A fan podcast celebrating all things Penelope, Colin, and Bridgerton, complete with episode deep dives, book rereads, theories and speculation, and plenty of spiraling from a group of friends who anxiously awaited Season 3 and now are braced once more for the Wilderness Weeks.
Hosts Bridget and Jess revisit the beloved Polin storyline, celebrating its anniversary with a fan Q&A and deep dive into their romantic journey.
10 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 85 - What a Swishy Dress! [S5 Announcement Reaction]
Och aye, the newest love story has arrived.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Polin Week to swish our way into Season 5 and celebrate the burgeoning romance between the quietest Bridgerton and her auld acquaintance, Michaela Stirling.
We’ll be swapping our mourning veils for kilts and heading up to the Highlands for a wee bit of puzzling, a big bit of yearning and a good old fashioned time jump.
On the way back from our Scottish sojourn, we’ll be visiting Benophie at Their Cottage before heading to Featherington House in hopes of finding Colin Bridgerton fully in frame and ready to matchmake.
And after we’ve muddied our hands planting seeds for a future love match, we’ll be searching the greenhouse for a missing botanist and checking the fifth Bridgerton for inky fingers.
Flowers may take a while to grow but the Good Ship Franchaela is ready to go.
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Show Notes
Shondaland: Francesca and Michaela Season 5 Announcement (https://www.shondaland.com/shondaland-series/bridgerton/bridgerton-francesca-and-michaelas-season-five-exclusive)
Tudum: 3 New Cast Members Join Bridgerton Season 5 (https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/bridgerton-new-cast-season-5)
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4 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 84 - What a Time to Be Alive! [S4 E7 & E8 Reaction]
Get into the stag, everyone.
Join us as we commit Season 4 Part 2 to its final resting place and mark the passing of another year in the ton.
With our black veils on, we’ll be dancing in honour of a beloved Scotsman, mourning the loss of a not-so-beloved Featherington and weeping at the graveside of our Vicus hope and dreams.
And with our class-crossed lovers facing (mostly) insurmountable odds, we’ll be helping a thief in the night pack her bags for an escape to the Americas. If only we could find that pesky necklace…
But with a jail break in hand and a maid running free, we’ll be gathering at the grandest night of the year to spin a fantastical tale about the love match of the season: Miss Sophie Gun and the brother to the Duke of Hastings.
It’s been one hell of a year, dearest listeners. Let us all have a biscuit, shall we? (Not you, Colin.)
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Episode 86 - What a Happy Ever After! [Polin Q&A]
Published 17 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I think that was a really fun element. I really love a blubbius pollen. I would have loved to have seen more of the lessons just because they give this really great tension, you know? Oh, sorry. I think was it Liz's question, if it wasn't, I'm sorry, when they said that they hadn't been in the fandom for a while and they were like, was there anything in season three that was different or whatever? If you weren't in the fandom before season three came out, you really need to understand that like what Colin did at the end of 208 was like the main conversation, the way that they were going to bounce back from that, like how he was going to forgive him. […]
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