The Reel Rejects - BRIDGERTON SEASON 1 EPISODES 1 & 2 REVIEW – WE DIDN'T EXPECT TO GET THIS INVESTED!!

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Starting point is 00:01:56 All right, guys, we watched episode one and two of Bridgerton, the bridge. The bridge between tons. Prepper. I want to say good job, but I ain't this down. The fact that it's public on YouTube means you did a good job. You guys are very high class. Very high class. Very posh.

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Starting point is 00:03:00 we should have a bridge or tea a little out of it today we should have a real rejects Bridgeton t uh that was fun that was very fun that was fun dizzying but fun got better it kept going better as it went

Starting point is 00:03:13 yeah agree which is fascinating because like there's a little bit of a jump in the like they both both episodes look good obviously the production values are great but yeah it's weird like in the age of was it an actual pilot or was it straight to series like I thought this was always on Netflix

Starting point is 00:03:32 so I'm surprised yeah that there would be any kind of of a jump between I guess maybe you must have to still do a pilot or something like it's weird yeah it makes me wonder how Netflix does things because it did feel like there was one version of the style in the pilot and then episode two built on that and like did some new things to it that made it look a little different it wasn't like stark wasn't like whoa what this looks like entirely different show but it did feel like it found like a solid new rhythm in the second episode it felt like they made some more specific visual choices in the second episode. Definitely. Definitely. Yeah, I know. It's a fun world of gossip and intrigue, as John called it during,

Starting point is 00:04:16 polite Game of Thrones. Really fun way to put it. Yeah. Does a great job with the dialogue of doing this type of elegant Victorian language that I can now keep up with because I read Frankenstein. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:35 Yeah, he got there. They said countenance. And I was like, I know that word, been abused in a little Mary Shelley book. I looked that up recently. I know what that word is. Yeah. No, hey, the more you spend time with this language, the more your brain attenuates. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:52 But it also, unlike Frankenstein, where I'm like, what the hell is she saying? I was able, for the most, I thought of a couple of sarcastic groups. It was very easy to, like, actually keep up with, uh, in a way that I, I think, think is like a good blend of feeling like true period piece but also very modern at the same time it's a good marriage of both like you have to strike that balance if it feels too modern there's actually a disconnect if it feels too period piece there's another different kind of disconnect so they have to find that right bridge where you can digest the drama and that's what i love it's like it's a drama it's a romantic drama and the story is about drama like it's a drama about drama and

Starting point is 00:05:34 it makes it really fun it's like it's like a fun story where this is like their biggest problems you know this is their biggest problems well it's like it's like what about what else in society in the streets you're walking you know but this is their problem but because you're focused on their problems and how at stake everything is but especially for the woman like a daphne oh yeah that's hard they know i know like their wealth to do and whatever but that that's a hard position to be in where you do feel like you are trying not to just be property, you know? Well, yeah, it's like real problems are begat from this completely imaginary world that all the people on this plane of society live on.

Starting point is 00:06:17 It's like, you know, that one scene when you're in the city streets where they're spreading the gossip, you know, that feels like where real problems must be happening. Yeah. You know, at a different show. Whereas here, like, yeah, there are real problems, but they're all sort of ironically born of this world of imagined up cotillions and rules and polite society standards and yeah these like rituals that we do and everyone yeah it's like once you come of age you're debuted to the marriage market literally

Starting point is 00:06:48 and then you have to do this ritual of you know in front of everybody courting people and finding suitors and you know demonstrating your relationship as an image to everyone. Well, at the same time, yeah, like, as we're talking about it, you know, it's really easy to just go through like the classism side of being like, this is rich people problems. However, what it does show is that there's a cost at that, which is like while you're able to buy more stuff via through money materialistic-wise, not everyone here where we're following is rich. And with being upper class, there's also a lack of freedom and choice when it comes to to love.

Starting point is 00:07:30 Yeah. And just being able to be yourself. So much of life is keeping up appearances. Yeah. And reinforcing the way things work. Constant veneer to how they live their lifestyle. And with that comes a lot of like repression and stuff. So it's like that it's interesting to take the look of,

Starting point is 00:07:50 look how polished and beautiful and everything is and what they have at their disposal. Yet there's so much unhappiness. Yeah. that's actually laced throughout it all, you know? Yeah, it's like you're imprisoned by this luxury. It's like all this stuff that you're promised in return for a betrothal or whatever.

