The Reel Rejects - BRIDGERTON S1 EP 7 & 8 REVIEW - FINALE HAD US IN TEARS!! -LADY WHISTLEDOWN REVEAL

Episode Date: February 19, 2026

DAPHNE & SIMON FIND LOVE + LADY WHISTLEDOWN FINALLY REVEALED!! With the first part of Bridgerton Season 4 streaming on Netflix now, John & Greg continue Lady Whistledown's scandal sheet! Visit https://huel.com/rejects to get 15% off your order BRIDGERTON 1x6 Reaction Highlights:    • BRIDGERTON 1x6 REACTION – DID THEY CROSS A...   BRIDGERTON 1x5 Reaction Highlights:    • BRIDGERTON 1x5 REACTION – SIMON & DAPHNE M...   BRIDGERTON 1x4 Reaction Highlights:    • BRIDGERTON S1 EPISODE 4 REACTION – ONE KIS...   BRIDGERTON 1x3 Reaction Highlights:    • BRIDGERTON SEASON 1 EPISODES 1 & 2 REACTIO...   BRIDGERTON 1x1 & 1x2 Reaction:    • BRIDGERTON SEASON 1 EPISODES 1 & 2 REACTIO...   Gift Someone (Or Yourself) An RR Tee! https://shorturl.at/hekk2 Greg Alba & John Humphrey react to and review Bridgerton Season 1, Episodes 7 & 8 — the dramatic conclusion to Daphne and Simon’s whirlwind romance in Netflix’s global Regency-era hit created by Chris Van Dusen and produced by Shonda Rhimes. Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's funny, you did that. I was watching you and I was still like a little jarred in my nervous system. But it's okay. We did it. We decoded Lady Whistledown together as a team nailed that shit. You did? You did nail that shit. Yeah, man. It's like 16, 17 guesses in by the time they narrowed it down. My multiple choices were down to two. I guess which one was it

you're just a smart you know, you're just a smart, you know, player of the field, you take in new information, you adjust your predictions accordingly. It's a good, it's a good thing. We didn't have to lock them in up top, you know?

Oh, yeah, no, it's a good thing. It's a good thing. Definitely. Right. There are logistics that I'm sure we have to unpack. I thought she was broke. But apparently she can afford this carriage. That's why they're broke.

Well, I'm like, I guess they must just have a family carriage or two. but then I'm like, well, if everyone's out and shit, well, okay, so if you're dropping these off in the middle of like a ball or something, then I guess the carriage is parked or whatever, so like, I don't know. Yeah.

Part of me is, yeah, I need to learn more about how having a carriage and a driver works at this time. If you have to hail one with money. Because, yeah, like, Eliez was like, I'll pay you. You know, and, uh, and, I don't know, Penn. How old is Penn?

She seems younger than Eloise, even. 14. She's like 14? I don't know. She's, like, 12. I guess I'm like, they always cast her as if she's kind of like just at the edge of the kids table. So like she's very sophisticated for someone her age. I don't know, but she has my heart.

I root for her. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So I didn't really get like emotional this whole series, but this final episode just kept getting me. Yeah, this was a very emotional finale. Marina getting the confirmation that that guy loved her. whatever's name was general scotly

sir sunday in the park with george yeah the speeches of love between Daphne and simon and what you would do in the name of love

was just getting me thinking my own life in a lot of ways penelope anytime I come back to penelope being sad it was just fucking breaking me yeah

but she was like trying to confess her love to call and seen even seeing her crying about her dad. Yeah, man, this episode really got me. I was right, the buck and baby at the end. God damn baby at the end.

Little, little baby being delivered. That was, I was, this episode really shit, man. That really got me. It's a whole, whole final episode. It was a very, I was like, I am very invested in this show. God damn. Well, yeah, I mean, like, it, because it's so, it's weird. It's like, it's sorted, but dignified.

And, and compared to some of the other romance. we've been watching, yeah, it's not quite as like hyper-saturated of emotion until certain moments and scenes. There's like a lot more like, okay, we're going back and forth between the fun and games.

Whereas like I feel like the other shows we've watched in this vein have fun games but you're never really too far away of like the main core emotional stakes whereas here there's kind of like a bigger variety of things to be checking in with and concerned about. Yeah, because I was like I'm dis...

