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Colin from Bridgerton

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DidntHaveTheLatin · 19/06/2024 21:46

I DO.NOT.GET.IT!! I find him sexless, irritating, patronising and smug...am I missing something? Pen is lovely and glowing, but I don't think they have even the teeniest bit of chemistry - I cannot understand the casting!! Admittedly I haven't read the books - is he this smug and overbearing in the books?

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Rizzo8 · 19/06/2024 21:56

Nah I agree. Totally sexless and unappealing.

Haven't read books so can't comment there!

TimeForMyMonthlyNameChange · 19/06/2024 22:02

Right? I much preferred the other guy trying to woo her. I can’t remember his name 😂

AndAllOurYesterdays · 19/06/2024 22:07

Yeah. He's no Anthony. I had to fast forward the sex scenes as they were just too cringy

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Simplelobsterhat · 19/06/2024 22:15

Thank you! I was saying to someone yesterday I couldn't really get into this series as much because I didn't see the appeal of the lead man. Although actually I didn't like Anthony either, but I could see why people would. This time I don't get it at all.

She'd have been so much better off with the nice explorer who would havae left her in peace to be Whistledown while he went off on his travels!

I miss the Duke of Hastings...

RickyGervaislovesdogs · 19/06/2024 22:16

TimeForMyMonthlyNameChange · 19/06/2024 22:02

Right? I much preferred the other guy trying to woo her. I can’t remember his name 😂

Agreed.

DidntHaveTheLatin · 19/06/2024 22:17

Cringy is the word, @AndAllOurYesterdays! I feel like absolutely everything he does, incl sex, is mansplaining.

Anthony is hot, although I'm not sure he has much chemistry with his wife, and Benedict is also pretty hot although I wish they'd just let him be gay on the earlier series.

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DidntHaveTheLatin · 19/06/2024 22:18

I thought the same about being left in peace by the nice explorer, @Simplelobsterhat 😁

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Fineandnaturalsight · 19/06/2024 22:18

None of the brother appeal to me. I’ve found it very weird watching a season each based on how handsome the apparently are. Where has the duke gone? Now he was sexy.

betterangels · 19/06/2024 22:19

Totally. He's also jealous of her writing, which is unattractive. The whole thing seemed so forced. Zero chemistry.

MsFogi · 19/06/2024 22:20

The explorer was the perfect option!

MsFogi · 19/06/2024 22:21

I was hoping she'd ditch him at the alter.

Hedonism · 19/06/2024 22:24

He is really ewweww. Reminds me of someone I used to work with, who was a complete drip.

GreenCereal · 19/06/2024 22:27

He gave me a massive ick. Especially once I realised he had Lord of the Rings ears and I couldn't unsee it. That plus his mouth (fillers?), I couldn't get past it.

DidntHaveTheLatin · 19/06/2024 22:33

Lord of the Rings ears 😂

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LunaNorth · 19/06/2024 22:37

I mean, it takes enough effort to get past his name.

I’d find it difficult to say, ‘Take me roughly from behind, Colin’ with a straight face, chaise longue or no chaise longue.

AnnaKing81 · 19/06/2024 22:37

The explorer: vast fortune, away most of the time......perfect man! She is mad!

AnnaKing81 · 19/06/2024 22:38

Having older teenagers, the appeal is all for them. Apparently he is hot!

Persianpuss · 19/06/2024 22:40

Unfortunately he looks a lot like a younger version of my uncle, even down to the sideburns. I did not enjoy watching the sex scenes!!!

Brukli · 19/06/2024 22:41

The men are all deeply unsexy to me. The Duke in the first series was sexy, but the Bridgerton brothers are very dull and easily confused.

Sunpiercer · 19/06/2024 22:47

Yeah, I just couldn’t get into it as I didn’t find it ‘sexy’, no chemistry between them. Queen Charlotte & Farmer George on the other hand 🥵

OnAndOnAndonAgain · 19/06/2024 22:50

I don't know what they did to him this season, its like they turned him into a bit of a twat for the first half and he's slimmed down to nothing!

Saying that she's not really appealing either and I didn't think they had any chemistry together as much as they bang on about how well they get on

OnAndOnAndonAgain · 19/06/2024 22:54

Debling wasn't a good match for her, yeah, she'd have married pretty much anyone so she wasn't the spinster having to deal with which ever sister produced the heir but that's not what she really wanted

I think cressida would have been a good match for him

pandasorous · 20/06/2024 01:20

tbh none of the men really are my type with their whoring around (and miraculous transformation once they come across the loce of their lives).

OnAndOnAndonAgain · 20/06/2024 01:26

Isn't the whoring about supposed to portray how things were back then though, it was pretty much the norm for arsto men. The whole falling in love and turning into men who loved and supported their wives is probably less realistic

andyourpointiswhat · 20/06/2024 01:34

I totally agree, I think he looks like a frog. DD (young adult) and I binged episodes 5-8 yesterday and we agreed he just wasn’t good looking enough for the role. I would have been happy to watch that sex scene with the guy who was in the first season, now he was hot!