![]() ![]() Later, in the midst of this aforementioned stroll, Violet attempts to suss out the details behind this hat. Agatha is encouraging, though Violet remains distracted by the revelation of a paper birthday hat in Agatha’s drawing room: the same sort of paper birthday hat Violet’s father, Lord Ledger (Keir Charles), used to make. The Agatha Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) we know and love invites Violet Bridgerton neé Ledger (Ruth Gemmell) on a stroll, during which they contemplate Violet’s euphemistic “garden” and her curious desire to meander through it in pursuit of new love. This hour-and-a-half finale, “Crown Jewels,” begins in Bridgerton’s version of the “present day,” a.k.a Regency-era London. As such, the Shonda Rhimes-led limited series delivers Bridgerton’s finest finale yet. Their tenderness, but especially their frequency, serve to set up what the sixth and final episode hammers home: the shock that life is short but love is long, and commitment is not one but many choices. These characters have sex on screen many times, as is Bridgerton’s protocol, but these scenes are not the goal of the audience’s attention. The relationship between Queen Charlotte and King George is romantic, yes, but only so often in a manner understood as romantic. Queen Charlotte, by contrast, begins with a marriage and ends not with catharsis (or, forgive me, climax)-but with wisdom. It does not help matters that, ever since season 1, Simon has been conspicuously missing from his own home. ![]() With Daphne and Simon, we watched the birth of one child, but did not glimpse much further into the contours of what’s implied to be a long life together. But with these pairs, we have only ever watched the beginnings of their romance and courtship, then their tempestuous procession to the altar, and finally a peek into the early months (and feverish, uh, exploration) of their married life. Previous Bridgerton seasons have addressed marriage, sex, race, innocence, guilt, patriarchy, parenthood, pleasure, duty, and deliverance largely through the arcs of two couples: Daphne Bridgerton ( Phoebe Dynevor) and Simon, the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page) and Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) and Kate Sharma ( Simone Ashley). Yet Queen Charlotte, the new Netflix spin-off series and latest addition to the larger Bridgerton canon, is the first to tackle what is arguably love’s most important quality: the endurance the act requires. Bridgerton has never been the type of show to merely flirt with its themes it is as head-over-heels in all-consuming love with love as its perpetually smitten characters.
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