I guess the, out of everything we've been watching, this is the furthest from reality, my reality I am with, because if you think about other stuff we've been watching recently, a lot of it's like closer to modern day stuff. This is so like, A, it's not American, and it's a period of peace before, like, cars even existed, you know? So it is so, and it's like uppity-up society.

So it's the furthest I am in terms of, So I didn't really think I would be like so emotionally connect. And I think that's why me like the characters like Marina and Penelope are the ones that really got me. So I was actually surprised by like, oh man, I really am truly at the heart of hearts really invested in Daphne and Simon. And even though it was like, yeah, you kind of feel like you would get to this point. Like it has to, right? It has to get to this point. Otherwise, what's the point of this whole season?

This is just mean. It's kind of mean to Marina, but it's just mean. sucks for all the circumstances stuff suck for me oh yeah it's just like such a shit on marina right down at the very end no good prospects for you just everything is a settling game

yeah yeah yeah outside so so yeah what it keeps shuns you the Simon and Daphne their arc was beautiful beautiful I love that I love how they managed to keep because I thought after they would get married I'm like what's more to do with them at this point you know what more can you

really get from it and they managed to have a struggling marriage arc they even squeezed in there in the final the last two weeks of the journey they'll choose. I was really, yeah, I think that's a thing about this season that continually kind of defied my expectations, I guess,

or just kind of took me by surprise, was like there was a point during the season at which I stopped being able to sort of like rely on, well, we'll probably end up here because part of it, I was like, I don't know what to expect in terms of like how sprawling the events of the show will be over

seasons and I understand that it seems like seasons one and two are kind of a unit and then there's the Queen Charlotte. Oh really? Everyone says you need to watch Queen Charlotte after season two before season three. Okay. What if we start season two and it's just alternate?

We do the Buffy Angel thing before we come up with some arbitrary means of fitting them together. That'd be fun. I'd be down with that. Put two, one episode of each in the same React. Oh, that'd be really charm everyone. But not film of that order.

Definitely not. Yeah. Really make it hard for people to follow our experience. Separate the reviews, redistribute them all. Yeah, like, I wasn't quite sure what to expect anymore in terms of like what levels of resolution we would get. So, so yeah, like, by the last few episodes, I was sort of like, I don't know. All I know is what characters ought to be talking about that they're not talking about.

and, you know, I think they relatively well did a good job for my taste of, you know, giving the appropriate amount of conflict intention to this. You live in it. You feel the toll of it. But it doesn't feel at this moment like it's being overextended. Like, I could have imagined the whole Duke not wanting to continue his bloodline and, you know, just carrying on the spite for his father. I could have seen that being like a multiple seasons thing that we have to deal with in some capacity.

so to have them giving birth at the end of this was like whoa cool you know and it gives i am reminded in this moment that these are based on books and so like a book has to have its own ending as well as being part of whatever this continuum is yeah so yeah it was uh it was nice but i would agree that like as much as i've you know certainly gotten some emotional effect across the course of the show this was the most emotional it's been partly due to the convergence of so many plot lines all with a emotional stakes and tight succession. But I think just the nuances they hit on were touching and resonant and real, you know. Yeah, everyone gets to grow. Even characters who I was, I've liked, I've pretty much liked the reason. There's been no one I haven't liked watching. Yeah. There hasn't been someone who, like, we've cut to.

I'm like, ugh, just hurry her. Even characters you don't like or who aren't like good a lot of the time are still, yeah, engaging. Yeah, because everyone's written so well. or yeah if you're not that interested in them initially they become more interesting as they progress so when you get to this ending here because it's mainly been like the simon and daphne show with supporting characters that we cut to like be a lot of a lot of b stories but then simon and daphne and this one i really felt like in these last couple episodes that the true ensemble of it all really came to the surface where simon and daffney and this one really felt like in these last couple episodes that the true ensemble of it all really came to the surface where simon and daffney and You're still the center point of it because they defy so much. Like, you see all these societal couples who are together, but they're like marriage is just an arrangement.

You don't even need to be with your husband. Your husband sucks. Husbands suck. Screw husband. Just take the money and have fun and gamble and he'll whore himself out. You'll both find lovers. Just, yeah, make the most of this arrangement. Yeah.

