- 9 hours ago
- #bridgertonseason4
watch Bridgerton: Season 4 romantic webseries 2026
#BridgertonSeason4
#BridgertonSeason4webseries
#BridgertonSeason4fullepisodes
#BridgertonSeason4ondailymotion
#BridgertonSeason4
#BridgertonSeason4webseries
#BridgertonSeason4fullepisodes
#BridgertonSeason4ondailymotion
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00Hey guys, welcome to my channel. I hope you're all doing very well.
00:03So, I just watched Bridgerton Season 4 Part 2. Let's talk about it.
00:13So yes, Bridgerton Season 4 has returned, finally, for the second half of Benedict and Sophie's love story.
00:22And even though I am really annoyed at Netflix for forcing us to wait several weeks to get the second
00:29half of an eight-episode season,
00:32ultimately, I do come bear in good news because I do think that the second half of Season 4 was
00:38absolutely worth the wait.
00:41So, I'm going to be diving into my thoughts on all of the juicy and also emotional stuff that happened
00:48in the second half of this season,
00:49as well as giving you guys my overall thoughts on Season 4 overall.
00:53So, if that sounds fun to you guys, then of course, stay tuned.
00:56And if you haven't already, please be sure to subscribe to my channel and make sure you turn on your
01:01notifications so that you can be told when I upload next.
01:04But now, without further ado, guys, let's get into the Bridgerton mess.
01:10So, most of you guys will probably already know this, but in case you don't, I've already done a review
01:15of Season 4 Part 1,
01:17which you can check out on my channel right now.
01:19As well as my reviews for all of the seasons of Bridgerton, including spinoffs, that are also available on my
01:27channel.
01:28But now, let's get into the second half of this latest season, starting off with my thoughts on Benedict and
01:34Sophie's love story.
01:36Because where we left off at the end of Part 1 was crazy.
01:41When we left off, Benedict and Sophie were getting hot and heavy in the stairwell of the servants' quarters of
01:49the Bridgerton household,
01:50only for Benedict to cut things off with a nice, neat bow, asking Sophie to be his mistress.
01:58Like the maniac that he is.
02:00Like the maniac that he is.
02:02And Sophie was left speechless.
02:04Because how dare Benedict ask her to be his mistress.
02:09And at that point, he hadn't quite understood the implications of this for Sophie.
02:14And that's something that is expanded upon in the second half of this season.
02:18And I think this was actually handled very well.
02:20This exploration of the socio-cultural implications of having a mistress, both from Benedict and Sophie's perspectives.
02:30And this acknowledgement that there is no equality in this sort of arrangement.
02:36Because whilst they might be mad in love, they're still existing in a patriarchal society with a capital S.
02:43And so Sophie would bear the brunt of all of the consequences should this thing fall apart.
02:50As we saw in the case of one of Benedict's friends, who also had a mistress.
02:56And he was all lovey-dovey at first.
02:58But then when it was revealed to the rest of the ton, or rather confirmed by Lady Whistledown,
03:03that all fell apart and the poor mistress was left completely destitute and empty-handed.
03:09So Sophie is very much aware of all of this.
03:12Yes, she's street-savvy.
03:14Because she has to be.
03:15She's been a maid her whole life.
03:17And she's very conscious of her own background and upbringing.
03:20And so she is more aware than Benedict, who has his head in the clouds.
03:25We've seen for several seasons, my guy does not have his feet on the ground.
03:30His head is in the clouds.
03:31And he's never had to think of these kinds of things.
03:34So despite the fact that he has been surrounded by, you know, his fellow gentlemen who have taken mistresses,
03:40he's never really had to consider the implications of that for himself, but also for the women involved.
03:47But in the second half of this season, when Benedict finds himself sick to death with love,
03:52that's all he can think about.
03:54All he can think about is Sophie trying to figure out a way to get her in his life,
03:59despite the fact that she's a maid.
04:00She's of low social standing.
04:02And so it would be completely scandalous and unacceptable to the ton for him to take her as his wife.
04:09And so he is tossing and turning at night.
04:12He's unable to sleep, unable to eat, unable to think about anything other than Sophie and how he can make
04:18this work.
04:19And the conclusion that he's come to of making her his mistress is not the way.
04:23It's literally not the way.
04:24And that becomes clear very quickly.
04:26And so he starts developing plan B, plan C.
04:29Like, he's like, okay, let's make this work.
04:31We have my cottage, which can turn into our cottage.
