Cressida's villian arc was necessary for season 3: not everyone gets a happy ending (Bridgerton s3)

Bridgertons don't acknowledge their superior privileges

I loved when Cressida pointed out to Colin his own jealousy of Lady Whistledown. Only she saw it and told him to his face

Colin mansplaining loneliness to Cressida had me yelling at my tv!

I absolutely hated how Eloise treated Cressida, even before the Blackmail thing. They were good for each other. And suddenly Eloise just stopped caring about her. It was so cruel. No wonder Cressida snapped.

I really have problems with Colin, he is so blindly pevileged. That makes same scenes painful to look at.

Cressida was like a trapped animal in the end clawing away aimlessly. Desperation makes people with already questionable character do dangerous things

And can we talk about how Cressida is way more clever than Eloise? It took the girl ONE night to find out who Lady Whistledown was while Eloise was scrambling all over for months

Cressida wasn't a backstabber.she never liked penelope. She was weak and catty when she spilled drinks on penelope and ripped her clothes becase she thought Penelope was the one person with less power than her. She punches down. That's why she could never be whistledown. She wasn't brave enough to cause harm to anyone she thought was better than her. But she also knew how to keep a secret and not betray those she thought she might need. She might have blackmailed Daphne but she kept her secret. She also walked away and didn't gossip about Penelope because she was being a good friend to Eloise. Cressida did have redeeming qualities. We are all complex. I really hate her ending. I hope we see her again.

I love how Cressida's version of Whistledown is such a caricature that everyone - including Penelope - starts to see the value of the real thing.

Cressida should hate the Bridgertons and Penelope more than anyone, every time she got even close to a proposal it was taken away from her first by daphne, and then by Penelope then she was basically put in a terrible position and every time she told el about it she just got blown off. I think she deserved a lot better than what she got

I thought Eloise was a shitty friend to Cressida this season 😢

Cressida and Penelope were very similar. The difference is that when Cresida was catty, she was catty to their faces. Penelope hid behind a Pen Name. Cressida was basically a school bully and Penelope was a cyber bully.

This season really got me feeling bad for Cressida in the end. I know she did a lot in this and the past seasons but the way her parents raised her, I can somewhat understand why she’s the way she is. And I partially don’t blame her for falsely saying she was Lady Whistledown. It was either gain that reward and the Queen’s favor or succumb to marry an old man who would keep her inside his house lock and key. In the end, I believe Cressida was just trying to survive this season. Both her and her mother. They’re not only both victims of society but also victims of Lord Cowper, who seemed to have shown signs of being physically abusive to both his wife and daughter.

I'll be honest, I was a bit surprised at the end when it became clear we, as an audience, are meant to dislike Cressida (even if we can sympathise with her). Everything she did, she did because she's a woman in the 1800s with very limited freedom and options. Playing by the rules for Cressida would mean living an unhappy life. Yes, she did some unsavoury things, but overall I mainly felt bad for her. I was genuinely surprised to see her get punished by the end of the season, especially after her conversation with Colin.

I really dont get it why she couldnt have just ended with Lord Debling. She just ended up being a plot device to push Peneleope to admit being Whistledown. There are many ways they could have approached this but I guess the producers want to write her off to reduce casting costs.

I felt sorry for Cressida. She did what she did out of desperation (as said by Queen Charlotte). She would have been stuck in a loveless marriage with a horrible old man. Her being sent to the country with her aunt was probably a slightly better fate.

Im sorry for her. In the end, she’s also a victim. But her and Eloise as friends worked really well together:/

I really felt bad for her at the end and she said we right about Colin and his family they think everyone has it as good as they have it and you would think with Colin and his travel's he would know better

This season was really enlightening in terms of Cressida's character. We got to see exactly why she is the way she is by being brought into the Cowper household and family. They are the opposite of the Bridgertons. Their home is dark and oppressive, I felt like it must be hard to breathe inside of the rooms of the Cowper house, whereas the Bridgerton home is light, airy, and welcoming. Cressida's father pays her no attention. Her mother is overbearing and critical. Much of the dialogue also revealed truths about Cressida. When she tells Lady Cowper that Eloise is the only person who ever treated her like a true friend, she really meant it and she was defending Eloise. Lady Cowper's reply, however, "And where is she now?" was stone cold, 100% correct, and must have hit Cressida like a train. She continues with the line about how she raised her daughter to understand that everyone is out for themselves, and nobody can be trusted, especially other women. We get a very detailed picture of the circumstances of Cressida's upbringing, her terrible home life, her nonexistent family support despite being an only child, and the motives behind her behavior. Also, the red dress combined with the strings playing in dramatic staccati as she entered the Mondrich Ball was EVERYTHING!

I hoped that she'd end up with Debling, honestly; it's true, she likes furs and whatever, but when he was talking about not being close to his family because he did not felt close to them, and her face of total understanding of the situation, yet the sadness in the parallel between a man, who can escape far from home, and a woman, forced to be literally trapped into a life she despises, it's what kind of destroyed me. Yes, she is and has been a complex person, not the kindest of all time, but still a very misunderstood individual as well, and, as a result, she became a bully, she hasn't the luxury that Eloise has to see if she finds a lovely husband, she has a family who forces her in any kind of union, I think that Debling would have been perfect and very suitable for her, she'd have become even a bit wiser in my opinion.