31 Times That Mark Darcy Was Every Girl’s Dream Guy

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7. The Blue Soup

For Bridget’s birthday, she’s trying to make dinner for her friends and is failing at it. So, to her surprise, her knight in shining armor comes to her rescue. Mark Darcy appears randomly at her home and decides to help her cook. It’s clear through the following scenes that Mark isn’t the best cook but it’s instinct to try and help her fix whatever she’s messed up that makes us love him.

Constantly, Bridget finds herself in less than desirable situations. She is always trying to do her best but it doesn’t seem to ever pan out. That is, unless Darcy is there to help her out. In some cases, that would seem demeaning or the source of bad writing but that’s not the case with the Bridget Jones series.

Mark doesn’t see it as a fault of Bridget’s, in fact he’s charmed by her ability to succeed in other areas of her life. But it’s the little things that she’s terrible at that he’s more than happy to help her out with.

It’s a dynamic of Mark pointing something out that makes her endearing and Bridget works on whatever that is until she’s better at it. It’s almost as if Bridget betters herself to spite him in some instances but it only seems to further his affection for her.