Starting point is 00:08:09 It becomes kind of this big, not to be overdramatic about it, but it can be confining. John, we're watching Bridgeton. It can be a prison of opulence. Because, yeah, you're in this. The overdromat. I'm looking at all these mom and the daughters

Starting point is 00:08:23 and you're just all hanging out at home and you're just like, I don't know, fuck, I guess I'll cross-stitch or learn to play. play the piano. What do we even do until we're 18 and then we got to go date all the time until we get married and then after we get married we tend the house and have the kids

Starting point is 00:08:36 and we order around the nanny staff and the housekeepers and whatnot. And so yeah, it's like, yeah, there's so much opulence and, you know, they're gorgeous cakes and bowls and dances and we know this name. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:52 We know this name. Reggie Jean-Hade. I fucking know this guy. I know from. on, come on. Jesus, this is like buggy me so much, and I have not been able to place it. Yeah, yeah. He's in Dungeons and Dragons. Oh, I haven't seen it.

Starting point is 00:09:08 I've seen it. Oh, he's a Grey Man. Corey's favorite movie. He wasn't a Netflix movie. Was he an American guy? Scroll down, is he anything else? He must have been an American guy. Mortal Engines. Okay. I haven't seen anything else. This guy's done. All right. All right. Yeah. For sure, we've reacted to the Grey Man.

Starting point is 00:09:27 I want to see Dungeons and Dragons. Of course he's in Dungeons and Dr. Oh, and he was in a couple episodes, Samman. I saw the first episode, so, like, a million years ago. Maybe he was in that. But yeah, he's definitely in the Grey Man. I don't really remember him in the Grey Man. Call Coy, he could tell him.

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Starting point is 00:12:00 But when they pulled back his backstory, it did make him very compelling. It was like the first episode. I was like, okay, I get the archetype and he's like charming and good looking. But when they did do his backstory in the second episode, I was like, oh, yeah. And then also illustrating the relationship he has with. Lady Not his mom. Lady. Lady Bridgeton.

Starting point is 00:12:26 No, no, no. The lady who's like looking after him. Oh, do we decide to decide she's grandmamma? I don't think she is. She's lady something or another. She's lady. Is she a grandma? Danbury?

Starting point is 00:12:38 I thought she was just like someone there. Let's just pull up the list so we can get the name. We're going to have to start coming. All right, all right. Don't look. Don't look. I'll just look up, you know, honestly. Bridgeton episode one.

Starting point is 00:12:51 IMDB and then we won't get any spoilers. Diamond of the first water. What a name of an episode that was to. This is a good cast though generally. Joa Amdo is the actress's name. Lady Agatha Danbury. What is Lady Agatha Danbury relationship to Simon? Is she grandma?

Starting point is 00:13:15 Is she grand? No. No. She's in the winter. She's just a mentor protector, a powerful guardian aunt. Think of her more of like a powerful guardian and a godmother energy. But how is she involved in the family? How is she involved in the...

Starting point is 00:13:33 I don't want to look it up. I'm afraid of look it up. That is one thing. I mean, like, this... Coming into this show has been very fun, and it's also, like, kind of a... It's very still... What am I trying to say?

Starting point is 00:13:45 It's based on a book series, right? So, like, it maintains a level of, like, literary... feeling to it like i'm not the best red person in the world but you know it feels like you're dipping into like a jane austin world of some kind and and like that being the case there is like kind of a rhythm and a quick pace and stuff is flying at you and and it's partly you know it's a different cadence and you know to type of language generally but also like it doesn't move that's very different and yeah it's like you know the the the speed of the gossip is both fun and dizzying but also you have to go like okay okay you're gonna make

Starting point is 00:14:20 sure I keep up with people's names and people's statuses and and you know where the family lineages collide and yeah stuff like that so so as like the first couple episodes and watching them on camera you you know it is kind of a humbling experience because you're like you know this this is a show that like makes me feel like I got to be a little smarter yeah there's a lot of things you got to commit to memory a lot of different names but they're pretty good at like cutting around and stuff that's what I mean they did they do a pretty good job at acknowledging where the audience might have a hard time keeping up yeah Because there's no way this show could be as famous as it is

Starting point is 00:14:52 if it was truly difficult to follow. Yeah, and I think part of the point is to get a little dizzy in it all. You know? Yeah, definitely. Yeah, you still get all, like, the most important bits and pieces. She's done some doctor here. The music is really great. Yeah, and nice with, like, the occasional

Starting point is 00:15:09 recontextualized needle drops. The vitamin string quartet, man. Always coming in a clutch. Getting their respect, getting their flowers, getting their very orange. bunches of flowers. Season two is penitonics. That's right.

