BRIDGERTON SEASON 4: THE LAST SHOT OF REDEMPTION | KennieJD

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]We're so back, baby. The last time we were here talking about Bridgeten, I ran down season 3 begrudgingly. Basically, TLDDR thought it sucked ass. I'll link it down below as well as the other videos I have done thus far in my series of Bridgetin the story so far, which is basically the first three seasons plus the prequel, Queen Charlotte. I've talked about all of those and they are easily organized in a playlist for your watching ease from Otis to newest in case you wanted to watch it in order. I also just prefer when playlists are in that order. I don't know why more people don't do that when they make playlists.

[00:00:33]But TLDDR, that season sucked to the extent that I barely finished it. I actually didn't watch all of it for maybe a year or two after it came out.

[00:00:42]And then I only begrudgingly watched it again for this series. And it was so bad that I thought Bridgetton had lost all possible sauce and that I might not even watch season 4. But I was curious what they were going to do for season 4, if they'd be able to reclaim my interest.

[00:01:00]And I will say they did. They did something that is very hard to do.

[00:01:03]Usually shows have their worst season at season 3 and then it just gets progressively worse. My theory has always been that they plan for a first season, a second season if they're lucky, but third they're kind of just around and things get moved around a lot and so it usually goes downhill from there. Very few shows I find that get into season 3 don't have at least a major hiccup at that point. But anyway, and this was definitely it. Colin, Penelope, no sauce, no chemistry. Story was ass bad. But this season, we are talking about the bee Bridgeten, the second son, the chaotic bisexual Benedict Bridgeten. So, I've said in this series that I have at one point in my life read all of the Bridgeten books.

[00:01:44]Honestly don't remember much of the minutia because it was a long time ago and I do have the books but I've been too busy reading the book that inspired the movie Pion book is depressing book is very depressing movie gay as hell. I really liked it. It was the first movie experience where I was sitting in a theater and I watched someone eat ass and I was like this is the cinema that I want to see. The fact that I've seen so many gay movies and nobody's eating ass is actually perplexing. Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh, the British books.

[00:02:14]I read the books. Don't really remember them, even though I've since repurchased them and whatnot, but I did remember this book. Maybe a little better than the other ones. The Benedict novel is called An Offer from a Gentleman. And the book itself is loosely based off of Cinderella, which was a thing I didn't know beforehand, but upon reading I was like, "Oh, it's Cinderella.

[00:02:32]Interesting." And the book I don't remember disliking. I figured it was in line with much of the other type of bodice ripper type stories, but I did remember a few key components that they did keep intact for this season. So, it was very funny seeing everybody else react to those things that I was like, "Oh, so they're going to keep that."

[00:02:54]Okay. And I say all that to say, actually, I really like this season. It has definitely reworked my hierarchy of Bridgetton related on-screen media because now from best to worst we have Queen Charlotte season 2 season 4 season 1 and then way far away from that that [ __ ] that was season 3. It's nice to know that we were able to get that at the place that I feel like it's appropriate. It is the most middle of all of the Bridgetton seasons and that's not necessarily bad entertaining. It's the pining. It's romantic. It's frustrating. All the things that you expect in a good bodice ripper or like work that is adapted to screen. Also, this season is the first season that we so directly talk about class in this way. We've dabbled in it a little bit in the past seasons where Eloise meets the lowerass boy and she's like kind of feeling that out or whatever and her relationship to her family's prestige and money and privilege and then meeting the everyday man and realizing that their lives are very different. But it had never been the subject of the core relationship of a season of Bridgetton until this one. Because this is an adaptation of Cinderella. It is the story of Bridgetton falling in love with a mysterious woman who is actually a maid. She has a wicked stepmother and two stepsisters. You know, Cinderella.

[00:04:16]And this season does revive some of my belief in if that makes it. That's so heavy. I had lost hope for Bridget after season 3. It was so bad. I was like, is this what the rest of the show is going to be? But it seems that we've had quite a bit of a return to form with season 4.

[00:04:31]It was painful. I cried. I laughed not as much about the central storyline and the central love interest, but I did quite like the subplots that go through, even though I'm probably going to glaze over them for the sake of brevity in this video, but those are really cool.

[00:04:47]It won me over for Benedict, who I never felt one way or another about. I was either neutral and occasionally annoyed by him, but for the most part, I found him fine. And that's kind of him in general. There's a lot of scrutiny and some unpacking of his identity as a second son. So, a replacement. At the beginning of this season, the eldest son, Anthony, has already given birth to a son. So, Benedict isn't even there as a spare son in case something were to happen to Anthony or they couldn't have children for whatever reason. And so kind of unpacking a little bit more of why he's kind of flighty and irresponsible. Though frustrating to my Capricorn heart, there is something endearing about him in the sense that maybe because he's a second son, he didn't feel as much pressure to present in the ways that are expected of men of the at the time, especially if he were a first son. But that's not just in relation to his bisexuality or his flippidness. It's also to some degree to him struggling with who he is as a man, I guess, if not an heir. And I was curious to see how they would play around with that in relation to him having a romantic relationship with a woman. Curious and concerned that maybe they'd basically say he not gay no more cuz he's with a woman, which is two clauses that make no sense in this context at all because a he was never gay. He was bisexual. And if bisexual people end up in a heterosexual relationship, it negates quote unquote that bisexuality, which is not true. So, I was curious to see how they were going to handle that. And I think they handled it fine, pleasantly enough. Basically, it wasn't that big of a deal. So, we are introduced to that Benedict as he leads into a relationship with this new mysterious character, Sophie Peek. But before we get into that, hi, I'm Kendall. New around here, welcome new around here. What is up, Skel Biscuit?

