Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand where Sophie lived before. They were close enough to London that her stepsisters were invited to the ball, but far away enough that no one knew about her? She wasn’t a maid until after her father died. And now the stepmom is moving next door to the Bridgertons? Even if you were super wealthy would you ip and move like that?

I believe there was a rental market for houses in town among rich people/nobles. If they had houses they weren't using, then it was worth it to get rent.

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Anonymous wrote:Will they address Benedict’s bisexuality?

There’s a brief scene at the beginning of episode 4 that tells you he is indeed still bisexual.

I wonder if he will share this with Sophie.

Is this a storyline in the book?

Because in season 3, it felt like a pointless addition to the plot that added zero to the story or the character development.

NP. I read Benedict's book. It was dull. It's just a "Cinderella" rescue the mystery poor girl story.

My take on Benedict's sexuality is that it is simply extra wokeness/sexiness to jazz up the story. It probably works for some. And they've hinted heavily they're going to LGBT up the dull sister who found the quiet husband.

I have liked all the seasons and the Queen Charlotte prequel. However, they have a bit too much depicted sex for me. Like that scene where Anthony's bare butt is shown because he's banging his actress mistress in the park. (Was that Anthony?) I also don't like the subplot about the affair between Lady Danbury and grandpa Bridgerton. Just unnecessary. Too much spice. The club-owning couple became popular characters so now we are going to have their romantic life on display too.

This show is nothing without the sex.

PP. Disagree. I like the cross-cultural casting and think the actors do a good job of selling this fantastical alternative England. I think the costumes and jewelry are lovely. The music covers are amusing. I enjoy Regency tropes and some of the story revisions are positive additions. I just don't need to see bare asses pumping away. It's embarrassing when my kids are at home.

You can disagree but the books tell a different story. Very smutty and so the show has to have -and does- sex as a focal point. So the bare bums are part and parcel of the story.

I don’t understand where Sophie lived before. They were close enough to London that her stepsisters were invited to the ball, but far away enough that no one knew about her? She wasn’t a maid until after her father died. And now the stepmom is moving next door to the Bridgertons? Even if you were super wealthy would you ip and move like that?

Anonymous wrote:I appreciated the lesson in power imbalance that Benedict got from the cottage caretaker. Curious if they’re going to revisit that so directly again in the rest of the season.

I like Benedict well enough this season, but then that dolt went ahead and pissed me right off. Ooooo, I wanted to throw something at my TV with that mistress line. Make him crawl, Sophie.

It's realistic though, the most she could hope for due to the limitations of class. It was a different time. However, she'd of course be better off with a stable job for life versus a temporarily-more-luxurious mistress position that could end at any moment.

I appreciated the lesson in power imbalance that Benedict got from the cottage caretaker. Curious if they’re going to revisit that so directly again in the rest of the season.

I like Benedict well enough this season, but then that dolt went ahead and pissed me right off. Ooooo, I wanted to throw something at my TV with that mistress line. Make him crawl, Sophie.

Anonymous wrote:I just finished the first episode and it seemed so rushed to me. It really did not feel believable he would change his entire life course based on that interaction! And kind of gross he had been having sex with someone else a couple hours before that.

To me it is not that he was having sex with someone else but just that the bisexual plot line has always felt fake to me. Same as when they wanted to show that Colin was more sexually adventurous, they showed him in bed with TWO women. Like just the most basic and cliche thing possible.

I am interested to see if they address his bisexuality with Sophie as their love story progresses. Like does he tell her?

One thing that has always bugged me about it is that he obviously keeps it completely secret from his family, yet he's actually surprisingly not that careful about it when he is out at bars -- it looked pretty out in the open this season. Realistically, this would be the kind of thing that is NEVER spoken about "in society" especially not by his mother or the rest of his family. But it seems absurd it wouldn't be disclosed to Sophie, especially because of how the show likes to take a fairly modern approach to sexuality even while being set in Regency England.

If this were a real story, the truth is that Sophie would happily turn a blind eye to it even if she hated it because marrying Benedict would literally solve every problem she has whether she was into him or not. That he's actually a really nice guy from a genuinely good, not dysfunctional, not abusive family would make it a no brainer even if she was totally repulsed by his bisexuality. Though also if it was a real story, her sex life with him would likely be limited and then she'd wind up in charge of the kids and household while he continued to carry on affairs throughout their marriage. The idea that someone with Benedict's sexual history would settle down and be faithful to his wife at the age of 30 until death is silly.

So very curious how they will address it, if at all. It will be extra stupid if they just totally drop it and are like "well now that he's found 'the one' it doesn't matter." I just don't buy it. But I also would not really buy Sophie being into it or even participating in that lifestyle, unless they expand on her character in a way that would make that make sense.

Anonymous wrote:I just finished the first episode and it seemed so rushed to me. It really did not feel believable he would change his entire life course based on that interaction! And kind of gross he had been having sex with someone else a couple hours before that.

Why is that gross? It’s not like he and Sophie had sex the same day.

I just finished the first episode and it seemed so rushed to me. It really did not feel believable he would change his entire life course based on that interaction! And kind of gross he had been having sex with someone else a couple hours before that.

Oh man, Benedict does nothing for me and I feel like he’s way too old for her. I didn’t understand anything about why he was attracted to her at the masquerade. I guess this season isn’t for me.

