Bridgerton’s Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington’s love story excites viewers

In Bridgerton season 3, Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington share a friends-to-lovers romance, mirroring their journey in the book.

Colin and Penelope's storyline on screen was based on Julia Quinn's novel "Romancing Mister Bridgerton," which is the fourth book in her Regency romance series featuring the eight Bridgerton siblings. Fans fondly refer to the couple as "Polin."

A summary of the book describes Penelope Featherington's long-standing secret admiration for her best friend's brother, which seems to have lasted an eternity. “After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him until she stumbles across his deepest secret … and fears she doesn’t know him at all.”

The summary adds, “Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the neverending sameness of his life, and, most of all, tired of everyone’s preoccupation with the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can’t seem to publish an edition without mentioning him in the first paragraph. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad, he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same — especially Penelope Featherington! The girl who was always simply … there is suddenly the girl haunting his dreams.”

‘Bridgerton’ season 3 part 2 is currently streaming on Netflix.