The ‘Bridgerton’ Men Ranked, From Ultimate Fuckboy To Sweet Prince Frederick

Earlier today, Netflix announced that Bridgerton was obviously getting renewed for a second season.

Sadly for the horny admirers of The Duke, aka every single person who actually watched Bridgerton, Season 2 will instead focus the eldest Bridgerton, Anthony, and his journey to find love.

This storyline follows the same order of Julia Quinn’s series, where each Bridgerton sibling gets their own book. In The Viscount Who Loved Me, Anthony Bridgerton stops his bachelor ways and actually finds a potential wife. But because it’s Anthony, and he’s a fuckboy, the viscount, of course, kinda falls in love with his soon-to-be sister-in-law.

 

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Now, there’s no guarantee that Bridgerton will actually follow the exact events of the book, but the first season did hint to the next instalment being Anthony’s time to shine. If you remember, at the end of Season 1, after Anthony was rejected for the final time by Siena, the viscount literally told his family that he was going to find a wife and not focus on the whole love thing.

So I guess we’re in for a shift away from the fuckboy tale of Simon Basset and his determination to fuck constantly but not have kids, to Anthony Bridgerton’s fuckboy journey of finding a wife but then falling for her sister instead, if the books are anything to go by.

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As being a total fuckboy seems to be the running theme for the men in Bridgerton so far, we decided to rank how each men in the show ranks on the fuckboy scale to find out who really is The Worst™️ of the lot:

11. Prince Frederick Of Prussia

Oh, sweet, pure Prince Frederick of Prussia. If there were anyone in the world who was the exact opposite of a fuckboy, it would be Prince Frederick.

He was super sweet to Daphne Bridgerton, but was never once pushy. Honestly, he literally gave her a beautiful diamond necklace that looked very expensive, and never even asked for it back when they “broke up”, which I kinda still have questions about.

Even when the Queen tried to push ole Freddy boy into fighting for Daphne after she said she had feelings for The Duke, the Prince refused. He only ever wanted the best for Daphne, even if that wasn’t him. While he was easily the biggest simp in the ‘ton, he is still the least fuckboy-like of the lot. Literal soon-to-be king shit.

10. Albion Finch

When it comes to innocent men, sneezy, cheese-lover Mr Finch is pretty up there.

We don’t really know much about this man besides the fact that all his conversations revolve around cheese (mood), but he always seemed to be really nice to Philipa Featherington. Plus, he always brought flowers despite is allergies to them.

Even when big-time loser Lord Featherington drove Albion away because he had gambled away his daughter’s dowries, Albion didn’t hold a grudge or ask questions when Philipa was allowed back to him.

9. Will Mondrich

With none of the Bridgerton boys being wed, and it literally taking The Duke being blackmailed to finally settle down, Will Mondrich appears to be ~good man~ standard these men should aspire to be.

Seriously, throughout Bridgerton Will is shown to be one of the only young adults who have actually settled down and had a kid, so he gets some points for that. However, the whole lie-to-your-wife-and-illegally-rig-a-fight-which-can-lead-to-your-murder thing gives off some real fuckboy-esque energy.

But apart from that lil’ mess-up, Will does seem to love and treat his wife right and often implores The Duke to do the same to Daphne.

8. Colin Bridgerton

Colin is easily the sweetest and most pure of the Bridgerton boys, but him being totally blind to Penelope Featherington’s affections makes him at least a little bit of a fuckboy in my mind.

As the youngest, Colin is bright-eyed and keen for love, but has very little life experience so is very dumb. How he couldn’t see that Marina Thompson was trying to trap him into marriage was beyond me, but you do you Colin.

He was, however, smart in falling for Marina’s attempt at seducing him, which is both respectful and very unlike what most of the men in Bridgerton would do.

7. Phillip Crane

Look, we met Mr. Phillip Crane for all of five minutes and while he did offer to ~do the right thing~ and marry Marina, I don’t trust him.

Maybe it’s the sideburns, or maybe it’s his weird little neck thing, or maybe it’s that Eloise is actually set to marry Phillip in her own story (To Sir Phillip, With Love) that taints his offer, I don’t know. I just don’t trust him.

