Today is a good day to be a Polin fan! Netflix and Shondaland released the official part 1 trailer, two versions of the key art – one still and one little video – as well as new images for Bridgerton Season 3 and everything looks better than in our dreams! Ready?
Here we go!
Bridgerton Season 3 Part 1 Trailer
The trailer for Bridgerton season 3 part 1 is everything we dreamed of and more! In the beginning, we see Colin return home while Penelope prepares for a new season. The same season in which Francesca makes her debut and Kanthony enjoys their time as newlyweds. Luck seems to smile on the Bridgerton family…but the same isn’t true of Penelope.
We cannot forget Penelope’s face of betrayal and pain when she discovers Eloise and Cressida laughing together at an event. Surely it was just a moment in the grand scheme of things but it’s enough for Penelope to realize that there’s no way for her friendship with Eloise to be repaired.
Penelope lost the two most important Bridgertons in her life. It’s a fact. Now she must move forward… and she needs a husband to do so. It’s the only way to get away from her mother and gain enough independence for her to remain Lady Whistledown. Her double identity is the only thing Penelope has left.
And the Bridgerton season 3 trailer knows exactly what it’s doing when Colin shows up to make us sigh at the very moment we’re talking about suitors for Penelope (wink, wink)
With her goal in mind, Penelope changes her entire wardrobe but it doesn’t seem to be enough. It’s not just about her clothes, but about her confidence. After years of being belittled by her family and two unsuccessful stints at a season, watching from the shadows while others live their lives, Penelope has become overly nervous and clumsy when talking to potential suitors.
And this is where Colin Bridgerton comes in. There is a distance between them that Penelope makes clear from their first meeting. Her words are cold and distant, contrary to the warmth with which she had always addressed him.
Something broke between them and Colin has no idea what but he’s not going to let Penelope put any more distance between them and seduction classes sound like the best plan to change what’s going on. It’s time for Penelope to trust herself, she must not forget who she is. Colin, meanwhile, wants Penelope to see herself the way he sees her.
However, the classes end up being a double-edged sword. They end up bringing them too close, causing the intimacy between them to grow and their looks say much more than words. When Penelope resigns herself to only having him as a friend again, telling herself that it’s the only relationship they will ever have, everything changes when their hands touch. It’s a brief moment, but it’s usually the ephemeral moments that cause the biggest consequences.
The two feel a spark that runs through them like lightning. Penelope knows what it is. She’s been feeling it silently since she met him, though she’s surprised by the intensity of it all once she actually touches him. But Colin doesn’t know what happened… he just knows that everything has changed.
In the Bridgerton season 3 part 1 trailer we start seeing Colin flirt with several women but, very quickly we see that he can’t get Penelope out of his head, he can’t stop seeing her and thinking about her and all the gestures she makes, for innocent as they are, they tempt him. For God’s sake, he wants her, he wants her so much that it hurts.
But, even though he can’t take his eyes off her, he is helping her get married to someone else. Colin can’t help but feel jealous when he sees Lord Debling near Penelope, placing his eyes on her, touching her, dancing with her, making her smile… Debling has no right to that. Penelope is only supposed to dance with him, only he can touch her skin, only he should make her smile like that.
And suddenly Colin understands. That longing that he feels for Penelope, that desire that he cannot appease, that jealousy… he loves her. He loves Penelope Featherington and doesn’t understand how and when it happened. She was his friend and suddenly she was so much more. So Colin asks Violet for advice. Edmund and Violet were friends before they fell in love. In the end, “the foundation of love is friendship.”
And it is. Finding your other half in your friend, the person who complements you, the love of your life is a rare gem and comes with its own challenges but it’s always worth it. We see in this part of the Bridgerton season 3 part 1 trailer a clear parallel between Polin’s love story and Edmund and Violet Bridgerton’s love, and there is no better compliment than that.
But the Bridgerton season 3 part 1 trailer isn’t done making us scream yet – in the best of ways. Polin find themselves in a garden alone, under the cover of darkness. Colin’s desperation to talk to her, to confess something, is palpable and reflected in his eyes. No more masks, no more pretending that he doesn’t yearn for her with every fiber of his being.
Penelope can barely breathe. Her intuition tells her that Colin’s words are going to change everything and that they are going to make her dreams come true. Penelope has a clear dilemma between her head and her heart, who will win?
And so, leaving us breathless and with honey on our lips, the trailer for Bridgerton season 3 part 1 ends.
Mirror, Mirror…
After analyzing the trailer, it’s time to talk about the key art. Penelope stands in front of a mirror in a beautiful dress with her hair down, and Colin stands behind her, looking at her, admiring her.
And we think this is the perfect reflection of Bridgerton Season 3. Colin had been blind until now, but he starts to see Penelope in a new light and once that happens, everything changes. Colin can’t take his eyes off her. Colin can’t stop seeing her. She is THE ONE.
For her part, Penelope is iluminated by a beam of light, because “even a wallflower can bloom.” In her third season, it’s the first time that Penelope begins to blossom and have real options in the marriage market. It’s the first time Penelope begins to show her brilliance to the world—and maybe her dual identity will come to light.
The color palette is another point to look at in this key art. Bridgerton blue fills everything while Featherington yellow is represented in the mirror frame. This reflects Penelope becoming a Bridgerton.
As if this were not enough, the mirror is something that readers will recognize very easily from a line in the book…and Bridgerton season 3 hints it too much to be a coincidence!
Bridgerton Season 3 New Photos
As for the photos, we can see the Mondrich couple, who seem to have some stories to tell in Bridgerton season 3. In addition, the entire Featherington family attends a social event, and, are Benedict and Colin Bridgerton right behind Penelope?
Lady Danbury is as majestic as ever, although we don’t know who is next to her… consider us intrigued. Penelope and Francesca share the same space in a ball! They are both beautiful and we just want their dance cards to be filled because there is no way there is anyone brighter than them in that ball. We want Queen Charlotte’s wigs! But we don’t forget that she is after Lady Whistledown. Does she have any elaborate plan to catch her?
And, of course, Polin! Colin and Penelope seem to meet in daylight and in front of the entire Ton. Will they try to hide it or will Colin try to get closer to her? After all, he never pays attention to social rules when Penelope is around…
Lastly, we see Colin with his brothers Gregory and Benedict – we love Benedict! We had to say it – at what seems like any other breakfast in the Bridgerton house…and we want to know who they’re looking at!
Bridgerton season 3 part 1 will be available on May 16, 2024, on Netflix.