This is an IHeart podcast.

We have to take fan questions because you and I have done what we always do, which is just talk to each other. Yeah, exactly. And we're going to keep doing this when we stop the podcast, by the way. Yeah, we'll just keep talking to you. We'll just keep talking to them. They were smart. They just keep recording it. But you probably couldn't use it because it would be filled with words we're not supposed to say. Hi everyone, I'm Shonda Rimes.

And I'm Betsy Beers.

And we're taking you inside Shondaland.

On this episode of Bridgerton, the official podcast, we're also answering your questions

about the show and why we pick the stories we tell. So we got fan questions. Did you know

that, Betsy, the fan questions? Fan questions. Fans have questions. Fans, they should have questions. I have questions. So I would think fans would have questions would have a lot of questions. I do, too, actually. But I think we ask each other questions all day long. I think for a fan to get a chance to ask a question probably would be delightful for us. Probably matter more than our questions. Maybe probably so, because maybe some of our questions wouldn't be as relevant, I don't think.

And also, we know a lot of the answers.

I hope so.

Gosh, if we don't, this is kind of embarrassing.

Let's do fan questions.

Let's do fan questions.

I'm going to pick a question and then ask Betsy and Betsy will pick a question

and we'll just go back and forth and back and forth, right? Okay. The only question I'm not going to answer is, you know, why did we kill McDreaming? It's just not going to happen. But that's being asked to me. It's not going to happen. It's not a Bridgetton question. What was the decision behind ending season one the way did it did? That one came from Jacob Rivera Sanchez. What was the reason?

It seems so quick.

Maybe before. ending season one the way did it did. That one came from Jacob Rivera Sanchez. What was the

reason? It seems so quick. Maybe because people, you know, they're expecting lots and lots of

episodes from us. I think a lot of this has to do with expectation and what they're used to

sing from us in the past. 24 episodes or something. 24 episodes and also we wrapped it up.

Like what people aren't used to, I think, and I totally understand what you're saying, Jacob Rivera-Sanchez. We've heard a lot about the idea that these are close-ended stories. And although we will have the Bridgerton's as characters that continue, it's very important to us and to Shonda and to Julia Quinn, first and foremost, and to everybody who worked on the show, that our characters

have a happy ending. I wasn't used to it. I mean, I got to tell you, I got to episode eight,

and I was like, what the heck when I first actually read it? Because I'm used to ongoing stories,

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