Despite anticipating Bridgerton for months, Jennifer still hasn’t finished watching it because of a controversial scene that carried over from Julia Quinn’s historical romance novel The Duke and I. Are Simon and Daphne’s best moments enough to overcome her hesitations about the wildly popular Netflix series?

Trigger warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault and an abusive parent.

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• Vanity Fair on How Bridgerton Handles the Book’s Wildly Controversial Scene
• Pop Sugar’s take: I Wanted to Root for Bridgerton’s Daphne and Simon, but Their Romance Is Pretty Toxic
• Revisiting Simon's impassioned speech to Queen Charlotte about his feelings for Daphne
• Fact-checking Heather & Jenn’s (tenuous) grasp on history:
  • Regency era
  • Queen Charlotte 
  • George IV, The Prince Regent