Hello Hello! Another Bridgerton season was foisted on us on Friday and I don’t know why, but my excitement levels going into it were low. If you didn’t know already, the Bridgerton Netflix series is based on a series of books about the Bridgerton family. This season was based on book 2, “The Viscount Who Loved Me”.
Everything after this sentence is going to contain season 1 and 2 spoilers.
The one thing I think this season had going for it was natural, genuine chemistry between Kate and Anthony. The biggest flaw of season 1 was that Daphne and Simon had no chemistry. Rege carried the entire show’s chemistry on his one back and even sex montages couldn’t save the tepid interactions between the mains.
This storyline was a bit more polarising with a sister love triangle, that I personally really enjoyed. Would I want to be in a love triangle with my sister? no. Can I imagine it happening? Also, no. But can I also imagine courtship and having to marry someone because you were seen alone together? No. The fact that it was such a polarising storyline added to the fantasy of the whole thing for me, in part because, Kate never really fought that hard against her feelings. I found she and Anthonys insistence on “doing the right thing” comical when it often involved rubbing noses, breathing hard and staring at each other across every kind of crowded room imaginable.
A complaint I’ve heard about the season is how there wasn’t enough sex and I fully went into it expecting that there were zero sex scene. Imagine my surprise when there was more than one sex scene, there was even a nipple on display (which you know, is oooooh for tv, except you’re normal people where that honour goes to a penis).
My unpopular opinion is that tv show sex scenes between characters that have a lot of natural chemistry can end up being pretty vulgar. It’s much easier to pull off when the characters have very platonic energy.
The flaw of the season was how annoying Penelope was if i’m honest. Eloise was pretty annoying as well actually. Also so funny that Anthony was mentioning honour every five seconds but fully paying for sex, pursuing a relationship that was going nowhere and whispering into her sister’s mouth. Man was busy staring at his bride’s sister on his wedding day and when that fell apart, still went and kissed the babe. At least let a day pass! I did enjoy all of this though when it was happening. LOL.
Also, the beauty of the Sharma family was crazy. Absolute stunners.
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