Ikr. Also, none of the Bridgertons should be queer. The writers could have introduced a character that wasn’t a Bridgerton as queer instead of turning this into a whole mess. Quite frankly, why are all these shows always trying to either be woke, or pull something like this. They always ruin perfectly classic stories. I don’t understand why. This was my fave series, but after watching season 3 I’m beyond disappointed. There wasn’t even enough Polin moments, it was as though they were side characters.

@@warrior9694 I'm not the biggest fan of Penelope so the side characters was actually a relief for me, and the side stories were interesting to me. It's a TV show, not a movie or a book. It's an entire universe, there are other characters in it. They can't have those characters being cardboard cutouts the entire time until it's their turn to shine.

@@warrior9694 I'm tired of no one ever being allowed to be queer. I mean, there are a lot of people out there who are gay and do they not have the right to be represented like you too.there are 6 heterosexual couples why isn't that enough. Do you still feel not represented enough in this straight world with literally only straight romances in books and TV shows. But this comments come always from homophob people like you 😒

No...I am with you. It promotes the idea that feminist women are either man hating or lesbians. Lol! Its absolutely false.I loved her story as well. The man that sacrificed his entire youth for his brother (in a world of rakes who had no responsibilities...let alone burden)...I want to see him with eloise. Eloise is pampered and privileged and does not compromise at all. I love eloise for that. But he made some of the biggest compromises and he is equally great.

Fr. I honestly disagree with the idea that any of the Bridgertons should be queer. Not everything needs to be inclusive, especially if it means changing an entire characters storyline.

That was definitely precious

Yep

Yep

Cutest moment of the season

his speech was everything i needed as a confirmation of his true love 😢❤

Couldn’t they at least give an explanation why she wasn’t there?

Well, the actress didnt want to act bit parts and they probably are cutting corners on paying staff.

​@@_monamono_2382 yeah, especially since Colin and Daphne are the closest siblings to each other in age and connection, so her not showing up at all didn't make any sense. I understand that the actress declined to appear in season 3, but at least they could have mentioned Daphne not being able to show up because she's like 8 months pregnant or her and her family are currently travelling overseas or whatever. Her not being mentioned at all, regarding her closest siblings wedding, made no sense to me.

@@awsome182 Yeah, her being too far along for travel would be a logical excuse. They didn't even mention her once the entire season and even OG Fran got a mention atleast once each season to explain her absence.

Ugh I so agree that bothered me so much. Also Anthony not being at frans wedding like he’s the head of the home but isn’t there to marry off his sister? How silly

And instead of having so many side plots, they could have waited till Francesca opening herself to loving also be the reason for Violet realising she could also. So we get more screen time with Polin by taking out Marcus/Violet/Agatha whole plot. Francesca story can take that added plot since her book doesn't have alot of side characters.

@@island_girl_shan I do like how next season looks like it'll be bridgerton abroad. I think it'll be Benedict as so whilst is hanging in the country will switch back and forth to the highlands.

Will it be called..When She Was Wicked..im out

​@@teresahoffman7657 Oh no 😢😢 anyways

Wait...what? Fran is gay? Whoa! I didn't realize, so her look at John's cousin...was deliberate?

Their dynamic was precious. I loved the way Fran looked at him, and that speech he gave about how he sees Violet reflected in her children. I would treat him as my own son

She most definitely loves John but not the physical passion she thought she would have. Emotional and physical love are very different...

This is exactly how I felt!! I got so invested and then suddenly it felt like she wasn’t in love anymore 😭 was so disappointed and confused

​@@bug6978 I thought no one saw her reaction after that kiss, like there was something more that she expected

I saw that reaction too. At first, I thought that she was disappointed that he had not further deepened the kiss. Well, now 🤔...

@funkycrawler619 yes thats whats frustrating, tho, because in the book she loved both of them with both emotional romantic love and pysical love but the two relationshsips brought her different things so to remove the passion from her and john almost invalidates what that romantic relationship gave her

Right?! When she grieves him after his passing it’s deep and because she loved him so much

Yes! She looks almost disappointed. I have an uneasy feeling about their relationship now. Which is sad because I have loved their story.

I would have to agree. Either Bridgerton 5 or 6. The set up Benedict's story for Bridgerton 4 with the mention of the Masked Ball. And, before anyone says anything about "spoilers"... please explain to me how mentioning a Masked Ball is a spoiler for people who haven't read the books.

