The Reel Rejects - BRIDGERTON 2x4 & 2x5 REVIEW – SHE IS THE BANE OF ANTHONY'S EXISTENCE! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

Episode Date: March 21, 2026

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popular episodes. Oh, Jesus Christ. Okay. All right. I mean, should we just dive right in the questions? I'm feeling good, gee. I'm feeling catharsed. I'm feeling riled up. I'm upset, but I'm also

I'm feeling all the things they want me to feel. How are you? Man, that is that is just crazy stuff. Yeah. That was hard. I'm like, there's a great set of stakes because I'm like either way it seems like someone's going to have a very unhappy ending and then my brain goes

so what crazy shit are they going to pull out to make it so that everyone gets a happy ending some random crazy amazing suitor has to show up for adweena out of nowhere so that yeah Anthony and Kate can get together I mean this is a great mids midpoint of the show though yeah of this season yeah totally because that conflict is really confused like the although it does

seem like Edwina is just a little girl in love. It does. It's like you, I feel like when you're older you'd realize that this was just

an infatuation you had. I suppose. Yeah. I mean, there's nothing compelling about them getting together. Yeah.

And like they don't, it's clear in the way they depict all of their interactions that Anthony is being genial, but he's not really that invested. And they're

aren't a lot of other scenes to like contrast that between the two of them and you in i think you echoed this during the episode like surprised between between it isn't uh i get i get that you see what you want to see when you're smitten especially but i'm surprised that she's not more like i can't tell if he's actually he actually cares like a love triangle i i want to even really call us a love triangle because a love triangle is when the center character can't decide between the two because it's there there's connection with both yeah when one is like eh one's a responsibility choice kind of a chore and the other one is an actual love that he has you know i'm only counting it as a triangle because edwina purports to love him so because she is so it's like the stakes are

triangular anyway. It's like I can't see a way for all three of these people to be happy yet. No, we're just a big victim in all this. Yeah, it's so sad. She's just a pawn in the game of the rich I think they just got a killer. They do. It'll make things so much easier. She'll be at peace. She won't have to deal with any

of this shit. But I like how dark it's getting. Yeah. Like the choices are harder. Whereas season one was like, guys, just fucking have a conversation. Yeah. Yeah, man.

It's great. I fucking loved it. Let go of a few things and have a couple, yeah, plane talks and this can all be solved. This is like really hard and the tension is so high. Like whatever they're about to kiss is like, so you're going to catch her stop against the top shot. Yeah.

And then part of me was like, just fucking do it right here in the lake right now. And that one's around. I know. Get it out of your system. Well, yeah. And the back and forth of that playing with us. And like, you know,

I thought they be having him actually out. the feelings was cathartic, but yeah, they've by and large, teased and built, but not ever given you the catharsis between, I'm not expecting between Anthony and Kate until like the very end, honestly, if it comes to all. Well, it's acknowledging everything

that we've been thinking. Yeah. Of, um, you know, that, hey, is this just an infatuation that they both have with each other? It's just like a, is this just like a heavy level of initial

lust and attraction? Yeah. In the world of Bridgetton, you know, long enough, prolonged eye contact means love in this world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just that world. When you've stood more than less than, you know, a few feet apart for enough hours at a time, you're pretty much engaged. I mean, when I beat people back then, I know some people who were like, oh, yeah, I got married way too young, like old fucking people. Like, I got married way too young. And then sometimes it's the opposite case.

We've got into each other for a little bit, and then we got married and we've been together for like 40 years. Yeah. We love each other. You know, so back then, though, um, the rules of love were very, very different. And so, yeah, like, I'll, I'll just bind to the narrative that they're in love with each other. But like how they're addressing, like, those is just a passionate thing that it'll pass. Like, this will pass. Just attraction, you know, the other things will come around.

