Simple Reason Bridgerton's Season 2 Is the Absolute Worst
The Bridgerton-verse is at its peak with the arrival of the brilliant spinoff, Queen Charlotte, but let's break down the reasons why Bridgerton's season 2 is the fans' least favorite season yet.
Daphne and Simon's story was fresh and exciting. Charlotte and George's beginnings were compelling to watch. What was wrong with Anthony and Kate's love journey?
Well, mostly, the drama. Book fans didn't appreciate the writers straying too far from the source material, particularly in terms of the love triangle.
The whole Edwina-Anthony-Kate drama rubbed many the wrong way as it wasn't part of the book story, and Kanthony lovers were disappointed to see how much screen time (instead of their favorite book scenes) the love triangle got.
Season 2's Anthony wasn't as appreciated by the fans as the writers had hoped he would be.
The character's I'm-against-love attitude got old and tiresome pretty quickly, and people felt like he was too emotionally stunted, which wasn't a good look for a viscount.
Plus, the way Kate had to keep getting him to open up, to no avail, contributed greatly to the women-fixing-men rhetoric (the 2000s called and asked for their favorite movie trope back).
Fans believe that season 1 was closer to the books, and it had just enough steamy scenes and budding romance to get us hooked, but season 2 failed to follow in its footsteps accordingly – far fewer spicy scenes and far more fighting over stupid stuff.
People are unanimous in saying that Queen Charlotte has outdone both seasons of Bridgerton, and they largely attribute this to the fact that Shonda Rhimes was more hands-on with the prequel.
While her company is producing Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte also had her as a writer. Maybe Shonda can spare some time to write a few episodes in the upcoming season?
Fans are actually pretty worried about Bridgerton's fate going into season 3, given that Jess Brownell will replace creator Chris Van Dusen as showrunner for the next two seasons and that they've decided to skip Benedict's story for now and focus on Colin's.
That means more plot changes, and no one wants that, especially not after season 2.
Let's hope Jess sticks to the book more than Chris did last season – or at least doesn't cut so many key scenes!