Bridgerton S2:EP3…The Back Story We’ve Been Waiting For

[SPOILER ALERT, PROCEED WITH CAUTION]

When it comes to being the oldest child, you are given a unique responsibility. A responsibility to uphold your family’s reputation, respect, and honor. You are meant to be the example to follow. However, it cannot go without saying that the responsibility can become crippling over time.

Both Kate Sharma and Anthony Bridgerton are sharing the unique responsibility of being the oldest child in their families. However, the feelings they refuse to voice to each other are making it harder and harder to uphold that responsibility.

Kate has the honor of watching her beautiful sister find the love of her life during this new season, and Anthony is granted Lord Viscount – giving him the authority to make the decisions for his family. However, both share a common burden.

Although Kate Sharma is happy for her sister, her overprotective nature has become an issue. When this overprotective side is accompanied by her subtle fancy for Anthony Bridgerton, she quickly pulls herself back together.

On the other hand, Anthony Bridgerton’s past is beginning to boil to the surface — some could even argue is starting to overflow. As the audience, we are granted a look into Anthony Bridgerton and his mother’s – Lady Violet Bridgerton (Ruth Gemmell) – relationship…10 years prior.

This storyline is a deeply emotional and heart-aching insight into the Bridgerton family. More specifically into what happened to Lord Edmund Bridgerton — a character who has been briefly mentioned in season 1, but has never been explored. Ruth Gemmel’s performance provides an accurate depiction of grief and sorrow when someone endures the loss of a loved one. When accompanied by Jonathan Bailey’s performance, the moment cannot do anything else but leave you in tears…and never wanting to get stung by a bee again.

It cannot go without mentioning that the Featheringtons have their own problems they are trying to solve…or should I say failing to solve, and Lady Whistldown seems to be…making some friends?

If I have learned anything from this episode it is this: stay away from bees, mothers know and hear all, Pall-Mall is a game we all need to play, and if you are proposing to someone in any other name but the name of love you are not proposing to them for the right reason.

I will be on LIVE once again at 8:00 PM MST. Join me on my Instagram for another episode of Bridgerton Season 2! What Episode 4 has in store is a mystery, but I’m sure Lady Danbury knows already.

Favorite Character: Anthony Bridgerton

Favorite Quote

“…because a ladies business is her own,”

Genevieve Delacroix (The Mostie played by Kathryn Drysdale)