I'm predicting that Benedict's season will be next, then Eloise's, and then it'll be Francesca's book :)

Hope not. Francescas character is as interesting as a White wall. Shes the most boring Bridgerton

I think it's gonna be about 6 years based on the trend. Benedict, Eloise, Francesca.

the most possible path is benedict, eloise, francesca, in that order

Me too. But to be honest, ive gone off Bridgerton since Season 2. It's too modern for my tastes and the characters dont olease me, I've gone back to watching original Jane Austen films

I agree! I was very upset when they replaced Michael’s character. It was totally unnecessary and now it's diverting so much from being the original Bridgerton story.

I genuinely thought Eloise would've been in a queer relationship

​@@jenniferm8733For me, the only reason I was disappointed in this reveal was because I was hoping Michaela's actress was going to be Benedict's love interest.

⁠@@OReily08080I thought she was Sophie at first too. I was really disappointed because Francesca and Michael’s story touched a lot of good points about struggle with pregnancy, infertility, 2nd chance at love etc. And Michael was actually a well written character. Honestly, some scenes in season 3 looked liked a lot of repetition from Season 1 & 2.

It’s so disappointing. I honestly think they decided that a story about infertility and miscarriage wasn’t “shiny” enough for TV Bridgerton so they don’t want to tell it. Much easier to sell audiences a story about queer love than a woman’s infertility and heartbreak.

Yep I hold her book dear to me cause it's a little boringly written but the themes hit hard. Francesca and John were truly the perfect couple and perfect unit. A fairytale ending waiting to happen that Michael knew he didn't stand a chance and pined for Fran from afar. Then suddenly Fran's fairytale ends and she loses her soulmate, her child and she has to learn to cope and fight for herself. And it takes time for her to finally open her eyes to another fairytale with Michael but even then it's still not enough cause her biggest desire of being a Mom isn't happening and the story packs so much punch that would translate amazingly onscreen but Jess and co felt they knew better than their viewers.

Me too! I stopped watching Bridgerton last season because theyre making everything LGBTQ (im bisexual myself) but keep the stories intact!! They did the dame thing with The Witcher. That's why Henry Cavill left.

@@skyejacques i am POC myself and I hated the POC characters. Much of it is erasure of race, color blindness and mockery of history. Its like a bad parody of period dramas. You aren't alone!

Based on the books, it’s a series ain’t gonna be the exact same, now how they look at the fertility is different, maybe now they will look at it and John will actually try to bear a child with her but then struggles with her fertility issues leading Michael (Michaela) to comfort her? Who knows how the story is gonna go, I understand it isn’t what you expected, yet, isn’t that what a series does? Gives unexpected twists? We can see how this pans out, and as someone who didn’t read the books it doesn’t really affect me. The books is something you hold dear to your heart I see, and it’s something that you should do. Honestly as someone gay myself i literally have seen since the beginning that Francesca had a sense of this bitch probably gay but hasn’t realised shit yet since she avoids everything and everyone like the plague, it’s the first time she actually noticed and felt something, doesn’t mean she’s gonna cheat on John, I don’t think they would ever fuck up our cutest/innocent girl like that. Let’s have faith in the process

You can literally do infertility, grief and the overall second chance love story still...

@@funkycrawler619ofc you can, but they made it seem like francesca wasn’t really in love with john in the finale bc of her reaction after their kiss or when she met michaela- it changed the tones and dynamics in her story

@@noamkeinan4658 this is true which I also didn’t know about the book story as well, I’m assuming the writers wanted to portray it as her saying or thinking “I didnt really feel anything” “Is this suppose to feel this way?” Knowing that something was wrong

​@@RosieDecaro That's probably how they wanted to portray it. Putting aside how much she loved John in the books, I think her coming to understand her feelings and herself and the kiss being the start is fine....or would have if she didn't spend so many episodes talking about how their love didn't have to be dramatic and quick only to feel exactly that with someone else, days after marriage. Not only that but for it to be revealed in the same way as her mom's love to her dad was when her mom was the primary person she was trying to defend against. I would have been more excited for the gender swap (even if they kept the kiss reaction) if they didn't show that reaction to her meeting Michaela. Just reading the book and knowing who she ends up with would have been enough to say Oooh, well that's interesting. For non book readers, I don't think that nudge was needed. Just a new character at the end would have sparked interest that she would be important in someway. I was rooting for Fran but now it feels like she was only saying all that because she didn't know any better

yes, michaela is michael

Yup and that all had to be sacrificed for the sake of forced inclusion.

Oh yes...she wanted a baby. Guess they might ignore that with Michaela...otherwise, Gentle Reader, Bridgerton is too progressive for its time.

Cope and seethe ​@@fireandsugar2625

I think she def loves him but not in the way she thought she needed to.

