Bridgerton Season 3: Colin and Penelope's Friends-to-Lovers Romance Unfolds in the Newest Installment of the Popular Netflix Series

Bridgerton season 3 focuses on Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington's romance
Colin is motivated by sympathy for Penelope's inability to find a husband
Penelope undergoes a makeover to attract men and win Colin's attention
The third season was released on May 16, 2023
Viewers can expect elaborate balls, stunning gowns, and the resolution of Penelope's secret identity as Lady Whistledown
Bridgerton Season 3: Colin and Penelope's Friends-to-Lovers Romance Unfolds in the Newest Installment of the Popular Netflix Series

Bridgerton, the popular Netflix series based on Julia Quinn's novels, has returned for its third season. This time around, the focus is on Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), the third eldest son of the esteemed Bridgerton family. The new season promises a friends-to-lovers romance between Colin and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan).

Penelope, who has been moonlighting as Lady Whistledown, the gossipmonger whose publication spreads scandalous information across the ton, is finally ready to find love. She undergoes a makeover in hopes of attracting men and winning Colin's attention. On the other hand, Colin seems motivated by sympathy for Penelope's inability to find a husband and guilt over past unkind words.

The third season of Bridgerton was released on May 16, 2023. The social season is upon us, and London's elite are back in town to participate in the marriage mart. This time around, viewers can expect more elaborate balls, stunning gowns, and a captivating courtship between Colin and Penelope.

The Bridgerton family has always been known for its intricate relationships and scandalous secrets. With each season focusing on different members of the family finding love, fans are eager to see how this latest romance unfolds. The biggest challenge for Bridgerton in this season will be resolving Penelope's secret identity as Lady Whistledown.

Bridgerton is a one-of-a-kind romantic drama that continues to captivate audiences with its engaging storytelling and sumptuous production design. The series has been praised for its diverse casting, which brings Regency London to life in a fresh and exciting way. With the return of fan-favorite characters and the introduction of new ones, Bridgerton season 3 is sure to be another must-watch event.


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Who plays Colin, Eloise and Penelope in 'Bridgerton'? See the full Season 3 cast

USA Today Thursday, 16 May 2024 00:00
  • Unique Points
    • Season 3 of Bridgerton was released on Netflix on May 16, 2023.
    • Colin Bridgerton is the third son of the Bridgerton family and a eligible bachelor.
    • Penelope Featherington will be seeking a husband this season with Colin’s help.
    • Lady Danbury maneuvers society behind the scenes as a close confidante of the Queen.
    • Cressida Cowper is Eloise’s new BFF and seeking a husband on her third year out on the marriage mart.
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The Problem With Bridgerton Is Becoming Hard to Ignore

Slate Rebecca Onion Thursday, 16 May 2024 09:45
  • Unique Points
    • Netflix's Bridgerton series, three seasons in, is known for its endless ballrooms and gowns.
    • The new season introduces fan-favorite character Penelope Featherington getting together with Colin Bridgerton.
    • The show’s setting is a Regency period London that feels unanchored in time and space due to multiracial casting practices.
    • Viewers have expressed feeling exhausted by the endless ballrooms and sumptuously dressed rich people.
    • Season 3 makes working-class characters patricians of leisure, removing their small escape from aristocratic propriety.
  • Accuracy
    • Questions of financial ruin are kept at the outskirts of the narrative, with characters being financially secure.
  • Deception (100%)
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  • Fallacies (80%)
    The author makes an appeal to authority by referencing other shows and books that share similar themes with Bridgerton. She also uses a dichotomous depiction by contrasting the limited class milieu of Bridgerton with historical romances that feature working-class characters and their experiences.
    • ]The people are gorgeous, the dresses are stunning, the trees and vines are always perfectly manicured and in bloom,
  • Bias (80%)
    The author expresses her exhaustion with the limited class milieu and lack of real poor, working-class, or middle-class characters in Bridgerton. She mentions her preference for historical romances that offer a different perspective and more texture by including working-class characters and their struggles.
    • But not everyone does historical romance like this. A good counterexample among literary historical romances is Longbourn, by Jo Baker, which turns Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice around and narrates it from the point of view of the servants in the Bennet household.
      • Netflix The new season of Bridgetton...is just as much of a confection as the preceding two...Everything exists to move the pretty people around the ballroom floor.
        • Of course, this is what the source material is like too...Questions of financial ruin often loom but never quite seem to strike. The second-season heroine, Kate Sharma, had a 'shopkeeper' father and needs to marry her sister off to someone in the aristocracy in order to secure financial support; the Featheringtons always seem to be barely evading some kind of disaster.
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        What took him so long? Colin finally likes Penelope back in 'Bridgerton' season 3

