The final episodes of 'Bridgerton' season 3 put Penelope's secret identity in jeopardy and reveals a few surprises about the siblings at the center of Netflix's hit romantic drama.
Congrats on surviving the excruciating month-long wait for Colin “Two Fingers” Bridgerton to announce his engagement to Penelope “What? No Secrets Here!” Featherington.) walks beneath the wisteria into Bridgerton House like she’s underwater, all slow time and indistinct voices and Colin’s warm eyes on her.
At the Cowper residence, Eloise is pacing and ranting about Penelope using her to get to Colin while Cressida — you know, Eloise’s supposed current best friend — can barely get a word in about being forced to marry a man her great-grandfather’s age who is, alas, in perfect health. But she manages to stiffen her upper lip by picturing the money, freedom, and social clout she’ll enjoy as Lady Ancient von Geriatric.
Turning her to face the room's full-length mirror, he stands behind her and catalogs all of her best qualities. Her cleverness and bravery. Her hair, her eyes. Her lips, her skin, her breasts. He touches every part of her as he talks, and we watch the wonder on her face as she takes it all in. It’s there in Colin’s explanation about the potential for pain and the care he takes with her, and it’s in Penelope’s alarm when he’s fully naked in front of her and the discomfort that slowly turns to pleasure. It’s also in the way he checks in with her, the way she moves with him, in their kisses and their eye contact and their soft laughter once it’s done. It is, as Penelope puts it, perfect.mess.
Tucked away in a different bedroom, Kate tells Anthony that they need to keep her pregnancy secret a little longer to avoid pulling focus from all the courtships around them. Kate then leaves her husband and her dog to start work on the betrothal party., Eloise admits that she’s hurt Colin didn’t tell her about Penelope and bummed that everyone around her is pairing off. Kate, who herself seems a bit more pensive since her pregnancy, encourages her to be honest with Colin about it.
Engagement party time! The place is hopping, with Portia complaining to Pen about the drab decor yet gushing about it to Colin and Benedict introducing Tilley to Kate. Will and Alice Mondrich arrive, and Gregory runs off with Baron Nicky to check out his new bow and arrow. During a break in the action, Cressida finally catches Eloise’s attention by announcing that she’ll use the Whistledown reward to get a flat in Vienna, but Eloise says there's no way Cressida's smart enough to ferret out Lady W’s identity. And yet again, I’m left feeling bad for Cressida.John, meanwhile, has better luck telling his muddy boots story when it’s just Anthony, Kate, and Violet.
It’s tough to be 100 percent angry at Cressida as she deals with a worst-case-scenario marriage and zero support from her parents or the one friend she thought she had. It’s villain behavior, sure, but born of desperation rather than pure evil. Still, it's going to complicate so many things for Penelope!
After he leaves, Pen stares at the ring and considers the decisions she has to make. But good news, at least the title-card tree looks healthy again! Penelope, however, isn’t willing to let Cressida frickin' Cowper take credit for her life’s work. “It would break my heart,” she tells Eloise. But her former best friend says Penelope can’t be both Lady WhistledownCressida isn’t having a terribly good time since her announcement either.
In other gains-and-losses news, the Mondriches have decided to sell the club. A relieved Lady Danbury advises them to throw a ball to celebrate their full immersion in the ton. While Alice gets to work, Will invites Benedict, Colin, and John to help him drink the last of the good liquor before the new proprietor takes over., they compete over the last glass by sharing sob stories. For Colin, it’s the trouble he’s having turning his journal into a book.
Cressida accuses Eloise of being jealous that she’s made something of herself, and Eloise, who’s starting to understand what drove Penelope to create Lady Whistledown in the first place, ends their friendship for good. Now that the queen has been mollified, Francesca suggests Violet go talk to her, but Violet lets it slip that she’s afraid her lack of enthusiasm will ruin things. Francesca's had enough and tells her mother off .
Before we wrap up the Mondrich ball, let’s take a side trip to Lady Tilley’s place, where she’s arranged a gathering so Benedict can meet her dear friend Paul Suarez , who’s… well, he’s young and handsome, and their dinner conversation starts to feel a little “we saw you from across the bar and liked your vibe.”
Cressida’s brought “proof” in the form of a short Whistledown installment promising a full issue to come. No surprise, it’s not her, but Lady Cowper who’s covered in ink. Cressida really is a terrible writer. But her relief shatters when she turns to see Colin walking toward her and he asks in disbelief, “You are Lady Whistledown?”Man, Lord Debling really exited stage left, didn’t he? And to think, he could’ve stuck around, married Cressida, and saved everybody a lot of trouble.
