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I mean, there are swans swanning along in the background, a lovely charcuterie board, and then full backside nudity. That said, any time you have a small picnic umbrella next to a slo-mo thrusting couple, a show runs the risk of looking like the hilariously filthy Hunderby. The vision of the Hastings ancestors objecting to Simon’s semen on their tomb probably set me up more than most viewers to find the string of sex scenes, taking place all over the estate, hilarious. To be honest, given Simon’s deep ambivalence about his ancestors and the existence of Regency grave-top sex, this would have been a pretty rocking twist. Initially mistaking the site for a mausoleum transformed a sexy scene into something hilarious since I imagined the voice of some Hastings ancestor - sounding a lot like Lady Catherine de Bourgh - yelling from the deep, “Are the shades of Clyvedon to be thus polluted?” when Simon ejaculates over their bones. They end up making wet love in the actual Castle Howard’s Temple of the Four Winds, which looks like, but is thankfully not, the Howard family mausoleum.
After getting the foreplay started at the dinner table while surrounded by footmen, Simon leads Daphne outdoors to get caught in the rain.
Even at dinner, they’re separated by a massively long table - until Daphne brings her plate to sit next to Simon. Simon and Daphne are soon yanked from their happy marriage bed by the duties associated with running a duchy. This reminds me: what’s the state of Marina’s dowry? Is it still locked up in Lord Featherington’s failed crypto investments? Anthony kicks himself for failing to take Colin to brothels like a proper brother, which is extremely on brand for our most committed of rakes. The Featheringtons rejoice (save Penelope) and the Bridgertons grin and bear the news (minus the cheering small Bridgertons). Danvers is always the best character over at the Manderley estate?īack in London, Colin breaks the news that he and Marina are to be wed. Colson, a housekeeper that I guess exists to remind us that Netflix remade Rebecca and Mrs. The Duke and new Duchess of Hastings arrive at Clyvedon Castle, which is played by the extremely memorable Castle Howard in Bridgerton. The revised scene means they’re both in the wrong and have growing to do. This is a story about a man who cannot bear to have children and a woman who wants them more than anything they need to work this out and the reimagined scene forces the lies and conflict to the surface.
I think this was good handling of a critical but difficult scene that the creators couldn’t just yeet off a cliff. Whereas I nearly broke my e-reader throwing the novel, the scene adapted for Bridgerton mostly feels emotionally awful - as it should, given that both characters walk away from it certain of their spouse’s betrayal and uncertain about their ability to forge a marriage out of the wreckage. The show strips away some of the most objectionable aspects of the scene and it becomes enthusiastic sex with a dubious consent finish where Simon seems to simultaneously want to ejaculate in Daphne and also spend on those white marital sheets.
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I hated the scene in the novel, and hoped the Bridgerton series could do something with it that preserves the conflict about procreation and truth within marriage that’s hardwired into the story while not showing non-con sex in my living room next to the cat’s nest. It’s a scene that we’d rightfully burn if gender swapped, it calls to mind all sorts of nasty legends of cum-stealing women, and for a lot of readers it has poisoned a story about two people growing together and overcoming their childhood programming. On the pages, Daphne uses Simon’s sleepy, slightly drunk state to take an active role in sex and ensure that he comes inside her, going so far as to hold him against her in order to prevent his usual pull ’n’ pray birth-control method. About three-quarters of the way through the book, Daphne is furious that Simon has lied to her about his inability to have children, thereby preventing her from becoming a mother. We’ve reached the scene fans and critics of The Duke and I - Bridgerton season one’s source material - have wondered about since the show was announced: a scene that has only grown in controversy since publication in 2000 due to the developing discourse around consent during sex in both real life and art.
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