After a two year wait for season three of Bridgerton , fans feel let down that this season’s romantic leads only had three sex scenes together. Analysis by a Reddit user revealed that Colin Bridgerton ( Luke Newton ) and Penelope Bridgerton ( Nicola Coughlan ) only spent 78 minutes of season three together, which works out as about 16 per cent of the total 475-minute runtime. This is slightly less than the 89 minutes, which the leading couple shared in season two, and the 113 minutes of screen time which the romantic leads of season one got.
Some fans believe that intimate moments were cut from the show. This theory caused a group of outraged fans to start a petition demanding that Netflix and Shondaland release the alleged deleted scenes, either by reinserting them into the show or by creating a steamier director’s cut. The petition has 55,000 signatures so far.
Fans took to social media to share their disappointment. A fan who signed the petition wrote, “I fear the editors may be fat phobic. People can not watch if they don’t want to see it – us plus sized girls need this!” “I’m so p***ed,” an Instagram user commented, “there were SO MANY SIDE STORIES.
Polin got completely lost.” One Reddit user commented: “With Polin there just weren’t that many moments that developed their romance – their first kiss, the carriage scene, the mirror scene. A lot of that was just making out and heavy breathing.
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