And they're both, and the conflict is really well woven because both Anthony and Kate are very duty driven. Yeah. So they're, they would both talk. themselves into you can do this marriage because it's about duty at the end of the day

and your feelings don't matter and they will pass you know so it's really well woven I will say like I'm enjoying the B stories particularly

the Featherington's story yeah it is fun I do recall I've always I always enjoyed the B stories when they cut to them but I do recall our experience with season one

like really encapsulating every story that was going on yeah like beyond Simon and Daphne, we were really into like every story that we felt like compelled to talk about them, whereas there's one storyline here that is particularly like fucking gripping. And then the other ones are engaging and enjoyable, but they're not on equal level. Like the triangle story is so engaging and everything with the fucking Sheffield showing up.

Like, I mean, like, I got kind of emotional actually. Yeah. You know, watching her, the mom stand up. And then Anthony even stepping up. Like that was, that was actually like a really. moving scene. And, you know, like everything with Penelope is enjoyable, Benedict in school, Colin on his, you know, a wanderlust, no, Colin, Colin. Colin. Colin. Colin. Colin. Colin. Colin. It's like,

what am I doing in my life? I guess I go to Greece? I don't know. I guess I'll go visit my ex. I don't know. I guess I'll ignore this girl right in front of me. I don't know. And Eloise finding her independent voice. amongst the pores. Yeah, in the in the duly lit side of town. They're all enjoyable. Like, they're all really enjoyable,

but they're, I don't feel as, like, strongly urgent to even, like, really talk about, you know? It's not really even a criticism. It's just, if I'm preparing to season one, because people have often said

season two is their favorite, and I'm like, oh, the main storyline, I totally see why. But the B stories are, are not as, uh, gripping just yet in the terms of the tension yeah they're same like yeah i would agree it's like

it's not a good or bad value it's just they are the first season felt more like an ensemble that had focus on daphne and simon but more yeah but more of an ensemble generally whereas like the proportionality of the plots here is very much anthony adwina kate and then the featheringtons and then a little bit of everyone else you know it's kind of how how it seems to to break down now. And that's, like I said, I would agree. It's like, this is such gripping drama with the three of them. And it's like high stakes.

And, you know, you're like, how the hell are they ever going to? Like, it's to the point now where half my brain is like, I know they have to find love by the end. But the other half my brain is like, we've gone so far back and forth. I don't know what's going to happen, which is good. But, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a different feeling. And then the Featheringtons are like super immutable. I do really like them as like the contrast as like the Bridgerton's or this is how society works when you've got all your shit together and it's still hard, but you've got all your shit together and the Featheringtins are like, this is how society works when you look like you got your shit together and everything is on fire. Yeah. And it's a it's I really do appreciate that like I thought I was going. I thought they were going to be more hateable. Whereas like they do shitty petty things, but they're always fun to watch and those performers are great. So all right. Shit.

Well, let's go into some questions. Let's do it. Selimith Sanchez. That's a cool name. Let's see. Hey, guys, super excited to see you guys react to this season. Season 2 is my favorite, so I'm loving watching you guys react to it. You guys have interesting ways of seeing things,

so I'm curious how you digest slash interpret this season after episode 4. How are you feeling about the tension between the main characters compared to season one? Okay. Well, not exactly. I thought I completely answered this question already. The tension, the tension's way more high stakes, for sure. Yeah. Because they're aware of how they actually feel, but it's the situation that's preventing them from stuff.

where Simon and Daphne is kind of funny in retrospect because it's like the game we were playing was just you really liked each other the whole time and you're just figuring out how to recognize and articulate that properly that you're not playing a game that you actually love each other yeah yeah which is great which is yeah and then he wants to have children you know

and that was a little bit more we know he'll get around to it yeah I can see the way way to heal all of this and it's largely just between the two of them so there's less mess where I hear I'm like I have no idea how this is 100% I'm like yeah it seems like these stakes are fucking impossible

and someone's gonna end up like a pariah in the dimly lit part of town after this it's like it stands to reason that you would go hey fucking Kate and Anthony would end up together and Edwina

would somehow be understanding or whatever but from where we're currently and I'm like I don't really see how that's a scenario I feel like the only way this could end you know in a in if I'm thinking of my limited understanding of the tropes of a romance novel partly part my brain goes okay so you have to have a way to get Kate and Antony together but that also allows for Edwina to find someone who truly loves her the only thing that could actually help her is replacing Antony with someone who actually intends to love her along with all the other shit. Oh, yeah, that one guy who keeps courting. And now I'm like, I don't know. That's the thing. It's like, I don't know who to sub in there. I'm like, it could be Colin, but there's shit with him and Penn.

