Bridgerton‘s next season literally can’t arrive fast enough. Unfortunately, we’ve got a few more months to go until Season 4 drops, which is why we’re filling the Bridgerton-shaped hole in our hearts by reminiscing on seasons past. In fact, we’re winding it back all the way to where it all started, debating which couple has the best first scene together so far.
Simon (Regé-Jean Page) and Daphne’s (Phoebe Dynevor) Season 1 meeting is straight out of a rom-com. The newly-minted Diamond of the Season is hastily trying to escape a creepy suitor — one of many that try to get her attention at Lady Danbury’s ball in Episode 1 — and doesn’t notice Simon in her path. When they collide, the new-to-London Duke cockily assumes that Daphne is one of the marriage-minded debutantes who want him for his title, though she truly has no idea who he is. Daphne sticks it to him once Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), knowing Simon from school, arrives and introduces the two of them. You go, Daphne.