Nicola Coughlan attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
Champagne flowed into the greenery-filled Ardor at the West Hollywood EDITION on May 18, 2022, as ELLE, Polo Ralph Lauren and HULU toasted Hollywood’s brightest rising stars. ELLE’s Hollywood Rising event captured the interest of celebrities from the heat of Sunset Boulevard.
The guests of honor were the cast of Hulu’s Conversations with Friends,…
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Nicola Coughlan attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
Colin having other men question whether he’s courting Penelope might be the first time anyone has brought that possibility to mind for him. Now that the idea of Penelope as a wife is in the back of his head, I want a scene in season 3 where Philipa has a newborn daughter & Colin sees Penelope holding the tiny redheaded baby and smiles at how happy & beautiful she looks with a baby in her arms. It could be the first time he truly considers Penelope as a woman ready to become a wife & mother.
Better yet let the scene mirror the scene from season 1 when Colin & Penelope saw Lady Trowbridge and her redheaded baby (who looked like her footman). Let’s see Colin & Penelope notice the baby crying and instinctively team up to soothe the child and it’s basically a glimpse of how they would be with a child of their own.
It would not surprise me at all if Nicola’s mirror comment wasn’t what we assume (a reference to Colin’s mirror comment in the book) at all, but rather that the storylines for Colin & Penelope from season 1 will be a mirror to their story in season 3.
Penelope wasn’t brave enough to just ask Colin about his feelings for her so as much as it hurt her to overhear, she finally knows from Colin himself that he’s never thought of her as a potential bride. And Penelope is smart, she knows that if she’s ever going to escape her mother and a future as a spinster, she needs to take the marriage mart seriously because this is her 3rd season with zero prospects. She spent her first season focusing on Whistledown, and getting between Colin & Marina, and her second worrying about Whistledown, Colin, and getting between Eloise & Theo.
If Penelope were thinking about marriage to someone she knew she didn’t love but with whom she could have a safe and content life, she would consider it because if she can’t ever be with the love of her life, the next best thing is to have the security and comfort of marriage to a decent person with a chance to have children if she wants.
But if Colin knew the man didn’t love Penelope, I could see him trying to warn Penelope only for her to brush his concerns off like he did when she warned him about Marina not loving him in season 1.
Penelope could explain to Colin in minimal detail that she fell in love a long time ago with someone who doesn’t want her so she’s choosing security because she cannot have love.
I think before Colin can have his love epiphany, he needs to realize how high his opinion of Penelope really is and just how much he relies on being able to confide in her. I’m not sure he has considered that if Penelope were married he could not take her hand and have private moments with her without looking improper.
I bet he even calls the man she loves a fool for not realizing how wonderful she is only for her to defend him just like she did season 1 by saying that the man she loves is no fool, he merely doesn’t see her the way she wishes he did.
I think Colin will be shocked to learn Penelope has secretly been in love and he’s probably very curious who the man is. I imagine that making him really consider what kind of man wouldn’t want to marry Penelope because she’s so warm, kind, clever & beautiful. That’ll be where he begins wanting her for himself. And if he mentioned any of this to his family, you know one of them is going to call him out & say he’s in love with Penelope the same way Marina called out Penelope and accused her of being in love with Colin.
Colin also loves a damsel in distress. He wants to be a hero in a love story. He’s a dreamer. If Penelope admitted that she is Whistledown and she’s giving up writing because it started out being fun but now it’s dangerous to people she cares about and she was sorry for the trouble she caused everyone, I think he would forgive her. We already know Colin doesn’t think like Eloise, he may prove very understanding and forgiving toward Penelope.
I even sorta wish he bulks up boxing with Will to better protect Penelope from anyone who might find out her secret and try to hurt her in revenge for something she’s written.
There’s so much potential for season 3 to mirror season 1.
For the record though, I want the book-mirror scenario too.
Can we all just take a moment to think about how fun it’s going to be seeing Anthony “Zero-Chill” Bridgerton find out that Penelope Featherington is Lady Whistledown?
I hope they give him a stunned book-Portia style reaction like, “Penelope? …Penelope?”
