Bridgerton Season 4

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I do hope Eloise's book gets tossed out entirely if she's next. It doesn't fit with the show character at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the season ended with Benedict and Sophie dancing at the ball?

You have to watch post credits. I don't know why they did that. They get married.

Agree, it was stupid to put it at the very end of the credits -- A lot of people have Netflix set to autostart another show during the credits so I bet a ton of people missed it.

Also it doesn't just show their wedding, it also includes some hints about next season.

Yes! I just went back and saw it! Can’t believe I missed it!

How realistic is it that they would have Sophie (who they are trying to pass off as legitimate) walked down the aisle by another servant? Come on.

What gave you the idea that it’s a realistic show?

You’re missing the point. It doesn’t fit into the storyline they created to hide the fact that Sophie isn’t nobility. They want Sophie to be accepted by the ton so they pass her off as nobility…only to have her walked down the aisle by a servant. It doesn’t fit their own plan to have her legitimized.

That is totally different from saying well they play modern music.

It looks like a pretty private event, with only close family and friends. I'm sure they made excuses to the ton or had the wedding outside of the city to be able to invite only true friends. She doesn't want her stepmother there, surely.

Yes, very private -- it's at the county house that Benedict and Sophie will live at while they hope the ton quiets down over the rumor (that they are trying to counteract) that Sophie is a maid with no noble blood. It's entirely family and close friends.

Note that in other seasons, the weddings always happen in London. And that in seasons 1 and 3, we see big receptions after with the whole ton. Not the case here.

They were really stressing the point that maids are invisible. Is the hope that nobody worth listening to notices and Sophie's stepmom is basically blackmailed into saying nothing?

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the season ended with Benedict and Sophie dancing at the ball?

You have to watch post credits. I don't know why they did that. They get married.

Agree, it was stupid to put it at the very end of the credits -- A lot of people have Netflix set to autostart another show during the credits so I bet a ton of people missed it.

Also it doesn't just show their wedding, it also includes some hints about next season.

Yes! I just went back and saw it! Can’t believe I missed it!

How realistic is it that they would have Sophie (who they are trying to pass off as legitimate) walked down the aisle by another servant? Come on.

What gave you the idea that it’s a realistic show?

You’re missing the point. It doesn’t fit into the storyline they created to hide the fact that Sophie isn’t nobility. They want Sophie to be accepted by the ton so they pass her off as nobility…only to have her walked down the aisle by a servant. It doesn’t fit their own plan to have her legitimized.

That is totally different from saying well they play modern music.

It looks like a pretty private event, with only close family and friends. I'm sure they made excuses to the ton or had the wedding outside of the city to be able to invite only true friends. She doesn't want her stepmother there, surely.

Yes, very private -- it's at the county house that Benedict and Sophie will live at while they hope the ton quiets down over the rumor (that they are trying to counteract) that Sophie is a maid with no noble blood. It's entirely family and close friends.

Note that in other seasons, the weddings always happen in London. And that in seasons 1 and 3, we see big receptions after with the whole ton. Not the case here.

They were really stressing the point that maids are invisible. Is the hope that nobody worth listening to notices and Sophie's stepmom is basically blackmailed into saying nothing?

It does seem like they were just winging it a bit and hoping their connections work out.

But I think the missing piece here would have been for them to get Cressida on board. She's married to the exact person who really could have engineered the lie and is exactly poised to expose it. Getting them to play nice would have sold the ending a bit more.

[Anonymous]

The Queen is on board. No one is going to upset that apple cart

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the season ended with Benedict and Sophie dancing at the ball?

You have to watch post credits. I don't know why they did that. They get married.

Agree, it was stupid to put it at the very end of the credits -- A lot of people have Netflix set to autostart another show during the credits so I bet a ton of people missed it.

Also it doesn't just show their wedding, it also includes some hints about next season.

Yes! I just went back and saw it! Can’t believe I missed it!

How realistic is it that they would have Sophie (who they are trying to pass off as legitimate) walked down the aisle by another servant? Come on.

What gave you the idea that it’s a realistic show?

You’re missing the point. It doesn’t fit into the storyline they created to hide the fact that Sophie isn’t nobility. They want Sophie to be accepted by the ton so they pass her off as nobility…only to have her walked down the aisle by a servant. It doesn’t fit their own plan to have her legitimized.

That is totally different from saying well they play modern music.

It looks like a pretty private event, with only close family and friends. I'm sure they made excuses to the ton or had the wedding outside of the city to be able to invite only true friends. She doesn't want her stepmother there, surely.

Yes, very private -- it's at the county house that Benedict and Sophie will live at while they hope the ton quiets down over the rumor (that they are trying to counteract) that Sophie is a maid with no noble blood. It's entirely family and close friends.

Note that in other seasons, the weddings always happen in London. And that in seasons 1 and 3, we see big receptions after with the whole ton. Not the case here.

They were really stressing the point that maids are invisible. Is the hope that nobody worth listening to notices and Sophie's stepmom is basically blackmailed into saying nothing?

