rating: 6/10
guess who finally finished this? judging by the fact that i am writing this review right now, the answer is me. it took me MONTHS because i hated this season a lot, primarily owing to the booktok-ification of colin bridgerton, who is undoubtably my least favourite bridgerton after this season. everything i loved about polin was destroyed. but i did enjoy watching the first four episodes. i just wish there was more slowburn and pining because this ship has been built all the way since season 1 so the payoff here wasn't executed as well as it should have been. also maybe after season 2, my expectations for this were perhaps entirely too high. but as much as i thought i'd hate watching the latter part of the season, i surprisingly did not? i mean, i still watched it in 2x speed but i was still fine with the way things went. this is definitely the weakest entry in the bridgerton series (despite the fact that nicola coughlan absolutely delivered on her performance), but it was... cute. i mean that a little derogatorily btw.
benedict's arc this season just confirmed he's bisexual, or bi-curious at least, and i love that, especially because the seeds for this were already laid from season 1 itself. i genuinely can't wait to see his story in season 4, which, as far as i know, is coming out sometime later this year. if you didn't already know, he's my favorite bridgerton hehe. i love his and eloise's swing conversations every season.
speaking of eloise, i really want to see where her arc takes her because it's been a pretty interesting ride seeing her development through the course of the entire story. as far as i'm aware, eloise's romance is with the much older widower of marina thompson. i wish that not to end up being the case in the future because i desperately need her to get back with theo. their entire story was so cute and it felt so good to see eloise finally connect to a man who was on her same wavelength. they need to make a petition to bring theo and eloise back together. stat.
i really don't have much more to say on this, except that i kinda hated it. it was mid. average. anyways, yea—that's the review.
