The Reel Rejects - BRIDGERTON 4x03 & 4x04 REVIEW - MY COTTAGE GETS WILD! - FIRST TIME WATCHING

Episode Date: June 13, 2026

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but I'm still back in the season of love and intrigue on Bridgerton G. I just watched season one when it first came out and they made it season two so fast. That's unprecedented for these days.

It's fucking crazy. It's like, what? Season two is ours? That's the new trend. I'm happy to support. We got season two before season one's even done. I love season one. Isn't it? It was good? I'll have to check it out. It's like the biggest rich people problems in the world.

Cool. Okay. Is Coleman Domingo in season one? Yeah. Hell yeah. It's like the most laid-back drama. Good for those people who probably need arrest from playing people who just seems like they're just sick I was gonna say I saw will forte in there even when he's doing comedy I feel like he's playing on the most unhinged like mental capacity people yeah I love just working the first one he's my favorite character in that first season I love a little forte and a Coleman domingo and whoever else is in the show

but I mean aside that this from the fact that this was not another season of four seasons How did you feel about these two episodes of Bridgerton? How did this? Might be the best season. It's very engrossing. Yeah, I think it might be the best one. It's very engrossing. Surprised by it.

I'm very surprised. I really feel like it just, like, as much as I love watching it, like, rich people have rich people problems. It's nice to have a poor person, have some real problems in the show. Four seasons in, it seems appropriate. Yeah, no, I mean, it's just like, it's sexy, it's tense. and I really like find the it's an actual like conflict between the two of them with um

with Sophie and Benedict because we it's like you kind of need a couple of seasons though to establish the class problems very well yeah so you know truly like what's at stake like having this is the crab tree is there yes at my cottage at my cottage yeah to have Crabtree saying how, you know, like even a rumor can be bad. And it was like, yeah, I mean, after simmering in this world, it's like, yeah, a rumor would be really fucking back into your life.

Your entire life right now. So that, so it's like any single time they're like alone together. There's this like tension of like, holy shit, guys, no, stop. Yeah. But it is that thing that you were pointing out that conflict of like. I mean, I want you guys to get together, but I also don't want her career. I also don't want her whole reputation to be completely infacked right now. Yeah.

So, yeah, it's really, it's really cool to, like, root in a, in a way that's conflicting, but not antagonizing, you know? So I love it a lot. I think it's just, it's, like, damn good television, and it's shot fucking well. Sometimes the upgrading quality really does stand out. There's a fun with the sex that I think they're doing, like, between. I'm forgetting everyone's the goddamn name. I know one guy's name John. But the...

Oh, Francesca. Francesca, like, that is a great, like, different type of sexuality to explore. The pinnacle. The pleasure. And, of course, you know, Violet as well. And even, like, the ones that are not sexual. Like, it's all...

Every storyline is, like, fucking singing right now. With Eloise and her sister, even that, which is, like, the most small... scale one of them all somehow is very interesting because she has to come to terms of their own as much as she's like modern and witty she's kind of selfish you know like it's like she becomes very judgmental about other people for not being on her plane her point of view you know and like you're boring to me you know yeah yeah one it's that it is it pangs that thing of like hey hey

there's a lot that's reductive about you know just being concerned with the spoons and the etiquette and all that. But it's not like bad if you do really love that stuff in and of itself. And yeah, and I like that nuance that, uh, well, it got, I as synth brought up. I like it because it checked, it got me to check myself in that moment.

Because I was like so on Eloise's point of view the entire time. Like, God, this is ridiculous. The second the sister like looked hurt. I was like, man, that was fucking awful. You know, there's, I did not for one second question Eloise's point of view.

