
Hes obviously an important character that has room to grow the most. I think the writer made him layered and complicated for a reason. Thus, it's too early for me to cast him aside. He at times portrays someone who will be a shoulder for you to cry on when you're a patient and he tells you your wife is dead, or someone that's cocky. I feel he wants those things but he goes about it terribly by the way he treats people. Macys character and have him respect him finally. Hes arrogant but inside he wants to finally prove to everyone that he can achieve a impressive surgery in the OR like william H. Bennet is interesting because he at the second episode comes off as a character that I dont like or one that perhaps I do like or rather am intrigued with because he is capable and maybe is the smarter man in the room, though his problem seems like he has to let you know it often enough. He obviously wasnt respected and was taught the same. Bennet and noticing how Dr.bennet is just giving him a tough go of it for reasons that are shown in the pilot. Yet, hes very attentive in detail of observing DR. He had absolutely no idea in what kind of context that could have been construed. He seems like a very intelligent capable doctor but someone that is oblivious to things. I find John Carter to be laugh out loud hilarious!! His facial expressions alone steal a few laughs. I love how all these characters have a lot of things we see that theres lef to explore. It's unclear whether she is ill or dead.In day one we learn a bit more in this world where the hospital of this ER exists in Chicago.
At the end of the episode, Penelope finds Marina limp and lifeless in her room. She sneaks down to the Featherington kitchen to make some sort of tea concoction that I assume is meant to induce an abortion. Marina is optimistic at first, but when oblivious Daphne tells Marina she was the only one to sign the letter to the general - meaning she didn't include Simon, who is a duke and a man and therefore the letter's seal of legitimacy - Marina gives up altogether. Daphne realizes that Marina was just trying to do what was best considering her situation, so she vows to use her duchess powers to contact the general who's married to her new gambling buddy to try to locate George in Spain.

After her last fight with the Duke, she attends Lady Danbury's underground gambling room for fancy ladies, where she gets very drunk but also meets the wife of a general who might be able to help Marina. While all of this is happening, Daphne is also trying to help out with the Colin and Marina scandal. (This Queen Charlotte seems to be based on the real Queen Charlotte, who was rumored to have been mixed race, but the real Queen would have been much older during the 1813 setting of the show.) This conversation makes a scene in which an old white man considers Marina, a young Black woman, as a potential wife while studying her body read differently than it would have if this was a story where race didn’t exist. Black people wouldn’t just suddenly become accepted in every aspect of society in the time the queen and king have been together, but it’s not explained further. A previous episode implied that Simon’s father had long been a duke. There’s no mention of slavery - or anything specific, really - but he says that their people were previously seen as “novelties.” This raises a ton of questions. Regarding the white king (who we haven’t actually seen) and Black queen, Danbury says, “We were two separate societies, divided by color, until a king fell in love with one of us.” Simon points out that this might have allowed Black people to hold titles, but it doesn’t change everything. She also makes the first mention of race we get on the show. In a scene mirroring this, Lady Danbury tells Simon to propose to Daphne, if he loves her. And, please, someone get these girls an encyclopedia.

At one point Eloise is shown smoking a cigarette and with her deep voice she’s reminiscent of Florence Pugh playing young Amy in Little Women. It doesn’t help that the actors playing Penelope and Eloise are 33 and 31, respectively. Neither Penelope nor Eloise find out the truth about sex this episode, and… I’m sorry, how old are they supposed to be? Penelope is out for her first social season, so I was guessing about 16. Marina tells Penelope that pregnancy comes from “love” and shares that she’s in love with a guy named George who writes her letters and is fighting in a war in Spain.

They thought pregnancy could only happen to married women and don’t want to become pregnant by mistake, so they need answers. She shares with Eloise that she knows someone who is pregnant, but doesn’t know how it happened. The other storyline of this episode starts when Penelope finds out about Marina’s pregnancy.
