No one knows scandal better than Lady Whistledown.
And she or at least, the response to her writings apparently has the power to shock evenShonda Rhimesherself.
“Like, we didn’t kill him, he’s still alive!
So, Rhimes assumed many would take the exit in stride as part and parcel of the storytelling format.
“What would be the ever-after of this combo?
I mean, really: What would Rege-Jean do, you know what I mean?
We gave them their happily ever after!
And now we have this next couple coming.
And so yeah, I was like, whoa!”
“And there are eight Bridgertons.
Obviously, we’re not going to match up a child!
We’ll grow Hyacinth up and you’ll see her story too.”
“We made a one-season deal with him at the beginning of season 1,” she noted.
“That was the plan: come and do one season as the duke.
“What I liked was the ability to explore things from a woman’s point of view.
I wanted the female gaze happening in the books to happen on television,” she noted.
Here’s this season; here’s a fully formed romance.
Page’s exit, ultimately, feels in line with that notion of a “closed-ended tale.”
It’s merely a natural consequence of how romance works (something millions of readers love).
And Rhimes' reaction affirms that.
