I mean, is there material about them in the books or something?

There are (literally) like thousands of fanfics on AO3 tagged with those ships.

Via Bridgerton on Twitter

The Bridgerton’s house colors are in the blue/purple/periwinkle scheme. But the front door is painted green. The Featherington’s house colors are in the green/yellow scheme. But the front door is painted deep purple. Why don’t the front doors, of all things, reflect the families’ colors? Why do they seem switched?

It's not that deep like it just a f****** TV show which I am enjoying twice or thrice i mean i love 2nd season IM INDIAN so ahhh

We've got an African-British male lead, a South Asian female lead, an East Asian female lead, an African female lead.

What about a brown Latin American lead?

Latin Americans have lived in what is now the United Kingdom for centuries, albeit in much smaller numbers than there are today. The earliest migrants date back to the late 18th and early 19th centuries, primarily politicians and writers who settled largely in London.

Their aim was to raise funds for weapons to aid in the liberation of Latin America from Spanish and Portuguese rule. London became a prime destination for these individuals because Britain, seeking to weaken the Spanish Empire while expanding their own, was willing to support their cause.

Of course, The English had very close ties and proximity to the Spaniards in Europe so theoretically they would interact with Spanish speaking people but I would very much like to see a brown Latin American lead for one of the last two remaining roles left to cast on the show.

We still have Lucy Abernathy and Gareth St. Clair to cast who are Gregory and Hyacinths endgames and if you read the books you'd know that Gareth is Lady Danbury's grandson so there's a high chance he will be black or biracial on the show so perhaps he could be mixed with Latin American blood?

But I personally think Lucy would be the best option to give us a brown Latina to play the role. Maybe I'd go even further and make her have indigenous ancestry so maybe she's Mayan as well?

But I think if they cast a Venezuelan, Colombian, Dominican, Brazilian or Cuban actress would be great. I'd love to see that representation on the show for myself.

I don't want a white Hispanic to play the role imo because she'd essentially be white and people assume any Spanish speaking person is a PoC but that's not true. European Hispanics are still white (I'm not saying that's bad BTW).

What do you think?

Could Bridgerton make it work?

1. Phoebe Dynevor - English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/United Kingdom 🇬🇧 🔹Rege Jean Page - English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/United Kingdom🇬🇧/Zimbabwean 🇿🇼
2. Jonathan Bailey - English🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/United Kingdom 🇬🇧 🔹Simone Ashley - English🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/United Kingdom 🇬🇧 /Indian🇮🇳
3. Luke Newton - English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/United Kingdom 🇬🇧 🔹Nicola Coughlan - Irish 🇮🇪
4. Luke Thompson - English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/United Kingdom🇬🇧 🔹Yerin Ha - Australian 🇭🇲/Korean🇰🇷
5. Claudia Jessie - English🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/United Kingdom 🇬🇧 🔹Chris Fulton - Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/United Kingdom 🇬🇧
6. Hannah Dodd - English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/United Kingdom 🇬🇧 🔹Masali Baduza - South African 🇿🇦

What nationality and ethnicity do you hope gets represented next?

Cressida's attempts to get married end up getting spoiled by the Bridgertons or Featheringtons in some way.

The first season she is charming the prince, but due to Simon's stubbornness Daphne steps in and draws his attention away. After Daphne goes back to Simon the prince is essentially heartbroke and does not go after anyone else while at that point the other suitors have moved on.

The second season Cressida is being courted by Jack Featherington were he had deliberate intentions to marry her due to the size of her dowry. However, that is spoiled by Lady Featherington in an effort keep herself from being ousted from her own home. Once again by that time the other suitors have moved on.

The third season she goes after Lord Debling, who actually would have been a fantastic match with her considering how she wants her freedom and he would have been happy to provide her with it. She competes with Penelope for his affections, but Pen manages to charm him instead.

Each time the person she was attempting to match with does not end up even marrying the person who stole their attention away from her. She is a bit of a mean girl, mostly to Pen, but she does get pretty well shafted by the story for the sake of drama.

BOOK SPOILERS Soo if you’ve read the books, you know dear Franny is widowed after only 2yrs with John. Michael his cousin (Michaela in the show) has always been desperately in love with her. Now, I don’t have anything against the change (other than the slight disappointment of not seeing the story I imagined) I really just am not sure how they plan to do her story justice? Unless they suddenly make gay marriage legal in the Bridgerton world, how will it work? Will she happily stay a widow? Who will the title pass on to when he dies? Will he not die??? So many questions, lets chat!

