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Bridgerton

Cinderella, but make it Bridgerton.

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“Season four of Bridgerton, based on the Julia Quinn novel An Offer From a Gentleman, has many things to recommend it. Benedict, the show’s central Bridgerton sibling for this season, has more substantive character development than season three’s poor, sad, useless Colin Bridgerton. Benedict’s love interest Sophie Baek is played by newcomer Yerin Ha in an outstanding introductory performance. And Sophie’s role in the series comes with immediate, meaningful stakes to give their romance some oomph of yearning. Sophie is a maid, not one of the aristocratic ladies vying for social prominence. Any relationship with a Bridgerton is absolutely verboten, and yes, this is just a Bridgerton version of Cinderella.

But Cinderella is a classic for a reason, and that underlying structure gives Bridgerton something it has lacked since the first season: a barrier keeping its two leads apart, something based not just in misunderstanding and secrets, but in the social fabric of the show’s weird Regency-fantasy world.” — Kathryn VanArendonk, “Bridgerton Finally Gets It Together”

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Episode 8 After the Rain

Bridgerton Season-Finale Recap: You Gotta Go Through Hell to Get to HEAven Now aware of the backstory driving Simon’s behavior, Daphne takes steps to defrost the marital thaw.
Episode 7 Oceans Apart

Bridgerton Recap: When the Vow Breaks Daphne and Simon’s pained love struggles to wiggle through the walls around their hearts.
Episode 6 Swish

Bridgerton Recap: The Rhythm Method The Duke and new Duchess of Hastings are enthusiastically banging all over Clyvedon Castle, but are soon yanked from their happy marriage bed.
Episode 5 The Duke and I

Bridgerton Recap: License to Bed Break out your historical romance bingo cards, this episode has it all.
Episode 4 An Affair of Honor

Bridgerton Recap: Garden Body Party Two people miserably entering into a marriage based on half-truths and crushed dreams? Sign me up!
Episode 3 Art of the Swoon

Bridgerton Recap: Well, Actually, “WAP” Is Historical It’s time for a sexual awakening!

Episode 2 Shock and Delight

Bridgerton Recap: End of the Line Make way for Simon Bassett, Duke of Hastings, and his metric ton of daddy issues.
Episode 1 Diamond of the First Water

Bridgerton Premiere Recap: Scandal Broth Served Hot XOXO, Gossip Lady.

Episode 8 The Viscount Who Loved Me

Bridgerton Season-Finale Recap: One Last Time After fighting their feelings for so long, Kate and Anthony finally allow themselves the love and self-acceptance they deserve.
Episode 7 Harmony

Bridgerton Recap: Do Not Stop As the Bridgertons and Sharmas do damage control in the wake of the failed wedding, we finally get a steamy sex scene.
Episode 6 The Choice

Bridgerton Recap: Faith or Fools Okay, Edwina, out here making decisions for yourself, we see you.
Episode 5 An Unthinkable Fate

Bridgerton Recap: Mr. Duplicity Why won’t these two kiss already?
Episode 4 Victory

Bridgerton Recap: A-Hunting We Will Go Hope you were sitting down for that dancing scene. Phew!
Episode 3 A Bee In Your Bonnet

Bridgerton Recap: Into the Woods An intense moment between Anthony and Kate reveals how much trauma these two are carrying around.

Episode 2 Off to the Races

Bridgerton Recap: Love Languages Kate runs interference on Anthony’s efforts to win Edwina’s hand, while the queen is on Whistledown’s trail.
Episode 1 Capital R Rake

Bridgerton Season-Premiere Recap: No Pressure, No Diamond Anthony’s criteria for the ideal viscountess is woefully lacking, but he’s already quite smitten with the mysterious, badass Kate.

Episode 8 Into the Light

Bridgerton Season-Finale Recap: Gossip, Girl This is truly the happiest of endings.
Episode 7 Joining of Hands

Bridgerton Recap: You Are a Bridgerton Now Well, at least the wedding was lovely. Now we have to deal with Lady Whistledown’s identity being in peril.
Episode 6 Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Bridgerton Recap: It’s Just Gossip Are Pen’s blogging days over?
Episode 5 Tick Tock

Bridgerton Recap: On the Clock Now this is one hell of an engagement party.
Episode 4 Old Friends

Bridgerton Recap: The Carriage Scene Book readers, our time has come.
Episode 3 Forces of Nature

Bridgerton Recap: Brave Enough to Ask As the old saying goes, the family that gets hot and bothered together, stays together.

Episode 2 How Bright the Moon

Bridgerton Recap: A Lost Cause Can we talk about the kiss, please?
Episode 1 Out of the Shadows

Bridgerton Season-Premiere Recap: The Hot Goss Penelope decides it is time for a main-character glow-up.

Episode 8 Dance in The Country

Bridgerton Season-Finale Recap: Might You Stay Forever? Well, love really can change people.
Episode 7 The Beyond

Bridgerton Recap: Life Is Short After some emotional setbacks, the bad news continues for Sophie as she must choose between a job in the Americas or Bridgerton House.
Episode 6 The Passing Winter

Bridgerton Recap: Reapin’ and Sowin’ Anthony is back to deal with Benedict and cannot believe he is so willing to complicate his life by being involved with Sophie.
Episode 5 Yes Or No

Bridgerton Recap: Opposites Attract Sophie would never want to be a mistress, and the fact that Benedict doesn’t know that is making her wonder if he ever understood her at all.
Episode 4 An Offer From a Gentleman

Bridgerton Midseason-Finale Recap: Bad Idea, Right? Benedict finally finds the girl of his dreams, but he might have just lost her with the wrong three words.
Episode 3 The Field Next to the Other Road

Bridgerton Recap: They’re Going To The Cottage A surprise storm forces Benedict and Sophie into a week-long domestic fantasy away from the ton.

Episode 2 Time Transfixed

Bridgerton Recap: A Lover of Pleasure We race back in time to get the full tale of how Miss Sophie Baek became the Lady in Silver.
Episode 1 The Waltz

Bridgerton Season-Premiere Recap: Benedict Becomes a Gentleman The ton is back, and so is our favorite bisexual king, Benedict Bridgerton, who finds himself utterly bewitched by a mysterious Lady in Silver.

if these walls could talk British Period Drama’s Go-To Rooms, Ranked Your favorite character actor wishes they had a résumé this long. By Bethy Squires
encounter Bridgerton Needed Her Yerin Ha brought the hit Regency romance series the perspective it’s been missing. By Kathryn VanArendonk
yelling A Collection of Miniature Bridgerton Rants In a Regency world that implies a mass print culture capable of speedy and pervasive distribution of colored images, no gripe is too small. By Kathryn VanArendonk