        National Public Radio (NPR) Linda Holmes Thursday, 16 May 2024 00:00
        • Unique Points
          • Penelope gives herself an eye-opening makeover in hopes of attracting men and winning Colin’s attention.
          • Colin appears to be motivated by sympathy for Penelope’s inability to find a husband and guilt over past unkind words.
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        • Deception (50%)
          The article contains editorializing and selective reporting. The author expresses her opinions about the characters and their motivations, implying that Colin's feelings for Penelope are not genuine or based on anything other than pity and guilt. She also focuses on certain aspects of the story while ignoring others, such as Penelope's own growth and development as a character.
          • The best thing the season has going for it is Nicola Coughlan, who has been winning and funny since the first season... Penelope is one of Bridgerton’s most compelling characters, not only because of her pining for Colin, but because of her exploits as the secret gossip columnist Lady Whistledown... Any sensible watcher wants the best for Penelopem
          • It’s not clear that Colin, despite being a sought-after Bridgerton brother, is good enough for her. Penelope is a clever, passionate, talented writer with glorious red hair and a secret life. Colin is ... a handsome man who did some journaling on his vacation.
        • Fallacies (85%)
          The author makes an appeal to the audience's expectations by referring to Penelope and Colin's relationship as 'friends to lovers.' (Tropes and Stereotypes), also she uses inflammatory rhetoric when describing Colin as 'a barely sentient lamppost about it.'
          • > Bridgerton is many things <but it is, critically, obedient to the requirements of particular romance tropes. In the first season, when Daphne married Simon, that was a ‘fake relationship.’ In the second season, when Anthony married Kate, that was ‘enemies to lovers.’ And now, in the first half of the third round of the show, we arrive at Colin and Penelope’s story, the inevitable and durable ‘friends to lovers.’ (Tropes and Stereotypes)
          • > Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington. Liam Daniel/Netflix <Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington. Liam Daniel/Netflix > Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton and Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington. <Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton and Nicolacoughlanas Penelope Featherington. > The answers to these questions are obvious, as is the ultimate outcome. (Admittedly, there would be some appeal to seeing Penelope tell him something along the lines of ‘you snooze, you lose, buster’ and go off with some very hot man who owns several castles. But that would be a different story.) <The answers to these questions are obvious, as is the ultimate outcome. (Admittedly, there would be some appeal to seeing Penelope tell him something along the lines of ‘you snooze, you lose, buster’ and go off with some very hot man who owns several castles. But that would be a different story.) > It’s not clear that Colin, despite being a sought-after Bridgerton brother, is good enough for her. <Penelope is a clever, passionate, talented writer with glorious red hair and a secret life. Colin is ... a handsome man who did some journaling on his vacation.
          • > I will give you free lessons to improve your personality <This is not to say the season is disappointing on the whole or that it lacks the qualities that have made the show interesting in the past. To its credit, Bridgerton brings body type into its concept of diversifying romance leads, up to a point. Coughlan is shorter and curvier than the other women who have had steamy scenes on the show, and unlike the book, the show does not mention her losing a bunch of weight between her initial friendship with Colin and his realization of her appeal. (Whew.) Instead, a lot is accomplished with more elegant and sexier styling and new colors to replace the citrus tones her mother has long forced on all her girls, which never flattered Pen’s red hair and super-pale complexion. <But on the whole, the cast carries it off, and it is impossible not to root for Penelope. We may wonder occasionally if she could do better, but she clearly does not believe she could.
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        The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermine the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
        (Site Conflicts Of Interest + Author Conflicts Of Interest) / 2.0 * 0.2 + ArticleBiasScore * 0.20 + UniquePointsScore * 0.05 + DeceptionScore * 0.20 + ReadabilityScore * 0.05 + FallacyScore * 0.20

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        Bridgerton season three review – still unbearably sexy

        theguardian.com Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/13/ pakistan-·coalition-·agrees-to-form-government Rachel Aroesti Thursday, 16 May 2024 04:00
        • Unique Points
          • Each season focuses on different members of the Bridgerton family finding love
          • This season focuses on Francesca Bridgerton and her neighbor Penelope Featherington's long-simmering romance
          • Penelope has been moonlighting as Lady Whistledown, the gossipmonger whose publication spreads scandalous information across the ton
          • The biggest challenge for Bridgerton in this season will be resolving Penelope’s secret identity as Lady Whistledown
        • Accuracy
          • Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington's dynamic is a high-status guy falls for apparently undesirable girl trope
        • Deception (100%)
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        • Fallacies (80%)
          The author uses an appeal to authority by mentioning Julia Quinn's novels and the success of the show. She also uses inflammatory rhetoric by describing Bridgerton as 'an over-saccharine trifle' and 'difficult to love'. There is a use of stilted language, which can be seen as an example of a figurative fallacy called Amplification.
          • ][the author] It feels odd to note that this is merely the third outing for Netflix’s costume drama for people who don’t like costume dramas. That is a real credit to the show: Bridgerton has established its arresting yet soothing take on Regency Mayfair with aplomb. It’s an immaculately constructed dreamland; the pinnacle of comfort TV.[/]
          • [[]the author[]] Yet for all the heady, slow-burn romance of these episodes, we know it can’t last. Penelope hasn’t just been getting her kicks by staring at the Bridgerton abode through the drawing-room window. She has been moonlighting as Lady Whistledown, the gossipmonger whose publication spreads scandalous information across the ton’s rarefied circles. Last season, this was uncovered by Pen’s former bestie Eloise Bridgerton after Whistledown published potentially ruinous accusations about her. She has also insulted Colin. How will Penelope keep her alter ego under wraps?[
        • Bias (95%)
          The author expresses a clear preference for the show 'Bridgerton' and its romantic themes, using phrases like 'wish-fulfilment', 'fantasy of the past powered by infatuation', and 'heady, slow-burn romance'. She also uses language that depicts Colin as a charming cad who spends his nights getting his end away at the local den of iniquity. This language could be seen as demeaning and objectifying, implying that Colin's sexual exploits are something to be celebrated or envied.
          • Colin, newly returned from yet more travels, now has the charming cad act down to a T: he spends his evenings flirting with tittering debutantes and his nights getting his end away at the local den of iniquity.
            • It's all wish-fulfilment.
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            The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermine the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
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            ‘Bridgerton’ Recap, Season 3, Episode 1: Out of the Shadows

            Vulture Magazine Maggie Fremont Thursday, 16 May 2024 08:00
            • Unique Points
              • Season 3 of Bridgerton is focused on sibling No. 3, Colin.
              • Colin’s love interest is Penelope Featherington.
              • Penelope is a gossipmonger in Mayfair.
              • Colin and Penelopé’s romance will have a ‘friends-to-lovers’ vibe.
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