[ESTE ARTÍCULO CONTIENE SPOILERS DE LOS BRIDGERTON, TEMPORADA 3]
Last week, Netflix finally launched the second part of the third season of The Bridgertons. Fans of the series born from Julia Quinn’s novels had had to wait a month to find out how the romance between Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan).
The first batch of episodes left viewers waiting for Penelope’s response to Colin’s marriage proposal after a heated carriage ride in which the protagonists had confessed their feelings to each other. The second part has started with the happy couple planning their wedding, but Penelope’s secret identity as Lady Whistledown has been a obstacle in the way.
After four episodes of confrontations, weddings and reconciliations in which the young Featherington has empowered herself and prioritized herself, fans have said goodbye to the British Regency with several open plots for the fourth season. At the moment, Netflix has not confirmed which Bridgerton will star in the next love story, although there are signs that point in the direction of Benedict (Luke Thompson).
According to the order of Quinn’s novels, the second Bridgerton brother should have been the main character of the third installment since the third book was his, I give you my heart, but Colin beat him to it. The most logical thing is that the series recovers its story, especially after, at the end of the third installment, Benedict has embraced her bisexuality, leaving the doors open to the first gay romance on the horizon.
Luckily, and speculation aside, The Bridgertons has confirmed in the last episode of the third installment who will be the next brother to fall in love.
‘The Bridgertons’ confirms that Benedict will be the next protagonist
Fans who have read Julia Quinn’s books know the love story between Benedict Bridgerton and Sophie. It is a romance inspired by Cinderella in which the second Bridgerton brother falls in love with a young maid whom he rescues in a tavern in the English countryside.
What Benedict does not remember at that moment is that he already met Sophie years before, at a costume ball organized by his mother. She, the illegitimate daughter of a count, had escaped to the event behind the back of her stepmother, Araminta. In the third season of The Bridgertons, episode 8, Clearly, confirms that Benedict will take over from Colin by mentioning this masquerade ball.
After Penelope reveals that she is Lady Whistledown and wins the queen’s favor, Colin accepts his wife’s secret identity and Eloise decides to accompany a newly married Francesca to Scotland, after Benedict embraces his bisexuality, the scene in question.
At minute 63, just as Benedict is saying goodbye to Eloise, the brothers mention the event. “I’ll miss you,” Benedict tells her with feigned indifference, to which she responds smiling: “Just until next year, do you see Mom letting me miss her costume ball?” “I don’t think so,” he answers, and adds: “And I will be, hidden behind a mask, fleeing from marriageable ones like the plague.”
Thus, the next wedding season will start with the costume ball that begins the story between Benedict and Sophie, confirming that it is the second brother’s turn. Now the only thing left to know is whether the series will keep Sophie as a woman or opt, as many fans wish, to make her a man, giving us the first love story between two protagonists of the same sex.
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