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Bridgerton

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Generally favorable reviews based on 66 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 146 Ratings

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Bridgerton

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Netflix | Release Date: December 25, 2020

Summary: Set in the 1800s, the historical romantic drama created by Chris Van Dusen and based on Julia Quinn's series of novels focuses on the powerful Bridgerton family beginning with eldest daughter Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) as she meets eternal bachelor, the Duke of Hasting (Regé-Jean Page).

Genre(s): Drama

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S2:E8. The Viscount Who Loved Me
Air Date: March 25, 2022
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S2:E7. Harmony
Air Date: March 25, 2022
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S2:E6. The Choice
Air Date: March 25, 2022

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Chicago Sun-Times

Richard Roeper

Dec 24, 2020

Season 1 Review: It’s an unqualified triumph. ... “Bridgerton” is Jane Austen meets “Scandal” meets “Gossip Girl” meets “The Favourite,” resulting in a wonderfully anachronistic mashup with gorgeous visuals, high-end production values and suitably larger-than-life performances by the talented cast. Read full review

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Collider Carly Lane

Mar 21, 2022

Season 2 Review: Bridgerton successfully fills the very specific niche of unabashed romance-rooted storytelling that audiences have been anticipating — and those of us who get our thrills from watching people fall in love amidst the backdrop of a very restrained society (set to the tune of many excellent instrumental covers of contemporary pop songs) will have plenty to feast our eyes on. Read full review

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Radio Times Lauren Morris

Mar 21, 2022

Season 2 Review: Ultimately, if you loved the first season, you're going to savour every single episode of this regency romp, its intriguing new characters and the impressive performances of its excellent cast, with Jonathan Bailey shining in his well-deserved spotlight. Read full review

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IndieWire Ann Donahue

Dec 22, 2020

Season 1 Review: For the time being, the fizzy fun and exuberant look of the series wins audiences over despite the narrative overcomplexity, even for those who can’t tell the three eldest good-looking twenty-something brunette white guy Bridgerton brothers apart for the first several episodes. Read full review

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Salon

Melanie McFarland

Dec 27, 2020

Season 1 Review: While it may not qualify as an instant classic, or even very good, it is good enough to smooth out the raggedy ending of 2020. All the graces and visual splendor one expects of some dream version of 19th century England seduces the eye on the front end, but beneath this show's heaving decolletage beats the heart of "Scandal" and lust of "Grey's Anatomy." Read full review

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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Rob Owen

Mar 24, 2022

Season 2 Review: As soaps go, one can certainly do worse than “Bridgerton,” but season two, streaming Friday, feels like a bland mimeograph of season one. ... Happily, the new season gives scene-stealers Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) and Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) more to do. Read full review

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Vox.com

Aja Romano

Jan 12, 2021

Season 1 Review: Instead of filling that opulent, 19th-century setting with true passion and heart, the show comes off like many of the aristocrats it’s skewering: soulless and vapid. Read full review

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nfratesi

Apr 1, 2022

so insanely good it gives a very downton abbey type of vibe, except it's more playful 10/10

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Oroblah

Jan 12, 2021

Excellent show. Highly entertaining. I was never bored. Don’t let the negative reviews dissuade you, most of them are just objecting to the people of color.

6 of 24 users found this helpful618

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Mayarruda

Dec 28, 2020

Absolutely amazing! The cast, the songs, the dialogues... everything is spectacular!

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TheCriticator

Mar 27, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Season 1 is the only watchable season. Season 2 is not even Bridgerton at all. It really hammered in the anti-straight white male message as all the male Bridgerton cast are routinely ostracized for being men by the newcomer female characters. The overall theme of Season 2 is “beggars can be choosers, except men cannot be ” with the horrible new character Kate Sharma. The constant dressing down the male characters and constant over serious stern face makes me skip all her scenes, except she’s 92% of all episodes this season. The gist of the this story arc is that these two women Kate and her noble younger STEP-SISTER Edwina have no money. Their mother is a disinherited noble because she married a foreign commoner who also had a kid (Kate), but he died and they’re going to be poor, so they had to go back to England so they can get their grandparents money. The grandparents won’t give a cent because Kate is not their grandchild. That’s what makes this season ridiculous, Kate has no legal claim or say in anything in the plot of this thing, but shoehorns herself into matters that aren’t hers to make decisions on, and she over projects in EVERY scene! Edwina is the only legitimate noble grandchild and she has to marry a noble to get the fortune. No problem, one of Bridgerton men immediately takes an interest in Edwina in courting for marriage, so problem solved! But Kate cock blocks the Bridgerton men every time, this jeopardizing the reason they’re there. And surprise, she does! They get to a wedding and Kate screws it up by meddling in her step-sisters love life. The grandparents of course, revoke their will so these girls will be poor. I was hoping for Lady Danbury or Edwina’s mother to immediately shout Kate down with “WTF do you think you’re doing?! This doesn’t concern you! You ruined everything!” The Bridgeton family are sidelined in the story in favor of Kate and her constant **** about everything. Skip this season.… Expand

