In fact, it’s their ongoing, bottomless want for each other that motivates them to keep trying to save the relationship, even when things take several dark twists.ĭaphne’s navigation of her newfound sexuality, foregrounded by the courtship scene of Regency London, makes for a cringingly funny storyline, where Daphne’s sexual awakening is at once painful, wondrous, and deeply relatable.
Together, they get, well, an awfully rocky start to a rushed marriage, saved only by an animalistic physical attraction that won’t quit.
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The duke knows how to have sex but not how to love Daphne knows how to love but not how to have sex. Yet Daphne knows so little about what’s in store for her.Īs for what Daphne does know? That she feels attracted to one duke - Simon Basset. There’s a king, somewhere, but in the tradition of young girls making their debuts in court, it’s the queen’s word that deems Daphne “the diamond” of the season. Based on the real Queen Charlotte, who may have been mixed-race, this character’s presence and power defy the norms of Regency England here in the world of Bridgerton, race does not preclude status, though gender does. It's unclear whether she is ill or dead.Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte presides with a kind of omnipotent grace. At the end of the episode, Penelope finds Marina limp and lifeless in her room. She sneaks down to the Featherington kitchen to make some sort of tea concoction that I assume is meant to induce an abortion. Marina is optimistic at first, but when oblivious Daphne tells Marina she was the only one to sign the letter to the general - meaning she didn't include Simon, who is a duke and a man and therefore the letter's seal of legitimacy - Marina gives up altogether. Daphne realizes that Marina was just trying to do what was best considering her situation, so she vows to use her duchess powers to contact the general who's married to her new gambling buddy to try to locate George in Spain. After her last fight with the Duke, she attends Lady Danbury's underground gambling room for fancy ladies, where she gets very drunk but also meets the wife of a general who might be able to help Marina. While all of this is happening, Daphne is also trying to help out with the Colin and Marina scandal. (This Queen Charlotte seems to be based on the real Queen Charlotte, who was rumored to have been mixed race, but the real Queen would have been much older during the 1813 setting of the show.) This conversation makes a scene in which an old white man considers Marina, a young Black woman, as a potential wife while studying her body read differently than it would have if this was a story where race didn’t exist. Black people wouldn’t just suddenly become accepted in every aspect of society in the time the queen and king have been together, but it’s not explained further. A previous episode implied that Simon’s father had long been a duke. There’s no mention of slavery - or anything specific, really - but he says that their people were previously seen as “novelties.” This raises a ton of questions.
Regarding the white king (who we haven’t actually seen) and Black queen, Danbury says, “We were two separate societies, divided by color, until a king fell in love with one of us.” Simon points out that this might have allowed Black people to hold titles, but it doesn’t change everything. She also makes the first mention of race we get on the show. In a scene mirroring this, Lady Danbury tells Simon to propose to Daphne, if he loves her. And, please, someone get these girls an encyclopedia. At one point Eloise is shown smoking a cigarette and with her deep voice she’s reminiscent of Florence Pugh playing young Amy in Little Women. It doesn’t help that the actors playing Penelope and Eloise are 33 and 31, respectively. Neither Penelope nor Eloise find out the truth about sex this episode, and… I’m sorry, how old are they supposed to be? Penelope is out for her first social season, so I was guessing about 16. Marina tells Penelope that pregnancy comes from “love” and shares that she’s in love with a guy named George who writes her letters and is fighting in a war in Spain. They thought pregnancy could only happen to married women and don’t want to become pregnant by mistake, so they need answers. She shares with Eloise that she knows someone who is pregnant, but doesn’t know how it happened. The other storyline of this episode starts when Penelope finds out about Marina’s pregnancy.
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