Then he’ll be psycho-crazed like, “HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW ELOISE?!?!?”
Then he finds out Colin compromised Penelope, they’re engaged, and he wants the family to support her if the secret gets out because of the obvious scandal & potential people will try to hurt her.
Kate’s gonna have to save the day by rubbing his temples while letting him hold her belly because it’s what calms his panic attacks.
Since we can’t know exactly how the show plans to have Polin’s story play out, I was thinking if they do intend to make Colin jealous, how fun would it would be to have, “Single Ladies, (Put A Ring On It)” playing at a ball while Penelope’s denying Colin a dance or ignoring him altogether.
I have a whole Polin inspired playlist I WISH I could share with whoever selects the music for the show… instead I’m sharing it here.
Phil Colin’s “Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) is another great song for Polin while Colin feels disconnected from Penelope and is missing her. There’s a reason this song is a classic.
The fact that some people can be disgusting towards Nicola and Luke for playing tv characters is pathetic. If you got nothing good to say then keep your ish to yourself. People hating on them for getting payed to play tv characters based on a book.
my man colin looked at penelope like finn wolfhard looks at roles about bi/gay coded boys who are tragically in love with their best friends and people dare to say they have no chemistry whatsoever smh
I sometimes see certain things in the polin tag that leave me with a sour taste in my mouth. like, people complaining that this new season is about polin and not benophie (when it makes sense, because polin has already been laid out by previous seasons and Sophie is yet to be introduced, so it makes sense they’re gonna laid it out for benophie to happen next season) or saying that since Kate and Anthony weren’t the main characters of their own season, they hope to see other storylines shadowing polin so we all can know how it feels (which is something both cruel and rather childish to say).
also, why do people hate Penelope so much? she’s a complex character, she has done rights and wrongs and that’s okay, that’s realistic. is any of the Bridgerton characters perfect? no, not at all. but for some reason, some people out there want to see Penelope punished for “what she did”, and the preferred form of punishment seems to be not getting her happy ending with Colin. characters don’t have to be divided into heroes and villains. they can be complex, they don’t have to be perfect examples of good and evil. Anthony did some very questionable things in season 1, just like Daphne and Simon. And now they seem to be some of the fan favourites. I just wonder what is it that when it comes to Penelope, people want to see her being punished so badly (I do have a few answers for my own question, but well). let’s remember Marina was consciously tricking Colin into marrying her and nobody here seems to be mad at that. people seem to understand that it wasn’t nice, but she did what she had to do. I wish the same understanding was given to Penelope too.
and lastly… people saying that this season better not be charged with sexual tension and explicit scenes… because they cannot picture Penelope having sex? Penelope and Colin deserve to have their season full of the same yearning, passion and intensity that other ships got and will get in the future. They deserve to have a good season, even if you’re uncomfortable with the idea of a plus size character being worshiped and desired (and don’t even say it’s because Penelope is too innocent, she’s not. She’s proven multiple times how complex and witty and mature and smart she is, and she’s the same age as Eloise and I’ve never seen anyone say this about Eloise).
With the first Monday in May comes The Met Gala. This year’s theme is the second part of 2021’s theme IN AMERICA. The first year was the Lexicon of Fashion, this year’s theme “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” had a mission statement of celebrating the “ storytelling and a historical context (of fashion), starting with the development of American fashion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the emergence of an identifiable American style and the rise of the name designer.” The dress code was "gilded glamour and white tie.”
Of course nearly everyone just did whatever the hell they wanted to do.
TeamGucci
Jared Leto and Alessandro Michele aren’t twinning for the hell of it. They represent the mirror image photography of the early 1900s.
Billie Eilish and FINNEAS
Jessica Chastain
TeamShiaparelli Couture
Jessie Buckley,whose Alex Garland film MEN screened this weekend and the reviews are not good. Good thing her look is fantastic.
Carey Mulligan with husband Marcus Mumford
Armies of One
Nicola Coughlan in Richard Quinn
Laura Harrier in Glemaud
Ashton Sanders giving undead union soldier in Casablanca