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lion_kenedi

Feb 4, 2021

Black nobility in England in the early 19th century .... nonsense. Netflix does its best to show off in front of the community, but at the same time it presents the society of aristocrats of England as some kind of teenagers from America today. BLM finally destroys the brains of theBlack nobility in England in the early 19th century .... nonsense. Netflix does its best to show off in front of the community, but at the same time it presents the society of aristocrats of England as some kind of teenagers from America today. BLM finally destroys the brains of the directors of all companies.… Expand

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arostislavna

Oct 30, 2022

Racist neoliberal revisionism. Racist neoliberal revisionism. Racist neoliberal revisionism. Racist neoliberal revisionism. Racist neoliberal revisionism. Racist neoliberal revisionism. Racist neoliberal revisionism.

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waltondraxler

Jan 15, 2021

let's set the record straight : So whitewashing is cultural appropriation, but BLACKWASHING is historical repair? Wow nice... So in order to promote racial iguality we perpetuate toxic practices in the entertainment industry? So it's fine a black actor to take a role that would logically golet's set the record straight : So whitewashing is cultural appropriation, but BLACKWASHING is historical repair? Wow nice... So in order to promote racial iguality we perpetuate toxic practices in the entertainment industry? So it's fine a black actor to take a role that would logically go to a white actor(we're talking about a tv series that portrays European royalty in the 1810s, after all) because of...hum, ''historical repair''? interesting, by this same logic, it would be JUST FINE if a white actor was casted randomly in a japonese period TV Show about japonese royalt, playing a royal japonese character, with a japonese name, because well, we never saw white people represented in asian television, so it would be really nice to make this ''historical repair'', right? Because you know, ''representation matters'', even when it makes no sense... Bridgerton it's just pure sensationalism, a show that lacks any real substance, and exists only to please a handful of stupid and naive people, that are very scandalous on social media, so the companies feel coerced to bow, because they cannot risk losing some sponsorships. This is a show that basically spits in western history(no SJWs, dear ''woke'' people, there were no blacks in the european high society at that time, and certainly there was no black person in the British royal family before Meghan Markle, this is not even a ''hot take'', this is just straight facts LOL) in the name of hypocritical and opportunistic notions of equality, it's the kind of TV garbage that american''liberals''love so much,''oh look how inclusive we are, we put some black people in everything, it's great to fight against racism, what a great person i am!'', but all they do is regurgitate empty speeches and improvise acts of''damage containment'', just to say that they are doing something. This show is an american''damage containment'', a completely hollow pile of crap that sells itself as bold and important when in reality is just another disposable content that exists just so a bunch of hypocritical, condescending, and overly sensitive people can give a little tap in their own backs and sleep well, thinking that they did their part. Bridgerton is a perfect example of American cynicism, they should leave period pieces with the english. (And no, saying things like ''it's just fiction, so they can do whatever they want with the plot and cast actors of any color'' is not a valid argument, because even when an audiovisual work is mostly fictional, if it includes true events of history, and portrays people who really existed, the veracity of these events has to be preserved, respecting the minutiae of what was officially described. Fiction does not mean abdicating basic logic, not when it comes to adapting true events, as much you may take some poetic liberties, the faithful reproduction of central elements of the real story must be maintained, if not, will you not be making a coheecive and respecful piece of entertainment, you will be making a bad joke. So yes, this show is racist for blackwashing white history and casting black actors to play people that would logically be white. That's it.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: March 25, 2022
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  S2:E8. The Viscount Who Loved Me
  Air Date: March 25, 2022
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  S2:E7. Harmony
  Air Date: March 25, 2022
- tbd
  S2:E6. The Choice
  Air Date: March 25, 2022
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  S2:E5. An unthinkable Fate
  Air Date: March 25, 2022
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  S2:E4. Victory
  Air Date: March 25, 2022
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  S2:E3. A Bee in Your Bonnet
  Air Date: March 25, 2022
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  S2:E2. Off to the Races
  Air Date: March 25, 2022
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  S2:E1. Capital R Rake
  Air Date: March 25, 2022
Season 1

75
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: December 25, 2020