should marry Simon. How old is Penelope right now? I don't.

Starting point is 00:03:13 Doesn't matter. Let her let her get married. The actress is definitely to tell her to marry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see so. Why not? Most heartbreaking fart. Start him off as soon as you can.

Starting point is 00:03:24 She's trying to be cordial. Only a tad manipulative. But she's also trying to be very cordial and do it in the best way possible. Either way, Colin is getting yanked around. There's a lot of things that might have. be about with that situation. Yeah, I like the way she played that, that whole thing of like, you shouldn't entrap this guy and you know that there's a personal aspect of, of course, like, I have a crush on him,

Starting point is 00:03:46 and I don't want you to do this, but like when you're young and you're like kind of flushed with emotion, you recognize a situation, and you're like trying to tap into purely the logic of it, even though you have a personal investment that you're grappling with. Yeah. It was nice little new ones. Yeah. Yeah. I feel bad for them.

Starting point is 00:04:07 But he's got to come back. They're playing up that tension. I hope so. Yeah. yeah i i 100% understand the circumstances for marina and it's tough too because of all the lie the deceit uh but yeah i want you know penelope has such a pure heart you want to see that heart fulfilled and also you want their friendship to be okay she and marina they look out for each other now they're at odds it's sad i like when they also took with the queen how they actually made her a real human being this time as opposed to just a

Starting point is 00:05:02 person who is up and looking down on people and bored you actually got to take a moment to give her a true vulnerable moment yeah that was a sad that was a sad moment really makes you care about her recontexture it makes the scenes following that scene when you're with her feel different that's like if you're removing that one scene with the king you could still had all those scenes but they would play totally different to the viewer if we didn't have the other scene of the king you know every other scene now feels like she must be so relieved to be out and dealing with other people's nonsense while she has this like

Starting point is 00:05:37 gravely difficult situation going on. Yeah. And she's already in a very blessed but also contentious position in society and yada yada yada and yeah I also just was very charmed the way that scene toward the later part

Starting point is 00:05:53 of the episode where she's overhearing Eloise and Lady Danbury and then she's like okay so what's your theory about why lady And I don't know, I feel like because we have both clocked the two of them as potentials, as it's just like a fun cheeky, like, oh, okay, Danbury's right here. They framed the queen very conspicuously to be like eavesdropping on them. So then you're like, oh, shit is great.

Starting point is 00:06:16 Maybe right. And then the whole thing is like Eloy's like, no, I think it's Danbury. And so like they're having fun with that. It still could be Danbury. It still could be damn. I feel like Danbury is a great guess. It still could be. Because she's connected and she's affluent.

Starting point is 00:06:28 She's out here. but she's not like all eyes on me at all times, you know, whereas the queen is a kind of conspicuous at all times. Danbury's also someone who seems to have her... She seems to be into knowing, like, every family. Yeah, and there's something about that actress. The way she speaks is reminiscent of the Julie Andrews' narrations anyway. So, I feel like there's, yeah, there's some clues there you could extrapolate.

Starting point is 00:06:57 I don't know Or it's the king and he's faking this day Yeah, that'd be cool I remember the whole time I know she's dead We're good We're good I was messing with you

Starting point is 00:07:09 I just had to stay in character Yeah throw you off the set in here I'm actually gonna pass my whistle down page On to you You can write it now I know how much you love a good story That would be crazy Yeah

Starting point is 00:07:21 Well the big one Simon Alvin the theater are all sleeping with death. Oh, bridge monks. No, yeah, they got married finally. There's so much non-communication between the two of them. Like any good marriage.

Starting point is 00:07:39 Two people who seem to want each other so badly and yet are like, I think you hate me and I don't feel good when I'm around you because we're both pent up and we don't know how to talk to each other. And so I just feel awful, even though we both want the same thing and can't quite get to the page where we both understand that. It's a good, like, drawing out of this tension.

Starting point is 00:08:00 What the hell would happen over the next? There's like three episodes left. I felt like that was the culmination of the relationship. Now, well, we just watched him in, like, a domestically violent marriage. Like, where's the drama that's going to happen from their marriage now? It's all then leaving this. I guess, like, part of my... I guess if I'm guessing, my theory would be that the marriage...

