What Would Danbury Do?

We conclude our two-part episode by diving back into Bridgerton Season Four Episode 8. When we left Sophie, all was despair. Will she find her happy ending? Not without a few bumps along the way…
Featuring:
- Math not mathing
- Sapphic panic
- Self-awareness
- Mutually beneficial recounting of events
- Stakes not staking
- Truly underwhelming apologies
- A new columnist

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:
- WWDD, episode 59: Money for Nothing
- Bridgerton, a television series
- Pride and Prejudice, a book by Jane Austen
- Red, White and Royal Blue, a book by Casey McQuiston
- Captain Pugwash, a television series
- When He Was Wicked, a book by Julia Quinn
- The Northwest Passage, a series of disasters
- Scandal, a television series
- An Offer from a Gentleman, a book by Julia Quinn
- ‘Marry You’, a song by Bruno Mars
- ‘With Arms Wide Open’, a song by Creed
- Encanto, a film by Disney
- Pretty Little Liars, a television series
- Heated Rivalry, a television series
- The Other Bennet Sister, a television series

Our guest host this episode is our favourite, Ben McKenzie. He brought along the fantasy novel, The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by CM Waggoner for our TBR piles. You can hear more from Ben on his own fantastic podcast, Pratchat, or by visiting his website.
Don’t forget you can find us on facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram and bluesky @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod.
Please follow us on your favourite podcast provider! Leaving a 5-star rating and a review will guarantee a life full of fantastic friends.
This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Kaurna, Gadigal, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.
Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com
Thanks so much for joining us for this season! We look forward to talking to you next year for Francesca’s season!

In this first part of the final episode of this season, all appears to be despair. Sophie is missing, presumed at sea, but in reality in prison thanks to the capricious whims of her stepmother. Benedict and the rest of the Bridgertons are facing their own scandals and heartbreak, and it appears that all will be lost. But this is Bridgerton, and there is still time for old friends to rise, new villains to fall, and shoes to play an important plot role.

Featuring:
Mice and lice

Narrative hockey sticks

Servants know everything

The theoretical existence of Australia

Too many villains spoil a plot

Dibber dobber energy

Man in the bin dot gif

Top-tier sex scene

But where’s the apology?

Plot abysses

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:
Bridgerton, a television series

Heated Rivalry, a television series

American Psycho, a film by Mary Haron

Skyrim, a video game

When He Was Wicked, a book by Julia Quinn

An Offer from a Gentleman, a book by Julia Quinn

Ever After, a film by by Andy Tennant

The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller

The Other Bennet Sister, a television series

Queen Charlotte, a television series by Shonda Rhimes

To Sir Phillip, With Love, a book by Julia Quinn

Our guest host this episode is the inimitable Ben McKenzie. You can hear more from Ben on his own fantastic podcast, Pratchat, or by visiting his website.

Stay tuned for part 2!

Don’t forget you can find us on facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram and bluesky @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod.

Please follow us on your favourite podcast provider! Leaving a 5-star rating and a review will ensure any imprisonment you experience may be awful, but at least it won’t be overrun with vermin.

This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Kaurna, Gadigal, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com




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Money For Nothing - Bridgerton 4x08 Part 1

What Would Danbury Do?

Episode seven, The Beyond, unfolds in the wake of John’s death as the Bridgertons gather to grieve and their own worries and cares pause around them. For Benedict and Sophie, the support and love of the Bridgerton family throws their decision into sharp relief: the cost of being together is too high, and Sophie prepares to leave London rather than be the reason Benedict loses his family.
Elsewhere, Lady Araminta intensifies her hunt for Sophie, Michaela and Francesca take very different approaches to marking John’s loss, Eloise appears to be maturing, and Hyacinth decides that if love means losing your husband, she wants no part of boys at all.
Featuring:
- The rituals of grief
- Wife guys
- Balls (too many or not enough)
- Acts of caring
- Familia Ante Omnia
- The radical openness of love
- The role of mothers
- Consequences
- Self-awareness in heroines

