Okay season 2 thoughts Eloise spoilers below
They give Eloise a bigger role than the book because it's her first season. Infuriatingly they didn't give her any personality?
She will not stop complaint about women's rights. And like I'm a woman I like voting it's cool but I wanted to tell her to shut up. Her little sub-plot around visiting the lower classes teaches her nothing and appears to be mostly about a boy. She never notices that she's in fact supremely privileged even among her class.
Yes she doesn't want to marry and she's expected to but she's pretty popular and has a dowry and family who won't marry her off to just anyone.
She never notices what Penelope wants, and apparently never listens to Penelope gossiping until the final episode.
Seriously she made a comment about it during the fight and I thought she was admitting that she ignores her all the time. And she destroyed Pen's room on a suspicion.
The only comment in their fight that was even close to fair (wrong but Eloise couldn't know that -- unless she knew her friend) was the one about tarnishing everyone with her words. Eloise spent a season complaining about attending balls and then used wallflower as an insult. Like I'm very biased toward Pen but I think she's right about Eloise being jealous, but I'm not sure the writers think so.
Oh and she lies to Penelope and uses her as a cover without an ounce of guilt or apology to go meet Theo Sharpe.
Book Eloise is not this bad of a friend.