04:34And we can move away into the country and just to never be seen again, basically.
04:39Just to disappear into the abyss because I could literally never go back to my family again
04:43because that could implicate my younger siblings in particular who would become, like, social pariahs.
04:49And so he is thinking of all of this.
04:52He is thinking of all of this.
04:54And I am sitting there gasping.
04:56I am sitting here on the sofa, like, completely sweating, gasping, throwing up.
05:01Because this is the first time in a Bridgerton series that we've had to deal with, like, somewhat real social
05:08issues on the show.
05:11Like, this is the first time that we've really had to dig ourselves out of a huge ditch that is
05:15created by the rules of the town.
05:18And so I found this really intriguing and also stressful as hell.
05:21Stressful as hell because, as many of you guys know, I haven't read the books.
05:25And so I had no idea how they were going to dig themselves out of this hole.
05:29But I found myself having a grand old time going along this journey.
05:33And what's even better is that the outcome ended up being incredible.
05:39Like, they actually managed to stick the landing, both in terms of concept but also execution.
05:45So this whole storyline and this whole exploration of the rules of the town, which is something that Benedict has
05:53always come up against, actually, in hindsight, across previous seasons as well.
05:58But it all came to a head in the second half of the season in particular.
06:02And I think they did an exceptional job executing this.
06:07And on top of the intrigue and the exploration of these written and unwritten cultural rules, which is already quite
06:14interesting,
06:15another thing that really amps this up is the fact that for the first time, pretty much, in Bridgerton,
06:22we have a very real problem that isn't just, you know, the pair being filled with angst and lust
06:30and creating a bigger problem for themselves that actually needs to exist.
06:34Like, for instance, as much as I love and adore Canthony, do not get it twisted.
06:39Do not get it twisted, okay?
06:41They are still my primo pair.
06:43But in reality, they were the ones getting their knickers in a twist.
06:46Like, there were no rules or regulations or laws stopping them from being together.
06:52They were just being too hard-headed and butting heads with each other.
06:56And so that was the nature and that was the real struggle of their relationship.
07:01And sure, it created a love triangle, but ultimately, that was unnecessary.
07:05They couldn't have just ended up together.
07:06A similar thing with Daphne and her duke.
07:09You know, Simon didn't want to get married, but there was nothing stopping him from being with Daphne.
07:14But in the case of Sophie and Benedict, it's like an actual issue.
07:19Like, we all have to come together in a conference, as the Bridgertons did, to try and figure this one
07:24out.
07:24And Mama Bridgerton, Violet, we'll talk about Violet, we'll talk about Violet.
07:28But she was really sitting down.
07:30She was going through the records.
07:31She was opening up the Magna Carta.
07:33She was trying to figure out how Sophie could be incorporated into her family.
07:38Because she saw how much her son had fallen in love with her.
07:42How much she was obsessed with her and adored her.
07:45And so she really wanted to make it work for her child.
07:48So even she got involved.
07:50But what I'm saying is that this is the first couple on Bridgerton that really had to fight against, like,
07:56physical, tangible odds.
07:59Not odds that were made up in their minds because of angst and because they didn't feel like they deserved
08:03each other or other sort of abstract ideas.
08:06But no, like, real, real odds that stopped them from being together.
08:12And seeing them navigate through that was heartbreaking, stressful, but all the more satisfying when they came out the other
08:19end.
08:20And what made it so satisfying was, of course, because we bought into the relationship between Benedict and Sophie.
08:26And when it comes to the romantic chemistry between the two, I really came to buy into it.
08:30And especially during the My Cottage segment of the first half of season four, I loved those sequences.
08:38When they were alone in the country at My Cottage and you had the crab trees taking care of them,
08:45but also kind of keeping an eye on things.
08:47I really loved the interactions that they had there.
08:50And now having seen the whole season, it's all the more apparent that those scenes were crucial in giving us
08:56a really solid foundation for their relationship.
08:58Because they spend so much time apart in the second half of season four.
09:03You have this huge kind of class divide that is made apparent in most of their scenes.
09:08Where Sophie is working and she is, you know, doing high some tear and preparing her for balls and all
09:14sorts.
09:15And she's helping to clean and helping to stitch clothes up.
09:18Whereas Benedict is like lollygagging.
09:20Like he's doing absolutely nothing.
09:22Absolutely nothing.
09:23Which Sophie very hilariously points out when she tells him like, oh, you can go back to doing whatever.