[00:06:43]What y'all been up to? I've been watching a lot of like couples therapy and couples therapy related works because Netflix also has like their own version of couples therapy. Do I plan to make a video? I don't know. But now that I've said that, I'm sure a lot of people will want me to. We'll see. Totaloodle.

[00:06:58]That's what I've been up to. And so yeah, let's send it over to Ad Roll Kenny and then we can get on with season 4.

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[00:08:48]This season begins with Violet Bridgetton. She is going to be hosting the first ball at the top of the social season, which is a deviation from the norm. The person that would usually host the first ball is Lady Donbury, but notably, she's decided that she does not want to do that. So instead, Daer Vic Countess Bridgetton will be hosting a masquerade ball at the top of the season, and we are reunited with the Bridgeten family and extended partners and whatnot. Francesca, John, and Eloise are back from Scotland. Penelopey and Colin have their cute fat baby who is now Lord Featherington. Hiestin is at the brink of her own debut, but she is very excited about it in a way that we haven't really seen from the other girls in the Bridgetton family. Everyone's been a little nervous, apprehensive, but Hyasin, who is still a year below debut, seems to be particularly excited for it.

[00:09:42]Notably, there's no Anthony and Kate at this juncture because they are off to India with their newborn. So, in the meantime, this season is more so the frustrations of Benedict as he's been put in the position where as the second son, he can't [ __ ] off the way that he usually does. He has to take on the duties of a VIC count because though the heir is born, he is still [ __ ] diapers. But despite him having a new and intense responsibility on his shoulders in a way that he has never quite felt before, he still struggles with his vices, namely his partying, his I don't know if this is a problem so much as it is maybe not best for keeping some low profile, but he also uh has a lot of sex. He drinks a lot. He's [ __ ] and sucking and drinking and and partying and he seems to struggle to maintain the level of responsibility that Anthony was so keen on. So much so that Violet goes to find him only to find him butt naked with two random other butt naked women in the room. If you recall from the other seasons to this point, we don't really know much about Benedict other than he's carefree, debaucherous, someone who definitely follows his fancies. He's a free spirit in a way that Anthony has never quite been. I'd imagine in that context that sudden increase of responsibility is something that's weighing on him even more so than if he were maybe more like Anthony in the beginning. Now that he is performing for all intents and purposes as the Vic count in Anony's absence, his diances are particularly not great because you can put quite a shame on the Bridgetton name if you again out there [ __ ] sucking, drinking, acting crazy out there. And interestingly, Benedict is known as the rake, which is perplexing because every man every season has been called a rake in some way or another, a womanizer, a ladies man. But there's something particular about Benedict or how he goes about the world that people refer to him as a rake derogatory. And Violet is really at her wit's end at this point. She was like, "Okay, we've done all this. We've done all this. You've had your fun. You've had your galliances. You've had your fleeting fancies. Settle down and cut the [ __ ] I'm going to need you to find a wife." At this point, all of the other Bridgetton boys are wed. Anthony is wed. Colin even got married before him and he's younger than Benedict. So there's even more pressure now for him to get your [ __ ] in a romance. A Bplot of the season that I find not interesting in the like it's interesting on camera like on TV. It's more so a thought that I was like this sounds like a bad idea last season and that is Lady Whistled Down. Going into this season, Queen Charlotte is still in contact with Lady Whistled Down aka Penelopey.

[00:12:30]Everyone knows it's Penelopey now as you may recall. So I was perplexed about what they're going to do with Penelopey now. like she isn't a salacious anonymous writer of gossip. She's more so someone requested to entertain the queen and in many ways simply be her propagandist. And again, I had a lot of questions on what they were going to do with Penelope. And they did what they could, I guess. But again, I find the whole Whistle Down story arc through all the seasons to be one of a [ __ ] mess. Basically, since they showed that it's Lady Whistled Down, what was that, the end of first season or something? Essentially, now everyone knows who Penelopey is. So, instead of I guess beating her ass, which one could argue would be the first impulse, they've decided to go to their second impulse, which is to get on her good side so that she can spread good words about people and families and build reputations. And so, that's like an interesting difference now that she is a known person. She's more of like a gossip journalist that people want to send their salacious information to or want to put Joel into writing positive things about. I will say one thing about Penelopey and by extension Colin, their chemistry is better this season, which is wild cuz this ain't even their season. But there are situations where we we see them [ __ ] particularly in that carriage again. I'm need y'all to find solid ground. It seems like at least in those moments they actually like each other. And maybe it's because we can extrapolate or ignore maybe all of the other reasons why it wasn't romantic last season if you're so inclined to do that. It's important to know that they have a chemistry that apparently the other family members are aware of and can observe in them. I think since they've gotten married and also Franchesca has gotten married, her and Penelope have seemed to have built a sort of friendship a little closer than it used to be. And even Francesca noticed their passionate, can't keep their hands off each other type of energy. Francesca also notices that that's not her experience with her own husband, John Lord Kill Martin. But we'll get on that later cuz there's a whole story arc about that. And I'll just spoil right now. I love Francesca.

[00:14:45]That's not a spoiler. I've said I love Franchesca. I think her story and her character is so endearing. And I'm excited because her story is the head of next season, which they've already released a [ __ ] trailer for. They said, "Yeah, just so you know, we are filming, bitch." And I'm like, "Okay, good. Good to know." But they've built a friendship. Penelopey and Eloise are still friends, but there is definitely like a disconnect still present. No longer about Lady Whistled Down, just more so they're in different places in life. Penelopey is a married woman and Eloise is joyfully on the shelf, as she so claims. Now she's kind of reveling in the idea of not having to be a part of the marriage mart as much as Violet would want her to be a part of it.

