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- Netflix
- Dec 25, 2020
- Netflix
- Dec 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).
Created By: Chris Van Dusen
- Netflix
- Dec 25, 2020
- Netflix
- Dec 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).
Created By: Chris Van Dusen
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Generally Favorable
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
75
76% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
24% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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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.
“Bridgerton” is a blast, an addictive coiffured period romance that turns downright randy while dancing deftly with racism and misogyny.
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Based on 121 User Ratings
5.7
55% Positive
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66 Ratings
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48 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 121 User Ratings
5.7
55% Positive
66 Ratings
66 Ratings
6% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
40% Negative
48 Ratings
48 Ratings
The various marriage plots and melodramas feel familiar (and, in the season’s back half, drawn-out), and the gestures at upstairs-downstairs class-consciousness are underdeveloped. But what works here is fizzy and fun enough that you may not care. Page is magnetic. ... Dynevor likewise balances Daphne’s romanticism and independent-mindedness, and the bow-chicka-wow-wow physical chemistry between the two leads is a character in itself. ... The old-newness of “Bridgerton” is a kind of statement in itself.
Historians and Jane Austen purists may take offense, but this well crafted, escapist drama — where orchestras play covers of Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish hits — is not meant for them.
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."
Show every sign of having watched one too many episodes of Downton Abbey. ... I felt by the end of the first episode it had delighted me with its presence long enough, and yet … and yet … Was there not, after all, room for just one more? And, perhaps, another after that?
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.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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I cried so much and clapped my hands and squealed like a little child watching this!
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Trashy show. I heard about how it had more views than Stranger Things. Went into it with no idea what it was about. Well it isn't entertaining or intelligent. Just trashy. Maybe some teenage girls might like it. I'm a middle age man and definitely wasn't for me. Pretty good costume and style.
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Ok, 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 go to a white actor(we're talking about a tv series that portrays European royalty in the 1810s, after all) because ****, ''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.
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