Lady Whistledenouement Comes Not With a Bang, But a Whimper

Unpacking Bridgerton's Season 3 finale.

It’s been a long, wild road through the third season of Bridgerton, and at times a fairly successful one. They did a nice job making me like Francesca and John Stirling, chiefly by giving him fun scenes with Will and some Bridgerton brothers. Eloise may have been written inconsistently, but Claudia Jessie’s comic timing is so sharp, and she and Jessica …