The View Hosts Lose Their Minds Over Bridgerton’s Six-Minute Sex Scene: ‘This Is One Horny Panel’ (Watch)
The ladies of The View could use a fainting couch right about now.
Friday’s episode featured a conversation about a six-minute sex scene in the newly released second part of Bridgerton‘s third season, between Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin (Luke Newton), and the panel was divided over the necessity of it all. More specifically, Joy Behar — and only Joy Behar — felt that it went too far.
“You could leave a little to the imagination,” Behar said. “Remember in the old days, they’d be on the beach making out, and then the waves would crash. You knew what they were doing. But now they have to see the exact thing.” Not that anyone asked, but Behar also declared: “I could never do a six-minute sex scene. First of all, shouting ‘Get off of me!’ only takes four seconds.”
Behar’s co-hosts felt differently, with Sunny Hostin praising the “beautiful” scene for talking about consent. Doing her best impression of the Bridgerton duo, she recalled: “He says, ‘Do you want this?’ And she says, ‘Yes, definitely.’ And he says, ‘This will hurt, but only once.'”
Ana Navarro is all for the extended sex scene, but meeting Coughlan on a recent flight has changed her perspective a bit. “I’m now having a really hard time seeing her naked,” Navarro said. “She is so sweet and nice and little,” to which Sarah Haines reminded her, “Even the sweet, nice ones can get naked!”
“This is what we tune into Bridgerton for,” added birthday girl Alyssa Farah Griffin. “You want the steamy, romantic sex.” Even better, the hosts agreed that it was nice to see more love scenes presented from the female gaze, leading Haines to say, “I can’t stop gazing.”
At least we can all agree on one thing. As Behar put it, “This is one horny panel.”
Hit PLAY on the video below to watch The View panel lose its collective mind over Bridgerton’s long roll in the hay, then drop a comment with your own thoughts about it.
Call me old fashioned I don’t care but this should only be a thing in pornos, it’s very unnecessary and tacky.
Count me as well. It’s just the umpteenth sexplotaiton sequence that doesn’t tell us anything about the characters that we already probably knew. Pure and simple gratuitous, titillating fanservice. People’s forgotten that some of the sexiest things in fiction are those that are left to the imagination than the consumption. And such scenes never will fit period dramas and their tones.
I think it was perfect because it was directly out of the book!! This is what the readers wanted. There would be mayhem if you watered down the books just to please the folks who never read them.
Hah! there have been many a movie and TV show that were watered down from the books or/and changed for creative reasons.
And most of the time people complained that books were better than the movies. If any host on the View wants to complain about the six-minute sex scene that’s fine, but more than a bit hypocritical.
Joy Behar as well as some of the other hosts over the years have had more than their share of jokes and conversations on the View that by no reasonable standard would be considerable suitable for daytime over the air television. No, they aren’t visual, but that still doesn’t mean that they are suitable for daytime television.
I don’t understand why Netflix hasn’t put Bridgerton out on DVD. It would give them another revenue stream.
On a different topic entirely, Tony Lo Bianco died the other day. I searched TVLine and couldn’t find an article about his death here, but did find one at Deadline. Why wasn’t his death covered at TVLine? If it was covered here, why won’t your search engine pick it up when I searched his name? All I got from the search was Tony And Ziva.
A bunch of dried-up old hens excited about a big cock struttin’ around the coop. Well… they have to have *something* to fill their empty lives. And before you chuckleheads sound-off, I’m a rabid liberal & found The View unbearable even 20 years ago (let alone today).
It’s Bridgerton. This is what the damn show is about. If you don’t want to see scenes like this, you should have never made it to the third season!