Starting point is 00:15:24 It'll be all everyone's doing Acapella now. But yeah, like as this kind of drama from episode one to episode two, I did find myself getting more, you know, increasingly pulled in and sort of intoxicated

Starting point is 00:15:40 on the gossip girl quality that this has. I haven't seen a ton of gossip girl, but I hadn't expected that was part of this is that there's this, I forget what the first episode labeled it as this gossip rag for lack of whatever better term they put in here I think this is like a thing that must

Starting point is 00:15:58 have existed but you never think about or I haven't really thought about and yeah to have part of this be that there's some unknown character who's apparently omnipotent and sort of is privy to all of it and is yeah saying the things we can't say in polite society that you know

Starting point is 00:16:14 everyone at this level is dedicated to and yet everyone kind of knows as a lie I really think it's the question it very well could be the queen like I don't know there are a lot of good guesses that I think the queen is not a bad one because especially the queen would know everything well who else would know everything and two

Starting point is 00:16:30 she's sitting here like man this isn't good enough this is drawn like you know I don't know I so bored I can see why she would be bored enough to just want that anyway but the part of part of me then goes well if she's writing this stuff though she wants to have some stuff that inspires the writing makes it feels you know gives it some pizzazz yeah so you know she's got

Starting point is 00:16:46 sometimes with her ability want to tip the scales of the narrative. And that this question becomes, is that just her way of playing into or is she actually lady whistle down? I think I'm going to rewatch the gray man. Yeah, it's Koi's favorite movie.

Starting point is 00:17:01 This trailer's been playing on screen since we looked up the guy who plays in Sybenton. Like, oh, dang, I don't remember this movie looking this cool. Well, get ready. He's even credited in the trailer. It's going to look a lot more brown

Starting point is 00:17:15 when you watch it for real. That's true. A lot more brown and gray. Well, yeah. Yeah, and who's the guy who's starring in all these movies? Oh, all these movies? In Jurassic World and Wicked. Oh, Jonathan Bailey, he's good.

Starting point is 00:17:30 We like Jonathan Bailey with his slutty little sideburns now. Jonathan Bailey is Lord Anthony. I like him, you know? Not all of his choices, obviously, but, you know, I feel his struggle to, like, in a lot of ways he is in the position where it's like, you're a man of the house now. And yet he's still in a convincing way as, like, trying to live up to that. also isn't quite at that level of maturity. Yeah. I think the, you know, repartee between him and, uh, and, uh, you know, Lady Bridgett is really nice. It's kind of crazy because the, this show feels like a week to week.

Starting point is 00:18:05 Yeah. It's so thick in every episode, the two episodes we've seen, like so much happens. Yeah. That it doesn't feel like a show that was designed to be binged. Yeah. It actually does, it feels constructed like each episode. episode is a solid chapter. A dignified one cake at a time. Well, hopefully it remains that way because that's qualitative writing.

Starting point is 00:18:28 But yeah, I hear like the show really accelerates come season two. Okay. But yeah, man, we got a few more episodes to go. Then we'll give a more lengthy review reviewing the season. But yeah, the character plays Luis, very modern and appropriate.

Starting point is 00:18:43 She seems like she's going to be the eyeline for the thing evolving out of, like she's a person like out of time in a way, you know? reminds me of like a little women character or something where yeah she's like i i want to go out into the world and explore i don't want to deal with any of this i want to you know indulge my mind and grow my own you know intellect and yada yada which i think is which is like a kind of character that is very of the now but also is very of the then too so like i like i hope we get more of that journey uh friggin nigel sucked and i'm glad we're done with him that was a good good machination way to

Starting point is 00:19:17 handle things man yeah yeah you can slander too intentionally. I like how it shows how so much of this is just about controlling the narrative. But yeah, guys, thank you so much for being here. Thanks for watching with us. And really enjoy the hell out. That was fun.

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The Reel Rejects - BRIDGERTON SEASON 1 EPISODES 1 & 2 REVIEW – WE DIDN'T EXPECT TO GET THIS INVESTED!!

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