Subtext is an amazing thing in romance (and any genre really) and depending on how something is written (or delivered in film/tv) the subtext can be so much more than the simple moment of the scene.
For example, in e7 after the wedding scene where Colin says “she will find you, eventually” the subtext of the next unspoken part of that line is “and she will take you from me”
Subtext. Media literacy. All part and parcel of the same basket of literary devices. Bridgerton












