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Justice for Cressida

Bridgerton used her as a stepping stone for Penelope’s self-discovery, then tossed her aside.

There’s the sexy stuff appealing directly to the romance-genre aficionados who grew up on Mr. Darcy’s hand-flex and want to know what happened behind closed doors — the secret make-outs, the chaise-longue trysts, Benedict’s bisexual ménage à trois that seems to last a week. Her attempt at charming him fails, putting her on further bad terms with her demanding parents and leading to her admission that she’s living “the tragedy of a spinster whose father is now promising to marry her to one of his aged friends” — a fate that, were it to befall anyone else, would secure our sympathy. If the door is open in season four for Eloise and Francesca to return after their time in Scotland and Kate and Anthony after their trip to India, why not extend that same opportunity to Cressida for a story line that course-corrects the series’ wonky treatment of her?

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