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Really, Cleese's whole highly NFSW speech should have been played in Van Dusen's writers room.Īs anyone who has seen 'Bridgerton' knows, the miserable look of newlywed humping is only part of their problems in bed. Nibbling the earlobe, kneading the buttocks, and so on and so forth! So: we have all these possibilities before we stampede toward the clitoris!' 'What's wrong with a kiss, boy? Hmm? Why not start her off with a nice kiss? You don't have to go leaping straight for the clitoris like a bull at a gate – give her a kiss, boy!.

And every time I kept on thinking about the famous classroom scene from ' Monty Python's The Meaning of Life' where John Cleese admonishes an eager student during a sex ed class: He sticks his head under her skirts while she leans against a ladder in a dark spot at the end of a marble hall and her breath catches.

In a ribald montage that follows, Daphne and Simon get it on vis-à-vis all manner of jack-hammering – ramming it here, jamming there, pounding those guts like there's no tomorrow with very little in the way of a prelude. 'Is there a more romantic notion?' coos the series' narrator Lady Whistledown (voiced by Julie Andrews) in the next episode. 'To retreat from society together, finally leaving watchful eyes behind?' 'I feel…' she pauses, then gasps, 'wonderful!' Afterward he rolls off of her and finishes in the sheets – more on that later – as the tender music fades out. Apparently that is sufficient, because then he mounts her, informs her that 'this may hurt a moment' … then badda bing, badda boom, he starts pumping away like a bunny hopped up on cold brew coffee. Then he stands up and takes off his pants so she can get an eyeful of what she's working with. He asks her if she touched herself she's shy. Behind the action a stringed instrument keens in a low register and a piano riff trembles in a gentle minor key. The room itself is alight in the golden glow of candles and hangs with rich fabrics and dark woods. Then they're drawn to one room, and then each other. To wit: They stop at an inn and eventually retire to separate rooms. Sex plays a prominent role in Julia Quinn's 'Bridgerton' romance novels, so when the very polite socialite Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) marries the noble Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page), it should not have shocked anyone that their wedding night was depicted with some detail. Still, the show is noteworthy for adding some spice to a very vanilla genre.

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'Bridgerton,' created by Chris Van Dusen, should not be treated by the curious as a 'how to' manual for sex, or romance, or anything about the human condition.

Ladies, you deserve better – and for that matter, so do you gentlemen. Nobody should want to have sex like that. We really need to talk about those love scenes, because I regret to inform you that the sex depicted within … is bad. Social media has been in a buzz over it since its Christmas Day premiere as fans discuss the fashion, the drama, and - most of all - the love scenes. Dear gentle reader, surely you have heard about 'Bridgerton,' the Netflix Regency-style romance executive produced by Shonda Rhimes.