The following article contains major spoilers for Bridgerton season four, part two.
If the first four episodes of Bridgerton’s swoon-worthy fourth season were about desperate, hungry yearning, then the final four were more about, er, consummation – complete with secret trysts, steaming hot baths, false identities and genuinely big shocks. But, once the credits rolled following – again, spoiler alert – Sophie and Benedict’s wedding, I was left mulling over several big questions. These are the 30 that will keep me up at night.
- Did people in the Regency era really mark their periods in this way?
- Did anyone else really miss Cressida?
- Does anyone else weirdly stan Cressida and Eloise’s friendship?
- Isn’t “my courses returned last night” such an elegant way of saying you got your period?
- Why did it take three people to do that fairly simple puzzle?
- I feel like I barely knew John, especially this season, so why am I so affected by his death?
- Can someone explain to me how John actually died?
- He just “had a headache”?
- So, how did Francesca lose her baby, exactly?
- How did Posy climb out of that window? Wish we’d seen that.
- Is anyone else inexplicably crying at this Scottish funeral?
- This might be the most emotional I’ve gotten at any Bridgerton episode ever?
- Is this how courts worked back in the day? Terrifying.
- So if the nobility accuse you of something, they don’t need evidence?
- Was anyone else oddly moved by Eloise and Hyacinth’s chat?
- Would anyone else watch a Posy spin-off?
- So, in the end, it was that easy, and Sophie can just lie about her lineage?
- I don’t fully understand why Violet didn’t marry Lord Anderson?
- Yes, she wants to find herself, but then why did she get so flustered before about him not wanting to marry her?
- Why did Michaela leave when she said she wouldn’t?
- Did everyone stay for the post-credits sequence?
- I’ve really enjoyed the upstairs-downstairs, Downton Abbey-esque vibe of this season, but was that only because Sophie is a maid?
- Will we just never see these people again, basically?
- Does this final shot mean Benedict is going to fully pursue painting again?
- Can he, like, have an affair with a man next season?
- Will we get to see Lady Danbury’s adventures in her ancestral homeland?
- Will next season focus on Eloise?
- Will Gregory and Hyacinth get their own separate seasons, too?
- Or can they just wrap all that into one or two more seasons?
- Basically, I love this and never want it to end, but also: how much longer will it go on for?