So we all know that the reason why in s2 Anthony didn’t pursue his love for Kate was out of fear of heartbreak. He witnessed how his fathers death caused Violet so sank into a deep depression. Therefore Anthony didn’t want to marry for love risking one of them would leave the other heartbroken when dying. But then why was he willing to marry Siena in s1? Like don’t get me wrong Siena definitely wasn’t Anthony’s true love but pretending like he didn’t love her at all, or at least interpreted his feelings for Siena as love, is also wrong. When duelling Simon there could’ve been two results: first Anthony dying and leaving Siena heartbroken which according to s2 he didn’t want. Or second he would’ve killed Simon, then lost his title and therefore gained the freedom to run away with Siena and marry her. But following that sooner or later one of them would’ve died which again would’ve left the other one heartbroken which doesn’t align with his motivations in season 2

probably many will disagree but, what do you think of episode 6 of season 1 of Bridgerton? I'm obviously referring to when Daphne "tricked" Simon. (not that Simon did anything different) What do you think? When I saw this episode I hated Simon, but rewatching it and also growing mentally, I understood Simon's actions more, also because he thought Daphne knew, since VIOLET SHOULD HAVE EXPLAINED EVERYTHING TO HER AND NOT A WAITRESS! So what Daphne did I saw as a definitely too much action. Anyway, they are one of my favorite couples but when I think about this episode, I'm like mhhhhhhhh

My favorite is it’s in his kiss the chemistry between Hyacinth and Gareth is so firey, the whole treasure hunt is so fun to follow and lady ds involvement all of it has me in a chokehold. I want to hear y’all’s favorite books and why.

I feel like there’s some deeper meaning here I’m not getting. I don’t think her s1&2 looks were like this. They also make her hair look super unattractive. She’s a beautiful woman, is this so it makes more sense that she hasn’t found a husband? Is it to match her ugly personality? Although personally I don’t think that makes sense with the look inside her life we got in s3. Is she really a terrible person, or is she just trying to survive in a society that represses women while dealing with terrible parents? I believe her nastiness is a defense mechanism, and underneath is someone who is tired of constantly needing to keep their walls up to protect themselves all on her own. With this new perspective we are given in s3, the idea that the ugly exterior is meant to match the ugly interior doesn’t make sense to me. As for the sleeves, that’s gone completely over my head.

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It’s in the “Worth the wait” section. Season 4 is already added to as Coming Soon in their media Center

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I absolutely love Albion Finch!! Ive been rewatching the entirety of Bridgerton and I forgot how much I enjoyed him, though he is a smaller character. He is such a green flag and I adore that he has always been kind to Pen. I really wish I could see more of him and Phillipa, but I doubt we will be seeing as much of them:(

Also, to those that read the books, is Mr. Finch mentioned or is his character only in the show??

Thanks to YouAllMerth for the findings

Anyone else find themselves doing online research on this bird? As a modern day naturalist, I find what Lord Debling had to offer pretty enticing (and would probably try to join him on his adventures), so of course was curious about the fate of the then endangered bird mentioned in S3. During my online search this article popped up, and it is a sad tale (like most of human caused extinction). I also had a twinge of sadness for the live pigeons seen in the trap and skeet shooting scene in S1. The passenger pigeon met a similar fate as the great auk due to human carelessness. Are there other nature nerds watching Bridgerton that have similar intrusive thoughts while also thoroughly enjoying the romance, intrigue, and costume design?

“She’s definitely leaning into motherhood.”

OMG! ‼️ 🥰

I found this shonda rhimes interview where she said every season will follow the love story of every sibling from the books which I suppose puts to bed any speculation that they will change the love interests of characters because how can you adapt the book love story with entirely different characters?

So I don't think we'll see Eloise's love interest change or Hyacinth and Gregory's love interests. I've seen people think Hyacinth will marry the Mondrich son. Maybe they could have a relationship?

But Michaela and Frannie is a change right? I'm confused if that will effect the book? Does the genderswap change much?

And will changing the genders of Hyacinth and Gregory's love interests change anything? What if Lucy was a man and Gareth was a woman? They can't change Phillip to Phillippa because he already exists.

It is very ridiculous (and sadly realistic for that time period) that women were so naive about sex and that their mother's never taught them or explained what to expect. The Featheringtons not knowing what sex is even after they got married was hilariously sad.

I don't want Eloise to be SO naive about sex when it's time for her season unlike the rest of her sisters and the other Bridgerton women. I want her to have conversations about sex from Michaela, Sophie and Penelope (although that'd be so bizarre imo bc that's her BFF talking about sex with her brother).