And then, oh, you don't marry in the name of love. And then Simon and Daphne get to have both. You know, they get to do it all. So you get to define it all. They get to choose their own path. He gets to redefine himself, doesn't have to live in the shadow of his father. Like there's a lot of beauty to behold while you have everyone else who's going through their own little arcs of like Colin. No, no, Benedict.

Artist is the Benedict? Benedict is embracing his artistic expression and freedom and his own choices in life. And Eloise is also learning the balance as well between being a Bridgeton. and still being able to have her own agency. And I really love watching her. Yeah, I love watching her. Nelope's still my hero, my favorite. She's the queen.

I love her so much. I love her, too. I'm going to have to sit with her actually being Featherington. Don't think about it too much, John. That's the problem is I don't want to think about it too much. It'll ruin the season for you. How is... She left the party to press from column and was like,

I got to go drop this off at the printed person. I got to write this enormously eloquent beyond my years gossip. rag for people. And I get the part of being a girl in the society, it seems like, is like, I don't know, you're at home until you have to go to a function. So I'm sure she's read all the books. I'm sure it's plausible, but I am sitting here kind of like, defying

the urge to be like, hang on a minute. Let me go back and examine the logistics here. Because there are certain ways where I'm like, how are you omnipotent? You know, like, I get that there are just as many arguments for as against, and I don't want to get

too far into it, because I imagine our patrons will ask about it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Questions? Yeah. But yeah, I saw so beautifully shot and wonderfully music.

Yeah, music. Really great. Just set designs, locations, costumes, the musical choices of when to just have the beautiful ornate music of the time

and then to do a little bit of a cheeky needle drop with the vitamin string quartet. I like that motif. And it's not overbearer. I like that it's not like even noticeably in every episode

I didn't clock it in every episode. It is missing evanescence. Definitely, yeah. Wake me up. Wake me up inside. I'm a Duke. We're going to a ball. But yeah, Daphne.

Who are all the actors? Phoebe Dynivore is Daphne, who almost was one of the lowest lane contenders, I think, for before it was, you know. Yeah, because she's like. fucking great. Yeah. Yeah. I'd fall in love with you.

If I live in this time, you shaved your legs? Yeah. You're going to my number one gal right there. I was going to say, and this time it seems like everyone's got to be like pristine at all times. But back then, probably shaving you as a baby back then. Doesn't matter. We're done. I don't want to look up too much.

I'm afraid of, like, find out information. I was going to say you're going to have to cover of season four is already too telling for me right now because it's all of our, this freaking Netflix account. Yeah. It's going to focus on Benedict and some person who I haven't met yet. Yeah. I'm like, oh, is he not going to be gay or is he not going to be?

Apparently not. I don't know. I can't tell with him. I can't tell if he's on a queer journey or... Well, it seems like this story, this whole story is about, like, defying what society wants you to be. And it's kind of harder to do that in this time. Oh, and also freaking Jonathan Bailey and...

Yeah, opera singer. Yeah, poor see. I mean, good for Sienna. Good for Sienna, man. She was being yanked around this whole time. Yeah. Yeah, like, it breaks your heart, but also, like, that was a great scene. And for him to just take in, just say sorry and accept the reality is like so hard in this life.

But it was a great moment. Well, it's heartbreaking. I mean, part of me in my brain, I'm like, lady, you were still cheating on your guy. Literally went downstairs in the fight to see you know about all this stuff. The affair that you were. continuing to have with him. You're like, he sees me for who I really am. Like, does he know about this stuff, though?

Yeah. Does he know how much of a cheater you are? Is he going to come upstairs and he's going to not just be like, why are you crying after talking to that guy? Yeah, he brought you flowers. We seem very intent on taking you out tonight. That much. Yeah.

You could just walk all over him. She, I don't know. In my head, cat, I'm like, oh, she must have told this guy where her life's been like, and he must be cool about it. I have no idea. Because they'd give you nothing on him. So I guess.

you just have to assume that he's cool with whatever. But man, Marin's story so tragic. And I don't know what happened with, who's Simon's friend again, the boxer guy? What was his name? Blinking on his name.