09:29Gentlemen like you who have plenty of time on their hands do.
09:32But then of course we do get a couple more romantic scenes with them.
09:36A couple of the signature Bridgerton sex sequences.
09:39And all in all, I would have to say that the chemistry was definitely there.
09:44The romance was definitely there.
09:46They're still not quite my favourite couple.
09:48I'm not going to lie.
09:49They weren't able to unseat George and Charlotte and Kate and Anthony.
09:55But they were very solid.
09:56I would put them a notch above Penelope and Colin.
10:00Just because Colin got on my nerves so much in season three.
10:03So yeah, I would say that would be my ranking in this moment in time.
10:07But I might change my mind.
10:08Who knows?
10:08Which means, of course, I have to give a huge round of applause to Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha.
10:15Who both nailed their performances and realising the love story of Sophie and Benedict.
10:23Especially when it comes to Luke Thompson's performance in the second half of season four.
10:27He really put some actoring on his end for this part in particular.
10:32Now, I know it's become a signature of Bridgerton to have the Bridgerton lads, or the male love interests in
10:38general,
10:39just sobbing, begging, crying on their knees over these women, yearning.
10:45Literally just full of yearning, full of angst.
10:48Like, this is what we love to see.
10:49This is why we tune in.
10:50Like, this is what we want to see each and every season.
10:53And so it's become expected from the show.
10:56But what season four does, that's a little bit extra, that's a little bit unique to Benedict,
11:00is genuinely make him sad.
11:03Like, he's genuinely sad and upset.
11:05He cries.
11:06I can't remember, like, the other lads being as sad as Benedict was in the second half of this season.
11:13My boy really goes through it.
11:16Damn!
11:16And I love that.
11:17I love to see it.
11:19I was like, okay.
11:20Because it really distinguished his emotions and his reactions from the rest.
11:25And he's always been quite, like, sensitive.
11:27He's an artist.
11:28But he's also kind of lost and also kind of disheveled.
11:32And so it made sense for him to react differently.
11:35Not to mention the problems that he has with Sophie are, like, real problems.
11:40As I said, they're real world problems.
11:42We're going to magistrates.
11:43She's getting locked up.
11:45Like, she's in prison.
11:46He has real world problems.
11:48And so his reaction is even deeper.
11:51And from that, you just get a lot more sorrow.
11:53But also a lot of, like, anger and frustration, which he directs towards his mother at some point, which I
11:59didn't appreciate.
12:00Benedict's a damn.
12:01I didn't appreciate that whatsoever.
12:02But what I did find intriguing was just that difference in reaction.
12:07Now, on a final note, when it comes to Benedict and Sophie, we, of course, need to talk about that
12:11final episode where everything came together.
12:14And when Queen Charlotte laid her hand upon Sophie's chin and lifted her up and she said, you would have
12:22made a wonderful diamond or something of those sorts.
12:25And it just put the biggest smile on my face.
12:28But it was also kind of wistful and bittersweet.
12:32Because in reality, the only thing that stopped her from being the diamond of the season, which she deserved to
12:37be, was because of her social standing.
12:39Was because of her birth.
12:41And isn't that just heartbreaking?
12:43Isn't that just so goddamn unfair?
12:46But the Queen recognised that Sophie was a diamond.
12:50She shone so bright in that moment, even though I didn't love her dress in that scene.
12:53But she shone so bright.
12:55And it was such a beautiful moment.
12:58And we were also able to dispel any delusions of Benedict being the diamond of the season.
13:04That was crazy.
13:04Let's never do that again.
13:06Let's never do that again.
13:08But I just thought that was a wonderful moment that kind of brought everything together.
13:12Drew in all of those themes of the unwritten rules of the taunt.
13:17Getting the approval of the Queen, who was giggling the entire time.
13:20Because she knew.
13:21She knew that it was a load of BS.
13:23You have Alice telling her one thing.
13:25You have the Bridgerton family telling her another.
13:27She knows that they're lying.
13:29That she's a whole ass maid.
13:31Probably who's illegitimate.
13:33She's fully aware.
13:34But she's like, you know, this is the worst fun I've had in years.
13:37I want to go with it.
13:38I don't care.
13:39I'm going to go with it.
13:40Do what you will.
13:40I'm still getting my money from Lady Whistledown over there.
13:43So do what you will.
13:45I had a good time with this.
13:46And she, to be fair, would have made a wonderful diamond anyways.