Or if I'm acting like, yeah, this whole time, I thought you were kind of judgmental. But I'm like, oh, no, but I'm with her being judgmental. Yeah. Because I, I've said, until there's feelings like, turd, I was like, oh, wow. It's easy to look down on the frivolity of all this and then realize that, yeah, like, you know, there is certainly an unhealthy amount of weight put on this, but also, yeah, inherently not bad things in general. And it's not like we can never have fun with this stuff. Exactly. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I agree. This has been fantastic so far. And it's like a, it's, you know, they've done many tropes thus far, but I feel like one of the most classic tropes is that, you know, classifying, you know, it's someone of nobility, finding love with, you know, someone of the help class, the working class, the, you know,

the class not kissed by, you know, the blessing of just endless leisure. And so, yeah, I think they're doing a really nice version of that. and it's, you know, got an interesting set of circumstances for Sophie's background. It's fun at this stage in the game for how much time we've spent with Benedict. I don't know what the, you know, sometimes you watch a season and you're like, oh, clearly they're readjusting something here. And I think there's some asterisks you can put on season three because of the whole, like, we don't really get much of like Collins specific perspective there.

And this season is doing a really nice job of really giving you, both like there's more stakes in Sophie's perspective and so in some ways those feel a bit more vital but even with Benedict for watching him you know be become single-minded after you know being someone who's very much a bohemian and the whole last season was like I'm a little I know that there I think in the last video we were asked about like this being a hetero romance and people wanting you know him to be a queer romance or something like that and I am a little curious about the fact that like we may just end up in a situation where he kind of just leaves

all of those other inclinations behind and it's fine and they live happily ever after but I am like you're kind of like a differently bred person for this society so you know it's interesting to watch him now go to just like a 100, it's just you true love match you know but then again

she's just so lovely and well cast and the writing on her has been so good that like I could also see her making an honest man out of him which is a fun conversation to still have like it's a It's a thread that I wonder how they will tie at the end of the season. Because, again, there's been so much about the hunt. And I really like all the additional, you know, like, made wars stuff.

Because I think it makes for a lot of great fun in games and it's a good way to elevate. I noticed last season at some point when there was that, like, shot in the kitchens with Mrs. What's her name? Who's the head of Bridgerton's staff? Wilson. Ms. Wilson. Yeah. Like, there was that scene in the kitchens where she's, like, given orders.

And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. we're way more in the thick of their moment than before. And so bringing that even more greatly into this season has been really cool. And it fits obviously the stuff happening at the center of it. But it's also just a nice thing for this world. And it's a world that we've seen, you know, grow its boundaries of what's acceptable and who is acceptable and why. And while I don't necessarily expect this season to fix the class problem, you know, it's kind of neat to see that this is a world where, like, Lady Danbury says when she's talking about. talking to and about the queen.

It's like, you know, I've helped shape this. You are in a position to help shape the progress of this country and look at what, you know, Queen Charlotte and I were able to do. So it also has that fantasy element where you're like, maybe the help will be treated just a little bit better after all of this nonsense. A little revolution. Yeah. I do feel Benedict has naturally gotten to this point over the course of the seasons,

though, because he was still a horn dog, even at the start of this first. episode. That's true. And he really believed he can never, the start of the season. He was still like literally left to go hook up with someone. Yeah. And he came back and he was still like in his debauchery and whatever.

And he was so stricken by mystery. And they established as a character who gets caught up in fantasy. And can be like, you know, this also got the love angle of he's obviously drawn to her to more than just like lust and mistress stuff he's drawn to her. because he actually has feelings for her. He caught the real feels.

And again, I think you do still need those other Bridgetton seasons to really establish this. Like they brought up Anthony. That's why I was thinking of Anthony. It was when they brought him up in the fourth episode with the mistress he had because this was leading to a potential mistress situation. I was like, oh, yeah, and like Anthony couldn't be with her.

And because that first season had so much emphasis on that is a big reason why it's like it's so fucked up what Anthony says but those that part like well what else is he going to conclude here he's not going to be like will you be my wife because of how much in society is and he's

slowly like learning and unraveling himself like I think the character development on him is pretty cool and how like all her abilities as a maid that she's learned but we know that she's more than just a maid She's probably like the rightful air to all this stuff.