I didn't like that🙃 I thought she was supposed to love John and that this was supposed to be a love match

@@NiranGs It is but Fran didn't consider/know that the love she has for John isnt the love she wanted deep down which is def alluding to more romantic/sexual

Bc she likes him like a friend, she married not for love, but becouse she wanted to escape brigeton house, she will desire Michaela.

I think she still loves him but it did make me question her reaction, I was surprised. Michaela maybe explained that though. But I definitely think she still loves him in general.

@@SatiPanya-oo7yg yeah no, if she is 'gay' she will never have that realization that she might be infertile. Because John would be the only other man she would be with. She started truly struggling with her being infertile when she was with Michael (she had always wanted babies before that but that is when she truly realized that she is unable to have a baby). It is about how you feel about yourself and how you question your womanhood. If you've ever watched HIMYM you will know that Robin never wanted to be a mother but when she realized that she couldn't being a mother because she was infertile it messed with her.

Yes! It feels not organic and very forced

@@SatiPanya-oo7yg maybe because it doesn’t literally ‘affect’ the storyline? While here they literally CHANGED THE GENDER? Like wut?

Same here!

Same!

He’s not deleted or absent 😂 the character is genderswapped, that’s all

@violetlavi2207 you dont get it lmao. The character of Michael is essentially deleted bc Michaela cannot be what Michael was, to Francesca or even to John. Can Michaela inherit the title? No. Can Michaela impregnate and marry Fran? No. Can Michaela openly go around and be the female version of a rake? Also no. And dont bring up Lady Tilley, everything she did was so absolutely on the hush. By changing the gender of Michael, they undoubtedly have to make huge changes to the storyline. Francesca not feeling as excited by John's kiss on the wedding and her stumbling over Michaela were the first 2 major changes. *sigh* . Im South African though & am super happy for Masali but Michael had to be male for Frans story to be what it was.

Are you talking about representation of black people and gay people but there can’t be one lesbian couple? How nice of that to see that there are millions of straight couples in the show but the minute you see someone that’s homosexual it’s too much, for FUCK sake they did a FULL ON sex scene with pen and Colin yet they didn’t do it with the threesome couple. I wonder why. And the same goes for Francesca being bisexual, for having feelings for a woman, yes they can be represented. And I’m so so SO sorry you’re butt hurt about it.

Also let me recap, it’s based on the books, it isn’t going to be the exact same thing, now with what goes on with her story can be a few differences. But the love and passion I bet is gonna remain the same. Hold the book dear to your heart. But don’t get offended if a writer of the series decides to take a risky yet different route, they know they were gonna get this reaction yet pressed on. I believe that they are gonna kill it in my opinion, as someone who didn’t read the books.

Really? Kill it? S3 was not crappy enough, huh? ​@@RosieDecaro

@@susivarga7303 my opinion get over it, season 2 was my favourite but season 3 wasn’t bad at all. Just preferred less speeches.

Precisely. And I also really dislike that they are planning to also make her character queer. None of the Bridgertons were queer. The books were successful for a reason. Classic sweet, steamy romances. What’s so wrong with keeping in line with that. They could have created a spin off of a separate character if they really wanted to introduce a queer character.

The one who neglected to educate her girls about sex. Ew. She can kick rocks.

I love Violet and the actress does such a phenomenal job.

@@RossiSenn I know ❤

what do you mean?

@@graceyang9412 in part 2 Francesca meets Micheal sterling but the writers gender swapped it to a girl micheala sterling. And Francesca was taken a back by Micheala and forget her name. Just like violet said when she met her husband. Also people just think eliose is more sapphic coded than Fran

same i love francessa & she gives such shy princess vibes i hope she gets a husband 😭

Why do we have to sacrifice eloise...I feel like the parent of a child who has to give one child to the millitary or something lmao! Eloise also had a Wonderful story. I loved her story as well. Those 2 individuals sacrificed so much for their loved ones. She truly found a man who proved that you don't have to be man hatinh to be a feminist❤️ you could still fall in love deeply with a man

@@valley-girl Jesus Christ the military? Y’all on some weird shit 😅 womp womp

@@RosieDecaro its an exaggeration rosie. I know people assume that anyone who doesn't like characters being swapped for gay ones HAS TO BE HOMOPHOBIC. This mindset actually helps the showmakers exploit sentiments of people to churn out lazy and bad quality content. While I understand the sentiment, i absolutely abhore showmakers who use it to make easy money or worse...use such swap for shock value. That serves as marketing strategy as well because they know that people of conservative mindset are gonna get riled up. They also know that most of those voices will be reasonable but because of a few people...the narrative will become LEFT VS RIGHT and the people who claim to believe in a spectrum suddenly start to project that ideas are binary and those who don't like their shows are racist and homophobic. The controversy and disappointment will automatically get people talking. I have experience working with people like that... They gaslight people. Terrible capitalists

