Here Are 16 "Bridgerton" Season 1 Details You Need To Remember Before Binging Season 2

?? Major spoilers for Season 1 of Bridgerton ahead! ??

Consider us hot and bothered because Season 2 of Bridgerton is heading straight on over to Netflix on March 25.

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The new season follows the tumultuous love life of Anthony Bridgerton, the eldest Bridgerton who's set on finding a worthy viscountess. Enter Kate Sharma, whose family just moved from Bombay to London.

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Anthony has his eyes set on Kate’s sister Edwina, but Kate is protective of her sister and loathes Anthony for being a rake who thinks way too highly of himself.

Naturally, Anthony and Kate fall in love. But things are complicated.

Season 2’s focus will entirely shift away from Simon and Daphne’s romantic exploits, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that we can scrap Season 1 altogether. It’s pretty important for understanding the setup and context of what will happen next.

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Given that Bridgerton first hit Netflix on Christmas Day 2020, it’s been a minute since it debuted. If your memory of the bodice-ripping escapades is fuzzy, you’re not alone. Ahead, dear reader, we present the most crucial details to remember from Season 1.

1.The entirety of Season 1, based on Julia Quinn’s The Duke and I, takes place in London during the Regency Era in the early 1800s.

2.Right at the start of the show, Daphne gets deemed a "diamond of the first water"— she even gets a kiss of approval from the Queen.

3.The show is narrated by Lady Whistledown (Julie Andrews), the mysterious Regency Era gossip writer who knows everything about everyone.

4.Reeling back to Episode 1, Violet Bridgerton wants her elder children, especially her oldest son and daughter (Anthony and Daphne, respectively), to get it together now that their father is gone.

5.Meanwhile, the younger Bridgertons are kind of just doing their own thing.

6.After getting harassed by Nigel Berbrooke at a party in Episode 1, Daphne strikes a fake romance with Simon, Anthony’s old school friend. The plan is to make Simon seem off-limits and Daphne seem even more desirable.

7.In Episode 3, Queen Charlotte sets Daphne up with her nephew Friedrich, who’s the Prince of Prussia. (BTW, that’s Cormac McLaggen from Harry Potter.)

8.Meanwhile, Anthony spends most of the season lovesick over a performer named Siena Rosso, who he’s been hooking up with in secret. Their relationship is pretty on and off.

9.After Anthony catches Daphne and Simon making out, he challenges Simon to a duel (lol) in Episode 4.

10.After getting married in Episode 5, Daphne and Simon go at it like rabbits but their honeymoon phase doesn’t last that long.

11.In Episode 6, there’s a particularly disturbing bedroom scene that takes place after Daphne learns about how children are made.

12.Daphne and Simon are on the rocks for a while, realizing that they both want different things. In Episode 7, Simon promises that he'll stay if she's pregnant but he'll only be married to her in name if she's not — Daphne then gets her period.

13.But the couple reconciles in Episode 8 after Daphne finds Simon's letters to his father and declares her love for him. At the very end of the season, they welcome a baby.

14.Anthony and Siena break it off for good after he asks her to go to the ball with him but she asks him to let her go.

15.Penelope Featherington becomes a major character.

16.And to lead us into season two, Anthony declares his intentions to find a suitable viscountess after Siena kicks him to the curb.

Were there any major details that we missed from Season 1? Let us know in the comments below!