Episode seven, The Beyond, unfolds in the wake of John’s death as the Bridgertons gather to grieve and their own worries and cares pause around them. For Benedict and Sophie, the support and love of the Bridgerton family throws their decision into sharp relief: the cost of being together is too high, and Sophie prepares to leave London rather than be the reason Benedict loses his family.

Elsewhere, Lady Araminta intensifies her hunt for Sophie, Michaela and Francesca take very different approaches to marking John’s loss, Eloise appears to be maturing, and Hyacinth decides that if love means losing your husband, she wants no part of boys at all.

Featuring:

- The rituals of grief

- Wife guys

- Balls (too many or not enough)

- Acts of caring

- Familia Ante Omnia

- The radical openness of love

- The role of mothers

- Consequences

- Self-awareness in heroines

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:

- Bridgerton, a television series

- An Offer from a Gentleman, a book by Julia Quinn

- When He Was Wicked, a book by Julia Quinn

- Queen Charlotte, a television series by Shonda Rhimes

- To Sir Phillip, With Love, a book by Julia Quinn

- ‘Panning for Gold’, a Grave Matters podcast episode

- And Just Like That, a television series by Darren Star and Michael Patrick King

- 101 Dalmations, a Walt Disney film 

- Spare, a memoir by Prince Harry

- Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane Austen

- Ever After, a film by Andy Tennant

- Wandavision, a Marvel tv series

- Cinderella, a fairytale

- Lady and the Tramp, a Walt Disney film

Note: Melanie Lynskey’s character in Ever After is named Jaqueline.

Our guest host this episode is the. You can hear more from Nadine J Cohen on instagram, listen to her podcast Grave Matters or read her beautiful novel. 

Good guests never arrive empty-handed. Nadine has brought new book recommendations: My Cursed Vaginaby Lally Katz. You can find it wherever you buy your books!

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This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Kaurna, Gadigal, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com