But that was such a fascinating point to end on him with. Yeah. I can see his last, but I like the inverse of it of like, what's the, I guess, like, setting aside your own,

like, still able to, even though he's sacrificing his honor for money, it's still in the name of taking care of, taking care of your family. And I like the nuance of that conversation of, at the end of the day, set your pride aside to take care of your family and do what's right for, do what you can for the purse of people you love.

Totally. You know, so I like how I, like, had this interesting flipparoo. Yeah, and it's, it's an interesting, like, it, I think it's not a bad thing when you, it's not necessarily bad when you're sitting there and you're like, man, I wish I could get more, of a glimpse into this story. Like, what's, what's the conversation like between him and his wife or whatever? Because, you know, she seemed very, she seems

like somebody who wants him to, you know, honor his integrity. But yeah, like, especially in this place and time, I had valued the nuance of that, because I think it would be easy to have him at the last moment and be like, no, I'm not going to throw the fight. Right. But, uh, but the fact that he doesn't, yeah, and the, and, you know, pitting him against Hastings, it does carry a nice, nuanced

weight of like yeah you did sacrifice your honor but it's for the greater good of your life the person you are loving and dedicated to and you can you can see cosmically the crossroads and the fact that like there is a sacrifice involved that will just always be as it is that you will have to always choose to live with but for what's truly important in life you really can't blame them yeah and uh and yeah like i like the way that actor played that because you feel the toll the whole time and uh and the way that freaking ties into all the Papa Featherington stuff because I'm like, do they just come to him and they're like,

we know that you fix this and we're gonna take it out on you now or or was there some other I thought there was something about like the deed wasn't good enough or something? Oh, was it because it was fixed? No, I thought he, I thought he, I thought he made it, it's explicitly clear that it was fixed.

Yeah, well, it seemed like, I just, I need to go back and kind of reexamine because it's, like he made, it's clear that it's fixed at least, at least to us and to you know him and and is the name Bill like the fighter but with those two guys

he couldn't he made it clear it was fixed he's like I got worse like who he's betting on this saying he's got good words of course it's clear it's fixed like it's heavily implied yeah but he says that thing about the word is good or whatever to somebody else that aren't those two before we proceed then the betting guys why did dad

Federington get kids in bridgetton yeah get killed in bridgerton season one because it sort of felt like uh yeah like you you know fixed this match and you've taken such a huge sum of money that like you know this this can't oh i guess so it's because it discovered it was fraud what the hell did they think it was yeah will mondrich there you go yeah i mean that was yeah that was the impression i got was they were like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, you just had a massive payout, you know, on our, you know, line on our. What did they think it was? It did seem like he was heavily implying, yeah.

And he was like, I got a good tip. And here's my fucking house. Yeah, they're a bunch of dumb asses honestly. They're like, whoa. We didn't think. Yeah, they're like, oh. I guess we thought this guy was just desperate. We should have realized that he was just way too suspiciously confident.

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Thank you to hughal for partnering and supporting our channel yet again. Here we go. Questions. Anna Corinne, John's favorite director, we finally came to the end of season one. What's your thoughts? Well, we gave them. How do you feel about the Lady Whistledon reveal? Do you all think it was a good idea to reveal it,

or I all think they should have kept the reveal hidden longer? well I think this is this is the benefit of when something's not weak to week because I think if she is in the books Penelope it's like well shit it's gonna get spoiled yeah um so no I think it's fine that they kept it that they revealed it I would have been annoyed I have you never know if you're gonna get renewed yeah I think it's good especially if you haven't if you've made the whole thing and are dropping it yeah like the olden times where you'd be in production

while the thing's airing so you could pivot. Yeah, I really, I think it's a, I think it was fine that they revealed it. I think it's a fun note to end on. It is. Although it would have been cool to end on someone discovering. I thought the, I thought when she remembered Eloise, it was a clear indicator that it was Penelope.

