The following contains major spoilers for Bridgerton Season 4, part two.
If the first four episodes of Bridgerton’s swoon-worthy fourth season were about desperate, hungry yearning, then the final four were more about, er, consummation—complete with secret trysts, steaming hot baths, false identities, and genuinely big shocks. But once the credits rolled following—again, spoiler alert!—Sophie and Benedict’s wedding, I was left mulling over several big questions. These are the 30 that will keep me up at night.
- Did people in the Regency era really mark their periods in this way?
- Did anyone else really miss Cressida?
- Does anyone else weirdly stan Cressida and Eloise’s friendship?
- Isn’t “my courses returned last night” such an elegant way of saying you got your period?
- Why did it take three people to do that fairly simple puzzle?
- I feel like I barely knew John, especially this season, so why am I so affected by his death?
- Can someone explain to me how John actually died?
- He just “had a headache”?
- So, how did Francesca lose her baby, exactly?
- How did Posy climb out of that window? Wish we’d seen that.
- Is anyone else inexplicably crying at this Scottish funeral?
- This might be the most emotional I’ve gotten during any Bridgerton episode ever?
- Is this how courts worked back in the day? Terrifying.
- So if the nobility accuse you of something, they don’t need evidence?
- Was anyone else oddly moved by Eloise and Hyacinth’s chat?
- Would anyone else watch a Posy spin-off?
- So, in the end, it was that easy, and Sophie can just lie about her lineage?
- I don’t fully understand why Violet didn’t marry Lord Anderson?
- Yes, she wants to find herself, but then why did she get so flustered before about him not wanting to marry her?
- Why did Michaela leave when she said she wouldn’t?
- Did everyone stay for the post-credits sequence?
- I’ve really enjoyed the upstairs-downstairs, Downton Abbey-esque vibe of this season, but was that only because Sophie is a maid?
- Will we just never see these people again, basically?
- Does this final shot mean Benedict is going to fully pursue painting again?
- Can he, like, have an affair with a man next season?
- Will we get to see Lady Danbury’s adventures in her ancestral homeland?
- Will next season focus on Eloise?
- Will Gregory and Hyacinth get their own separate seasons, too?
- Or can they just wrap all that into one or two more seasons?
- Basically, I love this and never want it to end, but also: how much longer will it go on for?