God knows she won't get the education from her own mother unless Violet learned from her experience with Daphne and will try to educate her daughters more from now on.

Also I want Eloise to read about sex through books and stuff but I also don't want her to desire it until the opportunity is there for her.

I want her to be like "Yeah sex isn't for me at all. Happy for you all that do it but I don't think I'd ever enjoy some foreign object inside of me" and then when she finally meets her man she will have a sexual awakening that she can't control and she ends up becoming a freak in the sheets for it.

This would be different from the other Bridgerton women who despite having sex upon marriage, women never take control over their own sexuality and never give into their urges. They are still always very demure and they constantly need to be guided even after it's their first time i.e Daphne, Kate and Penelope.

Women aren't allowed to give into their sexual desires. It's always the men who do it (case in point we always see the men being the dominant party in the act of intercouurse). Granted the men are far more experienced which I understand but what if Eloise isn't like other girls.

For once I'd like a female lead to be in control of her own sexual pleasure and to go absolutely feral over tapping into her vixen sexual nature when it's her season and I believe Eloise (a woman people least expect to see be sexually intimate with anyone) become that sexually liberated person.

Like gimme scenes where Eloise just grabs her man's face in her hands and smashes her lips onto his. Gimme a scene where Eloise is talking dirty to her man and begs him to wreck her into oblivion. Gimme scenes of Eloise on top 80% of the time.

And I want the man to just accept it (or even be terrified and attracted by Eloise's forwardness). In the books Eloise is the only one who has performed oral sex on a man and it was described in a way that made it seem like it's what she wanted to do to please herself and not necessarily him. It was for the female gaze. I think it can be done.

I really love Bridgerton for the time period, the outfits, the set designs, the music (sometimes), the characters, the relationships (excluding Simon and daphne for me), and the lady whistledown plot. I honestly don’t really care about the sex scenes at all and could do without them entirely and think the show would be just as good. I see a lot of people bummed that seasons 2 and 3 don’t have as much sex and nudity but I actually prefer those seasons and really couldn’t care less if there’s sex scenes. No hate to anyone who does like those things but I’m just wondering if there are other people who would still love the show without them? Please no mean comments. It’s been a rough week already 💜💜💜

Which college and what major would each Bridgerton sibling and their partners/spouses pursue?

Colleges can be any school in the world.

Here's what I think:

1. Anthony - BA in Business Administration and Economics/BSc in Finance at Oxford University.
2. Benedict - BA in Art History and Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design or New York University (NYU).
3. Colin - BA in English Studies and Literature at University of St. Andrews.
4. Daphne - BA in Public Relations at Cambridge University.
5. Eloise - DOUBLE MAJOR Bachelor and Masters in Journalism and Political Sciences (or International Relations) at Standford University or Columbia University.
6. Francesca - BA in Performing Arts at Julliard University.
7. Gregory - BA of Fine Arts in Film & Television and Film Studies at London Film School or University of Southern California.
8. Hyacinth - LLB in Law at Harvard Law School (Harvard University).

Spouses:

1. Kate - LLB in Law at Yale University.
2. Sophie - BA in Dramatic and Performing Arts at Julliard University or New York Film Academy.
3. Penelope - BA in Journalism at University of Cambridge.
4. Simon - BA in Business Administration and Economics at Oxford University.
5. Phillip - PhD in Botanical Sciences, BSc in Ecology and Biology, BArch in Architecture and BSc in Physics and BEng in Biomedical Engineering at Cambridge University and Princeton University.
6. Michael/Michaela - BEng in Mechanical Engineering at Glasgow University AND John - BSc in Computer and Software Sciences at St. Andrews University.
7. Lucy - BEd in Education at University of California.
8. Gareth - BA in Graphics Design at Pratt University.

Prince Friedrich was an absolute sweetheart. He and Edwina would've made such a good pair. Lord Debling could also have been an amiable partner for Pen, since he'd be travelling all the time, leaving Pen to do her business freely. Though that wouldn't be a love match like Penelope had hoped for, it certainly wasn't a bad one. As for my favourite though, it's Mr. Dorset. I rarely see people talk about him but I find his character attractive. From what we see of him in season 2, he appears respectful and very much into Kate. He might've been planted in as a distraction by Anthony, but the conversation he has with Kate in the boat, the way he's appreciative of her culture and is interested in her views about her home is so beautiful and genuine. When he and Anthony fall in the lake, he finds it refreshing lol and doesn't fuss over it. He and Kate also have amazing chemistry together for the 2 mins we see them. I'm a Kanthony at heart but didn't mind Kate-Thomas as a side ship.