Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy celebrates Valentine’s Day by ranking No. 1 on Peacock. Renée Zellweger returns to the small screen as the romantic comedy’s titular character for the first time since Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016) and discovers the “casual cruelty” of being ghosted by a new lover. However, despite nearly a decade having passed, the latest sequel in the franchise is scoring with both critics and audiences, even though the film has killed off Bridget’s husband and fan-favorite Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). Book lovers know that Mark also died in author Helen Fielding’s 2013 novel of the same name.
Despite the death of a fan-favorite character, the highly anticipated rom-com is a bona fide hit 24 years after the original film dropped. Read More