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:
- Bridgerton, a television series
- An Offer from a Gentleman, a book by Julia Quinn
- When He Was Wicked, a book by Julia Quinn
- Queen Charlotte, a television series by Shonda Rhimes
- To Sir Phillip, With Love, a book by Julia Quinn
- ‘Panning for Gold’, a Grave Matters podcast episode
- And Just Like That, a television series by Darren Star and Michael Patrick King
- 101 Dalmations, a Walt Disney film
- Spare, a memoir by Prince Harry
- Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane Austen
- Ever After, a film by Andy Tennant
- Wandavision, a Marvel tv series
- Cinderella, a fairytale
- Lady and the Tramp, a Walt Disney film
Note: Melanie Lynskey’s character in Ever After is named Jaqueline.
Our guest host this episode is the. You can hear more from Nadine J Cohen on instagram, listen to her podcast Grave Matters or read her beautiful novel.
Good guests never arrive empty-handed. Nadine has brought new book recommendations: My Cursed Vaginaby Lally Katz. You can find it wherever you buy your books!
Don’t forget you can find us on facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram and bluesky @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod.
Please follow us on your favourite podcast provider! Leaving a 5-star rating and a review will ensure you never lose a piece of jewellery.
This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Kaurna, Gadigal, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.
Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com

Episode 6, The Passing Winter, finds Benedict doubling down on his cottage solution, convinced he has found a way forward for himself and Sophie. Sophie, meanwhile, is forced to reckon with the practical consequences of their intimacy, and the two of them begin confronting what their future might actually require.

Elsewhere, Penelope faces renewed pressure over Whistledown, Alice continues learning the realities of court life beside the Queen, and Anthony returns to London to dominate proceedings as the Bridgertons adjust to life with a new heir.

Featuring:
- Organisational queens
- Several consecutive character spirals
- Sibling rivalries
- A lot of unwelcome reality checks
- Cressida apologism
- Unrecognised power imbalance
- Kate apologism
- Actual and metaphorical cross-class cosplay
- Bridgertons always choose themselves
- A bummer of an ending

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:
- Bridgerton, a television series
- An Offer from a Gentleman, a book by Julia Quinn
- When He Was Wicked, a book by Julia Quinn
- ‘A Husband for Fanny’, included in Snowdrift and other Stories, a short story by Georgette Heyer
- Heated Rivalry, a television series by Jacob Tierney
- Married at First Sight, an Australian reality television series
- The Beckham family feud
- The ‘Firm’, a description of the British Royal Family
- Mean Girls, a film by Mark Waters
- Romancing Mr Bridgerton, a book by Julia Quinn
- ‘Just What I Needed’, a song by The Cars
- ‘Fields of Gold’, a song by Sting
- Jurassic Park: Rebirth, a film by Gareth Edwards
- Gosford Park, a film by Robert Altman
- Les Miserables, a novel by Victor Hugo
- Schitt’s Creek, a television series by Dan Levy and Eugene Levy

Our guest host this episode is the luminous Mirandi Riwoe. You can hear more from Mirandi on instagram or read her beautiful novels.

Mirandi has brought something for your (heaving) TBR pile: Check out The Mission House by Carys Davies on her recommendation!

Mirandi also asked us for recommendations. We suggested Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid, and The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton.

We also talked about The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley.

Don’t forget you can find us on facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram and bluesky @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod.

Please follow us on your favourite podcast provider! Leaving a 5-star rating and a review will not only help us find more listeners, but also keep you regular (iykyk).

This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Kaurna, Jagera, Turrbal, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com

After the cliffhanger at the end of episode four, we see a number of Bridgerton siblings getting some education: Benedict in the ways of women, Hyacinth in the ways of boys, and Francesca in the ways of marriage.

As Sophie considers her decision carefully, Violet has her own decisions to make, and Penelope faces some hard truths about how she’s used her Whistledown power.
It’s episode 5, and we’ve all got questions.

Featuring:
- A meditation on mistresses
- Intent versus impact
- Theme of the week
- The importance of planning
- A lot of garden metaphors
- Consequences (they’re a bummer)
- A cheeseboard palate cleanser
- A meta-commentary
- Different flavours of neurospicy
- The slut-shaming episode

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:
- Bridgerton, a television series
- An Offer from a Gentleman, a book by Julia Quinn
- When He Was Wicked, a book by Julia Quinn
- The Odd Couple, a television series
‘- 360’, a song by Chali XCX
- Grey’s Anatomy, a television series
‘- Birds of a Feather’, a song by Billie Eilish
- Glee, a television series
- ‘Lose Control’, a song by Teddy Swims
- Gone with the Wind, a film by Victor Fleming

Our guest host this episode is Melanie Saward. You can hear more from Mel on instagram and tiktok or read her fantastic novels.

Mel always brings the best recommendations: this time, she told us about All That We Know by Shilo Kino.

Don’t forget you can find us on facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram and bluesky @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod.

Please follow us on your favourite podcast provider! Leaving a 5-star rating and a review will not only help us find more listeners, but also ensure an appropriate soundtrack is always playing in your life.

This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Kaurna, Jagera, Yuggera, Ugarapul, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com