We Have Emotional Liftoff on Bridgerton!

Episode 2, "How Bright The Moon," gives us HORMONES and a sex-ed lesson from Portia.

We are cooking with gas now, people. It’s only episode 2, and we’ve got liplock. Penelope Featherington, it seems, has waited LONG ENOUGH.

Speaking of long:

Look at the font! The spacing! The length of the paper, which you can only sort of see! Lady Whistledown’s scandal sheet is technically a pamphlet, but also possibly a novel?!?!? From one overly wordy miss to another: Props to you, Penelope for churning that out by hand every time.

Okay, let’s hit the major players, and then pop your Claritin so we can cover ourselves in Polin.

Cressida Cowper: Why am I beginning with the town bully? Because they are having so much fun dressing her: