Bridgerton Season 3 May 16th binge watch together

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I’m not a telly addict but I became obsessed with Bridgerton during Covid times. I love the casting, the settings, the dances, the music, the yearning, and the guarantee of a happy ending.

I’m embarrassed to admit how much I love it in real life because it’s so shallow.

Is anyone else planning to binge watch season 3 when it’s released next Thursday? If so, can we set up a MN support group please?

Ahhhh I actually enjoyed this season apart from the sad lack of rumpy pumpy, there was more in season one and queen charlotte! Anyway I digress I far enjoyed this one better than Kate and Anthony story I just didn’t buy their chemistry and still don’t. In season order from favourite to least so far

Daphne and the duke!
queen charlotte
penelope and Colin
kate and Anthony

I wasn't sure on the first watch. Rewatching now and I'm really enjoying it. Two years til the next one though. Jesus.

I'm just rewatching them dance together at the wedding breakfast, I buy them as a couple, and that blush pink colour is gorgeous on her.

Totally agree with the PP upthread who thinks the costumes were wearing the actors. The outfits were incredible to the point of distraction. Penelope's modern makeup and hair was extremely distracting too.

I've been watching Sanditon and it's far superior in every way. The gay storyline in Sanditon was heartbreaking and they touched on race and slavery. I know Bridgerton is an alternate reality

Posted too soon! Yes it's an alternate reality but there's no reason why Bridgerton can't examine themes that I would imagine are important to many viewers.

I've finished it.

I haven't read the book, but I think the consummation scene should have been saved for later. It happened the day after their engagement!

They didn't seem to recover their chemistry, and it felt rather rushed at the end. I think I would like to have seen Colin embracing his dear wife after the big reveal, and later on having a reconciliation love scene of some sort.

Loved Lady Featherington in this, and her development from matriarch to proud, supportive mother.

Not bothered at all by Benedict's story line and I fast forwarded the scenes with him and Tilley and Paul.

I've not read the books, but if Michael Stirling has been gender flipped to Michaela, then I think that's too big a liberty taken. Not everything needs to have a LGBTQ line shoe horned in for the sake of it.

We'll be seeing less in Kanthony in the future I reckon now that they're going to India.

I hope we see Eloise's story next.

I don't think we have seen the last of Cressida and I have a feeling she will have something to do with the Benedict/Sophie storyline. Her mother is called Araminta (the name of Sophie's evil stepmother), which is a big clue.

I think either Sophie will be the secret illegitimate daughter of her father, and will be introduced as a maid at her aunt's in Wales. Possibly next season as the masquerade ball was mentioned. Or Cressida IS Sophie, and will attend the masquerade ball under disguise using this fake name, and Benedict will fall for her, not knowing who she really is.

Benedict meeting Sophie at the ball happens a long time (years) before he meets her again (although he doesn't know it's the same woman). Of course, the show is not strictly following the books, but I definitely think Cressida will be a part of this storyline one way or another.

I think Eloise's story will be next and I think it will be good for Eloise and good for Bridgerton if it is. At this minute it's all style over substance, constant balls and extravagance and it's just a bit boring. Some quiet time in the country is just what Bridgerton needs.

Although most of Benedict's is actually out of London too

When Colin was all pissed at Pen being LW but said he would still marry her as he was a man of honour I was quite hoping she'd tell him not to bother!

I liked it more than most here, but I haven't read the books to compare. I am going to miss Penelope now she is married off.

One thing I do like with the bright young things getting wed and buggering off is it gives much bigger parts to the slightly older ladies. The lady Featherington, lady Bridgerton, lady Danbury and Queen quartet have been the ones actually carrying the narrative across the seasons.

I do feel that Cressida has been done a great disservice. Terrible parents and she did try to become a better person but was dumped anyway. Plus she is very attractive and in time, rich men were looking for beauty above conversation, so I genuinely can't believe she was heading for spinsterhood.

I enjoyed it too. I agree the matriarch quartet have driven the narrative and I love what each character brings to the story.

It will definitely be Benedict’s season next, they need to set up Eloise’s with the letter writing.
Agree with poster above who says we will be seeing more of Cressida and her family as they are prob Sophie’s step family.
Another thing I didn’t like about the Michael-Michaela gender swap was how they show Francesca looking quite smitten when she first sees Michaela or there was some sort of awareness anyway. In the book she loved John and only developed feelings for Michael years later.
Also like seeing all the older ladies.

