What a Barb! A Polin Podcast

Beware shallow waters, dear listeners. Spoilers are ahead.

With only a week to go until our carriage arrives back in Mayfair, we’re wading out a little deeper as we share our first reactions to S4E1 The Waltz.

As the Bridgerton servants prepare our scones, we’ll be polishing up Benedict’s rock collection, searching the ton for Fran’s pinnacle and making sure no one spills tea on the heir to the Featherington name.

Following a dance lesson with a silver ingenue, we’ll be sniffing our wrists and turning our attentions to matters of the heart with Matchmaker Colin. After all, we’d wager he’s not the only one blessed with the gift of the gab.

And if you’re feeling a little chill from the passing winter, then it’s time to slip on your silver gloves and step back into the ton. The seasons are changing, dearest listeners, and who knows what lies in the beyond?
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Show Notes
Shondaland: Season 4 Premiere Recap
Tudum: Six New Photos Tease What's Ahead for the Ton
Instagram: @BridgertonNetflix Season 4 Character Videos
YouTube: Pay Or Wait's interview with the cast of Bridgerton Season 4

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Uh…shall we pop the kettle on, Colin?

As we awake from a fitful night on the sofa, we’re fluffing our pillows and pouring ourselves a cup of trage-tea for Part 1 of our S3E8 rewatch.

With newlywedded bliss nowhere in sight, we’ll be taking the carriage alone to visit Pen’s mother and Walter Dundas Esq. before swinging by Bridgerton House to console a grumpy husband with an unfortunately timed hero complex.

And while one marriage might be on the rocks, it won’t stop us from grabbing our confetti and bagpipes as we walk Fran down the carpet to join John in holy (and probably temporary) matrimony. ‘Till death do you part, Frohn.

But hold your dying breath, dearest listeners. A gossip writer has been exposed and a blackmail plot is underway. Best get the chequebook out, Pen. That ticket to Vienna won’t pay for itself.

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Show Notes
"Into the Light." Bridgerton. Written by Daniel Robinson. Unpublished manuscript (double white revisions, no draft date). Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library.Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library: https://www.wgfoundation.org/

Tudum: Waltz into Bridgerton's Season of Love (Season 4 news and updates)

Vogue Australia: Interview with Yerin Ha

Man of Many: Interview with Luke Thompson
Instagram: Production Designer Alison Gartshore's BTS

Shondaland: 10 Books We Think Eloise Bridgerton Would Enjoy
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Rakes of the ton, beware – Violet Bridgerton is on the warpath.

Join us as we raise our kites in honour of the Benophie New Year and celebrate the long-awaited arrival of the Season 4 Part 1 trailer.

With our maid pinafores freshly starched for the year ahead, we’ll be taking a trip downstairs where we'll find Sophie a good costume for one glorious night and grab the mop and bucket to clean up the aftermath of an alphabetic shaving cream fight.

Across the square, we’ll also be helping Penelope tie a mask on a pirate’s mast before we sneak into a ballroom with Hy, waltz in the bandstand and impatiently await a midnight unmasking. And if we see a rocking Featherington carriage thereafter? Well, life is meant to be lived, dear listeners.

Later, we’ll be joining Benedict for an artistic retreat in the country where a chance encounter will lead to a time slip, a hidden necklace and a naked rake dripping in a lake.

Should this scandalous acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Perhaps an offer from a gentleman might free him from a bind.

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Show Notes:
Shondaland: 12 Days of Bridgerton: https://www.shondaland.com/shondaland-series/bridgerton/12-days-of-bridgerton
Tudum: Season 4 Part 1 Trailer: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/bridgerton-trailer-season-4-part-1
Tudum: Season 4 News and Updates: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/bridgerton
Instagram: @rottentiger_art: https://www.instagram.com/rottentiger_art/
 
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Happy Wedding Eve, one and all.

Yep, we’re swapping boughs of holly for bouquets of larkspur as Penelope and Colin finally nod their way down the aisle in Part 2 of our S3E7 rewatch.

Following a late night of secret dealings, marriage counselling and a little horsing around, we’ll be wiping the dust from our eyes and taking our seats next to a gaggle of redheads for the nuptials of the season.

Once we’ve joined Pen and Colin in holy matrimony, we’ll be admiring swan cakes and chasing jelly moulds before a royal gatecrasher puts our wedding night plans in peril. Let’s hope that sofa’s comfy, Colin.

But if things are looking a little bleak for our newlyweds, then worry not. If we take a peek beneath the Christmas tree, we might just catch a glimpse of the happy couple kissing underneath the mistletoe.

You know we love them so.

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Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library: ⁠⁠https://www.wgfoundation.org/⁠⁠
"Joining of Hands." Bridgerton. Written by Geetika Tandon Lizardi. Unpublished manuscript (double white revisions, no draft date). Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library.

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The worst reaction out of everyone in the ton? Well, he is a sensitive boy.

With a secret out in the open and an engagement up in the air, we have our social calendar full this week as we begin our rewatch of S3E7 Joining of Hands.

As we plan the most elaborate wedding breakfast of the season, we’ll be checking the diaries of the Smythe-Smith quintet, finding a hair tie for a heartbroken ponytail and taking a trip across town to check the marital status of an old friend.

Elsewhere, we’ll be eavesdropping on a staircase confrontation between an uncommonly lucky Eloise and a commonly entrapped Colin, before baiting our nets to catch a sad little rainbow fish over at Featherington House.

But beware, dearest listeners: we hear an imposter is on the loose. And gossip as we might, we cannot tolerate a lie. Isn’t that right, Penelope?

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Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library: ⁠https://www.wgfoundation.org/⁠
"Joining of Hands." Bridgerton. Written by Geetika Tandon Lizardi. Unpublished manuscript (double white revisions, no draft date). Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library.

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