[00:15:28]Speaking of Violet, Violet again is hosting the first ball and it is a masquerade ball. And before Benedict makes his way over, he's sure to visit one of his parties where he can remind the audience that he is indeed still bisexual, which is good cuz I was afraid that they were going to be like, "Well, he not gay no more cuz he falling in love with a woman this season." And it's like, "No, he can be bisexual. He likes to." And then he comes to the masquerade ball notably late, and that seems to be his pattern of going about life kind of when he chooses and when he pleases.

[00:16:00]Everyone's there getting dressed up. It is a costume party of sorts. I think notably, he doesn't come dressed up.

[00:16:07]Everyone else's, everyone's, especially Eloise, the Jon of Arc Bob.

[00:16:15]She should keep it. She should wear it all the time. That should just be her her thing. But I guess she can't be too all the time. Whatever. But at this party, there is a mysterious unknown woman who comes in a silver bejeweled gown and white glove. She's wearing a white silvery mask, dark hair. The mask covers most of her face, but her lips and her eyes. And we, the audience, see her as she arrives at the party. and she is cunning in her approach to entering.

[00:16:49]She's able to swiftly move past the people taking names at the doors and lays her eyes on the extravagance of the ball. And she unlike the other people, the other goers who are very accustomed to the extravagance of tawn life, she seems new and she seems keen on how extravagant this experience is, reveling in it wondrously in a way that no one else seems to be. With that said, there are a set of women, three women, one older, and two girls who are presumably her daughters. Whoever can they meet.

[00:17:24]Eventually, this girl catches the eye of Benedict. She's beautiful. She has this wondrous look on her face. She's reveling and enjoying the night in a way that Benedict has not seen anyone else.

[00:17:38]He asks her to dance and she tells him that she's never learned to, which is odd because it's very customary of someone in society to have toutelage in that way. And in that moment, Benedict is all but smitten. Whoever this elusive woman in silver is, he is already so engrossed by her. They banter. He gives her dance lessons separate from the rest of the party. They even go so far as share a scandalous kiss.

[00:18:15][ __ ] don't be kissing at the [ __ ] boy. [ __ ] can't be alone and standing distance with someone of the opposite sex at one of these damn balls and you [ __ ] kiss kids.

[00:18:25]She is forced to leave at midnight when she would have been expected to unmask herself, leaving nothing but a lone glove in the process. She rushes away without ever giving her name and devastated, he runs out to find her, but she is gone. Thus begins Benedict's hyperfixation on the mysterious lady in silver. Incidentally, this will also be when Queen Charlotte would bet a wager against Penelope about who will be the most eligible man to marry this year.

[00:18:55]And Queen Charlotte decides to bet on, of all people, the Rake of the Tawn, Benedict Bridgetton, that he will marry this year, despite the rumor that he has long said he never would. But isn't that all of them every season? Like, isn't that the story, you know? And this wager, amongst various things that Queen Charlotte seems to be doing, is to maintain her the [ __ ] is bored. The [ __ ] is bored. She wants entertainment.

[00:19:20]She wants gossip. And there doesn't seem to be that much because people are either too afraid to do things or say things with Penelope around. Or if they do give certain information, you can't help but wonder if it feels slanderous to like shift things in one way or another. And so the gossip of Lady Whistled Down has quite slowed down. And so one of the things that has kept her entertained is ultimately falling apart in that process. And it doesn't help that also one of the few things that keeps her together fundamentally is also about to Wayne. And that is Lady Donbury. Lady Donbury who has long been the queen's only friend has decided that she would like to leave London. She would like to go off to her native homeland of is it Sierra Leone? Was it called Sierra Leone in the 1800s? I don't know. Her home that she has never visited since being four. And she would like to see the world. She would like to live. Queen Charlotte was like, "No, should like to leave for a time.

[00:20:32]>> No.

[00:20:33]>> No, [ __ ] you can't go anywhere. And this story line made me tear up a little bit. Maybe tear up a little bit because one, that's crazy as [ __ ] for Queen Charlotte to say that. She was like, I don't give a [ __ ] that you haven't seen your friends and family since you were four years old, [ __ ] You have to stay here because I am your queen. But if we go below that and really look at the emotions of that as slowly gets peeled away through the course of the season, she is scared.

[00:21:00]Queen Charlotte is scared. She one has only had Lady Dubrey as her actual friend basically since she married King George. And now as George gets older and sicker, Queen Charlotte is constantly on edge waiting for the other shoe to drop when he is eventually dead. And the idea that Lady Dre would not be there in that circumstance is earthshattering. And I completely understand. and also let that [ __ ] go. It was so frustrating and I was tearing up cuz you know they love each other. You know they're such great friends. But it's like baby you doing her so wrong. And I get it. I see the desperation, the reality that you could be for all intents and purposes alone when the love of your life is no longer with you, especially if that's going closer and closer to what that is. But that entire story is so [ __ ] frustrating and bittersweet and I cried and it's heartbreaking and man that's a good that that was good. Especially if you've seen Queen Charlotte again watch that video if you haven't seen my Queen Charlotte video or just watch the season cuz it's good baby. But it made me mad. She's like, "No, you can't go nowhere. I need you here. You are my oldest friend." No, no, no.

[00:22:22]Back to our mysterious lady in silver.

[00:22:24]Come to find out, she is actually a maid by the name of Sophie Peek, who works as Lady Aramenta Penwood's main maid essentially. But that is not all of it.

[00:22:37]Aramea has two daughters, Posie and the other one, Roseund. Roseman don't matter. I [ __ ] with Posie though. She had two daughters from her first marriage. that man would pass away and then she would venture on to marry Lord Pinwood who would also pass away. And Sophie Peek is actually the illegitimate daughter of the late Lord Penwood who was allowed to stay with Lady Penwood as a maid after his death. By the time that Lord and Lady Penwood were wed, Sophie was already born. Her mother had passed away in childbirth and her mother was also a maid. So her father is of nobility. Her mother was lower class and by proxy it seems that after his death she was treated as a bad omen by Lady Penwood and especially the one stepsister Rosemond. Like Roseman [ __ ] stone cold terrible [ __ ] Posie so adorable and so autistic. She's so great. I love her. She's another one.

