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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Not suitable for trains: how Bridgerton’s longest ever sex scene set commuters’ pulses racing

Making moves … Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan in Bridgerton.
Making moves … Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan in Bridgerton. Photograph: Netflix

This week I have seen more than one tweet from mortified people who thought it would be OK to watch the new batch of Bridgerton episodes on the train on their way to work. The reason they were mortified was the first new episode, in which a sex scene goes on and on. And on. And on.

According to people who know these things, the sex scene – between Nicola Coughlan’s Penelope Featherington and Luke Newton’s Colin Bridgerton – was the longest in the show’s history, clocking in at almost six minutes. It was so long, in fact, that Coughlan and Newton managed to break the furniture they were filming on.

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