Starting point is 00:08:23 Let's use the metaphor of a flight. the marriage having the ceremony you know setting off toward you know your new home that's like the plane is just taken off so I feel like maybe the greater end game of this season will be like oh what's the turbulence before

Starting point is 00:08:39 they finally reach like a cruising altitude of some kind you know in the plane of the metaphor it's like oh maybe we got to do another couple of things before we're like settled into our married life well yeah because the whole part of them was the love what now

Starting point is 00:08:55 it's going to be a lot of politics they probably have to contend with. Yeah, now it's going to be like, well, we got the love, but everything else is a mess. Yeah, they'd have to deal. Like how his friend's wife was saying, you know, you have to understand, like, the negotiations where what she was saying, like, it's not that I wouldn't possibly know what to predict or what could become of it, but I imagine there could be a lot of using and requesting expectations that fall upon them in a situation like this. You have to be social figures in some way.

Starting point is 00:09:25 shape or form. I do like the inverse of the very concept that it was feeling like it was all transactional and them not really understanding until after they were married that they actually both wanted each other. They actually were not really lying like the ruse was still

Starting point is 00:09:41 upright even to the marriage point where they both didn't, it just couldn't deal with, they were both like trapping each other. They were both trying to make it. She was trying to make it happen because she actually did love him and even though there always seemed to be some justification to rush it, which sometimes

Starting point is 00:09:57 the justifications were valid. Like, oh, I can't be seen as this person who was in the garden and the scandals that would arise, all those things. Oh, also, yeah, the other part about their marriage is that he can't have children. He's just choosing not to. Yeah, that's right. There's the trauma there. Unless he figured

Starting point is 00:10:13 out the old-timey vasectomy. Yeah. Yeah, this is just a matter of will. Yeah, yeah. So I, I really, I like the, I like the inverse of it, because most stories would obviously have them realize that love and then fall in love and then get married versus doing it this way. It all played out in ways that were unexpected, right down to them like when the proposal happens to them getting married at all.

Starting point is 00:10:35 It was all very unexpected. So there was something very humorous in the fact that at the end with all the avoidance that that's the last thing either one of them wanted and they kept avoiding because they assumed that's what the other one wanted. You know, it's nice. It's real. Yeah, absolutely. Real shit.

Starting point is 00:10:52 Yeah. Feels like an honest miscommunication. Yeah. Like my wife's been avoiding me for the last 10 years since our marriage. It's been really funny, you know. But I know. She just really wants to talk to me. Because we're both just like neither of us.

Starting point is 00:11:04 I know you don't want this, even though I do. Yeah. She just keeps asking for that check every month. I'm like, I know what you're really saying. This is your way of communicating with me. Yes, yeah. So just keep that check coming. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:16 She's sweet. Good communication. That's her. I really love her. She loves me. We're still waiting for our consummation wedding night. I'll come. We did the ceremony.

Starting point is 00:11:27 We still haven't gone to the hotel yet, though. It would come. Don't worry, guys. Yeah, yeah, you'll get there. Next season. I hear terror screaming in the other room. Oh, yeah. What do they watch?

Starting point is 00:11:37 Oh, yeah, they're watching 50 first dates. Watching 50 first shades of grades. That Walrus joke, really getting in her. Of gray. You have questions on this? I think we must have questions on this, right? That's two. Oh, and our boy, our boy is unlocking his latent

Starting point is 00:11:53 uh, queerness. He's getting down with it. He's getting down with everyone. He's going to be pansexual bridge or he's going to bone that guy is boning that guy's wife. He's going to bone everybody at the party and then someone's going to paint it and then it's going to get it out and become a scandal because people will see the painting.

Starting point is 00:12:09 They'll be like, oh no, it's whatever year this is and we don't support that. But we should, but we don't. All right, John, take it away, please. Yo. All right, rejects. The big game is almost here. And for us, surreal rejects the Super Bowl is practically a holiday. You heard that right. Every year, we've got the game on the TV, friends around, and we're locked in. Because, you know, we've got all those trailers that we've got to cover. But we're also watching the game. But we're also watching the game, but we're also watching me, not a hardcore sports expert. So it's great for newbies like myself. But it's also great for people who are aware of sports app. And it's the easiest way to make watching the game even more fun, especially if you're like me, not a hardcore sports expert. So it's great for newbies like myself. But it's also great for people who are aware of sports, probably even.

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Starting point is 00:13:55 I was pissed to myself. Intelligence is not based in knowledge, but rather curiosity. I beg to differ. You two leaving your comfort zone shows true intelligence. Thank you. Actually, this is a very lovely comment.

Starting point is 00:14:09 Because I rather supportive comments. I really do it. This is the antithesis of everyone on YouTube. This is a very nuanced company. Why are you watching more? I shows the American education system in this country. Yeah. How do you not know everything about everything

Starting point is 00:14:23 If you're going to have a camera pointed at you, this is already not a one-to-one depiction of the history anyway. But anyhow, what about question? What about bridge makes you curious? And yes. Well, how about I connects from one section to another? The upside down is a bridge. And you can just walk or drive across it.

