72(!) Thoughts I Had Watching ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’

Firth may not be in evidence, but I’m just happy to have Ms. Jones cavorting about onscreen again, even if it is on Peacock rather than in theaters. Below, find every thought I had about Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy:

1. The first word spoken aloud in this film being “Fuck” is soooooo Bridget-core.
2. Oh my God, she has two kids now?
3. Am I…aging?
4. Feeding your children frozen peas for breakfast is fine, actually. I’m declaring this as a non-child-haver but frequent babysitter who’s pretty sure that most kids can survive an occasional freezer-diving expedition of a meal.
5. Who still has the “Hello, Moto” ringtone?
6. Did they not get iPhone clearance from Apple?
7. HUGH GRANT!
8. Or should I say, Daniel Cleaver! Looking leathery and lined and upsettingly sexy, if I must be honest.
9. Of course he’s still dating extremely young women and making fun of Bridget for her “giant panties.”
10. Hearing Bridget say the word “canceled” just feels wrong.
11. Wait, are these Daniel’s kids? Or Darcy’s?
12. I think he’s “Uncle Daniel,” but that doesn’t entirely answer my question, because I can’t imagine Daniel Cleaver letting anyone but an inappropriately young Instagram model call him “Daddy.”
13. OMG, a tiny ghost-Firth sighting!
14. Oh, Christ, okay, Darcy is the dad, but he’s dead.
15. He was killed in the Sudan on a humanitarian mission four years ago!
16. Why am I crying?
17. At least Shazzer looks the same.
18. Are people really named “Bingo Carruthers” in London?
19. Of course Shazzer has a podcast now.
20. I just realized the actress who plays Shazzer is also Minna Häkkinen from Veep.
21. Bro, if your husband’s dead, you can definitely skip awkward group couples dinners and just hang out with your mean gay friends.
22. Happily, that’s what Bridget’s now doing over some truly tremendous-looking margaritas!
23. Jude became a CEO (or “C-something-O”) and Tom has long hair now! Ah, how time flies.
24. I did not need to hear the words “labial adhesion” on this particular morning.
25. Of course Daniel Cleaver has a teenage son named Enzo he doesn’t really know.
26. Aw, honestly, I kind of love that Cleaver is still Bridge’s slutty guy friend well into their middle age.
27. I don’t love Bridget’s kitchen backsplash, I must say.
28. “Sod the children, put your own oxygen mask on first.” Well, yes!
29. Bridget’s dad died, too? What the fuck?
30. I mean, I guess he was not young, but is this a rom-com or a Greek tragedy?
31. Aw, there are all of Bridget’s titular diaries!
32. And she still has the pajamas!
33. I do love a getting-ready montage, God help me.
34. Why are elementary-school children ever issued recorders? Has a recorder ever sounded good in all of musical history?
35. Hey, it’s Isla Fisher as a nutso neighbor!
36. I swear, my reservations about having kids are 90% related to my fear of getting in trouble for dropping them off at school late.
37. I already did the late-to-school thing! I have no desire to repeat it!
38. EMMA THOMPSON!
39. Aw, I’m glad Bridget’s friend Miranda from that weird third movie is still in the mix, even if it’s only via FaceTime.
40. And just like that, Bridget’s on Tinder.
41. Damn, Richard Finch from Sit Up Britain is back in the mix!
42. Did everyone involved with this film make a pact with the devil not to age?
43. Leo Woodall romance-montage time!
44. If Bridget Jones isn’t despairingly holding up a pair of tiny underwear before a date, then it’s simply not real.
45. Who curls their bangs in 2025?
46. I do wish we could have left a touch of Bridget’s body dysmorphia back in the aughts.
47. Ditto Shazzer’s newsboy cap.
48. Damn, this man is so cute!
49. Get your (sex) life, Bridget!
50. I know I just said Bridget should accept herself, flaws and all, but I desperately want to fix her post-sex hair.
51. Ricky Gervais catching strays! We love to see it.
52. Bridget’s at her kids’ school’s Career Day. What could possibly go wrong?
53. I actually feel like the kids are being used the perfect amount in this film, much like in Love Actually. Note to filmmakers: Child actors are like seasoning. A little goes a long way!
54. Making out with a dripping-wet, shirtless younger guy at a pool party? Let’s go, Bridget!
55. Oh, Bridget, welcome to the very 2020s phenomenon known as ghosting.
56. I’m kind of foreseeing a romance between Bridget and the kids’ hot teacher.
57. Classic lip-filler disaster!
58. Oh God, is Daniel Cleaver going to die? What in the Saw-franchise hell?
59. Okay, phew, no, just a cardiac setback.
60. Renée Zellweger really is an extremely goofy, charming dancer. Give this woman her comedy-actress props!
61. Leo is back, but Bridget’s not forgiving him that easily. You go, girl!
62. Bridget’s son has caused concern at school for being “withdrawn,” which…yeah! His dad died!
63. Bridget is writing a birthday letter to dearly departed Darcy, and I am once again sobbing.
64. Is it weird that Bridget’s tiny daughter has the exact haircut I want?
65. This whole school camping trip seems like a pretext to see Hot Teacher shirtless, which Bridget (and I, for that matter) don’t appear to mind.
66. Okay, it is so on with Hot Teacher.
67. If your rom-com doesn’t set its climax at a school Nativity play, I don’t want it!
68. Awww, Bridget’s “withdrawn” son is singing a solo.
69. Am I legitimately going to cry three separate times during this movie?
70. It’s extremely fitting that this movie ends with a kiss in the snow, just as the original Bridget Jones’s Diary once did.
71. I love this man!!! Marry him, Bridge!
72. Oh, my sweet Bridget Jones. You may have made us hate our bodies, but you’ve given us so much in return,