[00:23:45]Let's go Posie season. Yes, I love Posie. That would be a whole side quest that we didn't know nothing about from no books cuz I don't think Posie even exists in real life, does she? She might. Again, I don't remember that specific of the book. But Posie and Roseund have made their debut recently.

[00:24:02]And Sophie, despite also being a pinwood by blood, has again been relocated to servitude with Aramea saying that her father left her nothing in his will when he died. So this is a fact that Sophie finds hard to believe considering she believed her father loved her. But alas, she has been saved quote unquote by Lady Penwood who was kind enough to give the illegitimate child work. She would make friends with her other co-workers that would encourage her to take an heirloom dress from a deceased Lady Pinwood and go to Lady Bridgetton's masquerade herself. Go experience. You're just as valid in deserving to explore this as the [ __ ] other two girls. You're actually related to the dude that died.

[00:24:50]Those his stepdaughters. You deserve at least one magical night in society. And so she does that. There she meets Lord Bridgetgerton. She hides her identity.

[00:25:01]She has a kiss with him. She has this magical night. And then when the clock strikes 12, she is forced to return to reality. But little does she know, Benedict has not given up on finding her yet. And instead, he spends his days drawing what he remembers of her. Her face, her outfit, a small necklace she was wearing, her hair. But ultimately, there's certain identifying features that he can't seem to remember or place on the canvas. I find this particularly funny because in his search for this mysterious woman, Benedict doesn't seem to realize that Sophie is Asian. I think he took being colorblind a bit more seriously to the extent that he's going around town asking black and white women if, you know, looking for the mysterious lady in silver and he's looking at black and white women. There's like four Asian [ __ ] in this city. Like I'm sure.

[00:25:53]Anyway, while that's going on, let's talk about another subplot, which is another favorite of mine this season.

[00:25:58]Violet Bridgetton and Mr. Sexy Anderson.

[00:26:02]I don't know what his first name.

[00:26:04]Marcus. It's not sexy. His first name isn't sexy. It's Marcus. But Marcus Anderson, if you recall in last season, which was also a pullover from Queen Charlotte, that they got a vibe. You know, Violet is in her blooming garden time, though, still dealing with her apprehensions of leading forth asexual life in the 15 or so years it's been since her late love of her life, Edmund, died. But she's actually enjoying a very palatable flirtation with Mr. Anderson.

[00:26:36]If you recall, Mr. Anderson is Lady Dbury's brother, and so he's around, and I bet he is. Sexy, baldhead, [ __ ] Like, he fine as [ __ ] He got a fat ass.

[00:26:47]But we're too we're too early to talk.

[00:26:50]He kicked up. Oh, I love [ __ ] with fat asses. I just feel like so nice. It's just they so Okay, so yeah, Violet and Marcus Anderson are going to progress their story along for the season. And I was cheering, [ __ ] Yes, she deserves it. I love Violet. I heard a rumor, I don't know how based in reality it is, but that they might do a Violet prequel.

[00:27:18]They might do a Violet one like they did for Queen Charlotte. And I'm like, I'm so sad, [ __ ] Give it to me. I love Violet. Back to Benedict. He's still losing this war of figuring out who this mysterious woman is, but he doesn't want to tell his mother about anything in regards to it. I think it's partially because he just doesn't want to hear her talking about like, "Oh, so you do want to get married?" It's like, nah. So instead he decides to go to Penelope considering again she gets all the gossip. So perhaps she would have some way of letting him know about this mysterious woman. So she puts it in Lady Whistled Down that Benedict is looking for a mysterious woman with no real descriptor specifically on what she looks like so that she isn't ruined because they would know that she left with a man and was with a man unsupervised which by itself can ruin your reputation. Let alone kissed him.

[00:28:05]Let alone to find out she broke in. But they don't know that yet. So now every woman of the taunt is like, "Oh, I saw Benedict at the ball. He must have been talking about me. He must have been talking about me." And so they're all going to talk to him and he's like, "Okay, it's none of y'all." And despite his best efforts to try to hide his search for this mysterious woman in Silver, Violet does end up finding out about it. And she basically says, "You should have told me cuz I could have helped you find her." Because it's pretty clear looking at this glove. It has a Pinwood House emblem inside. It's an heirloom. It's probably somebody living at Pinwood House. So Benedict heads over and Aramenta and the daughters think that he's there to chat with Posie, the nice autistic one. And she is so adorable and I love her and she's so weird.

[00:28:48]>> All of a sudden my hands became feet and I was forced to walk across the stage with my feet hands.

[00:28:53]>> I love that [ __ ] I knew you weren't the person he was talking about, but you deserve love. You a weird girl and I love a weird [ __ ] You're great. While he's there, Sophie does end up seeing him through the door, but she's hiding behind in the shadows essentially because she's afraid to meet Benedict again because he's not there to meet Sophie Peek, the maid. He's there to meet the fantasy of the mysterious woman in silver and she doesn't exist. So she decides to stay away, stay unknown, and let him continue his search for this mysterious person that, as far as she is concerned, is but a fantasy. But once he leaves, Lady Pinwood would notice that he seemed to be looking at a glove that was worn by a random woman that night at the masquerade ball. And she can't help but wonder based on some clues that Benedict said if perhaps Sophie is the woman in the silver dress. Namely because he has the pinwood gloves and also she found scuffs on one of her favorite shoes that Sophie actually wore at the masquerade. And then later she would find a silver dress under her mattress. and it all put together that he was seduced and deceived by this wretch who committed the crime of impersonating nobility after all I've done for you after taking you in when your father died.

