Monthly Archives: November 2021

Bridgerton was something I spent my weekend binge watching after my neighbor absolutely insisted that I had to watch it because it was the best show she had seen despite the fact that she hates anything with romance. I had seen a lot of advertising about this show all over the internet when it first came out and took over Netflix but for whatever  reason it did not interest me. I thought it would be a knock-off show of pride and prejudice and Netflix frequently has this thing where they take inspiration from old shows/movies and make it absolutely awful. And while the overall setting and vibe of the shower gives Pride and Prejudice vibes it has a totally different and really interesting plot to it. Its sort of like if you mixed Pride and Prejudice and then mixed in Gossip Girl.

The first season (and only season currently) revolves around the character Daphne who is ready to be brought up in order to be presented for marriage. She has a healthy view of love as she was shown through her parents true love before he died. Because of this she believes in the true love aspect and does not want to get married to just anyone despite her eagerness to become a wife. When she is sent to the Queen along with the other girls in her village to be assessed, she is specifically picked out as perfect by the queen and Daphne is satisfied knowing she will now have a long line of suitors who will fight to court after her.

However what show lets their main character off that easily especially in the beginning? As Daphne is being courted her brother the new head of the house since their father died is helping her with her selections however all he does is scare off every suitor that comes her way to the point where eventually they all lose interest and Daphne is left to struggle when only one man shows interest in her, a man who she does not want to marry. Much to her dismay a gossip girl type of writer named Lady Whistledown posts all the gossip during the courting season out to people for free and Daphne’s lack of suitors becomes public embarrassment as she is exposed to the people around her.

To offset this setback Daphne decides to enter a relationship with another character, the duke. The duke is well known fro refusing to marry and have heirs with anyone. They propose a relationship where they both act is if they are courting one another. It is mutually beneficial in the fact that it will make more suitors interested in Daphne since she was able to get with the Duke. She looks more desirable in their eyes yet again as they like the idea of getting something they cannot have. For the Duke it keeps “annoying mothers and their daughters” away from him as they are just seeking his money and title despite the fact that everyone knows he does not desire a marriage or partner.

Im sure the overall theme of the show is pretty apparent with the enemies to lovers vibe but it wasn’t overly cliche and i really enjoyed the other plots in the show as it did not revolve around the two the whole time, the Lady Whistledown scandals made it more enjoyable to watch and the ending where it was revealed who Whistledown was was as shocking as finding out who Gossip Girl was so I recommend it.

In all honesty I couldn’t think of a movie that I could write a lot about so instead I am just going to write about something I watched recently. This weekend me and my friends were bored and looking for nostalgic movies to watch on Disney plus. We all unanimously ended up deciding on Princess Diaries because it’s obviously a cult favorite. Not to mention Anne Hathaway is one of my favorite actresses. I feel like this movie was pretty much every high school girls dream growing up and any girl born in the early 2000s has probably seen this movie.

Mia Thermopolis totally embodies our childhood dreams of our life suddenly getting turned upside down and becoming some sort of important person. She is portrayed as a shy and super hopeless girl in terms of social standing. She has messy hair is extremely clumsy and has bushy man eyebrows if I were to quote from the movie. Out of nowhere her grandmother who had not contacted her for 15 years suddenly arrived claiming she was the princess of a small country named Genovia and that her grandmother was the queen. Her Grandmother explains that her recently dead father was the prince and since she has royal blood she is next in line to succeed the throne and that she would like to present Mia to the public and teach her the ways of royalty.

The movie does focus on the perspective of beauty and staying true to yourself however. When she is thrust upon new princess duties and struggling to learn one of the first things she needs to receive is a new makeover. While the imagine of previously calling her ugly and needing to fix her “ugly” appearance, Mia shows clearly that she doesn’t exactly want to change herself. She does not want new hair or makeup or to change anything about her current life. Her friend even makes comments like how she sold herself to “fit in” and we see that Mia is quite sensitive to this comment because she did not exactly want to change her outside appearance. Despite her makeover and the fact that people look at her differently on the outside, she remains herself throughout the film. She acts just as shy and clumsy as she has from the beginning of the movie, however she accepts and presents herself with much more confidence than previously.

It also teaches us the importance of the people who really pay attention to who we are. As she enjoys her newfound fame she ends up getting wrapped up with the popular kids and boy at her school until she realizes they’re all just using her to get ahead in their own social lives. At the end of the movie we see she becomes accepted to her position as a princesses and chooses the guy that had “seen her whens he was invisible”. The show really touches on the common feelings of teenagers with their insecurity and the most valuable lesson she had learned was that other people can’t make you feel inferior if you don’t allow them to.