13:50So what a way to wrap things up.
13:53Round of applause.
13:55Exceptional ending.
13:56Or so I thought.
13:57Or so I thought.
13:57Because come to find out there's a whole wedding sequence that takes place after the credits.
14:04Guys, I missed it.
14:05I missed it upon my first watch.
14:07I had no idea that there was a wedding sequence at the end.
14:10It was only when I went on social media.
14:12And I started seeing people posting pictures of Sophie in a wedding dress.
14:16And I said, is this AI?
14:17Because these days, you can never know.
14:19You can never tell.
14:20Or so I was like, is this AI?
14:22What's going on?
14:23What's happening right now?
14:24And then I went back and I noticed that there was a whole 10 minutes left of the episode.
14:28I had assumed it was just Netflix's typical subtitles.
14:31And, you know, voice acting credits that come up and take forever.
14:35But no.
14:36Turns out there's a whole Marvel-esque end credit sequence.
14:40That reveals Benedict and Sophie's wedding day.
14:43And it was amazing.
14:44It was absolutely beautiful.
14:47I believe it took place at my cottage.
14:49Or our cottage.
14:51Our cottage.
14:52I think that was the building, right?
14:54And also seeing everyone that Sophie cares about and loves in her life.
15:00Including Posey.
15:01But also her fellow, like, servant friends.
15:04And then she even had Alfie walking her down the aisle.
15:08Oh, stop it.
15:09Stop it.
15:10I...
15:10That might have been my favourite wedding of this whole series.
15:14That might have been my favourite wedding.
15:15And they almost hid it from me.
15:17They almost hid it from me.
15:19Why?
15:19Because someone over on Netflix, Shondaland HQ, decided to turn this into a Marvel series for no goddamn reason.
15:26And then at the very, very end, you even get that final shot of the portrait of Sophie in her
15:34beautiful silver gown.
15:36The mysterious lady in silver.
15:38Except the mask is off.
15:39Her face has been revealed.
15:41And it completes.
15:42It's the first ever art piece that Benedict Bridgerton has ever completed.
15:48Oh!
15:49I love this.
15:50I absolutely love this.
15:51But okay, so now let's move on to some of the side stories that were explored in the second half
15:56of season four.
15:57And I will say, overall, season four was a much, much stronger season than season three.
16:03And even season two when it comes to the side stories.
16:06Because for the most part, everyone had a pretty intriguing and compelling storyline that we could follow
16:13when Benedict and Sophie were given a break from the suffering and the pain and the angst.
16:18But even though they were giving some reprieve, we weren't as an audience because season four ended up being one
16:24of the most emotional and tragic seasons of Bridgerton.
16:29Largely due to Francesca's storyline.
16:33Oh, my sister Francesca suffered so much this season.
16:37And unfortunately, I really knew it was going to happen because book readers were spoiling it literally two years ago.
16:44So thanks for that, guys.
16:45But it didn't make it any less heartbreaking to witness on the show.
16:50Because yes, in the second half of season four is when we get the death of Francesca's husband, John.
16:57Lord Kilmartin, who dies of a headache.
17:01Although in reality, like with modern day science, we'll probably, you know, have a look in his head and find
17:06some kind of tumour or some kind of something that would have caused this death.
17:10But this is Regency era England, so like they don't fucking know what actually happened to this poor man.
17:15And so he just goes for a nap.
17:17He goes for a nap.
17:18But before he goes, he does have that one beautiful moment where he looks to Francesca and his cousin Michaela.
17:27And they're getting along and they're smiling and giggling.
17:31And he gets to have that moment of like calm and contentment before he goes for his nap, only to
17:37never wake up again.
17:39That was so freaking sad.
17:41Listen, I'm not even going to lie.
17:43I'm not going to pretend here.
17:44I was never like wholly invested in Francesca and John's love story.
17:49I didn't quite buy the romantic chemistry between the two.
17:53But honestly, the death sequence, the funeral, all of that was handled so well that it did draw out a
18:00lot of emotion and a lot of just tragedy and sorrow, especially seeing how Francesca was forced to deal with
18:09that at such a young age.
18:11And this is the part where I get to sing the praises of Hannah Dodd because Hannah Dodd as Francesca
18:16already was phenomenal casting as she did replace the previous actress who portrayed Francesca.
18:22And I think the first and second or maybe just the first season of the show.
