He didn’t need to marry again, he just needed to not be cheap and employ a live-in nanny 😭

The exchange between Eloise and Phillip in letters was so "With a comma after dearest" coded

I have a feeling they’re going to change a good chunk of Eloise’s story, to make Phillip a little more likeable. I also agree this Eloise doesn’t sound like the Eloise we know. I’m curious to see what changes they make.

The press tour for eloise's season is gonna be so funny just claudia being hilarious and phillips actor will just...be there

Oh god I hate this story for Eloise, I really hope they change it

What I will say in defense of Philip (though not as an excuse to wipe all his flaws away) is he actually is one of the more realistic male love interests to me in regards to how he responds to trauma. I’ve known plenty of men whose baseline as a father was “I won’t hit my kids the way my dad hit me” and they thought that made them a good father because that was their only frame of reference. I don’t like everything Philip does but I actually love the journey he goes on in realizing there is so much more to being a father and how he decides by the end to play a more active role in his children’s lives.

Eloise story in this book is just SOOOOOOO damn lame, let's be honest. Hope they change this for the TV adaptation. She deserved better than being a cheap nanny for a nerdy widower not really interested in humanities lol

I appreciate Sir Phillip’s “awkward nerd” representation

Eloise's book is simultaneously my favourite one and also the most infuriating one.

I appreciate the fact that Sir Philip is an absolute awkward idiot who just goes to tend to his plants any time he can't handle a situation over being just another scoundrel rake, raking up the place and gathering STDs.

Which at times is absolutely hilarious. This book is definitely the funniest one of the bunch. The confrontation with the brothers literally invented comedy. Imagining that giant  man (who apparently used to wrestle) just letting himself get dunked on by the 3 brothers (while Colin whines about missing Pen and being hungry) is really fuckin funny.

And in other times this can get a bit infuriating because these books don't really like to focus on overtime development of characters gradually changing their behaviour. Which would really just improve this as a ROMANTIC story. I also wish they just had MORE time to get to know eachother before marrying eachother. (which I'm assuming is something the show will do, because i expect them to start writing to eachother during season 4)

Phillip's socially awkward, can't string his feelings together in a sentence ass paired with Eloise's confrontational, literally talks circles around him ass creates a very interesting dynamic where i think it really gives both characters room to grown and match eachother's pace. And in really envisioning the show taking the really good parts of their story and expanding upon them.

I get the feeling that the show, to match this story more with show Eloise's personality, might have her become something like a governess of the Crane estate. That's an idea that that show played around a bit with Kate, who Eloise connected with. That's also one of the jobs women could actually have at the time and something Eloise might want to pursue, rather than going there in hope of matching with Philip. It would also make sense with him wanting someone to take care of his children.

I feel like that scenario will just make more sense of some things while letting others play exactly the same way. It also leaves them on a starting ground where it's a bit less confusing to watch Philip be emotionally stunted about liking Eloise and it will make him seem less like he is ONLY in this for convenience.

Because if his children needing a caretaker is the setup, that being an actual JOB rather than them GETTING MARRIED being treated as a business transaction, gives room for the actual romance to feel more organic.

Think. The Sound of Music or The Nanny.

Your plot breakdowns are carrying the summer 🫶

Your strength of character is so admirable 😭😭 thank you so much for not only reading all 3500 of those pages but also explaining them to us all so kindly. The bridgerton fans owe you a great debt

The fact the we will never see Francesca’s story come to life😭😭😭

Sir Philip sounds like an awful man.
Wtf Julia? Eloise deserves better.

1:32:23 I gotta say, I think that line from Colin could potentially be SO SUPERIOR IN DELIVERY after his marriage to Pen rather than before it. Because he'll have already had that journey of realizing his feelings for a friend turned romantic, so instead of seeming hypocritical, it would seem like a genuine bonding moment where Colin tries to help someone through what he went through. AND it would be HILARIOUS, given how Michael is not anything like 'oblivious' to his feelings for Francesca. I really hope that scene makes it in the show! (Love your accent, BTW!)

I've been checking your page 3 to 4 times a day for this video and it took YouTube an entire hour to let me know what was uploaded. Thank you so much I feel relieved now lol.

Dear SAV

"Thank you" - from the whole community of bridgerton fan who are lazy to read books.

Waiting for next video, no pressure.lol

You should do the entire plot of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles next because there's also a tv adaptation currently airing (plus the old movies) and the plot gets crazier and crazier the more you read

Philip is probably the misogynistic man in the series. He's my least favorite.

Love Francesca and Michael

I want her to live her life and travel during the season of Always, not get married.