Yeah. I think like, I kept giving clues that it was Penelope. Sure. Well, sure, yeah. Like, they're indefinitely visual. I think that was a very, you're like oh they cut to penelope and then they cut to you know the madame delacroar or whatever and like the the the visuals uh uh hinting i i guess by you know what it was in the moment i was sitting there

and the narration was going like they've tried to unmask me but i'm gonna unmask myself you know like i'll be in charge of that and like there's something that kind of was a bit dissonant to me in the in that very same moment having the omnipotent camera just revealed it to you while she's making this double down statement of like, I'm going to maintain my disguise and secrecy. Right. And so, like, I thought that that was a cheeky way of talking right to us and they were going to show us like a hint of a face.

And so, like, to see her whole face is like a cool reward for guessing and stuff like that. But in that moment, I was sort of taken aback of like, but you're not actually choosing to reveal this to us. The omnipotent camera of the show is doing that. And I guess you could argue that that is her doing that. but it didn't really hit me that way, I suppose. That's true. So it was a bit of a funky moment, I think, but I like parts of it.

There are other parts I just need to chew on when I think of, like, the logistics of it. But I really like it as, like, an idea. I think it's kind of a fun, you know, oh, you know, you have a couple people who seem very likely. And to have pen of all people. And it, you know, kind of gives an interesting window of where her personal investments guide the, you know, you know, the rag. So, yeah, I think it's interesting anyway, and a strong season overall.

Fair. Unless you had more thoughts. About them revealing? No, I've got my thoughts. This is just basking victory. Jan Victor, thank you for chiming in. Hi, John and Greg. How do you feel about the Colin Penelope Marina situation?

Do you believe Marina to be remorseful now that you finish the first season? character would you like to see more of Danbury always always more lady Danbury she's my G I want to see more Penelope they should just make a Penelope spin off I mean I feel like the future seasons will kind of become that it kind of feels that way yeah I think it should just be

like Penelope going into a multiverse of other Penelopees yes and then killing them all and assuming their power yeah the Penelope versus she dictates all the information and become the ultimate whistleblum and then she becomes the god of stories just writing the reality of every possible timeline. I think so and she wears yellow instead of green. The Colin Penelope Marina situation was rough, man. I like Colin. He's a nice guy and I agree.

I like his heart and stance. I do find him out of the three characters in the situation to be the least interesting one of the three. He's kind of just a straightforward Bridgeton character. It's a good guy. Like the flushing of the meatkin to like Penelope and Marina. And how do we feel about it? I feel like we've been expressing our feelings kind of not stop about it. Although at the time of shooting this, we gave a lot of our feelings on episode six and we haven't released episode six yet.

So I can see why that's questions we'd asked right now. Yeah, sure. Do we believe Marinette to be remorseful? That was part of the question. When she was being confronted with Colin and Daphne, I was like question. I'm like, is this something you

appellate? I assume there's like an apology you should give but is it necessary? Like which audience am I the, which audience member do I need to be to not be a bad guy?

Expected apology because my mind's going. I think it's nuanced like you should apologize but also there's a big reasoning and understanding as to why you did what you did at the same time. Except for Colin, well, they all have reasons to apologize, except for maybe Colin. Colin has no reason.

Colin's just caught in the middle of a situation he know nothing about. He just pawning game of life. Yeah. But, uh, I mean, I bought Marina's remorse. I think the situation is really harsh and she does seem to be at least a bit older, a bit more mature and certainly has, has lived, uh, uh, has been disillusioned to a lot of the aspects of life that, you know, certainly Penn and Colin haven't had as much direct experience with. So, like, I don't know.

I sympathize with that whole situation ugly, though it got at many a point. And, you know, in ways you could argue that Penelope doing what she did, it was, like, massively messed up to reveal, you know, such a fragile situation. Yeah, definitely. But at the same time, I don't know, like, it pushed some pieces in the right directions, or at least ultimately turned out-ish kind of with the truth on the table, so I guess that's good.

Yeah, I would agree with you. It was nuanced, and certainly as all the stuff came to light and as all the kind of things wrapped up, I believed in Marina's remorse. All right, good stuff. Carebear, Gis, Pen's lady, are you shooketh?

Yes. Penn's true identity impacts every moment of the season. Rumors about DAF, remarks about queer, at the Wisconsin search and Marina's big reveal. Q, how does knowing Lady W's identity affect your view of these past events? Are you still Team Penn? Let me make one thing crystal clear.