Yeah. Is that she's also, I don't think we have any questions. We didn't put it out. Oh, we do have questions. This has been on the schedule and moved so many times. Holy shit. We should fucking answer them. Go through some questions.

Some stuff to handle. I thought there were no questions. I was like, I'll take my time here. So, yeah. No, I think, you know, seeing her more motherly stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, starting your own business sounds exciting, doesn't it? Until you realize in this day and age, you have to become the website person, the inventory person, the checkout person, the marketing person, the shipping person, basically an entire company overnight. That's why I genuinely love today's sponsor Shopify.

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his connection was instant but have never been appropriate um i think this was like they thought we were just filming episode three or something like what do you mean what do you mean what you mean what should mean by this well i mean it's it's this time that they spent away you know sort of outside the normal circumstances of everything. And she said, like, this was the best week of my life and all that stuff. And there is so much to the fact that there's almost no one around to watch us. So I can kind of get that sort of like, oh, yeah, this must have felt like a liminal space between both of their walks of life to a degree, even though she has a greater awareness than he does of what is actually happening here.

But, yeah, I don't know. I feel like, how do they feel about it? Conflicted probably? they probably both want to live there and have varying degrees of denial as to how or why that can't happen and why they would love it too. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That's what I would say. I'm not fully wrapping my head around the question. I'm sorry, that's my own limitation. Well, because yeah, it's like they're allowed to have like to some degree, like an actual graceful

upsweep of romance, yeah, rather than being kind of caught up in the sort of like pace of of the marriage mart stuff. Yeah. So, like, yeah, for the both of them, it is kind of a way station away from everything.

Hell yeah. But yeah, it's an interesting observation, for sure. Please. Carebear, Asian countries like Thailand, Korea, and Japan produced popular romance series that are viewed worldwide. Question. How does changing Sophie Beckett

in the source book to now Beck affect her story? How might an Asian male lead have enhanced this switch? Maybe by recognizing that these same countries also lead the world in LGBTQ plus media, producing dozens of queer romances a year, maybe. Do they? I did not know that. I kind of, I don't know why that surprised me, but it surprised me.

I, for some reason, was under the impression it would be frowned upon. Yeah, more restricted. Yeah, I don't know really even why I thought that now that I think about it. I'm just kind of used to... I'm kind of used to American telling me all the other countries or not. It's free. Well, yeah.

If you said like France was doing it or something, I'm like, oh, yeah, I can see that. Well, in every culture... Yeah, I'm not an expert on everyone's homophobia, but I know that there are a lot of problems with that across all cultures, and I remember... Not to monolith anybody.

I remember Squid Game, at least, having a conversation around including a trans character and that being a big deal in Korea. You know, as well as... Oh, yeah. So, yeah, those are my only vague barometers. So, like, that trans character was the shit.

Was a standout character. It wasn't a real trans actor, but that was a trans character was the shit. But, yeah, cool-ass character. So, you know. Cool-ass character is so bum when they die. Some representation points there for sure. A lot of people died in Squid game. I mean, knowing this, with that greater context, I mean, yeah, having it be, you know, an Asian male

lead to put that as clinically as possible. Have an Asian guy as the lead. People really wanted her to be gay, huh? I can understand why, given the fact that we've teased it and we've done hetero love by and large up till now. So like I get

why in a show that seems like it should. It seems like this show should have like a prominent. And I like that we got the stuff with Brimsley in the Queen Charlotte's spin-off. But this also seems like a world in which it's still pretty hard to be gay. so, but yeah, I don't know.