Starting point is 00:14:44 What is it a bridge to? You know, sometimes islands, they can connect. Like so much in New York. Where does it go? Yes, this is the same King George's Hamilton. oh snap no the one in hamilton's saying way more he didn't wrap though that's true that's true jonathan groff should be in here if he was playing the king you know what about bridgerton makes you curious what do you mean well it seems like it's rooted in some type of

Starting point is 00:15:17 historical accuracy and it's such a look at a different type of society that i will never ever know and there's so many rules of how to live in society and growing up at a time when everything's about freedom and the more time goes on like be yourself at least this is the parts of circles I'm surrounded by and so to see something like this where you're born into money you're born into a very specific class of the world and where what is the intense drama

Starting point is 00:15:50 is something can seem kind of frivolous in the end yet so much of this is embedded in some of the biggest highest stakes that control the world you know like i there's a lot of things to be fascinated by to it and and because it seems rooted in an accuracy makes me curious to know what it it's like when you watch a true story of something or something based on a true story and you want to know like what what happened here what was what was what really happened who's this based on what uh just something like that so yeah i'm very very curious by it i feel like i'm like i'm learning something while being entertained you know yeah absolutely i mean stuff like this peaks my

Starting point is 00:16:26 curiosity in those ways where partly in a show like this in a scenario like this you wonder what the things are that are like surprisingly true what things have been adjusted because this is not a one to one to how the history would have been

Starting point is 00:16:42 especially in terms of just like the kind of you know the diversity of people you're seeing on screen but yeah this stuff while you were talking I got distracted because I started listening to you and I forgot it's like i had a thing in mind and then i was like drawn back into you know it's like when you receive a question

Starting point is 00:17:06 you're like we both need an answer to this question but then i was also like listening so then i you know like momentarily lost sorry no it's not your fault i think it's no no no no i think it's funny i'm not blaming you i think it's funny uh i don't know what i was i was noticing that there was a trivia on our side but i was like this isn't for Richardson. I need to adjust this. This is for what Tara and Roxy are shooting. So I didn't have moved this on the document for them. No, what I remember now.

Starting point is 00:17:34 Stuff like this makes me very curious because I know that there is a certain amount of modern sensibility and there's a certain amount of liberty that's being taken with the time and place. And so, yeah, it makes me curious about going back to brush up the well-known stuff about just like, oh, how does society function at this moment of time, all these different like titles, what do they mean? But moreover, I think stuff like this is fun because it, you know, stuff from this era, I think often to the lay person appears as very sort of, again, everything is very proper and, you know, regimented and society has all these cotillions and structures and pageantry, you know, pageant elements. And here is depicting both versions where it's like the surface level versions.

Starting point is 00:18:24 that we're used to, but like the actual, I don't know, humanity underneath or the way in which, like, a show like this is full of characters being like, yeah, we all know how society works, but like, it's just the two of us right now. Okay, we can be like a little more real. And so, like, that behind the curtain of the facade of the time is like largely what makes me curious. And even your, you know, a little tidbit about like 1800s opera houses being known as high class brothels essentially.

Starting point is 00:18:52 It's like stuff like that is interesting because it's. It's the real stuff that's happening underneath all the veneer. And I think shows like this are fun because while there is a certain amount of height and pulp, you're also getting the taste of something that you know actually must have been there that so much of the stuff from the time is trying to pretend like wasn't. Yeah. You know, I concur. Sand rack.

Starting point is 00:19:18 Unless, the first time. How was you both, Bridgerton's handling of Daphne and Simon's first time? Oh, interesting question. How does this compare to recent shows you both have watched with explicit-ish intimacy scenes? And given that we're only halfway through the season, what do you anticipate for Daphne and Simon's relationship now? Well, we already kind of talked about the latter part. It only gets better. Oh, in terms of that scene?

