In the mid-2010s, there was a funny Twitter account called @ModernSeinfeld, which floated ideas for “Seinfeld” episodes as if the show had lasted into the 21st century. (Sample episode: “Jerry’s Gf texts in the movies but acts like it’s okay because she sits in the last row.”) At this point, you could almost imagine devising something similar for Bridget Jones, the winsomely discombobulated London singleton who first appeared, in the novel “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” back in 1996. I’m thinking of potential movie comedies like “Bridget Jones: Love Me Tinder,” “Bridget Jones: Last Brexit to Brooklyn,” and “Bridget Jones’s Old Tweets that Got Her Canceled.”

There’s a Tinder reference in the new Bridget Jones movie, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” along with japes about Harry Styles and lip serum that you buy on the dark web (it turns Bridget’s mouth into a faux-Kardashian swollen...