Cute episode, and as with the season premiere, it has a message that’s slightly more sophisticated than the season one episodes I watched. Plus, the story is about Bea, which generally means a bit more screentime for Andrew Rannells.
The Blueberry “fruitdom” is having their annual pageant, and Bea is about to make her onstage debut with the signature instrument of her land: the guitarpsichord. The only problem? She’s terrible at it. She rallies her friends to help her practice, hoping she can find a way to improve before the big event.
All the princesses, of course, bring ideas to the table. Their whole premise here is pretty flawed, since there’s no way their teamwork can take Bea from awful to adept in a single day. (Then again, these are the girls who built a working Ferris wheel in an afternoon, so what do I know?) But everyone is game to help in their individual way—Rita pitches in with her own musical talent, Kira takes a lesson from nature to boost Bea’s confidence, and Penny invents musical “training wheels” to help Bea practice.
As Bea points out, “usually, [she’s] good at things right away,” so it’s a nice lesson for kids to see her struggle and feel insecure about that. The other princesses come to realize that their job isn’t to make Bea great at the guitarpsichord. It’s to help her be okay with not being good at everything and find a way to still make it through this tough event.
Naturally, Bea’s dads unwittingly add to the pressure by being super excited to hear her play at the pageant. Along with Sir Benedict, King Barton thinks he’s pumping Bea up but is actually just making her more nervous. Though his part is only slightly bigger than usual here, pretty much bookending the episode, Rannells delivers all his lines with gusto. He cutely asks Bea, “Think you could use my…lucky whisk?”
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