And I don't know. I don't think there's nothing in this season to suggest that that would be an idea. The other guy at least is involved in the, you know, yeah, he's in Decate. So there's some connective tissue there. But yeah, I have no actual guess. But yeah, is it super. I appreciate the tension. I mean, it seems like for especially like for Penelope, the tension's higher.

because she's got to like skirt around and elie is like on her trail slash also disinterested in what she's doing and then the tension is more fun between the featheringtons this season i think even though their stakes are always catastrophic but like it's it's like they ride that line of like it's on a cartoon but it's still like fun with them and then with Anthony and Kate it's like unbearable and then it's really sad when you think of

adwina because then you're like this person's just getting trampled by all this yeah so yeah very tense in a did a different in like a more vivid way I guess it feels more intense I suppose is how I would describe it oh shit let me start with something honest

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I have a feeling I'll love this shit out of that movie that I was already super on the fence about. I'm fascinated. It's a 50-50, man. That movie is truly like you're going to love it or maybe really appreciated it, but not think it's not a mess. Well, I was listening to this interview with Maggie Gyllenhaalm and or a clip out from the interview. And she was speaking on how the disparagingness of how like only 8% of women direct the movies that are released. And when their women are only usually allowed to direct or given the opportunity to direct small films. But when they're given the opportunity to direct a big film, it becomes like this huge ordeal.

And it's like dangerous for some reason. season. And I couldn't counteract that. You know, like there's only so few who are like, well, Barbic, you know, there's not many where you can honestly go like, oh yeah, women are constantly given. So there's even in this field

of filmmaking, women are not given the same opportunity. And then when they are given an opportunity of that caliber, it really becomes a big deal that's a fucking woman doing it. And then there's a section of society that will put blame on like because it's this fucking woman who made it you know so the reason I'm bringing up specifically

that example is because we're watching a television show and in this medium of television and filmmaking even there it is like her the

the uh the opportunities are do fuck with what a woman's expression Yeah, the opportunities are not equitable even still. Yeah. So, yeah, Noel Luis has always been written as a modern-day character living in this past where women are very much expected to be a certain way.

It was a great summation. What the woman was saying on stage is that the whole, like, the only knowledge you get is like what you happen to, you know, catch from your husband or brother or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. It's messed up. I mean, to your little fun facts here, 74 is when women were able to open bank accounts in the U.S. without a husband's signature, and in 1977 is when Harvard accepted its first female undergrad.

That's crazy. Biggest mistake. That's way more recent than I would have expected for either of those things. Yeah. Too soon, if you ask me. Too soon. Making shit uncomfortable for everyone.

Let's go to... Oh, wait a minute. No, we've got some repeats here. Oh, no. Oh, no. Well, we didn't realize I go in. Let's go to... Let's go to this one for another follow-up from Care Bear.

All right, Care Bear! Greg, during Bridgetton's... During Bridgetton's Season 1, episode 3, reaction, you watched a 10th exchange between Anthony and the Duke, observing aloud that Simon was, quote, becoming the bane of Anthony's existence. The YouTube comments went nuts debating if you were a secret bridge fan

or a powerful clairvoyant. Question, do you still believe Simon is the bane of Anthony's? Did you say that? That must have something you said. Oh, maybe. I don't know, maybe. I feel like you might have said that.

I could hear it in my mind's ear, but we'll have to go back and check the tape. I don't remember who said that. I feel like that's something you've said. There's a shortcut we can do to discover this. Yeah, we can check the transcripts. Pull up the transcript. Pull up the, yeah, the subtitles.