Starting point is 00:19:52 I think it was handled properly for the kind of genre this one is. This is a period piece, romantic drama, you know, so they, they're not going to do it like fucking. You know, like a rivalry or something. Like, it's going to be. It has to be a, it had that right mix that had that, like, elegance to it. Even down to like the scene where, what's that Bridgetton, Benedict? The artist one. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:19 Yeah. Anyway, artist Bridgetter. One is not Colin Anthony. Uh, when he goes down, it's ABC. It's something with a B. Right. yeah that's that she's down made that she's at louise it's a bcd

Starting point is 00:20:29 um i think it's benedict um yeah there is a benedict and it must be yeah because collins the one with marina and den pen triangle yeah yeah i just know there's an alphabet to it so um benedict so yeah like even right down to that

Starting point is 00:20:45 even though there's like an orgy of things happening there's something that feels a little polished about what we're watching it doesn't feel like that's probably rough in dirty as it is there and this had to have that blend of

Starting point is 00:21:00 it's her first time and so it has to feel like a little bit like a fantasy is being lived out but it also has to feel a little bit passionate and rough but it can't feel too glossy like you're watching some weird 80s movie with silhouettes or shit

Starting point is 00:21:16 you know it had to be I thought they actually you know something I didn't even bother to think about but now that you ask the question like yeah there would probably have to thought put into how do we want to execute this scene and I think they hit the right mark for how you want to capture that

Starting point is 00:21:32 particular first time they're intimate together. Yeah absolutely because there's so many you know in the pageantry of society there's so many things that are like subconsciously trying to play on you know human instinct and arousal and stuff but yeah the way they zoomed in on that scene

Starting point is 00:21:48 and really took their time and made it sensual was nice because this show is as when I came in I didn't have quite a calibration on like what to expect the level of romance and sexuality to be and like half my brain was sort of like oh I some some accounts of this had me expecting

Starting point is 00:22:10 much more skin you know and much more sort of sexual situations happening I feel like we will get there based off of how some of these scenes have been playing I guess yeah like I don't think so I feel like we will Well, because we've had a couple of scenes that have, like, pretty extensive nudity, but there's, like, so in four or five episodes now, much fewer and further. But there will only been, like, a couple. And so I guess I was like, oh, I thought there might be more of this. And so, and that's not a good or bad thing.

Starting point is 00:22:41 I'm just, like, in leading up to the consummation moment in the inn, I thought they did a cool job of that because, you know, it's like there's pretty graphic nudity in the, you know, art house. And even when we see Anthony and Sienna early on, you know, that's kind of, you know, like, wow, you know, especially for the time, you're not used to seeing that much. And the scene between Simon and Daphne, I thought was lovely because, A, they really accentuated just the general sort of, you know, we're feeling each other out instinctually and we're stepping closer to each other and we're finally freed up to do this thing that normally under circumstances we're not supposed to even think about or entertain. Sure. They captured, yeah, that sort of rush of anticipation, the nerves, especially from Daphne that are sort of percolating underneath all that. And yeah, it's just like when they're undressing each other, like, you know, for this time and place, that's a pretty significant thing because everyone is very, you know, dapped up and wearing many, many layers and all sorts of things. So like seeing your partner just fully exposed is a whole thing. And then, you know, you get the skin, but it's super tasteful largely.

Starting point is 00:23:50 so it's it allows you i feel like in a non like lurid way to be like yes the the freeing of inhibition the skin and all that but it's also very much in the faces it's also very much in the emotion it's also very much in the bond the way they communicated it visually so i thought it did the thing in the right temper kind of way enough yeah dude those are all beautiful points john thank you thank you laud me for my intellect i do I really do. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Starting point is 00:24:25 I'll be here all week. And then the last question of the day. Jay Rushden, which reject... Sorry, guys. There's just something really wrong. My neck and shoulders right now. Which reject would be a good servant of royalty there? Dude, I think there's only one choice.

Starting point is 00:24:48 Andrew? Is Andrew. Yeah. Andrew would be the best butler of all time. He would be on top of everything. He would have every T dotted and I crossed. He would be. And then you flip him.

Starting point is 00:25:02 Yeah, he would take every job no matter how minute very seriously. And he'd do it with pride. You'd forget I'd steal. Yes. Coy would talk about the problems. Could he assist them in that. Coy would be too fixated on how he's above having to do this. Roxy would question every time

Starting point is 00:25:22 Roxy would Yeah Aaron would fall asleep And then Tara would just be doing her own thing Tara would be like too excited Get ahead of herself to other people's jobs Tara's on the team but people are just like

Starting point is 00:25:37 I don't know she just does whatever She decides to do and we do whatever else is around that Yeah Anyway guys This is a really fun episode This is a great one Yeah dude we did it under solid episode of television.

Starting point is 00:25:52 We got busy. Looking forward to getting more time so we could do these two at a time. But right now, this is a good time. Thank you so much. Reggiton. We'll see you soon.

The Reel Rejects - BRIDGERTON 1x5 REVIEW – SIMON’S CONFESSION MELTED OUR HEARTS! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

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