[00:30:20]So she confronts Sophie and Sophie's like, "Bitch, [ __ ] why did you why did you take me in after my daddy died? It's not like you like me, [ __ ] You ain't got no kindness in your heart." I'm sorry. You don't like me. You don't like me. There's no kindness in your heart.

[00:30:32]You don't like me, you old cohart [ __ ] Like, why are we here? And then Arame is like, "You know what? You're right.

[00:30:38]You're fired and you'll never work in this town again if I have anything to say about it." And so Sophie is forced to leave at a moment's notice. And the only thing she has on her are essentially the clothes on her back, the remaining glove, some pocket money the other servants were able to pull together, and a bejeweled shoe clip that Posie would steal from her mother and would tell Sophie to sell if she ever needed money. And so she takes it, she's on her way, and she goes to sell the shoe clips only to find out they're fake. And so she doesn't make money off of that. The pawn owner, the pawnster, what is the name of a person who owns a pawn shop? The guy you pawn on to, I don't know, the jeweler. Is he a jeweler? I guess he knows jewels. That dude, he's like, "Here's some money.

[00:31:24]Might be able to get you a stage coach.

[00:31:26]if you want to give me that necklace that you're wearing, maybe perhaps I can give you more for that. But she says, "No, it's special to me and I will keep it." We'll soon find out that is the sole item that she was left by her deceased mother who she didn't really know that well. If I'm not mistaken, she died when she was very young. So, it is the one thing that she has close to her in regards to the mother that she barely knew. Meanwhile, Benedict is, I guess, resorting to his usual revalries, only he finds no joy in it. Ain't that how it go? He don't pop the same. Dick don't swang the same.

[00:32:04]And while at one of these parties, he ends up striking up a conversation with one of the men there who talks to him openly about how he has fallen in love and taken a mistress. He has fallen in love with said mistress is what I'm what I'm saying. And though this is not an uncommon thing, obviously it's one of honestly one of the most common things to happen amongst the Ton marriages, it is the first time in a while the conversation of mistresses have come up.

[00:32:29]The closest thing we had up until this was Anthony and that random opera singer from season 1, but this is the first time in a while we've really scrutinized the possibility of that of a mistress.

[00:32:42]Incidentally, serendipitously, if you will, as if it's not written like this, he ends up overhearing a ruckus at this party, and he ends up seeing that two women were arguing with pushy, gross, drunk men who are the owners of the establishment he was partying at. They get very physically aggressive towards these women. And one of them is Sophie.

[00:33:06]This is the job she has taken after being kicked out from our men to pinwood. Benedict comes over. He saves the day. He's fighting. He's struggling.

[00:33:14]In the struggle, he lands on broken glass, but eventually overpowers the other man and screams at him to apologize to Sophie. And despite his opponent's obvious objections because she's just a maid, he does apologize and fires her because, sure, misogyny makes no sense. Why would you fire her because you're an [ __ ] But sure. But in this moment, she sees Benedict. And she also sees that Benedict does not recognize her as the woman in silver. But as a gentleman, he does offer her a ride and safe travels to find new work. And on their travels, it begins to rain horribly. And he decides instead that the two of them should rest at a place he refers to as my cottage, the name that he has given his cottage. Little on the nose. I think it's fun. I think it's funny, but uh little on the nose. They decide to wait it out there, especially because that [ __ ] has a puncture wound on his abdomen that he was very nonchalant about. Yeah, he got it from the broken glass that he fell on. They both go to bed in separate rooms. She is awoken by him screaming bloody murder because he's having a horrible feverdriven nightmare.

[00:34:24]And luckily Sophie is able to tend to him with alcohol and bandages so that he doesn't die of pride as well because he refused to tell her that his wounds were as bad as they were.

[00:34:36]Got to say, I'll admit this was one of those moments when I realized I have a tinge of a sadistic streak because men writhing is hot.

[00:34:51]I don't know. I don't know if I should be concerned about that, but not enough to change. I rewatched him sweating and ah like over you guys remember when years ago there was the one chip challenge, the one like really spicy chip and you could see who could survive eating it and not drinking water or something like that. And I remember I watched this guy do it. He was in so much pain. He was sweating, breathing hard, neck all corded up, and I was just like, "Oh, this is an awakening for me." This was similar. So, after Sophie was fired from Pinwood House, Aramenta was forced to get four new maids in herstead because she didn't account for the fact that Sophie did everything. This resulted in her kind of poaching maids from other women of the ton which would start a movement, a workers movement of sorts called the maid wars where essentially maids realized how valuable of a work they do for these people and started to request larger payment which they deserve. Period. The [ __ ] And again, this season takes on a lot more about class than I think the other seasons did. Well, I should say it does it a lot more explicitly because up until now, Bridgetton has for the most part been about love amongst those of similar prestige. But obviously because Sophie is a maid, class is innately in question. So this is mirrored in the maid wars, namely because Lady Featherington, who we haven't talked about much thus far, and her head servant Vley end up being on the outs because of that. I just have an opinion about this one particular part. I don't know how much I'll go into the Vley Lady Featherington thing, but there is a part where essentially Vley is one of those people being scouted, so to speak, to work elsewhere, and Lady Featherington is like, "Oh, but your family, and I can't pay family really much better than that, but I will give you these ugly dresses that you will never wear because where the [ __ ] would a maid wear these?

[00:36:54]And even if you did have a place to wear them, they're ugly. And even if you didn't think they were ugly and you had a place to wear them, when the [ __ ] would you have time to go anywhere wearing these ugly ass dresses, the 60-year-old lady Vley.

