Here's Why Bridgerton Season 3 Is Getting Bombed on Rotten Tomatoes (but It Doesn’t Work)
The season is just too good to argue with.
If you're not familiar with the Bridgerton fandom, you might think it's a peaceful place. To some extent, it was, but from the moment Season 3, Part 2 premiered on Netflix, fans didn't get a single moment of peace.
While the season focused primarily on Penelope and Colin's love story, there were several subplots that were just as important to the show. Two of them, Benedict and Francesca's, have become the most divisive in the Bridgerton fandom to date.
Bridgerton Season 3 Rotten Tomatoes Score
Just like any other fandom for a show or movie based on a novel, Bridgerton's fanbase is made up of the hardcore book-reading fans who root for accuracy and the general audience — those millions who make the show so profitable. It's pretty easy to guess which side the producers want to satisfy most.
The third season, which retells three of the eight Julia Quinn stories as close to the original as possible without being repetitive, brought some long-awaited surprises. It showed Benedict Brodgerton's exploration of sexuality, which most viewers felt was a long time coming, and introduced a character named Michaela, who was Michael in the books.
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If careless exploration of Benedict’s sexuality didn’t really bother most fans, apart from those who see any kind of representation as part of the ‘woke’ agenda, the change in gender of one of the most popular main characters provoked a backlash from hardcore fans.
From creating petitions to redo the finale to spamming the production team's comments on social media, the enraged group decided to go all out and trash the season's rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The execution of the plan, however, only showed how small the unhappy part of the fandom actually is compared to the general audience.
If you look at the season's page on Rotten Tomatoes, you'll see the occasional one-star reviews mentioning 'unseemly relationships' or 'ruining Francesca's story' from the part of the fandom that rioted against the production changes. So far, however, the overall score is only rising and now stands at 77%.
If you are interested in giving Bridgerton season 3 a try and making up your own mind on what score the season deserves, be sure to tune in to the show on Netflix.