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Three Seasons of Bridgerton Culminate in One Ecstatic Line Reading
“There is only one way to deliver that, and that is with urgency.”
By the end of season three, though, Bridgerton has become something else entirely: a show where Philippa Featherington Finch, a minor figure with fairly little character development and a penchant for dressing in acidic tones, yells the words, “Now, Varley! The result, a cloud of (CGI) butterflies swirling throughout the event space, is pure fantasy and delight, but the line itself, with its rushing finality on the word “bugs,” is a lone note of dissonance in an otherwise simplistic major chord. It’s the fact that the middle of the finale, at the moment of its greatest emotional heights and its soaring, triumphant but also fairly basic thesis statement about gossip and ambition and feminism, Philippa Featherington Finch can announce, in somewhat quavering but delighted tones, “Now, Varley!
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