In this week’s episode of Lady Geeks’ Society Podcast, we’re discussing all things Bridgerton Season 2, Episode 7, “Harmony.” Kate Sharma and Anthony Bridgerton finally choose for themselves, a family dance makes us all cry happy tears, and certain plot storylines finally patch up.
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Type: Romantic Book | Show: Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me and Netflix’s Bridgerton Featured Characters: Kate Sharma and Anthony Bridgerton
“This Author is of the firm opinion that theirs was a love match. Viscount Bridgerton does not escort his wife to every society function (but then again, what husband does?), but when he is present, This Author cannot fail to note that he always seems to be murmuring something in his lady’s ear, and that something always seems to make her smile and blush. Furthermore, he always dances with her one more time than is considered de rigueur. Considering how many husbands don’t like to dance with their wives at all, this is romantic stuff, indeed.”
Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers June 10, 1814
We cannot attempt to form words more substantial than Lady Whistledown’s June 10th, 1814 column, but we shall certainly try. Lord and Lady Bridgerton—Kate Sharma and Anthony Bridgerton are forces to be reckoned with, individually and through all their exquisite and wondrous bits intermingling together. A more exemplary romantic pair there is yet to be.
From enemies to lovers, their relationship grows beautifully throughout The Viscount Who Loved Me as Julia Quinn represents the indescribable healing that’s excavated through shared vulnerability and happiness. Kate Sharma and Anthony Bridgerton’s relationship starts slow—it’s gradual, there’s plenty of fighting they both do, not just in opposition to each other, but against their own feelings and all that is within. What we get with them, what we see—it’s contentment actualized and understanding wrapped in laughter, healing, and unceasing adoration.
Writer’s Note: This deep dive is significantly different than anything I’ve done before. As a couple so incredibly important to me, Kate and Anthony deserved something different, something that was theirs and theirs alone. And thus, I decided to structure their relationship’s progression through songs that remind me of them, allowing the lyrics to bleed into their story.
Bridgerton Season 2 might be a diversion from Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me, but there is no denying the fact that Simone Ashley and Jonathan Bailey are the perfect Kate Sharma and Anthony Bridgerton (Kanthony). To bring to life characters who are beautifully complex and deeply relatable, the series needed actors who understand the characters in such a way that answering questions about their future would be an effortless task.
And during the Bridgerton Season 2 global press conference, when asked about how Kate and Anthony could work through their trauma together, Ashley and Bailey knew precisely what to say. Thrust towards growing up far too quickly because of the grief they both experienced, Kate Sharma and Anthony Bridgerton carried burdens more enormous than they deserved to, often compelling them to protect others above their own hearts.
In meeting each other, all that changes. “I always say it takes one to know one, and I think that really applies to these two characters,” Ashley says with full conviction. “At the beginning, they kind of … they really grind each other’s gears because I think they recognize parts that they may see as flaws in themselves in the other person.” Flaws they work through together, even unknowingly, seamlessly bringing the best of the other to the surface. Ashley also mentioned that they mirror each other a little bit and challenge each other, which is a truth we can see throughout the season as their relationship grows deeper
Bridgerton Season 2 follows Julia Quinn’s highly anticipated second novel, The Viscount Who Loved Me, in Anthony Bridgerton‘s search for a wife. Only, it’s not the kind of word-for-word or close adaptation as some would’ve hoped for. Though that’s never something to be expected, while some changes are understandable, others are questionable at best.
The popular series returns with fan-favorite characters and newcomers who fit as seamlessly as a tailor-made gown, and it’s as though they’ve been here all along. Charithra Chandran does a lovely job with Edwina, and Shelley Conn embodies Mary remarkably. Plus, in an unsurprising turn of events, Rupert Evans’ Edmund Bridgerton will floor you.
And as far as our new leading lady is considered, there’s much praise to be given for Simone Ashley’s Kate Sharma, who’s inspired by the novel’s Kate Sheffield. Ashley is a sight to behold and a masterful performer who will undoubtedly steal hearts from the first moment she steps onto the screen. It’s impossible to avert gazes from her captivating embodiment of the character.
The Bridgerton Season 2 trailer is finally here, and surely fans are ecstatic to finally feast their eyes on the full trailer that clocks in at over 3 minutes long. It is full of comedy, drama, and romance, teasing what will hopefully be an amazing Season 2. This season will follow Anthony Bridgerton’s love story with the wonderful Kate Sharma from the fan-favorite second installment of the Bridgerton series, The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn.
Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley’s chemistry is off the charts in this trailer, making us all wonder how we’re going to handle a whole season with these two as the leads. From everything we have seen and heard so far, they couldn’t have cast the roles of Anthony and Kate better. And as an added bonus, we get quite a few beautiful shots of their hands. Is it a regency romance without shots of the couple’s hands?
Part of the reason the first season of Bridgerton was so successful at the end of 2020 was due not only to the fact that romance has always been popular and has remained an inexplicably unexplored resource for adaptations, but also because it came at the end of a difficult year. Everyone was ready to be swept off their feet to a world where an acerbic word from Lady Whistledown counts as high stakes.