I think they're setting up Eloise for the next season, though if they're following the books something else major needs to happen for her season to work.

Benedict is so hot. I’ve always thought he’s the hottest brother and a so glad he’s getting his own storyline. The chemistry is so good this season. The other plot lines are boring but the scenery is pretty and love the music so far.

Anonymous wrote:So far in Season 4 I've caught a deaf guy who signs, and Sophie's maid friend Hazel is missing a hand. I am glad people with disabilities are getting acting work that isn't centered around their disability.

My acting pet peeve is when a male/female couple is starting to get it on and the female actress acts like she's five seconds away from .... her pinnacle shall we say, when all the male actor has done is kiss her neck. It takes a hell of a lot more foreplay than that. (This happened a lot in the Fifty Shades trilogy also.)

Oh come on.

100% believable with Simon.

There isn't a woman on the planet who wouldn't swoon if the Duke of Hastings so much as looked at her sideways

Anonymous wrote:So far in Season 4 I've caught a deaf guy who signs, and Sophie's maid friend Hazel is missing a hand. I am glad people with disabilities are getting acting work that isn't centered around their disability.

My acting pet peeve is when a male/female couple is starting to get it on and the female actress acts like she's five seconds away from .... her pinnacle shall we say, when all the male actor has done is kiss her neck. It takes a hell of a lot more foreplay than that. (This happened a lot in the Fifty Shades trilogy also.)

Although this show is more pro non penetrative sex/foreplay so I'll give them a pass given a long multi minute sex scene isn't really feasible or watchable.

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Anonymous wrote:Will they address Benedict’s bisexuality?

There’s a brief scene at the beginning of episode 4 that tells you he is indeed still bisexual.

I wonder if he will share this with Sophie.

Is this a storyline in the book?

Because in season 3, it felt like a pointless addition to the plot that added zero to the story or the character development.

NP. I read Benedict's book. It was dull. It's just a "Cinderella" rescue the mystery poor girl story.

My take on Benedict's sexuality is that it is simply extra wokeness/sexiness to jazz up the story. It probably works for some. And they've hinted heavily they're going to LGBT up the dull sister who found the quiet husband.

I have liked all the seasons and the Queen Charlotte prequel. However, they have a bit too much depicted sex for me. Like that scene where Anthony's bare butt is shown because he's banging his actress mistress in the park. (Was that Anthony?) I also don't like the subplot about the affair between Lady Danbury and grandpa Bridgerton. Just unnecessary. Too much spice. The club-owning couple became popular characters so now we are going to have their romantic life on display too.

This show is nothing without the sex.

PP. Disagree. I like the cross-cultural casting and think the actors do a good job of selling this fantastical alternative England. I think the costumes and jewelry are lovely. The music covers are amusing. I enjoy Regency tropes and some of the story revisions are positive additions. I just don't need to see bare asses pumping away. It's embarrassing when my kids are at home.

This show is based on bodice-ripper romances. The sex is necessary.

PP. I've read almost all the books. They are much tamer. I like the show better because of the high cost production values and even the quirkier leads are attractive. Again, it's when the show gets super randy that it seems out of place.

Agreed the books are more chaste. Also I think when romance is onscreen, it gets scandalous more quickly. There are certain things that are sexy to read but you'd rather imagine the visuals of than see in close up on your TV.

That said, there's really only a handful of episodes of Bridgerton that I think go overboard with this. They always do one or two sex scenes each season that I just think are way too over the top, and then some of the little asides (like Colin having a threesome) just seem dumb and unnecessary to me.

I think they do a very good job with the main romance usually, and really making you feel the attraction. I even thought they did a good job with this in Season 3, I just found Colin to drippy to be excited by.

The first half of this season is perfection in this respect.

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Anonymous wrote:Will they address Benedict’s bisexuality?

There’s a brief scene at the beginning of episode 4 that tells you he is indeed still bisexual.

I wonder if he will share this with Sophie.

Is this a storyline in the book?

Because in season 3, it felt like a pointless addition to the plot that added zero to the story or the character development.

NP. I read Benedict's book. It was dull. It's just a "Cinderella" rescue the mystery poor girl story.

My take on Benedict's sexuality is that it is simply extra wokeness/sexiness to jazz up the story. It probably works for some. And they've hinted heavily they're going to LGBT up the dull sister who found the quiet husband.

I have liked all the seasons and the Queen Charlotte prequel. However, they have a bit too much depicted sex for me. Like that scene where Anthony's bare butt is shown because he's banging his actress mistress in the park. (Was that Anthony?) I also don't like the subplot about the affair between Lady Danbury and grandpa Bridgerton. Just unnecessary. Too much spice. The club-owning couple became popular characters so now we are going to have their romantic life on display too.

This show is nothing without the sex.

PP. Disagree. I like the cross-cultural casting and think the actors do a good job of selling this fantastical alternative England. I think the costumes and jewelry are lovely. The music covers are amusing. I enjoy Regency tropes and some of the story revisions are positive additions. I just don't need to see bare asses pumping away. It's embarrassing when my kids are at home.

This show is based on bodice-ripper romances. The sex is necessary.

PP. I've read almost all the books. They are much tamer. I like the show better because of the high cost production values and even the quirkier leads are attractive. Again, it's when the show gets super randy that it seems out of place.