WATCH / Fun in the ton Season three brings together fan favourites Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington (pictured). Credit: Liam Daniel/Netflix Dearest gentle reader, at last, London’s fashionable set has returned with season three of Bridgerton , Netflix’s highly bingeable, bosom-heaving, sideburn-appreciating, Regency-era drama. Based on Julia Quinn’s eight-book series, it follows the aristocratic Bridgerton family’s quest to marry off all eight of its ridiculously good-looking children.
While season one was a shag-fest in the hedges and season two was filled with enough sexual tension to power a small country, season three brings together two fan favourites: Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton, above), freshly returned from Europe with a Mr Darcy-esque glow-up, and his childhood friend, Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan, also above), aka town gossip Lady Whistledown. Yes, it’s all a bit silly and yes, I only watch it when my husband isn’t home, but it works because it refuses to be anything other than a bright spot of giddy fun in a streaming landscape overstuffed with depressing true crime. And like any good romance, it knows how to keep its fans wanting more: season three comes in two halves (four episodes each), with part two streaming from June 13.
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