(Warning: This post contains major spoilers through the Season 1 finale of “Bridgerton.”)
“Bridgerton’s” A couple, Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and Simon Basset/the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page), are wed a little over halfway through the eight-episode Season 1, making them a pretty quickly resolved “will they or won’t they?” pairing in comparison to some of TV history’s most drawn-out relationships. But interestingly enough, settling down is actually what throws their relationship into its most dramatic moment, one that Page compares to the iconic, long-running debate between David Schwimmer’s Ross and Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel on “Friends.”
“We went through this constantly during filming.