I think they'll do Benedict and Eloise's at the same time actually. With the Featheringtons and Colin gone it'll leave a massive hole in the show.

Just finished it and really - what a let-down. I didn't have high hopes of this season because Colin is such a sanctimonious prick. It made no sense that he fell in love with Penelope, apparently out of nowhere. It gives me strong Hermione and Ron vibes - wish fulfilment by the author but ultimately you can't see how it ends without Penelope just getting pissed off by how limited Colin is.

Their sex scene was awful, like bad porn. Kate must have lost her virginity to Anthony as well but we didn't have to see it all played out in real time. They simply have no chemistry; Colin was Pen's girlish crush, grown-up Penelope deserved a real grown-up.

Agree that poor Benedict is going to be riddled with STIs after all his antics - not uncommon for the time, admittedly, but all rather grim nonetheless.

Agree also on the costumes, they absolutely dominated. Should have been kept for a few key scenes.

As for the loss of Julie Andrews' voice-over, that absolutely made the show, the woman is a legend.

And there was no fun. Nicola Coughlan must have been exhausted by the end from mining all that quavering voice/nervous energy scene after scene. What a flat mess.

In the books Pen had a little sister, after the carriage ride, Colin errupts into the Tuesday Featherington get together. He then is expected to be there not for Pen but the younger sister, much hilarity ensues as Lady Featherington tries to get Pen to order tea ect In front of the family before Colin puts his foot down and declared his desire to marry Pen.
They also missed him admitting he was jealous of Pen being published.

Also Cressida Married in the book was widowed and became bitch and naughty. With suitors and out from her dad's thumb. Much better than the TV show.

So much of the appeal of Bridgerton lies in its romantic escapism and break from real life. @tribpot The Polin sex scenes were awful. I don’t want to see a slightly overweight lady with realistically droopy boobs simulating sex - that’s me at home and it’s not pretty!

It was the fact that it was shot so clinically as well @FitFatKat - none of the passion of Kanthony (which was an extension of their far more compelling relationship out of bed) nor the wild shaggery of Daphne and Simon. Just two rather nervous people boning in broad daylight, and for no apparent reason. One minute it's all 'are you okay not being chaperoned in our new house' and the next minute it's like right, best have a fuck on the chaise longue I suppose.

I do feel sorry for Cressida as well. I was hoping somehow there would be an escape route for her, like the Queen appoints her as a lady-in-waiting or something.

In interviews Nicola and Luke say they've been asked back for S4, so hopefully it'll be better story lines than Kate and Anthony just dropping in here and there. I've watched a couple times now and have enjoyed more than first viewing. Eloise going to Scotland for 9 months + will give the time for her story to be set up. Though she and Michaela got into the carriage at the end holding hands. So maybe a lot of changes in the future stories.

I think the next series will pick up after Eloise has returned. Possibly opening with therm all getting ready for Hyacinth’s presentation at court?

Well I loved this season. Loved the development of Pen’s relationship with her mother - I think she saw her mother in a slightly different light. Loved Cressida - it would have totally happened in that era - being married off to someone old enough to be your grandfather although the Victorian values he espoused weren’t quite in line with the time (which is Regency). Loved Eloise (she is so pretty).

I do find Violet’s simpering v annoying. It’s constant. I haven’t read the books - but does she get it on with Marcus?

loved Lady Danbury’s quip to Penelope at the end “I thought it was you. I knew only you loved the Bridgetons that much. And I knew it wasn’t any of them.”

but yes - as a PP said - does this mean no more of Julie Andrews?

for me - nothing can beat Daphne and Hastings chemistry (although Queen Charlotte and George do come up a close second) but the relationship between Penelope and Colin was always going to be about their friendship. And I thought it was all rather lovely and found their intimacy convincing.

for anyone who has read the books - was Benedict really into threesomes?

@Hels20 in the books no one is into threesomes . Marcus doesn't exist in the books either. There are a lot of added characters, which are needed really, to flesh the story out.

Why was Francesca so flustered to see Michaela? Was she overwhelmed by Michaela’s confidence or was it a sexual thing?

I did feel sorry for Penelope walking down the aisle to Yellow. Must have given her terrible flashbacks to her awful season 1 and 2 frocks.