Has to be Edmund right? Dead before the show starts and we only see him in brief flashbacks. But his young death affects all of his family (particularly poor Anthony) in different ways.
Edit: Depends on how literal we’re being with “no screen time” I suppose
Francesco & Eloise will have very sparse memories of their father, even if they were 6/7 when he died. It will mostly be emotions relating to him rather than exact memories of him
Gregory was an infant and doesn’t remember him.
Hyacinth was born after he died and has never known her family not wrought with the tension his death brought. She was raised in a house of mourning her father. It’s probably why she is endlessly positive - to keep everyone cheerful.
Clearly Anthony has issues. But to think that Benedict and Colin didn’t struggle because they weren’t standing there next to him why he died is foolish. He was their father and by everyone’s account, a very present and loving parent.
Daphne, Anthony & Colin all struggled with the realities of serious relationships because Violet struggled to explain it to them, maybe because she always assumed their father would etc.
But in short, their father died tragically at a very young age - it affects literally everything in your life forever. It leaves endless questions. If you’re lucky enough to not understand that, then count your blessings.
They don’t spell out the details. Watch the show and read between the lines to make your own conclusions. If you really want to know the specific details for each Bridgerton, then read the books. But be fr, asking how someone’s fathers death actually impacted their lives is gonna get you a lot of responses that, no offense, ask if you’re being serious or if you’re an idiot because it’s fairly obvious how the death of a parent influences someone who is effectively a child.
I was being serious. And it’s not that obvious how exactly it affects each bridgerton and u admitted that by saying “they don’t spell out the details”. If ppl are that rude and offended by a simple question they shouldn’t be on Reddit. And a lot of things are obvious in the show but ppl still ask questions about it on other posts in this sub and I don’t see them getting treated with such disrespect or downvoted so much
Because their father is dead. It’s not an open ended situation and it is that obvious. When a parent dies and you are a child it quite literally affects every single aspect of your life, you think about it every day, you realize it every time you see a kid with their parents. It’s everything, every day, until you die yourself. It is a sense of loss in everything you ever do, forever.
Also- you’ve been given numerous explanations in detail by multiple people, and still come back at people. If you’re not being intentionally obtuse, then you’re being argumentative for arguments sake.
Take 2 minutes and think of your life without one of your parents ever existing in it. And if that is your reality already, then you should know how affecting it is.
The entire downstairs staff across all the households. All the shit they have to do and put up with to make sure all these hornbags can get up to no good.
I don’t think that it has to literally be no screen time at all, I think it’s more minimal screen time, or proportionally much less screen time than references/mentions. So he could still work.
It would have been nice if you'd given the rest of us a chance to participate. I went to sleep overnight, and woke up to find half the board complete. Other subs which are doing this give everyone 24 hrs, not 2.
100%. The queen fangirls over eligible bachelors and debutantes and tries to direct the social season like a play to distract herself from her messy personal life, but you'll only realise that if you watch her spinoff.
It's obnoxious how they made Pen unlikable on the show. I started with the prejudices of the book so I didn't give it too much weight, but thinking about it...
Seriously, Why can’t they write better arcs for the siblings? Why can’t every episode end with all of them having dinner together or just chit-chatting, pulling each other’s leg in their living room? We don’t need so many OCs. Just show us one-on-one bonding scenes between all the siblings and their spouses.
Lady Whistledown would have been a good point until the final of season 1. After that, she had plenty of screen time.
I would go with Edmund Bridgerton. Sure, we saw him in two flashbacks, but I say that doesn't count. The way his love to Violet and his death influenced the family is basically the reason why we have so much drama each season.
I think the bee would be the most fun. It'd turn this entire thing from just a nice post, to a giant meme. "They had us in the first half"-kind of thing. 🤣🤣
Edwina as I can't remember anything of her plot (or seeing her much) in S2. But the winner for me is the unnamed printer in S3 who seemed to blow open the whole LW / Pen being her plot in less than a minute of screentime.
What. This is lol. Edwina is literally part of the triangle and almost gets married to Anthony who I’m sure you remember very well at the altar. But you’ve somehow forgotten Edwina who the show literally starts with… her plot relevance is the whole plot of the season. Her wedding is what the season revolves around and the source of the main tension of the couple. Anyway. Wow
Fair points...I do recall some of that now you mention it! Must have forgotten. Or Edwina's stuff (emotions, plot twists etc) maybe didn't make an impact on me like the others did.
I stand by my comment on S3 and the printer though 😂
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