Bridgerton, one by three. I mean, while I'm doing this. I saw another question. Do you have a real answer to this question? I mean, I do now. Simon is in no way going to be in a position. I don't think where Anthony is like, no matter where on earth you are,

not going to be far enough for me. like you know i feel like it's he says it's kate for sure because she's got his heart and that's messing with his whole duty what's this movie i got to write down this universal reminders of him cool got to react to dude um hell yeah oh it's her from freaking vein it follows 10 56 oh someone did that is a lot of the comments you're right shit we never never noticed it that's funny we don't read the comments early on because we don't want to get this shit spoiled. Nor have we read the books early on. Let's

see who's... I think this is... I think you said this. Come on. Come on. Come on. Simon is becoming the... Oh, I said it. Hell yeah. I heard it in your voice.

It's like... It's the thing I would say. It's a phrase. But I could hear it in your voice in my ears. Oh, okay. It was a fucking prediction. It was just a coincidence. I do love it.

that knowing that in hindsight. It's kind of funny like going to these comments and they are the top comments actually of this video. That is actually very interesting. Wow. No, he's not, but that is fun.

I'm glad I had no idea those are the top comments. So that's actually pretty funny to like discover that. Yeah. Can we know you, sorry. No, me? Anna Karen. Can we appreciate the jealous. lake scene for a moment.

Y'all finally got to one of the most iconic and viral moments, which is you are the bane of my existence. I don't even know. Do we even really like react to that? I mean, I think, I don't know if we reacted to it specifically. Because I was just taking that scene in. It was like really hooked. Yeah.

If I'm honest, I'm even surprised y'all hadn't heard it. No. It struck me when he said it at least in my ear. Yeah. It's a defining line. I don't know if I, be out of it. know if I went oh the way I should have yeah we didn't really go

whoa you know yeah it's weird if I've had seen these comments beforehand then I guess I might have looked out for the line no but I definitely I remember when he said it that's when the camera was going right behind her yeah and like it was doing that like fucking Paul Greengrass over the shoulder behind

went from like using went from right to left I remember exactly when it was so yeah the line stands out I hope you can feel it's fucking hey when people assume that because we didn't make a noise that people think we didn't really take that in even though i can completely recount when that was i hope you can feel all the tension between cantony canthony is very flattering name uh okay okay my question is how do you feel about anthony's character development

they have done with him so far oh it's great it's it's really really really good and i actually really like the nuance of when he stood up for them because you could tell it's coming from a true place but it's also like opportunity to get on the fucking marriage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so funny. And at the time, and with your modern brain on, you just

think, go, man. And then once you catch yourself, you're like, oh, shit, this is like way outside. It is beyond the pale of polite society as he tries to tell him. And I mean, that too is a great scene because it's that, it's the ugly side of polite society where it's like,

if we want to, because of our status, we can sit here and be really petty and messed up and just be passive aggressive and really start going on in an offensive, you know, in a way that due to polite, you know, decorum, you can't just call out the way he did.

So, yeah, it was a nice way to watch like the weird abusive and confronting of that abuse of power. Well, I think the layers to his performance are really good. Last season, he was just overprotective brother who was in love with someone he shouldn't be in love with.

Yeah. And not that he shouldn't be, but society says no wouldn't accept it. Yeah. Whereas here he's... He's got a real obsession probably. He's got an obsession. He's got to carry the family on his back.

He's got unprocessed grief and trauma over the death of his father by beasting. But yeah, that... I mean, his whole character is rooted in the fact that he never had time to grieve, and that keeps showing up. And I think that's really... I think his performance is so good.

Yeah. So good. I forget he's gay and... real life. I know. Well, he seems Yeah. He seems so straight. He seems like he loved everyone. Yeah. He and Scarlett

Johansson had sex on the red carpet for Jurassic Worlds. Oh, good. Yeah. I forget he's in debt. Yeah. It's like a guy. He's just a guy. He's just a guy. He's just a guy. He was a slutty little glasses.

It's funny. It is like, I liked him in that movie, I recall. But he is like the most just a guy I've ever seen Like in, yeah, in Wicked, you know, he stands out in this show, stands out. But it's good. He's got range. He does.

He's really good. No, I liked him in season one. I love watching him here. I really love watching him here. It was a bit of a sell for me in the first couple episodes for me. It wasn't until the grieving, the same way how Simon's father episode did, like, wonders to get me hooked into him. Yeah. it's the exact same thing here for Anthony of like, oh, shit, I really get this guy now.

