News Summary

• The second half of Bridgerton’s third season, released on Netflix last week, dropped a bombshell on viewers
• In the season finale, Francesca BridGerton (played by Hannah Dodd) is talking with her new husband John, the Earl of Kilmartin, at a ball when she meets his cousin, who introduces herself as Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza) Francesca appears awestruck, and for good reason: As readers of the Julia Quinn novels—on which the Netflix series is based—know, her story involves her falling in love with a character named Michael Stirling