whistledown

This Bridgerton article contains MAJOR spoilers for the end of the first season and spoilers for the fourth book in the series. You can read our spoiler-free review here. Even before Bridgerton dropped on Netflix on Christmas Day, the adaptation of the Julia Quinn period romance series was already inspiring curiosity around its central plot mystery: Who is Lady Whistledown? Unlike Gossip Girl, that other contemporary classic that so many compared Bridgerton to after the first trailer dropped, Bridgerton doesn’t wait until its final episode ever to reveal the identity of the person who disrupts (read: makes more interesting) the…