Review: Bridgerton season 3 is its best because of Pen and Eloise’s friendship

Here’s a confession worthy of a scandal sheet: Bridgerton isn’t actually that great at romance. For two seasons now, the smash Netflix series has rejuvenated the tired, tricky genre, primarily by wholeheartedly embracing its pleasures while giving us modern quirks and a cast full of eye candy to make the tropes worth showing up for.
Yet throughout those seasons, the series has struggled…