Sequels to blockbuster film phenomena can, as seen in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), be illuminating events. At the conclusion of the massively successful transatlantic hit romantic comedy Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), plush and perpetually pouting London lass Bridget Jones seemed settled into a life of happily loving ever after. She’d banished the codependent cad from her life, she’d made flattering wardrobe choices, and she’d landed a sweet, old-fashioned guy from a good family, a swain who was both handsome and gainfully employed. What could possibly go wrong? Only everything, but hilariously so, as brittle Bridget slips out beyond The Edge of Reason.