18:27But I think Hannah has been absolutely phenomenal as a more grown up Francesca.
18:32But even though she is more grown up than when we saw her in the first couple of seasons of
18:36Bridgerton, she's still so young.
18:38And so for her to have gone through this tragedy where she's lost this man that she loved, even though
18:44they had a slightly more like calm and more reserved as a comportment about them.
18:50But there was love there.
18:52And so that is just really, really sad for her.
18:55But then it gets worse.
18:57Somehow she already felt horrible and really insecure about the fact that she wasn't able to conceive a child whilst
19:05John was alive.
19:06Only for her to think that maybe she was.
19:09And she had to go through this barbaric testing for which she had her sister and her mum there.
19:18But that was an awful sequence that ended up confirming that she was not in fact pregnant.
19:23And so she wasn't able to give John an heir to the Kilmartin line.
19:28And that makes things even worse.
19:30On top of all of the tragedy and suffering that she's already going through, she had to endure that.
19:35So my heart broke for Francesca.
19:38Seeing the starkness in the black that she had to wear and how her home was covered in like black
19:44curtains and black fabric to show the sign of mourning was, it was really striking.
19:51Especially for Bridgerton, which is usually so technicolor, so bright and pastel.
19:56And especially the Bridgertons themselves, who have their signature colour of light blue.
20:01And whilst Francesca's love story with John has come to a very tragic ending, this second part of season four
20:08does give us a hint to perhaps new avenues to explore with Francesca.
20:14This time around with John's cousin, Michaela.
20:18Now in the first half of season four, we only got a glimpse of that interaction at the very end
20:24when Michaela arrived.
20:25And you could send some tension as Francesca was seen to not like Michaela very much.
20:31And then we get a little bit more exploration of that in the first part of the second part of
20:36season four.
20:37These parts are so stupid.
20:39Anyways, we get more of that tension of them butting heads.
20:43Michaela is sitting around with John in the early hours of the morning, just chatting and talking about their childhood.
20:50And Francesca was like, yo, like, when is everyone going to go to sleep?
20:53When is everyone going to go to sleep?
20:54We have breakfast at nine and she's the type of person who, you know, has everything very carefully planned.
21:00And, you know, everything needs to be in its proper order.
21:03And that's something that comes to play even when John passes away and she still wants to retain some kind
21:09of control, at least outwardly.
21:11And so that part of her persona just increases at that point.
21:15But that, of course, goes against Michaela's persona where she's very much a free, kind of flexible person.
21:23She doesn't want to adhere to society's strict rules, which, again, plays into Benedict and Sophie's storyline.
21:31Ooh, the writers are cooking.
21:32But here you have yet another person for whom society, with a capital S as rules, don't really fit in
21:39to their own personality and to their own character.
21:43And so Michaela clearly struggles with that.
21:46But her relationship with John is her reprieve from all of that.
21:49But when John passes away, you have these two ladies really mourning him and really suffering over his loss.
21:58And whilst initially they aren't able to see eye to eye still, it's only when Francesca takes Michaela's offering of
22:06a more kind of festive, joyful celebration of John's life later down the line that you do see the two
22:13kind of come together in the middle with a better understanding of one another.
22:17And so, of course, naturally, Francesca asks Michaela if she can stay around because she's really lonely and she has
22:25a lot of trauma and trouble over the fact that she wasn't able to give John a child.
22:30She wasn't able to create a household and a family the way that her mother was.
22:36And so there's a lot going on there and she doesn't want to have to deal with that on her
22:40own.
22:40So Michaela could stay and they could help each other out.
22:44And it all seems fine and dandy until Michaela up and leaves.
22:50She up and leaves.
22:52Why?
22:52We all know why.
22:53The second that Francesca put her hand on top of Michaela's, we all knew sis would not be safe.
22:59She was like, peace, see ya, because it was starting to get too real.
23:03Now, I'm somehow expected to wait for two years, at least, Netflix, two years to see the follow-up to
23:11this storyline.
23:12And I'm just like, I'm just, I can't believe, I can't believe that I need to wait two years for
23:20the next season of Bridgerton, period.
23:21But for the follow-up to this storyline in particular, like that's actually painful.
23:26That's excruciating.
23:27Please, please, please, please, please.
23:28I need this.
23:30Now, I need this.
23:31And of course, I also want to sing the praises of Masali Berduza, who portrays Michaela Sterling, who in the
23:37books is Michael.
