
The Bridget Jones film series has expanded to include three follow-ups. The initial two were “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” from 2004 (wherein Bridget lands in a Thai jail) and “Bridget Jones’s Baby” in 2016 (in which Bridget discovers she’s pregnant at 43, unsure of the father’s identity). The most recent addition is “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” which bypassed U.S. cinemas and can be found streaming on Peacock. Similar to its predecessors, this latest film is based on original content from author Helen Fielding; her novel, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” was released in 2013. In this fourth installment, directed by Michael Morris and starring Renée Zellweger reprising her role as Bridget, she portrays a widowed Bridget with two young children, Billy (Casper Knopf) and Mabel (Mila Jankovic). Her husband, human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), passed away four years prior in Sudan; his brief appearances as a ghost are movingly poignant.