Nothing can stop me from being Team Penn. She can lie in all them, Lady Whistled. She could slander and make shit up just to get views. and I would still be Penelope team, Greg, on Penelope. Absolutely. I come back with the knuckle tats. No matter what, even if I was lying to you guys, the words out of my mouth are going to be team Penelope. Just like a certain president's administration, you're never going to hear me concede to anything else.

Yeah, hard, hard commit. Hard commit, man. One million percent. How does it affect the past events? Well, it only affects it by logistics, right? Like just trying to understand. Because when I was, when we were here going, if she's,

the only reason I thought I doubted it in the final episode was because I was like, well, she was just crying about this calling thing. And now she's just in a carriage hooded. Looking at us all cheeky and omnipotent. When she went to the printer, you know, like how did she, how'd that happen? Even Eloise had a hard time just leaving. So she just took a carriage.

Like, would she have to have gone home first and then snuck out and then took a carriage? What hard logistics? Or did she leave directly from there with a carriage, with her family never being like, where'd you go? You just left the party. And because there's a new whistle down, does she had another printers lined up? Does she have a backup printer? She has a contingency plan?

That's a good point. I don't know exactly. Yeah, that's true. Time there was, but it's fascinating. Yeah, I think the true... You think the queen could just have someone there. I think, well, the printer. The thing that a little bit bugged me was they were like,

oh, yeah, we figured it out. You know, they drop off at a certain printer, and we're going to move in. And I'm like, I feel like you could just camp. out at the printer and taking care of this, the first time you discovered this information. Just one guy. All it takes, we're just going to storm the gates.

We're going to stake out. With this one dude. We are going to confirm our knowledge, and then we're going to wait a while, and then we're going to snatcher of. This one dude on foot has no shot. It just seemed like they could have, if they discovered that this was happening,

I guess I feel like they could have just done something about it right there. I thought it was going to be like an ambush of people. I thought it would be like several people, a couple of horseback. just one guy like, oh shit, well now she's gone. Walking up on foot. Now the carriage is going. I can't run up to two horses.

It's too much. It's two whole horse power. I only one man power. I told the queen, I'm only one guy who, with two feet. I can't do this. So, yeah, I think it was a little convenient. Yeah, I would say that Lady W's identity mostly just affects logistics. I mean, yeah, the brief-

about one moment. The Marina stuff is messed up a little bit. Again, still chewing on that because again, the truth did out. So, okay. Well, yeah, no, I mean, that was a conversation that we had in the last episode, though, of how, like, messed up that would actually be. But again, Team Penn all the way. Team Penn all the way.

Outer. Well, it does. Her fucking life, if you have to, Penelope on my yourself. Having her B whistle down is a fascinating thing. And I am actually kind of going to reserve my feeling on this till the next season, I guess, because like pens just her personality and the way she appears

is very different from Lady Whistledown so now I have to add in and assimilate this like much more sort of again omnipotent, not conniving but very like clever and and you know machinating character along with this

super sweet super dear you know bright eyed character so you know interesting like it's she's a great character to hide this twist in and now I'm curious as to like how I'll feel about like the actual human they portray us I mean people have different sides of themselves

and she's able to embody a character through the word of Whistledown And it's like you know you can wonder how like Oh maybe her friendship with Eloise You know has been part of this like you know They seem so close And they must have been for a while So like I don't know maybe partly to do

With Eloise's you know Academic pursuits and things like that Maybe that's rubbed off on Penn I think it's interesting The Sybis Penelope lady whistle down in the book she is okay in the book she is revealed in the fourth book

wow but that's my point of why I was like it's smart to reveal it now because people would have spoiled it yeah totally that makes sense and you have yeah it's all here in one day so if you care enough you can binge it you know yeah word would have a spread it would have been spoiled it's and then you can't have it

like a big surprise then yeah four seasons in yeah it makes me want to go back and just look at all the moments and see no man I'm all for it. Like one of those twists where it's like there is split personality the whole time. And you're like, well, shit, now I've got to rewatch the movie and see if this works mechanically. It never does.

It never does. Except for a movie. No. It's not a single movie where it does. No. It's question scenes. Yeah. No one question why they looked weird and they still followed Tyler Durdon.