@@valley-girl I'm not conservative (center-left) and I'm also disappointed we won't see Michael. Francesca's book is my favorite. If they go for Michaela, they better not mess it up. Very mixed feelings about all seasons. I want romance with a bit of drama, not drama with a bit of romance. 😢

But Michael will be GAY anyway. 😂

Doesn’t she get married twice

@@arielleagustin8280 Yeah, spoilers: She is widowed after John passes and ends up falling for/marrying his cousin Michael. However I think they changed it to Michaela in the show since we meet her in the s3 finale.

@@oracleofdelphiii multiple interviews indicate that the bridgerton siblings will all end up with their intended matches in the books

@@eclipseX49 I think they will, but they never said anything about not genderswapping those intended partners. Michael turning into Michaela, the cousin at the end

@@arielleagustin8280 They turned Michael into a woman now to make this show more woke for agenda driven reasons. Now shes gay 🙄

Do Queer people don’t have the right to be represented. Besides, the change in the storyline wouldn't have affected you ,if it had still been a MAN

Which is not like the book. She loved john..and I loved the idea of a woman loving a man and losing him but not losing herself. She found love for the SECOND TIME AND SEXUAL ATTRACTION..for the second time and her second times is what made ger story unique and beautiful. She was a strong woman who did not kill her desire of having children just because she lost john. She went back to the marriage mart and with a lot of clarity. I loved Michael and he was my fantasy. Honestly, this girl's never gonna be that.

Once again a show deviates from the source material thereby ruining the story. George RR Martin just recently said it best. "When showrunners re-write a story based on a book, to fullfill their perdonal agenda it's always worse. And with his many year in tv as well as the disasturous ending of "A game of Thrones" who would know better?

@@aminahmajied3373pls sign the petition that’s going around for the change of Michael

@@valley-girl didn’t read the books but the series is not going to be the exact same as the books, I understand why you may be upset. But it’s just a gender swap. Yes there may be differences as to who owns the property I believe as in that time it cannot be the girl. But the love shouldn’t be any different.

@@aminahmajied3373 Like I said before it is “based” on the books, do you know what that word means? Here let me give you an example: "Based on" means that something is developed or derived from a particular source, foundation, or reference. It indicates that the subject in question takes inspiration, ideas, principles, or elements from another work, concept, or information. For example, a movie can be "based on" a book, meaning the movie's storyline is derived from the book's plot.” Also this is completely different than game of thrones. They fucked up the character completely changing her personality so quick. This is different? It’s just a gender swap?? Like it’s not like they are changing the character completely… I understand that it may not have been what you wanted. But if it were someone disabled missing an arm or a leg would you have complained? Because also back in the day they would look down upon people with disabilities. It’s about a new perspective. I hope they execute it well like they did in the books. But like I said it’s based on it, ya dingus ❤️

I agree

That's exactly what happened to DC Comics when they made Superboy gay and Red Robin bisexual. They forgot who their main audience is. And the result was disastrous.

Too late. 😂

Well I mean the author herself said she would not mind if they change things up. A character is a character above all, often their race (unless it is an integral part of their story) and gender (the same applies) does not matter. In this case, Michael's race nor gender are important to the storyline, so if they swap their gender it shouldn't matter

​@@fulichak6499I disagree. These characters are already established in the books and come with a certain expectation.

@@fulichak6499 i mean. The whole point of Francesca reentering the marriage market was to be able to have kids. This is literally the only book where gender does matter.

@@byronic0967 yet they made a risky choice and decided to proceed with it I say that takes big ass balls to do because they know most their audience has read the books. I for one would love to see how this goes. Let’s say the last of us series, did not like pedro pascal as he did not play his character that well but did love Ellie well grew to love her because it was the personality that mattered because EVERYONE was talking about her looks and still is and I think she did an amazing job. Pedro pascal though could have done some improving. Now I’m not pissed at it because they also made some changes because it’s a series, but I should expect that by now. As you. So grow some balls man up and take it like a champ, if you don’t wanna watch anymore because of it GREAT im gonna enjoy the show as is

@@phreninoar7364 john still exists u know?

Maybe they will make her have kids with John and then he dies.

Ugh, I know. So damn frustrating how they have changed the characters this much.