Well, here we are now, over a year later, still in the midst of a pandemic that has no real end in sight, some things have changed forever before our eyes and any remaining semblance of control we may have ever felt over certain aspects of our lives slipping through our fingers with increasing alacrity. Looking at the third year of uncertainty sprawled out before us, we’re all struggling in some way, and it’s only natural to yearn for something to fill the cracks that are starting to form, a balm to soothe our frayed ends. So it’s perfect timing that Bridgerton will grace our televisions again when Season 2 is released on March 25th because we’re in dire need of the bright and airy delights of this world and the escapist joy that it brings. And while Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma’s romance would have always been hotly anticipated — as The Viscount Who Loved Me is a fan-favorite book in the series — it’s particularly fortuitous that they’ll be the main focus this time around because these two, more so than many of the other Bridgerton couples, have to navigate their way through their own anxieties in a chaotic and unfair world in a way that fans will identify with keenly at this particular moment in time.
The wait is close to over, hive—the Bridgerton Season 2 teaser is here, and we’re almost down to a month-long countdown. Teasers are meant to tease, and this does so with all the right angles we’ve been waiting to see, including the faintest glimpse of Rupert Evans as the late Viscount, Edmund Bridgerton.
Julie Andrews returns as the indomitable Lady Whistledown, but this time, our girl Penelope Featherington has a bit of a voiceover too. There’s a lot fans want to see in Bridgerton Season 2 considering the popularity of The Viscount Who Loved Me, and we’re here, hoping that the best is yet to come. Teasers never release that information, and thankfully, this one doesn’t either.
We didn’t need the proof, but we’ve got it. Bridgerton season 2 first look proves that Simone Ashley and Jonathan Bailey are the perfect Kate and Anthony. The “enemies to lovers” trope just got a lot more exhilarating.
Inspired by Bridgerton book two, The Viscount Who Loved Me, the sneak peek showcases so much of what is an overarching theme throughout the novel—two people challenging in each other into astounding growth. Jonathan Bailey’s Anthony Bridgerton has been through a surplus of trauma he has yet to overcome. In season two, “he gets to deal with a lot of things that he hasn’t been given the space to deal with.” And according to Bailey during Netflix’s TUDUM event, “it’s causing a lot of tears.” Rightfully and understandably so as the viscount must work through pangs of grief, overcoming patriarchal chains, and learning to love amidst the chaos of it all.
And Kate Sharma—well, we’ve only had TV version of her 1:03 minutes and we’ll protect her for the rest of our lives. Witty, brave, bold, beautiful, fiercely protective, and so profoundly loving through it all. Simone Ashley’s Kate Sharma is a multifaceted treasure the world is going to adore with a fire in their souls.
Bridgerton season 2 first look exudes the kind of irresistible chemistry that’ll be talked about for hours on end post release. Magnetic, electric, and already so achingly intense, it’s game over from the start.
Anthony Bridgerton has already lost the battle of wits to a woman whose means of challenging him will result in the greatest love he’s ever known.
MVP of Bridgerton, Colin Bridgerton, Number 3, is chaotic, mischievous, and underestimated by most people around him, including his own family. He gets by with his charm and sense of humor; he can read any room and know how to navigate (most) situations. His perceptibility gives him profound moments of wisdom that tend to throw others off, particularly his older brothers. The Bridgerton family wouldn’t be where they are without him. He is the underrated MVP of Bridgerton, and here are some reasons why.
*SPOILERS FOR THE BRIDGERTON BOOK SERIES*
Bridgerton has been renewed for a second season, which means the Sheffields are coming and The Viscount Who Loved Me is about to be adapted on screen. And we’ve got thoughts. Naturally in a TV adaptation, changes will take place, inner thoughts need to come out on screen differently without the presence of the omniscient narrator–but that said, why not at least take apart some of our favorite moments in the book? In this case, at least if there are changes, we’ve discussed in length, some the scenes that have shaped this novel gorgeously.
Naturally, this will not cover every single scene–with a 200+ page book, we’d have a 500+ page analysis if that were the case, with these, we’ve decided to take apart our top moments, mostly between Kate Sheffield and Anthony Bridgerton, but some with their respective family members as this is the one book where we care just as deeply about the main characters as we do with everyone else involved. We teased out what this article would look like in our Scene Breakdown for Chapter 12: The Library, and that will also be included in here as well to flow this analysis chronologically.
Whoever said that romance novels could not be analyzed with great length has not met this English Lit major who will absolutely take apart everything because these novels, and Quinn’s language especially features an incredible balance that is bound to leave a lasting impression. One that it already has.
Bridgerton has been renewed for a second season, which means the Sheffields are coming and The Viscount Who Loved Me is about to be adapted on screen, and we’ve got thoughts. Naturally in a TV adaptation, changes will take place, inner thoughts need to come out on screen differently without the presence of the omniscient narrator–but that said, why not at least take apart some of our favorite moments in the book? In this case, at least if there are changes, we’ve discussed in length the scenes that have shaped this novel gorgeously.
This goes without saying, but this will not cover every single scene–with a 200+ page book, we’d have a 500+ page analysis if that were the case, with these, we’ve decided to take apart our top fifteen moments, mostly between Kate Sheffield and Anthony Bridgerton, but some with their family members as this is one of the books where we care just as deeply about the main characters as we do with everyone else involved.
This is just the first of these installments—we’ve got 14 more scenes, but they’ll be coming sometime this week and all together. This particular scene, we figured, deserved its own separate article.