Yes, I know. It’s very nice and honourable of him to offer to marry Marina after his brother, the father of her unborn child, died in battle, but there is just something that gives off fuckboy vibes.

6. Benedict Bridgerton

I actually really like Benedict. He’s unproblematic, he likes to paint, and he’s super-supportive of all siblings — whether it’s secretly smoking with them by the family swing set or being his brother’s second during a duel.

Plus, Benedict doesn’t have obnoxious sideburns, and is probably bi, which are all great wins, too.

But the issue with Benedict is that now he’s had a taste of brothels, there’s no telling whether he’s going to stay loyal to you, or if he would even be willing to settle down at all. His heart belongs to Henry Granville’s art studio and Madame Delacroix, and you’re just going to have to deal with it — unless, of course, you’re into threesomes in the dimly-lit homes of strangers.

5. Lord Archibald Featherington

God, Lord Featherington fucking sucks.

While on a technical level, he probably isn’t a fuckboy and is loyal to his wife, he’s still shit hence his fifth place position. He literally lies to his wife about their finances and drives away his daughters suitors because he gambled away the family money. Selfishness if I’ve ever seen it.

And worst of all, instead of being remorseful and trying to get his funds back in an honest way, he just cheats his way back into money and ropes poor, innocent Will Mondrich in on his mess, too.

4. Lord Rutledge

Considering all Lord Rutledge is good for is being a sugar daddy who gets zero sugar, the old man sure does ask for a lot.

Truly a man who doesn’t understand how to take a fucking hint, all Rutledge wants is a pretty young woman — by whatever grubby means necessary. But I’m pretty certain for Lord Rutledge to get to the age he’s at, with the current mindset he’s got going on, he was surely a huge fuckboy in his youth.

Now, Rutledge is just a sad little man who has only just realised that he’ll die alone and heir-less if he doesn’t find himself wife ASAP. The Avocado Theory in motion, really.

3. Nigel Berbrooke

Also a big, huge pile of steaming shit is Nigel Berbrooke.

The fact that Nigel thought he owned Daphne because “no one else wanted her”? Disgusting. Nigel cornering Daphne near the Dark Walk despite her telling him she wanted nothing from him? Revolting. Even worse, Nigel trying to blackmail Daphne into marriage after she punched him right in the face? Nauseating.

Plus, Nigel Berbrooke’s mother sucks too. All the Berbrooke’s are fuckboys in my heart.

2. Simon Basset, The Duke of Hastings

No matter how unbelievably fine The Duke, I’d argue that he was a major fuckboy up until the point he and Daphne had their kid.

He was constantly referred to as a rake, and was legit willing to die instead of just marrying Daphne. Yet, even though he knew he wouldn’t marry Daphne, he still made out with her in the Dark Walk, giving the poor girl so much false hope. Even after the pair wed, Simon’s dramatic pull-out game mixed with his mind games over the semantics of him saying he “can’t have kids” was just one big mind fuck.

Plus the man can communicate to save his life. If Bridgerton was set in modern times, The Duke would definitely be a man who would reply with “I’m not reading all of that” if his girlfriend sent him a string of texts explaining the issue at hand.

Yet, even though he produced the most fuckboy-iest fuckboy line of the series (“It is because I regard you so highly that I cannot marry you”), there is still one man who takes the fuckboy crown in the ton…

The way that Anthony Bridgerton played with Siena Rosso should be a crime punishable by the law.

Anthony is a typical fuckboy. He takes what he wants when he wants it, and gives nothing in return. Everything is by his rules, and on his time. The viscount expects women to put their life on hold for him while he figures out his own, and only comes back around when he feels like another man may take the woman he refuses to claim.

And while Anthony may have thought that inviting Siena to Daphne’s ball was some grand display of affection, it wasn’t. It was just, yet again, another decision that Anthony made about the pair’s non-existent relationship — and it wasn’t fair to Siena.

Plus, he is far too over-protective and controlling about what his sister can and can’t do, despite it not being his relationship or life to worry about. In typical fuckboy fashion, Anthony seems to care deeply about the honour and respect of women, unless, of course, he is the one fucking them.

And if the books are anything to go by, Anthony Bridgerton remains a fuckboy in the next instalment of Bridgerton too, when he falls for his potential wife’s sister. Ugh, men.