We watch a lot of TV and movies! So yeah, we’re fangirling over a lot of things! Each week we come together to highlight all the feels they give us throughout the week. On these Fangirlish Feels of the Week, there are five categories and many thoughts! Ready?
Here we go!
Best Scene of the Week
Lizzie: I was loving Sophie and I was loving Benedict and I was loving their dynamic in Season 4 of Bridgerton, but I think the kite scene was the one that really sold me on this love story. We haven’t gotten the same level of spice we’ve gotten in other Bridgerton seasons yet, and yet these two have managed to build such an emotional connection that I just cannot look away.
Shana: That hospital scene in this week’s SVU with Olivia offering Riley all those little comfort items and getting her to slowly shed the look of the call girl she was forced to be so she could turn back into the girl she’s supposed to be. Extremely close runners-up from the same episode: CJ going to see Corinne Langford at Rikers and the scene at the Williams’ home.
Rachel: As a Bridgerton fan, I am so tempted to choose the Masquerade, or echo Lizzie and say the kite scene, so I can gush about Benedict and Sophie, but I also feel the need to single out Violet Bridgerton’s getting some love herself with Lord Anderson! Historical romance doesn’t offer many instances of sexual life to women over a certain age, so I support this! Ruth Gemmell and Daniel Francis have nice chemistry, too. I know some viewers will probably see this as disrespectful to Edmund, but I think it’s okay for this moment to be about the future and not the past.
Raquel: Well, another one here with Bridgerton in mind! I totally agree with Lizzie and Rachel about Benophie and Violet & Marcus. However, my favorite scene is Polin’s 2.0 carriage scene!!! They’ll always be my protégés, and I love that the show called back one of the best—and most viral—moments from Season 3. Not to mention seeing them with their baby, they’re so cute!!
Ship of the Week
Raquel: Polin, always Polin!!! These two are still just as crazy in love — and hot — for each other as the first day. How can you not love them?
Aracelis: If it’s anyone, it would be Sophie and Benedict from the new season of Bridgerton. I absolutely loved every moment they had on screen, and the symbolism in their relationship was beyond me. Sophie and Benedict are from two different worlds, but she is his Lady in Silver, and honestly, after seasons of Benedict not seemingly interested in being married or finding a lady, Sophie being the one means so much to me. I was so excited for Part 1 of Season 4, and they did not disappoint. Let Benedict recognize her already— they are everything and more to me.
Shana: I was so looking forward to being able to say ElliMax from Wild Cards with the show coming back this week. Because his daddy can’t behave, I’m going to say Marc the Cat’s teeth and Ellis’ a**.
Rachel: It has to be Benophie, doesn’t it??? Benedict and Sophie is Bridgerton’s Cinderella story, and fans of the couple had to wait as their season was postponed. But now Part 1 is here and the wait was worth it! Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha are perfect. There were other small ship moments on other shows I’d love to bring attention to, like Martin and Louisa on Best Medicine or Morgan and Karadec on High Potential, but when Netflix’s Bridgerton arrives, that’s the couple to beat! And no one is beating Benophie right now!
Best Performance of the Week
Lizzie: I’m gonna go Yerin Ha as Sophie in Bridgerton. Lead roles like this one are so hard, and in a romance if the heroine doesn’t work, the show doesn’t work. But Yerin embodies Sophie and does such a great job at giving us yearning, giving us soft, giving us smart, giving us determined… she’s just the perfect Sophie in every respect and I cannot imagine anyone else playing this role. And we’re only halfway through the season! I’m soo invested in her happy ending.
Raquel: I totally agree with Lizzie here. I didn’t know Yerin Ha, but she was a wonderful discovery. I’m not a reader of the books, so I didn’t know Sophie either, but Ha made me love her and want to protect her from the very first second, and she also made me see her bravery, strength, and her love for Benedict.
Shana: It’s way too hard to pick just one actor, considering how well everyone did on my shows this week. So, instead, I’m going to say that final lip sync on Drag Race. Finally, some good effin’ food.
Moment that Annoyed Us This Week
Raquel: This might be an unpopular opinion, but I have to say Benedict’s offer. It made me want to slap him. Hard. Don’t get me wrong, I completely understood why Benedict did it. The show did a good job explaining why he saw it as the only way for him and Sophie to be together. However, the dialogue in the scene is what falls flat for me. As I said before, I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know if that dialogue is faithful to it, but it doesn’t do Benedict any favors. He tells her she deserves more, that she deserves everything, and then proposes that she be his mistress. It sounds like he’s telling her that’s all she can aspire to, that’s the most she deserves. That wasn’t Benedict’s intention or the reason for making the offer, I know, but that’s what the scene makes it seem.
And of course, I also have to mention Bailey and her selfishness in this week’s The Rookie.
Aracelis: I have to say I always expect Stephen DeMarco to do something crazy and outrageous, but somehow I’m still mentally shocked every single time he does it. Not only does he immediately have a new conquest, but because Diana lied about failing the LSATs in order to get away from him, he decides he wants to leak her nudes? Her nudes? The lengths he’ll go to just to make sure Diana can’t go to any college except Yale is genuinely insane. Every Monday, I need a cleanse from Stephen DeMarco and Tell Me Lies.
Lizzie: I had some trouble with Hiroya this week on The Boyfriend, because I was as upset as Tomoaki about what said about the LGBTQ+ community and “stereotypical gays.” I know we all have to fight some internalized homophobia, and society teaches us some things that are sometimes hard to leave behind, but it really bothered me how easily it came out of him and the fact that he didn’t even understand what he’d done wrong. This being a soft show, he apologized and was forgiven, but it left me a little unsettled still.
Honorable mention to Carver’s return on Chicago Fire, which ended up being about absolutely nothing. I didn’t even get closure!
Shana: Detective Dummy really brought a girl home from his little trip on the boat, huh. Wild Cards really began Season 3 with the entirely expected third wheel. Can a boat even have a third wheel? This is annoying AF.
Rachel: Am I allowed to say the real-world news? Annoyed and angered and depressed. Because that’s the true answer.
Quote of the Week
Raquel: “Penelope Bridgerton!” “Yes, ma’am” — Violet and Penelope in Bridgerton Season 4.
Lizzie: “You don’t wanna hold my hand, bitch?” – Yam Yam to Stephen in Traitors
Shana: “I am…the most iconic, legendary...TRAITOR!!!”
