"Bridgerton" Season 1 spoilers. There's something commendable about a show or movie that doesn't make the bold choice to end with a game-changing cliffhanger that frustrates viewers and instead neatly ties up every loose end, even if it's sometimes heartbreaking: Netflix's " Bridgerton" (opens in new tab) is the latest in this illustrious genre: after seven episodes of society-shaking scandal and the "will they or won't they?" and "who is she?" questions, the first season of this period drama features nearly every character (opens in new tab) The season concludes with a lengthy final episode that serves as a near-perfect epilogue to the story of.

While many other shows may simply stretch the Regency-era drama to the last few seconds of the finale, prompting viewers to tweet angrily, "We need a second season now," "Bridgerton" is the rare It's a series (although that won't stop angry tweets of "we need a second season right now (open in new tab)"). Will Simon get over his resentment of his father and agree to have a family of his own? The answer. Will Anthony defy his high status and begin formally courting the adulterer? Answered Will Eloise and Queen Charlotte discover Lady Whistledown's true identity?

Even with these (mostly) satisfying conclusions, there is still much to discuss. Here we will delve into all the important things revealed in the finale and what they mean for the ton going forward.

WARNING: There are serious spoilers for the Season 1 finale of "Bridgerton.

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The finale shows Daphne (Phoebe Dinever) giving birth to the future Duke of Hastings (unless Simon, played by Rouget-Jean Page (opens in new tab), finds a way to relinquish that title entirely before dying). For a couple that had been vehemently bouncing back and forth between moments of intense passion and breakup-ready arguments all season, this is a moment of bliss, and like any good relationship, they have finally found peace in a relationship that began as a farce and blossomed into an engagement only to avoid a death-defying duel. It seems. [Judging by the way Simon and Daphne seem physically unable to keep their hands off each other, it would not be surprising if the Bridgertons have a much deeper alphabet than A to H.

Marina, played by Ruby Barker, has had a tough season. First, she had to live with her distant and almost awful cousins, the Fetheringtons, in order to arrange a shotgun wedding to cover up her dire "condition," i.e., premarital pregnancy. She set her sights on Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), whose "medical condition" was exposed by Lady Whistletown (more on her later), and the plan fell apart. Shortly after a failed attempt to induce an abortion through a truly uncanny mixture of herbs and spices, Marina learned that the child's father had been killed in battle.

The final news came via Philip, the brother of her former lover. Marina initially rejected his proposal, but was eventually shown leaving London in a carriage with the woman who would become her husband, realizing that marrying Philip would be the best choice for her in a world where society tends to ostracize women who do not act as they believe they should.

Speaking of people who want to control a woman's life without regard to her own desires. Anthony, played by Jonathan Bailey, was by far the most frustrating character in the series. Most notably, he showed the hypocrisy of almost ruining his sister Daphne's chances of finding a suitable husband because of his own prejudices and misjudgments, while at the same time continuing an affair with a lover deemed "unworthy" by society.

While Anthony finally made the courageous choice at the end of the series to treat his aforementioned lover, opera singer Sienna Rosso (Sabrina Bartlett), as an actual human being with needs and feelings, it was too late.

Instead, Anthony vows at the end of season one to find a viscountess as soon as possible, preferably not with a romantic partner, but with the wisest person he can find. Sounds like a recipe for a great marriage.

Earlier in the series, the patriarch of the Fetherington family was shown to be a gambling addict who could not pay his daughters' dowries. Lord Fetherington (Ben Miller) makes an under-the-table deal with boxer Will Mondrich (Martins Imhambé) and agrees to open his next fight in exchange for a portion of Fetherington's profits from betting on him. Unfortunately for all involved, Fetherington's bookie somehow uncovers the scheme and ambushes him with a bottle of laudanum, a type of opium that can have deadly effects, to teach him a very extreme lesson.

Due to the disturbing patriarchal rules of the Georgian era, Fetherington's death and lack of a male heir means that the family fortune will not go to his wife and daughters, but to Lady Fetherington (Polly Walker) and her trusted maid Mrs. Varley (Lorraine Ashbourne) who identifies It is meant to go to a certain man. They will not reveal the man's name to the audience, so we will have to wait until Season 2 to find out whether the inheritance will go to a distant family member, a local nobleman we have already met, or one of the bookies with whom Fetherington bet the title of the house.

Most importantly, shockingly, and excitingly, the last few minutes of the Season 1 finale also reveal the identity of local gossipmonger Lady Whistletown. Her Julie Andrews-narrated narration, as Whistletown raises her hood, Penelope Fetherington, played by Nicola Coughlan (...) is revealed to be none other than none other than her best friends Eloise Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte (open in new tab), who were nowhere near the respective suspect lists, which proves to be as much of a red herring as Gossip Girl.

But to avoid a cliffhanger, this particular revelation invites a whole host of questions that we will now have to wait until the upcoming Bridgerton installment is released to be answered. Namely: why did she get into the business of writing gossip? Why is Lady Whistledown most cruel to her own family? Why has she kept her secret for so long? Who else knows who she is? And, of course, will she tell Eloise?