I wonder, in fact. Time period, too. I want to get on board with that. Yeah, it's like this is, I have to now kind of cross-triagulate what the historical fiction here is because there are advances they've made in this society that are leaps ahead of ours, but also it seems like queer romances in this society, like, yeah, if you're off at art school or if you're on a brothel or something, or if you're in a place where, like, the bohemians would be, it doesn't seem like too big of an,

issue, but it doesn't seem like a thing that you could, as a Bridgerton, like, bring into polite society and just have people be like, yes, you and your husband are married now. Sure. Not that they couldn't use this as an opportunity to break those barriers in this universe, but I don't know. I mean, it would have been cool. I'm not, I love, so, like, the actress playing Sophie is so lovely and so fun to watch that I can't say I'm mad about it, but I could get why you would feel ways about it, for sure. when they do the Korean remake

we'll get it yeah we'll do they'll make them both trains yes LGA hey Greg and John welcome to another cottage woo

we see a lot of push and pull on Benedict and Sophie's relationship throughout these episodes that normal comes to a head when he asked her to be his mistress do you believe Benedict only asked this is this would have been the only way

they could be together or do you think this is a reflection of his rakish behavior yes I I think it would Because the former, and he felt he could exercise that through his rakish behavior.

Sure. As like, yeah, all of us here have it. Yeah, I can't. But I think he's actually in love with her and he knows it. Yeah, 100%. I agree. I think, like, plain and simple, we don't need to really dissect that much more. I don't mean to be, like, Kurt, with your question here.

But I'm pretty confident that's what's going on right now. He probably felt like this would be the only societal way it would make sense. And, yeah, we'll be in love under the table. Yeah. You know, but yeah, also it implies his rakish behavior, and I'm sure they want that in the angle. And I'm sure Sophie is like, oh, that's the only way he sees me through his rakish behavior because I could never be his love. Side piece. Even though she knows who he's looking for.

Marco, it's the year of cottages and Asian love interests. He's his rivalry. I so desperately wanted a gay love story for Benedict here, but also love Sophie. question, generally curious how coincidental it is that Bridgerton and Heady rivalry have these similar elements. Is it common or uncommon for alignment like this to appear in popular shows

back to back? Oh, I think it's so common. It happens so much at the time. I forget what, but there's something in like stranger things that, there's some like major element with that that I remember we were talking about, oh, another show is doing this right now, and then when we were doing the boys, and it was like, oh, Daredevil's also doing this right now.

I think mediums and genres often are complimenting each other, and paying attention to audiences and zeitgeist and going through with the flow. I think it's a very common thing, actually. It's like, now there's going to get so many hockey romances. Like a good rivalry. Yeah.

Off campus is out now. Like, heated rivalry. Off campus was already in development as a television show before the success of heated rivalry. Like, there's no way they would have just like fucking shat out off campus this soon after heated rivalry. Like, it's just the thing that happens.

Well, and this would have been, heated rivalry and this would have been in production at similar time. because the rivalry came out of the end of last year and then this came out of the very beginning of this year. There are people, there are marketing experts and writer experts who are all paying attention to similar things

and then pulling from real world and what have been audiences. There's like surveys and demographics and analytics. We get like factored into a development of something and then it all stems from taking it from a source material or a writer who's not even thinking about those things. Yeah, it just happens to fit the categories are looking at. Book trends, cultural trends,

other trends. And then, yeah, I kind of see how we would get here independently on Bridgerton, but it also does, yeah, speak to more connective societal tissue than you could just cast off

with, yeah, no consideration at all. Yeah. Yeah. Patricia Carilla. That was the offer from a gentleman. These Bridgetons are not making their love lives easy.