And I first, I was like, I just don't see how it could be more interested in watching Simon. Now, you know, like, oh, this is actually very interesting. Now I. And also what they're doing with, let me just make sure no one brings it up, and what they're doing with the mom, too. Like the way how they've changed that dynamic, because they always go, they bicker in the first season. They go toe to toe. But now the mom is seeing how he's about to throw his love life. away and it's trying to pull him back to a sense of

like comfort and like mother him a little bit yeah it's like they're coming from less of a attempted similar eye line it's like they have certain like responsibility for the house like knowledge of it's like they can converse on a similar level but this is

more her feeling like a mom to him as well as you know the keeper of the estate yeah you know take it away john patricia carrieu thank you for chiming in episode four of each season leaves on that big cliffhanger. Season one was Daphney stopping the duel and saying they would marry.

Season two is the proposal. Proposal. The first two seasons did not have the season splits that are now becoming Netflix norm. Story-wise, how would you have felt if you had had to wait to watch the second half after these story points? I fucking hate that with Netflix, honestly. I think it's such a bad move with most of the time they do it. I think it's, I think it's cheap.

and not every show requires that. Like what they have with the split up with Arcane was smart because Arcane was designed to be that way. Three acts. Stranger Things season four was designed that way. Like that was perfect. It felt like a part one and a part two of the same season. You know, Breaking Bad had that, but it wasn't Netflix, you know,

and it wasn't a streaming show. Most of the time I feel like it's a shit move. And I think it affects the viewing experience. because it sounds to me in a lot of time when these people are writing the show and they're going to wear this going to fucking happen

until like they're in the middle of production on it or something. Like oh God we got to try some like crazy cliffhanger for the middle of the season now when most of the time these stories are best a streaming show that is meant to be taken in as one whole as a season versus episode by episode.

It's important to take I'll do season four as an example. Season four, I don't know what happens in that season. but I do remember the rhetoric of a good amount of people where they watched the first half and they weren't super into it. And then the second half, everyone was like, best, Susan Bridgeton. You know? Well, that's the thing about watching this now is that.

I think you might lose viewers, too, if the first half isn't that strong, you know? Yeah. And my experience of this show so far, it's funny, we're watching four and five in relative succession here. like I actually might not have quite realized that's where a chapter breaks should go and I feel like this show thus far has been such that it kind of just builds the stakes in momentum until you finally get to the end whereas I feel like to sell a two-part release you need that buildup and climax two times to kind of justify it the way a stranger thing is like oh these are two chapters and not that like a proposal or or break

taking off this duel can't be that but uh but yeah these don't seem inherently designed to be like spaced out in a specific fashion and i'm curious to see now just how i would feel it sounds like it's not going to feel hugely different but uh with them knowing probably later on these are going to get broken up if it affects anything but but uh i don't know yeah i think it harms stranger things five yes i would agree i think it harms because it also builds like a hype and a anticipation and then when it's not gonna do, and it doesn't deliver on whatever that is in that

second half like, why the fuck do we wait for this? Well, and it's not a, that was too, it's like I think that is weird. I think the arcane thing is a really cool one to entertain with the right project because you're right. It's like it makes sense to break it up into a few parts and also structurally, three

acts. Two halves can work, I feel like, but I don't know, there's something I had a better point a minute. Wednesday season two is all right with that. That's what it was. Like, Stranger Things was released in these odd shaped chival, what, three, four, and then one jumbo episode.

So, like, even that made, I feel like this season as a whole feel more lurching. So, like, I'm more optimistic about if it's two proportionally sized halves, then fine. But, uh, but, but yeah, I don't, I've yet to find, as much as I like that they try these different release strategies and don't only go for drop it all at once and have the conversation be a weekend long, you know, like at the same time, I haven't encountered a bunch of ways. I think it works really, really well. Well, they're trying to find which, like, which show. And I think Disney Plus is actually the one that's experimenting with it the best where they're going.

