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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][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]

It's weird how people are so stubborn about learning a thing or two.  I find it a lot of fun to learn about the inspirations behind media.[/quote]

I’m the first person that brought up lady hamilton and I thought I had actually provided enough historical context, so I apologize if I didn’t.  I thought I said she was horatio Nelson’s mistress who came from a poor background but was accepted into society as his long term mistress and did quite well for herself during his lifetime.  
I agree if people make historical references it is helpful to provide enough context to know who they are and why they might be relevant to the very loose histroy of Bton.  [/quote]

There are some relevant differences.  Nelson was in fact already married and treated his wife terribly after he took up with Lady Hamilton.  Lady Hamilton was also married but her husband was weirdly cool with it.[/quote]

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