![]() ![]() The other Bridgerton siblings are given shockingly little to do. The controversial scene in which Daphne tricks her husband into having sex with her to completion in order to have a child may have rendered her a villain, but it also made her a more interesting character with flaws.īut Bridgerton’s secondary characters cannot save its second season. And once the two were entangled with one another, Daphne became more complex. ![]() Regé-Jean Page could have generated sexual tension with an old time-y lamp post. After all, Daphne was fairly bland at the beginning of her courtship with the Duke, all doe eyes and dutiful smiles. The flatness of these characters would not be felt as strongly if season 2 had presented another stand out star. Her younger sister, meanwhile, is generally amiable but does not reveal any discernible desires or ambitions. ![]() But she possesses few other characteristics outside of her competitiveness. Kate is a mashup of Elizabeth Bennet and Little Women‘s Jo Marsh-the headstrong woman who defies all of Anthony’s patriarchal expectations. But Page, with his smoldering smile, sold the story’s absurdities.Īnthony’s staunch refusal to just marry the woman he loves zaps the series of all momentum. The show did not dwell on the complexities of that encounter-or how the repressed nature of regency England might facilitate such violations-and instead focused on the final reconciliation between husband and wife when they finally agree to have a child. On the page, the story stretched the bounds of credulity and even taste-the young couple’s conflict culminates in a controversial scene in which the Daphne tries to impregnate herself without the Hastings’ consent. Once they do begin to have sex, the rest of the story centers on how quickly Daphne will figure out that Hastings isn’t being forthright about what exactly needs to happen to conceive a child. He has claimed he cannot bear children and Daphne, who has a pretty limited understanding of how sex works, assumes he’s physically incapable. Hastings has sworn he will never sire an heir out of bitterness towards his dead father. The plot takes some truly wild twists once Hastings and Daphne marry and consummate their relationship after much flirtatious buildup. The first season of Bridgerton featured some truly cringe-worthy storylines, like when Hastings educates his future bride, Daphne, about masturbation, a conversation that tested even the most dedicated costume drama lover’s appetite for a historical heroine’s naïveté. ![]()
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