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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just finished episode 4. Goddamn. This is way better than Season 2 or 3. It might even top Season 1. The scene with Benedict and Sophie in the stairwell was so hot…he licked two of his fingers….omg! I need a cold shower. Of course it was totally ruined with the whole “Be my mistress” line.

Violet was a trip with the whole inviting Lady Danbury’s brother over for tea. [/quote]

Omg really?? I didn’t get the finger licking at all. If she’s really going to come in 45 seconds or whatever, she’s already lubricated. And if she wasn’t, licking your fingers like that wouldn’t help. He barely moistened them. It was just kind of icky. [/quote][/quote]

Totally disagree. He was making sure he wouldn’t hurt her. He doesn’t know if she’s lubricated enough. Plus she’s a virgin![/quote]See, this is the kind of dialogue I enjoy about Bridgerton. Napoleon—who the heck cares? Talk to me about a man who understands proper lubrication![/quote]

To be fair, Bridgerton is about sex, not about history. It is a fantasy. People who are trying to relate it to real history do not get the point of the show.[/quote]

+1 if you can’t suspend your disbelief, you will hate the show. It isn’t attempting to be historically accurate it’s basically just the aesthetic vibe and mating style of the regency era put into a modern show. You have multiple interracial marriages between nobility in the show, that is already killing the historical accuracy of the show. Just have fun with it. [/quote]

You have to suspend disbelief but the show does actually assume you have some idea of Regency tropes.  What's going on with the king, why does everyone wear high waisted dresses, What's up with the social strata.

They assume you have some base knowledge from watching or reading Jane Austen.[/quote]

Ok, sure, but the show does not assume knowledge if Admiral Nelson's mistress. Even the costumes are anachronistic -- the queen dresses like Marie Antoinette because it's fun, it has nothing to do with historical accuracy. And they play fast and loose with high society as it suits them, especially on the race stuff. For instance the embrace of the Mondrichs. Which is fun, those are good characters and really charismatic actors. But totally absurd in terms of historical accuracy.

They don't want you thinking too hard about what Regency England was actually like.[/quote]

Probably not but it's a fun jumping off point, particularly if you read some of the over the top sentimentalist stuff (I took a whole class on it in college).

[b]Pamela, she's a maid whose wealthy employer (Mr. B)[/b] wants to make her his mistress (he's really quite terrible) and she holds out, ends up married and joining upper society. And to be clear, this book is ridiculously over the top and moralistic, but it's kind of on point and was written a solid 70 years before Bridgerton takes place.  I'm betting the author who wrote Bridgerton had probably read those novels.[/quote]

Who the hell is Pamela??[/quote]

Oh come on, I'm barely literate and even I know who Pamela is. [/quote]

Quit trying to make fetch happen

No one knows or cares about Pamela [/quote]

Anyone versed in Regency novels would. This is a silly thing to be snippy about.[/quote]

For those who aren’t versed in Regency novels, who is Pamela? And what does she have to do with Bridgerton?[/quote]

Pamela is a book from the mid 1700s (so about 80 years pre-Bridgerton setting) that involves a maid whose wealthy employer wants to make his mistress, but she refuses him and eventually her virtue wins him over and he marries her.  The love interest is literally named Mr. B.

Now it's a somewhat heavy on the moralizing so it's not a terribly appealing book to modern audiences.  It's a sentimentalist book.

But it's actually quite on point, plot wise, which is why it got brought up.[/quote]

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