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This Christmas, my favorite gift was not under the tree, nor was it tucked in my stocking with care. The best gift I received this holiday season was on the homepage of Netflix dot com, and this might sound weird, but it was from someone named Shonda who doesn t even know me at all!
Bridgerton, the period melodrama from Shonda Rhimes, launched on Netflix on Christmas Day and I speak for the nation when I say we re all still recovering. The costumes were confectionary perfection. The dialogue was high English linguistic acrobatics. The sex was sumptuous.
Updos all around. Philipa Featherington, played by Harriet Caines, attends a ball.
Lady Featherington is a character on Bridgerton.
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Whistledown gives a brief rundown of the main players at the beginning of episode one, including a scathing description of Lady Portia Featherington.
While introducing Portia s daughters, Whistledown says, Three misses, foisted upon the marriage market like sorrowful sows by their tasteless, tactless mama.
Portia certainly has a reputation around town, so the opening line could ve been written by a number of people. However, no one seems more frustrated by her behavior than her youngest daughter, Penelope.
From the series opening moments, Penelope disagrees with her mother s views on everything from marriage to her treatment of her cousin Marina, so it s a tip-off that Whistledown consistently paints such a negative picture of Portia.