This show should drop out at once. This show should be week to week. Like Prime Video has a very specific. We drop three and then one, one, one, because three will get you the audience invested where they want to keep coming back because they're going to be like, oh, let's watch all three. And then by that point, you've committed. Yeah. So it's smart. But not every show.

show is now designed to be a week to week. They're just not. You know, it's the reality of it. Like, honestly, it's season two of this doesn't feel like it, like there's, there's so long that you would think, but I am seeing like, sometimes when we're talking about, I'm like, we should just continue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because yeah, with, yeah, no, it's just a really good point. It's like you used to be bound by terrestrial schedules, television, technology, et cetera. So, yeah, you would have to structure something because like yeah it just wasn't the way of things that you could get basically one long movie that's cut up out at a time

before you had to do it was like TV used to be like comics I would imagine where it's like you have to do your single issues as single issues and beat out the whole storyline whereas yeah now in the age of streaming it's just like eh you know it's like a pizza you just get it yeah and then it's good uh a couple more we gotta make these ones quick though

uh jrushton can all rejects your knowledge swim the boat ride may kind of nervous there oh um i mean i don't think i i feel like we should all be able to maybe swim i don't know i feel like one of us can't swim i feel like maybe not can andrew swim he strikes me as to what too i'm like what he should be able to i feel like he see yeah yeah uh i mean i would like to imagine everybody's swim because I feel like everybody here would have a very, very different swimming form. But I think...

I think Koi can't swim. Oh, that sounds right. I feel like he has said that out loud to me at some point. Yeah, because he keeps trying to punch the water. Yeah. Well, and he's so dense with muscle that he just sinks.

He physically cannot swim. He's just the cement inside of that epidermis of his. He's metal Mario. Oh, sure. I feel like it's only fair since you read two questions from someone that we should read. Oh, the other one from Selimuth? Yeah.

Selimuth Sanchez, thank you for chiming in once again. Random question for you guys. Are either of you, the eldest sibling in your family? Do you think being the eldest sometimes creates pressure to be the responsible one or make difficult decisions for everyone else?

Well, I am, John is the youngest of two. I am. I am middle child, so I am an older sibling. and I'll admit I'm not like the best older brother. I'm not someone who feels that like weight of responsibility. You know, that can't be said for Jabby Kaua. Yeah, I was going to say your brother is very much like,

dad died. I'm taking control his. I am the captain now. I am your father now. I'm looking out for everyone. I'm going to make sure this family sticks together. Yeah. happy he's very very much did become like that guy who feels like he has to keep the

the family together and take care of the mom and everything so and i'm probably more of like a fucking like benedict or something honestly i was gonna say when i'm looking at this i'm like yeah i'm definitely more of a better like i just kind of wanted to like do my own thing yeah my my my sister is certainly much more of an antony than i am i am definitely more of a benedict like different different vibes different situations but yes she's definitely the more like responsible and the more sort of, yeah, like, track or keeper of family affairs and things. Yeah.

No, so I do, from what I've witnessed, but I also know ones that were, it's not that at all. We're the older one. I feel like there's a generalization, though. I imagine it's a cliche for a reason, and I've seen it firsthand, but I also know of families where the oldest is the most dysfunctional and the one who needs the most being taken care of.

so it's not like a you know it's not an always situation sometimes they end up the absolute worst of the bunch but no i think it's a very common thing for sure for sure and uh javy co his real name is anthony too so i'm just fucking ironic a little bit i was gonna say maybe you should slip him season two and be like you know i mean no they're already done season two they start bridget it after us and then they started like you know him he's just oh sure they they they film like fucking, you know, wall to wall, five studios at a time. They got like, every day, he's running three channels.

So it's just like, we're filming eight hours a day. It really is there. So they've like paired up all the Bridgeton. I think they do like four episodes in a video or something. Oh, boy. So they started after us, but they're like way ahead of us now. It's fascinating to see what they cover in high volume versus small versus what we cover in high volume versus small because don't they do friends like three at a time at like half the pace?

those friends. Oh, yeah. Anyway. Yeah. All right, guys. Well, thanks for being here.

And we'll see you next week. Woo.