Penelope [f19] is a notorious wallflower. Simultaneously, she is the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown. Concurrently, she is notoriously gone for Colin [m24]. Our girl has got a lot of notoriety going on is what we’re saying. After last season’s conflicts, she is also without friends, on the outs with her family, and feeling a smidge desperate. And Colin has just returned home from his gap year…

It’s season three, and the Bridgerton bee is about to bring the Polin.

Featuring:

• A *lot* of fashion

• An introvert in an extravert family

• Some trickle-down therapy

• An unexpected friendship

• Some trickle-down colour therapy

• Thirst

• Political hand-waving

• Harsh truths

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:

• The Bridgerton books, a series by Julia Quinn

• Bridgerton, Season One

• Bridgerton, Season Two

• ‘This is Me Trying’, a song by Taylor Swift

• ‘Little Funeral March’, a march by Mozart

• When He Was Wicked, a book by Julia Quinn

• ‘Trope de Force’, an article by Kate Cuthbert

• The symbolism behind Cressida’s costume

• The showrunner on Penelope’s body

• Pride and Prejudice, the 2005 film

• Emma, a novel by Jane Austen

Some errors corrected:

• The lyric Kate cannot land is ‘my words shoot to kill when I’m mad’ from ‘This is Me Trying’

• The Bridgerton ancestral seat is Aubrey Hall

Our guest host this episode is the artistic and amazing Jade Goodwin. You can hear more from Jade by following her on instagram. 

For your TBR, Jade has recommended Where the Fruit Falls, by Karen Wyld. Jade says it’s ‘extremely poetic and captivating’.

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This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Wonnarua, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com