Season four, like season three, had a two-part drop with about a month in between. Coincidentally, all seasons had an offer proposal of subkind. I would love to hear which season if you can recall

had the most compelling episode for Cliffhanger. Not saying the best, but the one that you had the most curious or anticipating the second half. Thanks for the recap. Thank you, actually. Anthony Duhl and Daphne saying they will marry or Anthony proposing to Edwina. I would definitely say

season two at the strongest one. Season three was like Oh, they're getting married ends up, but he's going to find out she's whistled? So this is going to get a lot worse after we've had this happy ending. whereas Anthony proposed to know We know sort of left open a like I don't really like somehow it has to end up with Kate

I don't know how the fuck that'll happen yeah like why are we getting there there's a sister problem and this one is like to me I feel like the storytelling's been like the best but in terms of like a month apart cliffhanger I don't really feel like this is a month cliffhanger to leave you on it's like it just feels like

well we need the next episode now the last one felt more like Oh, like, it dawned on me naturally watching that. I was like, did they split this? Because I didn't know they split this. And having it be this one, it's a great scene, but it is not quite as emphatic. Will you be my mistress as like a curveball question? So it's like, in a way, it's less emphatic than if he was like, marry me.

Then I would be like, oh, snap. Yeah, yeah. If he said that, then I'd be like, oh, shit, what's going to happen? Yeah, yeah. But no, I think season two probably have the strongest one of them all. Agreed. And finally, from Jay, Rushden. Have you ever stayed in a cottage

or a cabin or lodge? I actually don't think I ever have. Dude, you should get in a cottage or a cabin or a lot. Have you? Uh, you know, in like an Airbnb context once or twice, yeah. You know, love a little cabin. What's a cottage? Um, I guess a cottage would probably

be like a small house. Like, you know, it's like its own little independent unit. It probably has a bathroom, a kitchen, a bedroom, you know, a typically modest, cozy dwelling. Oh, so like an Airbnb? Oh, yeah. Okay. I've done a cottage, yeah. Oh, yeah, I've done a cottage.

I've never done like a cabin, though. Yeah, you want it made out of logs. Yeah, I want like a real cabin. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I've stayed in like an authentic, like, Abraham Lincoln log cabin, but I have stayed in like a cabin. Yeah.

It's all wood. There's a, you know, a guy like picking his asshole of like fucking axwing. Every cabin's got to go, I hear. Go, who better turn back. They don't come down this. road. Wait, no, I have stayed at a California.

Actually, no, I have it. You've done all these. You've done cabins, conets. Have you done a lodge yet? I think I've done them all. I'm pretty sure. What is a lodge? I think I've done them all.

You've got to stay at a lodge. You got to stay at a lodge. Yeah. Give me images. A rustic housing. Okay. So, while lodges are kind of big, actually, I feel like a lodge is like a place for

multiple people. So, like, you know, a lodge. a lodge would probably be more of a hotel situation or like a multiple dwelling. I started a shared cabin once. It was small, but yeah. A lodge and a cab. I feel like the lodge is next step up from a cabin. I don't look similar.

I like an a frame. Look at this a frame that you guys can't see because they don't know what we googled. But yeah. I feel like I stayed at a lot. I guess I've never really paid attention to the type of home I am staying. I mean, the place that we were at when you got married that we had, had the reception in that you were, you know, assassinated for part of,

that was kind of a lodge. That was a lodge, wasn't it? I definitely spent the night there. I definitely slept it off there. So, yeah, you know, Alpine. I've stayed. It's like, now I'm thinking, like, oh, I think it was a cabin, I think that might have been a lodge, actually. I mean, you know,

there were probably a lot of lodges. But I think of a cabin, I think of cabin in the woods. That's what I think of what I think of a cabin. I think cabin and lodges are remarkably similar from these Google images. Similarly comprised of similar like building materials, but I think a lodge is probably much bigger and can accommodate more people and a cabin is probably

the charm is that it's just a little small, cozy. Yeah. In fact, a cabin can have rooms, but I feel like a cabin might be more prone to like a studio layout even. Yeah, we've got like stuff inside, but not it's pretty bad. Look, we did it, so I'm glad where he's shot this

but you go to bridge. I got a little bit more to hand on. Get out of here. We're We love you guys, though. And if you love us too, then stick around for the end of the season. Next couple of chunks, we love you. Be well and be our mistress.