This guy's clearly nuts by when he's fighting himself. I follow him anywhere. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. This guy's crazy, but he just seems so convinced of what he's saying that I just have to follow. He's just so assured. Yeah, I'll reserve... I got to see.

I got to see if I'm going to be Team Penn going forward or not. I mean, it's fun. Always Team Pet. She can mouth off to the Queen. That's pretty sick. Team Penn all the way. Rita John. Patricia Carrillo.

Thank you for chiming in. Music plays a fun part of the series using classical sound. versions of modern songs and can play with the emotion of a scene was there a song usage that you remember liking this season you got that taylor swift needle drop on the last one yeah dude i don't remember any of them i all i remember is me guessing it in the middle i mean i'll remember is in the first episode i was making a joke that hey what if they do this and you were making it and then you were like how that would be funny And I made this joke while they were doing it.

And neither of us realized that they were already doing it while they were. And they were like, were they being sarcastic? And I'm like, no, I was not being sarcastic. Because then a song came up later that we record. I was like, oh, they're actually doing the thing. But we were saying that while they were already, they're literally doing it while we were saying it. Yeah. And so I don't remember what the songs.

I remember what any of the songs are. It was the Taylor Swift one that, God, they did Wilders Dreams. I don't even remember. It was in the rain scene. I didn't fucking clock that. In these last two episodes, I was sitting there going, I wonder if these are more, if A, some of them are more subtle, because it feels like some of the earlier ones, the music would go forward in the mix a little bit when it was a needle drop.

They did bad guy. They definitely did bad guy. I remember that. And that's probably the one just because I was like. I remember that. Not Cock Wilders Dreams. Oh, I feel stupid for that. I was so caught up in the rain.

Yeah. I mean, bad guy is the song out of all of these ones listed here anyway that I'm most equipped to clock because the rest of them I'm like, oh, I might recognize that melody, but these aren't really songs I know super well. So, I mean, you know, I'm curious moving forward if they'll go over my head or not. They should do turn down for what? My lady whistens that reveals herself to the public. Yeah, she's twerking. Get a Daniels directed episode of Richardson. Let's go.

I do wonder if I'll be just as emotional towards Penelope, though, now that I know she's whistled out. Because that was, like, hyper-emotional towards her whenever she was on screen. Well, that's the thing is, like, because now she's, like, way less unassuming than I ever expected. Now I'm like, oh, you're cunning. That's the word I was looking for. You're cunning, you know?

And you're, like, beyond your years, which is fascinating. But I'm also like, I don't know if I could just look at you as the same, that's my main, wide-eyed kid. Doesn't matter. Team fan for life. Team Pen for life, man. Get those knuckles. I don't care what she does.

Yeah, man. I'm also Team Sean Penn. Yes. Team Penn Badgley. Team Penn and Teller. I'm team Penns in general. Team Pennzy Spices. I just like pens.

Yeah. Yeah. Never bring me a pencil. Team Penn. Team Penn Dentury. Yeah. Team Penn at all. No pastures for me. Only keep my animals in a pen.

Jay Rushden, always the deep ones. Woo! What cat or dog would you want as a royal pet mascot? Heathcliff, the cat. Ooh. Wearing the ham helmet. Or a garbage ape. The dead dog from Arlemy.

Cujo. Yeah, Cujo would be fun. Yeah. I've heard that movie is no fun. Why? Because it's just unpleasant. What do you mean? Why?

I don't know. Everyone I've heard watch it as like, there's no value to watching Cujo. is ugly and unpleasant I don't know man even people I know who like ugly art are like I don't know Kujo is kind of unpleasant just kind of an evil dog

as a vegetarian I think I would really enjoy Kujo you should yeah the evil dog who will the good dog most likely who fights back the evil humans yeah I take it back

Kujo's the hero yeah all right well that was a fun season to television I had a great time sorted. It was scandalous. It was scandalous. It was moving. And now I know I want to be rich.

Definitely. The lesson I got. Guys, what would you do with $2 billion? Leave it in the comments below. Would you give it all the way, you freaking liar? Or would you spend it on yourself? What would you do with that money? How many McDonald's hamburgers would you buy?

Leave it in the comments below. Do the math. All right. John, any phone works? I love you all. We'll see you next season at the ton. I'm gonna use that. I know, that's what it's actually for.