[00:37:09]So eventually she does end up leaving Vley and ends up going to, of all people, Aramenta Penwood, who is awful in every sense. She was terrible to Sophie, so she's terrible to Vley as well. But she was seduced by the prospect of more money, so it is what it is. Okay, back to the my cottage time.

[00:37:28]When they get to the home, it is empty, but he has a married old married couple named the Crab Trees that run the home while he's away. And they're very sweet.

[00:37:38]They take good care of the home because this is one of his side houses. So, basically, they just live there for free and take care of it as if it's their house and then he comes every once in a while and they take care of him when he's there. And they also take great care of Benedict while he heals. And also Sophie, as she is called a guest, which is interesting because it seems like this is the first time she's ever been a guest at a house before, she doesn't know what to do with that. She doesn't know what to do with her free time, her lack of duties around the house. And so that leaves time for her to wander the home and wander the grounds. She ventures one day into his painting room/ library. And this is where we get one of those close quarters with a lot of books and candle light situations that Bridgeten loves to do.

[00:38:25]They chat about her reading, how he's surprised that she is a maid that can read, which isn't the most common thing in the world. She knows a lot about art, more than one would think a maid would have the luxury to learn about. She speaks French better than he does. She says that a lot of these things that she has, these abilities or privileges that she's had is because the woman that took her in was kind enough to let her sit in on the children's lessons. But it is something that is very interesting. You know, it's strange. She's so complex for someone that theoretically the average maid wouldn't have access to. But I think more importantly than anything, they vibe. They vibe mightily. And it would seem that being in such close proximity does not make things much easier, especially as he still here and there has the wandering imaginations of that unknown lady in silver. Back to Franchesca. Remember I said that there's this thing with her and Penelopey? Well, essentially Francesca is starting to feel a lot of guilt, namely that she's been married for a little while, less than a year, but she's been married for a little while to John and they have yet to conceive to the extent that it's starting to concern her. And while chatting about this with John, he basically says, you know, conception, I hear, is easier when a woman reaches her quote pinnacle. Unfortunately, Francesca has no idea what the [ __ ] that means.

[00:40:00]Sex up until now hasn't been unpleasant or unwelcome. Her and Jon have a love between them both inside and outside of the bedroom, but it certainly isn't this rapturous passion or crazy anim animalistic yearning that she hears other people talk about, particularly Penelopey. Like she gets this sense that there's just sex all over, you know, her and Colin, which is also gross cuz she's like, "That's my brother." But Penelpie, you seem so happy. And again, this is hilarious given last season Colin and Penelpie had new [ __ ] chemistry.

[00:40:34]Again, I do think they did better this season with that. And maybe it's because again, we don't have to sit there and remind ourselves like, didn't he say absolutely not, you baldhead dumb [ __ ] when you were listening to him talk [ __ ] about you to his friends. So, they [ __ ] in the carriage again, Penelope and Colin. She's so sexed up. It's on her.

[00:40:53]And Franchesca is like, "What the [ __ ] is the pinnacle?" And Penelopey doesn't explain what it means because they're in public. And so later she goes to the worst person she should honestly go to about this, Violet, who if you've seen from other seasons, she's not good at this. And there's something endearing about that in a way. It's like, damn, this is not her strong suit. Stop going to your mama for this. I don't know who you're supposed to go to. Theoretically, you would hope you can go to her for it, but this is not her strong suit. You will leave more confused than you were before. And so she does. And so now she finds herself in this position where she knows bits and pieces about what the pinnacle might be. And so she's struggling with the feeling that she's deficient in some way. She's not doing something right. And therefore, that's why she hasn't given Jon a baby, which feels like her ultimate duty. Jon isn't putting that pressure on her. He's very much so like, you know, we have so much time. We can take our time. We can just enjoy each other. We don't have to rush this and this is our learning experience. I love John.

[00:41:59]Back to Benedict and Sophie. They are getting close. Both of them are aware of why that's a bad idea, but Benedict less so because again he kind of goes with the flow in a way that's very annoying sometime. It is. He do piss me off regularly in this season as well. But they enjoy each other. There's a magnetism. They have fun doing innocuous things like flying a kite. And something that seems very innocuous on the surface does make Mrs. Crabtree in particular concerned because they're interacting in a way as if he doesn't see her as a maid and he doesn't see her as like a sibling. There's something there. If he were to dally with her, it could ruin her. Ruin her prospects of earning money to live, prospect of her finding a new job, prospects of her, you know, maybe marrying someone in the future. He could really ruin her. And her fears are valid. They're not coming out of nowhere. Because incidentally, while that's happening, Sophie is happening upon Benedict while he's naked swimming in the lake. Which, side note, I understand that this scene was supposed to be hot. I could not ignore how dirty that [ __ ] water was. It don't look like it's moving water. It doesn't look like it's been going around. It's just frog [ __ ] and moss. And I'm just like, "Oh, ew." And you naked. You going to get a tapeworm. This is a culmination where she's like, "Oh my god, I I ran in on him naked." And he gets dressed and it continues this bantering and bickering as one does in a Bridgetgerton, especially in the leadup to everything reaching a fever pitch.

[00:43:35]and they are standing all too close.

[00:43:42]They kiss and though it is their second time, only one of them is aware of that.

[00:43:46]The aftermath is awkward, but it sends Sophie reeling and Mrs. Crabtree suspecting that Sophie and Benedict are canoodling or beyond that. She talks to both of them like, "Hey, chill the [ __ ] out." Especially to Benedict, like her being your maid makes her at the mercy of your station. But he insists they are only friends and that there's nothing that she has to worry about, especially because he is going to take her into the city soon to find work and they will not need to see each other ever again in theory. Another sub story I don't really care about, the Mandriches. I've never cared about the mandrees, so this is not new. But Lady Dumbre has started making acquaintances with Lady Mandrich.