23:39But I like the gender swap and I'm really intrigued to see how they're going to handle this queer storyline
23:43in Regency England.
23:45Oh, oh, let's see.
23:48But I think Masali has been knocking it out of the park so far.
23:52I've been a fan of her since Noughts and Crosses and I can't wait to see more of her in
23:56season five.
23:57Now, we also have quite a few other storylines.
23:59I'm just going to quickly speed one through.
24:02But as I mentioned earlier, I will say the side stories this season were pretty well done.
24:07So I did enjoy each and every one of them for what it's worth.
24:11But the next one up would be Violet Bridgerton, who last we saw was the teen.
24:18She was the teen.
24:19She had this illicit relationship going with Lady Danbury's brother, Marcus.
24:25But unfortunately, that didn't last for very long because whilst Marcus and Violet initially wanted to formalise it and get
24:33married so they wouldn't have to sneak around anymore.
24:37Violet decided that she didn't really want to be someone else's wife again at this moment in time.
24:45And I love that for her.
24:46I love this kind of mini character arc that emerged in the second half of the season.
24:52Kind of exploring how Violet has been a mother and a wife for so long.
24:58And even though she had this great love with Edmund and she loved being his wife and they clearly loved
25:04procreating as she jokes herself.
25:08But she still had to kind of lose parts of herself to step into those roles.
25:14And now that her kids are kind of growing up and they're experiencing loves of their own, she's there to
25:20lend a helping hand and to follow them on their journey.
25:22But she's also able to kind of reclaim some of the parts of herself that she lost many years ago.
25:29And so she's not ready to give that up again to be Marcus's wife.
25:32And so she, she ends up being the rake.
25:36She ends up being the rake.
25:38She ends up asking Marcus if he can be her mistress.
25:42Well, would you look at that?
25:44Would you look at that?
25:46How the times have tabled.
25:47But ultimately I loved this story and conclusion for Violet.
25:51And I really do feel like in the second half of season four, Violet really came to life.
25:56She has always been mother.
25:58She has always been mother to us all.
26:00But in the second half of season four, she was backing Sophie in a way that we've never seen her
26:06back anyone else.
26:08She walked into that courtroom.
26:10She looked the magistrate dead in the eyes and she said, this woman is lying.
26:14I know my Sophie.
26:16This woman is straight up lying.
26:18Don't listen to her.
26:19Because Sophie would never steal.
26:21Sophie would never steal.
26:22She's an angel.
26:23She's incredible with my daughters.
26:25And my son over here approves of her as well.
26:29And he, his brother was the duke.
26:31We haven't seen the duke in 27 years.
26:33But he got a name drop here.
26:35So Violet was pulling out all the cards.
26:36All the cards to rescue Sophie.
26:39And she managed to get her release on house arrest.
26:41Only for Violet to promptly breach that house arrest and sneak Sophie in to the Queen's Boar in honour of
26:50Lady Danbury.
26:51And that was even more hilarious.
26:54The scene where you have these four Bridgertons.
26:56These two Bridgerton women and these two Bridgerton men sneaking Sophie in whilst Violet distracts the guard.
27:03Honestly, this is the Bridgerton shenanigans that I want to see more of.
27:07This is what I want to see season after season.
27:09And that's why it breaks my heart that the cast seems to be getting smaller and smaller as the years
27:14go on.
27:14Because we get less scenes than like that.
27:17Like, for instance, the moment where, you know, Benedict reveals that he was in love with the maid.
27:22And the rest of the Bridgertons are like, huh, what?
27:25This is going on right underneath our noses.
27:27We have no idea.
27:28Like, that stuff is just, like, cracked to me.
27:31Give me more, injected into my veins.
27:33Those moments were great for so many reasons.
27:35But, of course, one of them being that we actually got to see some of that cheekiness and daringness
27:41that Violet used to have when she was younger that we saw a little bit of in the Queen Charlotte
27:47spin-off.
27:48And so we can see her coming back into her own in the second half of the season.
27:52And it makes sense then why she's so reluctant to jump back into another marriage
27:57because she doesn't want to fall into the role of being a wife.
28:01She's just now rediscovering who she really is on her own.
28:05And the last storyline that we'll dive into this video is that of Queen Charlotte
28:09and the departure of her nearest, closest, most beloved friend, Lady Danbury.
28:16Ah, this was sweet and sad, honestly.
28:19For most of the season, I was kind of side-eyeing Queen Charlotte a lot
28:24because she just kept being really annoying and really inconsiderate of others.
