‘Bridgerton’ spinoff’s gay romance gets very steamy very quickly & it has fans divided
Queen Charlotte, a spinoff of their massively popular Regency era romance Bridgerton, and word of steamy gay romance immediately shot it to the top of our must-watch list.But now that audiences have had a chance to catch up with the series, reactions have been decidedly—what’s the word we’re looking for here?
Oh yeah: All-over-the-place!As a brief refresher, while the Shonda Rhimes produced mega-hit franchise has gainfully employed LGBTQ+ actors (including the hunky Jonathan Bailey and “Queen Charlotte” herself, Golda Rosheuvel), the spinoff features its first on-screen gay couple.Queen Charlotte jumps back-and-forth between two timelines, and it’s in the past-of-the-past (1761) that we meet a younger version of the Queen’s Man Brimsley, her most loyal servant, played by Sam Clemmetts.As it turns out, Brimsley is engaged in a secret affair with the King’s Man, Reynolds (Freddie Dennis), which we discover via a rather steamy rendezvous in the series’ second episode.
And—voila!—there you have Bridgerton‘s first sex scene between two men.In the words of the great prophet Lizzo: “It’s about d*mn time!”On the one hand, fans have been clamoring for some queer love in the Bridgerton-verse, and many are delighted by the Brimsley-Reynolds fling, which is all stolen glances and hidden hand-holding while in public, but very hot and heavy behind closed doors.GAY PEOPLE IN BRIDGERTON I LITERALLY CHEEREDthe gay butlers in queen charlotte everytime they’re left alone together pic.twitter.com/IoFzALmQTWBRIMSLEY AND REYNOLDS YOU OWN MY HEART I??U#QueenCharlotte pic.twitter.com/V8pO7f9GcJOn the other hand, some viewers are still frustrated it took this long for Rhimes and company to deliver on the promise of on-screen representation—in.