[00:44:28]Alice, I believe. And it's pretty clear that Lady Dumbre is looking to recommend Alice to be the next lady and waiting for the queen so that she will let Lady Dre leave to do her voyage back to the homeland with the hopes that Alice is so good at this that she's able to be a true friend to the queen in ways that other people weren't able to. I guess the theory is that Alice Mandrich was not always a person of the ta. She has a realism to her that she can bring to Queen Charlotte, but Queen Charlotte isn't like all over it. She's like, "No, [ __ ] I want my friend. You can't just give me some other hoe and be like, "Yeah, this is your new friend." Like, girl, [ __ ] you. Also, Alice Mandridge don't really want to be a lady and waiter either. She did not ask for that.

[00:45:13]And Lady Dre is like, "Bitch, this is a privilege. You do not simply turn down the queen." and she's like, I didn't ask to be a part of the queen's thing and she don't want me, you want me to be.

[00:45:24]Anyway, long story short, she becomes a lady and waiting and I guess she's good at the job eventually. So, good for her.

[00:45:28]Back to Franchesca and not being able to pop her puss. So, Francesca goes back to Penelopey and she's like, "Hey, I'm going to need y'all to stop using euphemisms. I talked to my mama. She don't know what the [ __ ] she talking about. She don't know how to talk to me.

[00:45:40]What is a pinnacle?" No euphemisms, no metaphors. I want what coming is. And so, Penelopey obliges as much as she can. And this leads Francesa to wonder if she has ever felt this sensation that everyone is going on about, which does lead her to overcompensate sexually, basically faking it. And luckily, Jon is so so patient and understanding. He's like, "I never want you to fake it. I want you to feel good, and I want to work with you and figuring out again, we have all this time." Incidentally, Violet is also very nervous about pursuing a sexual relationship, but with Mr. Anderson. Sexy ballhead [ __ ] I want to rub that spit shiny And it's very cute. They have so much chemistry. Oh my god. Honestly, more than anybody since Anthony and Kate and Charlotte and George. Honestly, so much chemistry. Oh my god. And it's been bleeding through more than one season at this point and more than one occasion.

[00:46:36]It's so slow. And I don't know. They real cute. They finally kiss in the drawing room and they play classical paramore. All I Wanted Was You. And as stupid as it sounds, it worked. It was good. It would seem though that frustratingly whenever they want to be alone, there's always people around. But good thing her ladies maid is a real one. And she's like, "Hey, we can make an excuse to get everyone out of here.

[00:46:59]Your kids, all the servants, anybody. I will help you do that because you deserve to get some dick." She say better words that are more eloquent.

[00:47:07]She's like, "Life is meant to be lived."

[00:47:08]But what she said is, "Go get some dick, girl. It's been a long time. You deserve it." They use the euphemism of inviting someone over for tea. And the mage is like, "Everyone drinks tea, mom.

[00:47:20]Get you some dick, girl. Get some cream." And don't come in her. They don't have the stuff for that. They don't have protections for that. Remember when I said that Benedict was going to help Sophie find a job? Well, that job is at Bridgetton House. In fairness, it wasn't that he wasn't asking around, but Lady Armen Penwood been going around talking [ __ ] about her all over the town. So, now nobody wants to hire her. So, he goes to Violet. He's like, "Hey, can we hire her?" And Violet's a little skeptical because again, she's heard the gossip about this girl. But she also hears how she saved Benedict's life and that is enough for her to be more than willing to bring her in. Sophie makes friends very quickly with the staff. And Benedict was also kind enough to bring the other friend that was fired from the scuffle at that one guy's house. He even got her hired as well so that they know each other. And that's awesome. But as one would assume, it does seem that Benedict being around presents its own challenges. One interesting issue being that again he's still looking for the mysterious lady in silver. Though it does seem to be waxing and wavering and inconsistent because he is conflicted that he also has undeniable feelings for Sophie, another person that he can't grasp cuz she's a maid. The Bridgetton sisters are immediately taken with Sophie, especially Eloise. really loves learning about her outlook on literature and her interesting experiences being, you know, where did you have these? But she speaks several languages and eventually with how taken they are with her, Violet is very excited to ask her to stay permanently. Originally, her work there was only until she gets settled and finds something else, but she's such a great fit. But again, this is even more difficult because Benedict keep winding up in candle lit romantic ass rooms with nobody else there but her. But she is doing a good job reminding herself that this is a bad idea. One of the reasons she's able to do that is cuz she always has the necklace that her mother left for her.

[00:49:19]Her mother was left with nothing because she fell in love with a nobleman and she would never want to do that as well. So instead, she recloses herself into her room. She tries to do a little coochie DJ, but it pales at the thought of the real thing, which I'm like, how do you know what the real thing feels like?

[00:49:36]She's just annoyed and she's like, "Fuck, I don't want to do this. I I want to I want them." As the search for the lady in Silver continues, Violet ends up hearing that it may be a woman named Miss Hollis. She never had dance lessons, has dark hair, is white. He didn't seem to tell people that she's Asian, the woman he's looking for. Or maybe he didn't notice. I'm genuinely so perplexed. even with a mask on that isn't like you can she's a clearly Asian woman. Anyway, so they bring this white woman in and they're chatting and the entire time he has an obvious fixation on Sophie. Also during the conversation it's pretty clear that this isn't the woman in silver. Miss Hollis didn't come to the masquerade. She couldn't make it.