28:29But it was only in the second part that, you know,
28:32you get to kind of understand Queen Charlotte's perspective,
28:35especially when Penelope lays it out as she asks Queen Charlotte to allow her to hang up her pen.
28:42And there's always this angle of, like, flattering the Queen.
28:46Whenever anyone has to do anything around her, they're always like,
28:49oh, but you're so great and you're a patron of the arts and you love gossip.
28:52And they really have to lay it on thick with her.
28:55But at the same time, I think both Penelope and also Alice
28:59were really able to kind of send that message across
29:03and really get the Queen to listen to them,
29:06which is honestly quite the feat.
29:08So good on them.
29:09Good on these younger ladies.
29:11I think they kind of followed the Lady Danbury method of manipulating the Queen.
29:16And they were able to get the outcomes that they wanted.
29:19So even though it was frustrating to see Queen Charlotte kind of shut everyone down,
29:24try to lock them up in these gilded cages,
29:27the way that she's locked up in her gilded cage of the palace.
29:31But in the end, seeing her kind of let go,
29:34let Penelope drop the pen on Lady Whistledown
29:37and ultimately let her friend live the rest of her life,
29:42enjoy her freedom and discover the rest of the world,
29:45I think was really heartwarming,
29:47especially that little scene that they shared together
29:50where they're giggling and crying and giggling.
29:53I thought that was wonderful.
29:55Because, you know, Queen Charlotte knew that this was shenanigans.
29:58But first of all, Queen Charlotte was actually impressed
30:00that Alice Mondridge actually came up with a crazy scheme that worked.
30:04Okay, so that's number one.
30:06At least her lady-in-waiting actually has some goal.
30:09Okay, she actually has some balls on her,
30:11which she appreciates.
30:13But that laughter was also kind of masking a genuine sadness,
30:16which peed through when she started crying.
30:19So that scene, again, lots of emotions happening in season four of this series
30:25and that definitely contributed to that.
30:28I hope this doesn't mean that we're never going to see Lady Danbury again
30:32because she's such a queen, she's such an icon
30:34and I would hate to have her disappear from the show forever.
30:37But I do think having a little bit of a break from her would be good
30:42if only to just kind of pay respect to that scene and honour it.
30:47And very quickly, just on the point on the Mondritches,
30:50I'm satisfied.
30:51I'm satisfied.
30:52I'm one of the many people who started to kind of wear off on the Mondritches
30:57and started to question whether they were really needed on the show anymore,
31:01especially because we were getting certain others,
31:04you know, favourites like Anthony and poor Daphne,
31:07who we haven't seen in 58 years.
31:09You know, they have been disappearing,
31:11but we still got tons of Mondritch material.
31:14So I agreed with many that they seemed like a superfluous storyline
31:18to include in each of these seasons.
31:21But I have to say,
31:22considering how Alice really stepped up in the last minute
31:25as Queen Charlotte's lady-in-waiting,
31:28I approve.
31:29I approve of the storyline
31:31and I think they ultimately ended up wrapping it in a decent way
31:35and kind of connecting all of these different parts
31:38in a very clever way as well.
31:40I wouldn't say this means I want to see more Mondritch in future seasons.
31:45I wish, you know, in my wishes of all wishes,
31:48dreams of all dreams,
31:50that we would get more Kate and Anthony
31:52or Daphne and Simon
31:54or, you know, just more Bridgerton action,
31:56especially post-marriage.
31:58I don't want Benedict and Sophie to disappear either.
32:01But in the absence of that,
32:03I am decently satisfied with how they've managed to wrap up
32:06the Mondritch storyline.
32:08But I'm even more eager and curious to see
32:11what they're going to do with the extra time
32:13now that they've gotten rid of Marcus,
32:16Lady Danbury,
32:17the Mondritches,
32:18I presume,
32:19and a lot of the other storylines that were taking up time.
32:22So with all of that being said, guys,
32:25I'm going to be giving Bridgerton season four
32:28an eight out of ten.
32:30So that's it from me.
32:32Now that I told you guys my thoughts on Bridgerton season four,
32:35it's time for you guys to let me know
32:37what you thought of the season down in the comments below.
32:40Please be sure to subscribe to catch your videos coming up.
32:43Thank you guys so, so much for watching.
32:44I really, really appreciate it.
32:46And I'll see you in the next one.
32:48Bye.
Comments