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Bridgerton’s floral main titles, designed by the UK’s Momoco, evolve slightly each season, adding and removing scenes as the stories go. 

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In season three, which fans have nicknamed “Polin” in honor of the main romance between Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), the titles remind viewers of Penelope’s alter ego of Lady Whistledown and of her evolution through the eight episodes. 

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Each sequence starts the same way: Lady Whistledown pens a missive that includes the name of the main Bridgerton to be featured. 

That missive is then delivered via horse-drawn carriage and delivery boy, with the carriage taking on added meaning in season three. The Bridgerton family seal is featured, as well as a tiara, symbolizing a young lady getting ready for one of the ton’s many lavish balls. 

After that, each opening sequence goes its own way for a bit. In season one, the next image is of burning candles, symbolizing Daphne Bridgerton’s (Phoebe Dyvenor) and the Duke of Hastings’ (Regé-Jean Page) passion for each other. In season two, that changes to a game of croquet, and in season three, a feathered quill writing on paper as Penelope so often does in the guise of Lady Whistledown. 

Next, vines climbing up the tree fade into a piano keyboard. While that keyboard has always been in the sequence, it bears special significance in season three with the introduction of Francesca Bridgerton (Michaela Stirling), whose preferred pastime is playing the piano. The next scene also changes, with season one being Daphne’s, the season’s proclaimed “diamond,” dance card; season two the anxious Anthony Bridgerton’s stopwatch; and season three a butterfly, signaling Penelope’s emergence as a self-confident young woman. 

Following that, each season features a couple dancing on a ballroom floor that resembles, appropriately, a chessboard. Season three’s credits replace the previous two seasons’ dueling guns with a floating hot-air balloon, drawn from one of the season’s most dramatic scenes. 

The sequence always concludes with a couple holding hands in marriage, which is the natural outcome of all Bridgerton stories, and a bee flying out of the hive, which both symbolizes a Bridgerton leaving the nest through marriage, and the early demise of the Bridgerton patriarch, who died due to a bee sting. 

The first four episodes of season three of Bridgerton dropped on Netflix on May 16, and the final four premiered on June 13. 

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