[00:50:19]And this is very interesting and awkward and frustrating and just a cluster [ __ ] of feelings for Sophie as you can imagine as she's watching the guy she's kissed chat with a potential wife as he's looking for a woman that she knows that she is. It's a lot. So the night has come for Lady Bridgetton, Violet Bridgeten to get some dick. And luckily that maid who was a real one, she got everybody to get out. She basically said to the other Bridgetens, "Go hang out at Franchesca house." Yeah, they were going to have a get together and then all of a sudden Violet can't make it. She's sick.

[00:50:54]I'm sick. And then all the other servants, she's like, "Get the [ __ ] out.

[00:50:56]I don't care where you go. Have fun. You can't be here though." And so she readies herself to have a night of passion. She's very nervous. She She like looks at her body in the mirror and you can tell that she has a lot of anxiety around like will she be perceived as sexy? She's older. She's had eight children. She's, you know, she has a lot of anxieties, but she's like, "I want this. I want her." And I bet you do, [ __ ] So Violet gets all gussied up. She gets him lifted in her chin. She lays on the bed. He thinks he's coming for tea. But I am the tea you're having.

[00:51:28]>> How much understand that this means?

[00:51:30]>> I am the tea that you are having.

[00:51:33]He take his pants off, show that fat ass, and she shows how she made all them damn kids. I am the tea, [ __ ] Absolutely.

[00:51:42]Godamn. I am such a fan of all this man ass going around these days. I feel like in the last 5 to 10 years, TV has really embraced man ass, and I love it. More more. Meanwhile, we're back at Franchesca and John Kil Martin's home where without alerting them beforehand, his cousin Michaela, again, the gender swap person from last season, at the end of last season, she pops up, comes to visit, say she's staying for a while.

[00:52:11]because we don't really see their time in Scotland. All we've seen is the first time she saw like Franchesca saw Michaela and this kind of uncomfortable, unspoken, tense energy. What is it between these two? We we don't know. We don't know what is it between these two that they just have a friction that is really hard to explain. At this point, Francesca seems a bit crestfallen that Michaela has arrived. Namely because Michaela and and John are quite close to the extent that she occupies a lot of his time. Also, apparently back in Scotland, Michaela didn't really make an effort to get to know Franchesca. And honestly, this is back when [ __ ] was marrying their [ __ ] cousins. I have a problem with it, too. [ __ ] you seem to be way too close to my [ __ ] But it's not that's not where it's coming from.

[00:53:00]You can tell that's not where it's coming from. I would be like, people be marrying their first cousins. It's 1813, [ __ ] I'm gonna need you to stay away from my [ __ ] Period. But alas, they just can't seem to get on the same page.

[00:53:13]These two people that are very important to him. So Sophie goes out with the other servants. They're going to have a time, go to a pub or something, you know, relax. But she forgets her coin purse. And on the way back, she runs into Benedict and it's on like popcorn. They he going at it. He's lift her up. Hey, lick the fingers in. He in there digging in her [ __ ] on the stairwell and I'm like damn [ __ ] that said we need to be careful on the stairwell.

[00:53:42]That's cra that's mess. I love it.

[00:53:45]However, in the buildup I was reminded of the book. I vaguely remembered that Benedict says something that like throws ice water on it and I was like he's going to do it right here, isn't he?

[00:53:59]This is where he does it.

[00:54:01]So they're making out. He's digging in her [ __ ] He confesses how much he's transfixed on her. How he wants to give her better. How he wants to be everything for her. He wants her to be his mistress.

[00:54:20]>> Be my mistress, >> dog. I remember when I read that. I threw that book so far across the room.

[00:54:26]I was like, "WHAT IS THIS [ __ ] YOU GOT ME READING 200 pages into this book and this [ __ ] had to uh Can you be my mistress, [ __ ] [ __ ] you. I remember chucking that damn book across the room.

[00:54:36][ __ ] ain't [ __ ] And good for her.

[00:54:38]She's like, she don't even say no. She just leaves.

[00:54:42]She's like, "What the fuck?" And again, it it's a crazy thing to say, especially in modern times. Like, that's that's wild. But can you be my side, [ __ ] [ __ ] what? Especially though in the context again of Sophie being the the child of a nobleman's mistress. her turning away from it is so brazen in a way that's I think a lot of people don't really give her a lot of credit for or it's not that they don't give her credit but I think it's very interesting to think of this in the context of the rest of the normalities of the ton like essentially a nobleman's mistress is about the highest honor a titleless maid an illegitimate child could aspire to but because she feels so strongly that she does not want to be like her mother she said [ __ ] [ __ ] you. She's not aspiring to be a man's mistress. If anything, she wants to leave and find new work and be nowhere near this [ __ ] And so after that, she says, "Yeah, Violet, um, can you write me a letter of recommendation? I would like to work elsewhere, maybe work in my my hometown, only for that to make Violet more suspicious that Sophie is perhaps not as lowly as her maid status would assume."

[00:55:51]She asked about her hometown, and she was like, "Oh, isn't that place really known for its owls or something?" thing and she's like, "Yeah, it's great owls and apparently they're known for their pigeons or some [ __ ] I don't know.

[00:56:00]They're ducks. They're known for their ducks." And she didn't know that. So, I was like, "Is that where you're from? I feel like there's more to you that we don't know." But Sophie wants to leave.

[00:56:08]She wants to leave and she needs to cuz as we the audience will find out, she has a new neighbor. It would seem that a new Lord Penwood has been found since the death of the late Penwood and that he has recently been married and that they will be moving into Penwood House.

[00:56:24]Therefore, Arameamenta, the stepmother, and and the two step sisters will be needing to move. And they just so happen to be moving into the home next door to the Bridgettons.

[00:56:39]He does some [ __ ] Hi, this is editing Kenny. This video is too damn long, so I'm going to split it in two. I realized too late that if I put it up now, it would be two hours. A 2hour video on Bridgetton season 4 is insane.