{"id":31314,"date":"2024-06-13T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/what-to-know-before-bridgerton-season-3-part-2\/13\/06\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:49:00","slug":"what-to-know-before-bridgerton-season-3-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/what-to-know-before-bridgerton-season-3-part-2\/13\/06\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Know Before \u2018Bridgerton\u2019 Season 3, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The first half of \u201cBridgerton\u201d Season 3 left viewers on a cliffhanger \u2014 and a little hot and bothered \u2014 with Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington finally giving in to their desires in the very climactic Carriage Scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With that will they\/won&#8217;t they out of the way, plenty of questions still remain. Will Penelope and Colin actually get married? Will Eloise spill Penelope\u2019s big secret? Can Lady Whistledown continue to hide her true identity? With the second half of Season 3 upon us, here\u2019s a quick refresher on where things stand in Netflix\u2019s version of Regency-era London.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2ecd75b6\">Colin and Penelope\u2019s Flirtation<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Because the series more or less follows the plot of the novels, many fans knew that a Colin-Penelope (Polin, if you\u2019re on BridgertonTok and have listened to \u201cEspresso\u201d by Sabrina Carpenter too many times) romance was in the works from the beginning. Throughout the first two seasons of the show, Colin and Penelope were relatively close friends connected by Eloise Bridgerton, Colin\u2019s sister and Penelope\u2019s bestie. In the \u201cBridgerton\u201d universe, where the separation of unmarried men and women is mandated, the familial tie gave them occasion to interact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the end of Season 2, Penelope overheard Colin telling his friends he \u201cwould never dream of courting\u201d her. When Season 3 picked up, we learned that Colin traveled around Europe by himself during the summer and that he wrote letters to Penelope \u2014 a tradition they had maintained since Season 1 \u2014 but that she didn\u2019t respond. When Colin confronted her about the letters, she told him she had overheard his insult.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-40e9e0e5\">Penelope\u2019s New Groove<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Preparing for courting season, Penelope underwent a makeover moment, the so-called <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/14\/arts\/television\/bridgerton-glow-up-season-three.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cBridgerton glow-up,\u201d<\/a> changing her hair and clothing in the hopes of landing a marriage proposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an attempt to repair their friendship, Colin offered to teach Penelope how to flirt. To nobody\u2019s surprise, Colin become attracted to Penelope \u2014 but he wasn\u2019t the only one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Colin found out that Penelope might get a marriage proposal from Lord Debling (Sam Phillips), he chased after her.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-6d4dd63d\">That Carriage Scene<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The last scene of the fourth episode, the final one before the show\u2019s break, finally exploded the sexual tension between Colin and Penelope. Though it took place in a carriage, it didn\u2019t match <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">the <\/em>carriage scene from the book, so there is likely more steaminess ahead in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Colin and Penelope got into some shenanigans that helped earn the show its TV-MA rating, he finally proposed marriage. When the carriage abruptly stopped at Colin\u2019s house, he asked her to come in with him. She declined, because his family might see them, to which he responded, \u201cfor God\u2019s sake, Penelope Featherington, are you going to marry me or not?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As we know from past seasons, marriage is often only the first step of a relationship in the Regency era, so the Polin love story is really only just beginning.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-1e12844b\">Lady Whistledown Fallout<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lady Whistledown, voiced by Julie Andrews, has been the show\u2019s constant, the all-knowing narrator tying together story lines. The character started off as a sort of Regency-era \u201cGossip Girl,\u201d a mysterious writer who pens a pamphlet detailing society happenings under a nom de plume. Her identity remained unknown until Eloise Bridgerton (Claudia Jessie) figured it out in Season 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That season began with Eloise, then Penelope\u2019s best friend, seeking out Lady Whistledown, based on their shared distaste of high society norms. Separately, Queen Charlotte also sought to uncover Whistledown\u2019s identity and, after spotting Eloise near the print shop, suspected she might have solved the mystery. Attempting to clear Eloise, Whistledown (a.k.a. Penelope) revealed that Eloise had been going to political rallies, a besmirching of the Bridgerton name that Eloise surely wouldn\u2019t have publicized if she were the real Whistledown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Penelope\u2019s disclosure backfired. In the last episode of Season 2, Eloise discovered that Penelope was Whistledown and ended their friendship. The shunning continued into the third season, even as Eloise\u2019s brother got very involved in Penelope\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-b30f02b\">What\u2019s Next?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Because it is a love story, we know that Colin and Penelope will end up together, so the real question is: how?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The other big question: How is Colin going to react when he finds out that Penelope is Lady Whistledown? We know that Colin does <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">not <\/em>like Whistledown and has made it his mission to figure out her true identity, so clearly there are some hurdles to Polin\u2019s happy ending. Also, now that Penelope is about to become a Bridgerton, will she mend her relationship with her soon-to-be sister-in-law Eloise?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/12\/arts\/television\/bridgerton-season-three-part-two.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first half of &ldquo;Bridgerton&rdquo; Season 3 left viewers on a cliffhanger &mdash; and a little hot and bothered &mdash; with Colin<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/what-to-know-before-bridgerton-season-3-part-2\/13\/06\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}