Lol, I still hope for Michaela to have a twin brother named Michael who's introduced in the future and they kept him out for now purely for shock value 😅

@awsome182 I wish!! I keep reading reviews that the producer is queer and she saw herself in Fran's book so she wanted to implement that in the series😬 so most likely they will keep her queer. I may just boycott her season 🤷‍♀️😭 Sad because Fran is such a great girl! I bet anything that's why the original actress quit after the 2nd season, she knew they would turn Fran queer and she didn't want anything to do with that

@@awsome182that is obviously not going to be the case and you know it 😂 you might as well make peace with this

the original actress wouldn’t have read the script and wouldn’t have known about this 😂 also, one endgame queer storyline won’t kill you, I promise. You can afford to watch one relationship you don’t relate to (two, if you count Benedict’s throuple , but that was short-lived)

the showrunner has Francesca pegged as lesbian

@@dunadanfer I don’t believe she said that, I believe she just mentioned that Fran will be used to tell a queer storyline. You can still accomplish that by making her bisexual

@@dunadanferpretty sure she’s been stated to be bi, actually. Her love for John isn’t in doubt

@@violetlavi2207 I do think it is in doubt. The cousin i supposed to fall for Francesca first, not make F a bumbling idiot, unless someone is projecting herself on the F character to tell a non Bridgerton story. I see that they are giving the story of finding a second love after widowhood to Violet, so they can do whatever to Francesca. I feel for the husband character. She ultimately settled for him, depreciating the story that praised a slow burn love.

@@dunadanfer well not necessarily. It’s possible Fran is just having her bi awakening, not necessarily falling for Michaela yet

cousin, not sister 😂 but in your eagerness to write off the ENTIRE show over this, it’s clear what really concerns you about this change

Yeah even in the books she's like that lol. She's been trapped as the middle child while also being an introvert so it was painful for her. So she wants her peace but she does love her family.But she's not at a point of her life yet where she realises she misses them like that cause all she wants currently is a break. That realisation comes after she loses John which is why them making it seem she doesn't love him changed so much of her character.

Womp womp

@@barbicel ??

@@barbicel that's exactly the sound that played in my head when she said "michaela".

Benedict in the books is pretty bad. I like the show one more.

@@manushreeboolanidebnath9810 Benedict is an accurate representation of what a high class privileged child in that era would have been. I like flawed characters (I love lady featherington and even marina ) . I loved the fact that I could see many actual british aristocrats in him. He's simply out of touch with many things but understands the suffocation it would cause a maid to become his wife. He would either have to move away from the society (which he said he would)...but then, he would have to leave his family and lose his social self. I like the show one too ...but they have used his character for gay baiting. There's not much to his character except for the fact that he fks anyone and everyone. He's nice but nice is not what benedict was. They should have kept him like that AND THEN GIVEN HIM A CHARACTER GROWTH. For once, I would wanna watch a truly flawed character and earn that forgiveness from his loved one and his audience.

Shonda and the show's writers need to push the Gay agenda no matter what.

I respectfully disagree and it has nothing to do with being homophobic. I understand that the tv series is an adaptation but keep the heart of the story which Julia Quinn beautifully wrote about pain, loss, infertility and second love true

@@arra584she gave her blessing you’ll be alright

Do Queer people don’t have the right to be represented. Besides, the change in the storyline wouldn't have affected you if it had still remained a MAN

How would you feel if the world was gay and you barely got any heterosexual representation. Can't you give the queer people out there a small victory. I watched all the seasons and I'm a lesbian even though I thought all the main characters were straight and I had no problem with that but you have a problem with one queer love story

@@doubledoodle1619 no. You’re so full of sh*t because it’s not comparable. Heterosexuality is the biological norm. Homosexuality never will be.

@doubledoodle1619 It's not about being upset with inclusion in general, it's about the modification of an apparently great storyline (I personally did not read the books so I cannot judge it myself) that was fine the way it was and also made sense to not be queer (miscarriage, fertility issues, etc). From my perspective, when watching the show, the added queerness felt totally forced. They built a beautiful relationship, better then Colin/Penelope and then they randomly throw queerness in at the end for a character for which is does not feel right.

​@@doubledoodle1619 no one said that queer characters shouldn't exist in tv shows. I am straight and I read a lot of queer stories as a teen. People simply are annoyed that existing stories are invaded by queer plot points instead of simply creating new queer stories or adapting already existing queer stories. Let the queers be queers and let the straights be straights.

I think not, they already made up their mind. I think we should just skip francessca's season

@@Love-gx8ul haahah😅😅😅..just skip for me too...

I will also be skipping her season, I can’t handle being let down like that 😢

Oh she’s bisexual nothing wrong with that.

@@cindeymarie1650 im not against that but changing the book character is completely nonsense. It's not fair.

Series called Bridgeton season 3 on Netflix

It's a series Bridgerton season 3