Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington are MARRIED! 💍 Bridgerton Season 3 Episodes 7-8 Review

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I just don’t understand why they have to make every male lead an expert in the bedroom. It can still be sweet and hot to watch a couple learn together. We can have more than one archetype.

Felt like the writers ,show runner, and directors put more effort into the world tour then the actual show. Actors were amazing tho.

The new showrunner didn’t understand the assignment with Polin and imposed her own ideas on the material. She STARVED us for whaaaaaaat???

1. Main issue: editing. Once you see Polin's full wedding dance per Nicola, you realize how robbed we were. Also, the frequent Benedict cuts. Just bad editing all around. 2. Too few episodes and too many stories. 3. Dragging out the LW reveal makes both Pen and Colin act badly at times. 4. My personal ick: the lack of happy Polin post LW reveal. I need to see them editing his book together, cudding, smiling, happy. Just went from angst to baby in a snap. I did like the epilogue scene but we got too much exposition on what happened and not enough showing it.

Whoever said NSFW Jane Austen and not Regency Grey's Anatomy is so on point. Shonda needs to move on from the Grey's Anatomy structure and embrace historical drama plots - for God's sake, if you're going to be smutty try to be like Sanditon!

What i really find ironic os the new showrunner is queer. And she made the creative choice of making Benedict pansexual by basically hoe-ing it up and be devoid of his charming personality. As a pan im getting really tired of this narrative. Sex with multiple people don't drive us, its their personalities.

Yes, please read Francesca’s book— not just to understand the controversy better, but to get an even better sense of how poorly season 3 was managed with respect to Colin.

I remember at least one interview with Luke and Nicola where they said that the season starts very quickly because we’ve already been with these characters for 2 seasons. I’m pretty sure that means the writers thought “we’ve seen enough of Colin’s struggles with aimlessness so we don’t need to focus on that” and that somehow translated to not focusing on HIM. But I think a looot of people watching the show would’ve related to “I want to keep this hobby close to me because it is my safe space & don’t think it’s good enough to share with people because their criticism/disinterest could ruin it.” And that feeling would’ve made people empathize with him and his jealousy a LOT more

Benedict: I completely agree with your points about Benedict. If they wanted to introduce him as a bisexual character, they should have taken their time and introduced a male love interest for him. His says “I have known men like Mr. Suarez but I myself have never felt tempted before” but during his next meeting, he fully engages in a threesome with him. That makes no sense to me. Francesca: Jess Brownell, who was a Producer on Inventing Anna and worked on Scandal, mentioned that “Because Francesca's book resonated [with her] in the way that it did, it felt like a natural adaptation.” This interpretation of Francesca as queer seems off, given that she is devoted to her husband in the original story. It feels like a shock-factor decision to introduce her as a lesbian, especially when Eloise would be a more fitting character for a queer storyline. Eloise’s love story in the books is more about friendship than an intense romance, making her a better candidate for this portrayal. Colin & Penelope: I also don’t understand why they didn’t allow Colin and Penelope to bond over their writing. This was a major part of their story in the books, where they really got to know each other and express their vulnerabilities. As a result, Colin’s character feels hollow and uninteresting in the show. In the books, he proudly reveals Penelope’s identity as Lady Whistledown, partly to protect her from the consequences. However, in the show, Lady Whistledown is far more vicious, ruining lives, and it doesn’t make sense that the ton would forgive her so easily. There were no real consequences for her actions.

Can’t tell you how pissed I am that my least favourite side plot of this season is Benedicts, how did the creators do this. Just give him a sibling to banter with and I love him, but he was in bed nearly the whole second half of the season and with yet another random pointless love interest because apparently no one in the writer room knows any male historical romance stereotypes other than a rake. Either let him paint or run the household which he was supposedly doing when Anthony was away and he enjoyed

Hard facts: Romancing Mr Bridgerton is not a great book. None of the books are that good. And a lot of the set pieces and relationships are borderline problematic for modern audiences 20 years after it was first published. Colin revealing Pen is Lady Whistledown at the end for example takes all agency from her. However, in trying to fix things like this, the show’s writers fumble it. So much of the Lady Whistledown plot just didn’t make sense. Giving Cressida a sympathetic narrative only to then abandon it utterly makes no sense. Inventing an interesting character like Lord Gebling in the first half of the season and then having him fucking vanish into thin air in the second half make absolutely no fucking sense. Etc etc.

More on Benedict: he was REALLY hurt when he found out Anthony paid his seat at the academy and… nothing??? Literally not even sadness in front of a canvas??? No contempt towards Anthony??? Shoddy writing. So terrible.

That was me😊 I said the thing about Austen and Grey's Anatomy. Someone had mentioned it feeling like a soap opera and that popped into my head as the perfect description of what I felt was off with this season.

The thing about gender bending Francesca's love interest is that it shows how little thought is being put in. I truly dont think any part of her original book can be adapted with a female love interest. Also even the way she was introduced changed the dynamics of that relationship. And they couldn't even make her Scottish! I agree that if they wanted to have a Sapphic storyline they could have used the buildup they have for Eloise to do it. Giving this to Francesca feels like it was done for shock value.

I would love to see you read Francesca's book. It is frustrating to me that any push back to the gender bend is automatically labeled as bigoted. It would be nice to be able to discuss an adaptation choice without being attacked. I agree that this season seemed to react to the criticism of last season for lack of spicey moments by saying you want spicy moments, we will give you spicey moments. However a lot of them did not seem to have the emotional buildup to support the moments. As someone who came into the season thinking Polin had no chemistry, I agree with your statement that Polin had chemistry in their build up scenes, but we just needed more of them.

I liken the season to Ted Lasso season 3, it's got some of the highest highlights, but the overall storytelling structure left me wanting so much more. I feel like the show often sacrificed good storytelling for drama

As a pansexual woman, Benedicts story made me so uncomfortable. We don't really know anything about Lady & Lord Arnold or why he would start having feelings for both of them. They just turned it into pansexual character has sex with anyone. He was in bed the whole second half of the season. Colin was all of a sudden having sex (which took away from the little screen time Colin & Pen had together). No one in the writers room can write male characters in fictional historical romances if he's not a rake.

I liked the seson and I love Colin and Penelope, but I agree they spent too mutch time in part 2 in a bad state than a good one. Colin's entrapment coment was so uncalled for and we should have more time with polin healing the hurt and reconciling before the baby. They did not get screen time where they simply were happy and in love, exept the steamy sceens.

When you said that the stress of life had totally taken you out of feeling the story--I FELT THAT. That's exactly how I felt.