Thankfully, Penelope’s version is also circulating, and have you ever been more relieved to hear Julie Andrews reading you gossip? Her issue identifies a man who refuses to pay his debts, a woman who fired her maid for requesting a day off, and a husband who’s abusive to his wife. Voice to the voiceless!
He then asks Pen if she'll stop publishing as Whistledown. She says she's not sure, he replies that he’s not sure what kind of marriage that’ll leave them with. More progress: Benedict agrees to let Tilley explain what went down at the dinner party, which is pretty much what we all figured out: Mr. Suarez sleeps with men and women, and she sometimes joins in because sex is natural and doesn’t need to abide by society’s rules.
When Penelope confesses to feeling like she's losing part of herself by not publishing, Genevieve offers up a second gold nugget of advice: On the one hand, Kate’s right that Colin needs to weigh everything he knows about Penelope, including how difficult coming clean would’ve been for her. On the other hand, it’s not like they’re fighting because she spilled wine on his favorite cravat or something. This is way more than a single mistake!
The wedding breakfast afterward is packed with well-wishers; even Prudence is sincere in her congratulations to Penelope. Lady Danbury lets Violet know that she and Marcus have cleared the air, although this leads Anthony to glare at the man for making eyes at his mother until Kate tells him to knock it off.
Charlotte’s studied the competing Whistledowns and come to a conclusion: the real Whistledown published in order to defend the Bridgertons from Cressida. Ergo, Whistledown is a Bridgerton. Because that's exactly what he's doing. When Paul and Tilley walk through her door, Benedict shoots to his feet and hungrily kisses both of them, first Tilley and then Paul. WE DID IT, JOE! Lots of viewers clocked the idea of ashowrunners for my skepticism that they’d ever embrace this storyline.
One more important thing happened at the wedding breakfast: Anthony noticed Kate hasn’t quite been herself, so he suggests they travel to her hometown in India where she can give birth and he can learn about her culture. He wants their child to understand both their Bridgertontheir Sharma heritage. Kate’s overjoyed by the offer, which is a fantastic development for their characters and, presumably, a tidy way to explain things if Bailey and Ashley aren’t available for future seasons of the show.
Portia’s furious that Penelope’s been undermining her efforts to save their family from ruin and urges her not to tell Colin about the blackmail. At this point, he just might demand an annulment. Penelope and Eloise are collapsed on a couch awaiting Colin’s return, chatting like the best friends they always should've been. Pen gets El to admit to a tiny bit of pettiness in befriending Cressida, although Eloise says she truly did enjoy her at the start.
Elsewhere in London, Violet has moved on to planning the next Bridgerton wedding, and she, Francesca, and John are doing so at Gunter’s,This means Violet is very much in public when she’s rocked by the couple's news that they want a special license so they can marry quickly and move to his primary estate in the Scottish Highlands.
Colin’s still playing the “sleep on the couch” game despite being distracted by his wife’s bare shoulder as she prepares for bed. The conversation ends in a semi-positive place when Portia acknowledges that she overlooked Penelope for too long. “If we survive this round,” she says, “we must do better.”
This whole scene is full of Bridgerton family goodness as they laugh at Violet’s attempts to duet with Francesca, tease Eloise about being next on the marriage mart, and speculate about Marcus’ intentions toward their mother. Okay, the time has come to reveal the miracles that Varley performed for the Dankworth-Finch ball. It’s stunning, actually! Soaring columns, ostrich feather arrangements, sumptuous food, an eight-piece ensemble, all done up in purple and orange and gold and lavish excess.
After a dramatic pause, Charlotte declares, “She seems humbled," and although she warns that she’ll be watching, she concludes, “What is life without a little gossip?” Penelope’s most important conversation, though, is with Colin. Knowing this could still reflect badly on the Bridgertons, she offers him an annulment. But after rereading her letters, he finally realized there’s no separating her from Whistledown. They always had one voice, Penelope’s voice, and it’s bloody brilliant.been jealous of her success, but he’s now perfectly satisfied to just be her husband. “How lucky I am to stand by your side and soak up even a little bit of your light.
Eloise is also leaving town, having gotten permission from John and Francesca to move into a wing of their literal Scottish castle. Operation See the World is officially underway!
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