It does seem like they were just winging it a bit and hoping their connections work out.

But I think the missing piece here would have been for them to get Cressida on board. She's married to the exact person who really could have engineered the lie and is exactly poised to expose it. Getting them to play nice would have sold the ending a bit more.

I think this would have been an excellent addition to the story! Cressida is one of the more fun characters in Bridgerton anyway and would have her own strong incentive to get into Eloise's (and the family's) good graces again... and it would have made the scheme to invent for Sophie a "lineage" a lot more sophisticated and substantiated. (Right now, the whole "scheme" seems to boil down to "Alice gets everyone in the same room and crosses her fingers"...)

[Anonymous]

I think Cressida came back so they can set her up to be the new whistledown. That’s why they had the whole scene revealing that she reads books now.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Cressida came back so they can set her up to be the new whistledown. That’s why they had the whole scene revealing that she reads books now.

Ohh I was thinking Hyacinth, but Cressida is a good call.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Cressida came back so they can set her up to be the new whistledown. That’s why they had the whole scene revealing that she reads books now.

Ohh I was thinking Hyacinth, but Cressida is a good call.

Didn't we already see how poor a writer she is?

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Anonymous wrote:I think Cressida came back so they can set her up to be the new whistledown. That’s why they had the whole scene revealing that she reads books now.

Ohh I was thinking Hyacinth, but Cressida is a good call.

Hyacinth is too naive and ditzy to be the next Whistledown.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Cressida came back so they can set her up to be the new whistledown. That’s why they had the whole scene revealing that she reads books now.

Ohh I was thinking Hyacinth, but Cressida is a good call.

Hyacinth is too naive and ditzy to be the next Whistledown.

And she still doesn't have access to all the events.
I hope she doesn't have a romance for a while since she's so young it'd be creepy.

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Anonymous wrote:So who do people think Season 5 will be about? The show creators have confirmed it's going to be either Eloise or Francesca. I think they are clearly trying to set it up to be Francesca by making Michaela such a big character this season and already offing John. It also feels like they intentionally linked Eloise and Hyacinth this season, which would make sense if they planned to set up Hyacinth's season during Eloise's season.

HOWEVER I am bored with Francesca's storyline and don't feel that she and Michaela have great chemistry. If they were going to do a gender flip and give Francesca a lesbian storyline, they needed to cast actors where you really felt the chemistry from the beginning. I don't. They tried to manufacture it this season by showing them at odds and then becoming friends, but it feels forced to me and I do not buy it. Which has also been true of the last two seasons (just have not felt the heat from these couples even though I liked many of the characters, except Colin who I find so dull).

For those reasons, I really hope they zag and do Eloise. Which technically would not be a zag since in the books, Eloise is #5. They just flipped Colin and Benedict's stories. Eloise is the much more fun character between Eloise and Francesca, and I also just feel like the character is due for a romance and I'm tired of seeing Eloise on the fringes of things being the peanut gallery instead of being truly in the mix.

I also just think Eloise's story sounds like more fun. No book spoilers, but... it's just a better story.

TOTALLY, agree with this! Plus, maybe it is just me and my crowd, but Eloise seems so obviously gay/queer. She and Michaela would be a great match!

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Anonymous wrote:I think Cressida came back so they can set her up to be the new whistledown. That’s why they had the whole scene revealing that she reads books now.

Ohh I was thinking Hyacinth, but Cressida is a good call.

Hyacinth is too naive and ditzy to be the next Whistledown.

And she still doesn't have access to all the events.
I hope she doesn't have a romance for a while since she's so young it'd be creepy.

Maybe it'll be Eloise?

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Anonymous wrote:I think Cressida came back so they can set her up to be the new whistledown. That’s why they had the whole scene revealing that she reads books now.

Ohh I was thinking Hyacinth, but Cressida is a good call.

Hyacinth is too naive and ditzy to be the next Whistledown.

And she still doesn't have access to all the events.
I hope she doesn't have a romance for a while since she's so young it'd be creepy.

Maybe it'll be Eloise?

I don't think it will be Eloise or any of the Bridgertons because every season involves one of them falling in love and getting married and I think it's awkward/weird to have one of the siblings writing about the others. Like think about when it's Hyacinth's and Gregory's seasons -- she's going to be writing gossip about their romantic lives? It doesn't make sense.

Also the new Whistledown basically said she was going to be more gossipy than the last one, which just doesn't read as Eloise or any Bridgerton to me.

I really like the suggestion of it being a servant, maybe being informed by other servants or maybe being informed by their boss. The idea of Sophie's manservant friend being Lady Whistledown and maybe getting dirt via Cressida sounds kind of fun to me.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Cressida came back so they can set her up to be the new whistledown. That’s why they had the whole scene revealing that she reads books now.

Ohh I was thinking Hyacinth, but Cressida is a good call.

Didn't we already see how poor a writer she is?

I think it might be Varley. She was already helping Penelope.

[Anonymous]

I hated this season and thought that Sophie was SO poorly cast.