'And we watch her grow into this woman who gets to shed all of the constraints society has held her to, and she finally figures out who she really is and what she's capable of.' Viewers react to the 'Bridgerton' scene controversy:Ī third added: 'Trigger warning: rape The #Bridgerton rape scene needs to be acknowledged as one. It was hard to watch.'Īnd a fourth wrote: 'Just remembered why I did not particularly love the first book of the Bridgerton series and re-read the rest of the books all the time.! The book should have come with a trigger warning and now that it's going to be on a show, all the more! tw: marital rape of husband by wife.'Īs well as acknowledging that the sex scene is, in fact, rape, a comment piece in Vox by writer Aja Romano explains Simon's use of the word “can’t” instead of “won’t” means that Daphne, who has been given little to no sex education, is also unable to give informed consent when they first have sex.
