Moments later, the handsome playboy duke, Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page), shows up Daphne is mortified thinking about the conclusions people might draw knowing she was in the area with not one but two men. A scuffle ensues, and Daphne punches her spurned suitor, knocking him to the ground. No one wants you, Miss Bridgerton,” he says. Nigel runs after Daphne and attempts to charm her at first, but she bruises his ego by letting him know she doesn’t want to marry him. Once Daphne, who ultimately wants to marry for love, finds out that her brother had promised her to Nigel, she storms out of a party and into a garden area called “the Dark Walk,” where it’s implied that nothing but debauchery takes place. Meanwhile, a much older gentleman, Nigel Berbrooke (Jamie Beamish), begins to pursue her.
Her prospects quickly dwindle when a young Black woman, Marina Thompson (Ruby Barker), comes to town to live with her cousins and begins to attract more suitors. Daphne, dressed in all white, somehow woos the monarch merely by stepping forward and curtsying soon after, Lady Whistledown’s mysterious pamphlets begin circulating, deeming Daphne an incomparable catch.īut there’s a wrench thrown into Daphne's plans to find the perfect suitor.
Along with hundreds of other women in the same position, she makes her way to the palace to see the Queen, who determines which of them will likely be the most sought-after for the upcoming marriage season. The story begins with Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor), a young, aristocratic white woman eligible for marriage. And while Bridgerton held so much promise, with A-list talent, a legendary producer, interesting source material, and sumptuous sets, the end product turned out to be mind-numbingly dull. The one thing I crave more than anything in the midst of the pandemic is an escape from the confining walls of my apartment. I was bored to tears for the majority of each of the eight hourlong episodes, which, quite frankly, could’ve been a smooth six - maybe even five! It physically pains me, as a homosexual, to say that not even the inclusion of Julie Andrews as the narrator, Lady Whistledown, an anonymous writer who produces a pamphlet detailing the sordid lives of these upper-crust folks, was enough to save the show.
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The trailer also highlighted several Black characters who would be prominently featured throughout the series, an exciting update to the usually overwhelmingly white Regency-era London. The trailer promised scandal, intrigue, and forbidden dalliances among a small faction of people to whom appearances mean everything - a world where even the slightest whiff of impropriety could mean social ruin, especially for women. Set in 1800s London, a world where royalty and nobility espouse modest ideals in one breath while contradicting them in the next, the show looked like a Gossip Girl–esque update to Jane Austen. Naturally, I was keen to see what she’d come up with.
Bridgerton is the first of eight projects Rhimes is producing for Netflix after she struck a massive deal ( purportedly worth more than $100 million) with the streamer back in 2017. Created by Chris Van Dusen and produced by iconic showrunner Shonda Rhimes, who created both Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, the show is based on the bestselling historical romance novels by author Julia Quinn.
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Recently, I had the displeasure - emphasis on dis - of watching Netflix’s Bridgerton, the highly anticipated series about 18th-century British high society, which is out on Christmas Day. Five movies, including "Extraction" (99 million households) and "Bird Box" (89 million) were watched by more households in their first month.Is there any bigger letdown than being disappointed by a show that, in theory, is something you should enjoy? "Bridgerton" is not Netflix's biggest overall title of all time, though. "Bridgerton" is her first series for Netflix as part of the deal. Streaming giant in 2018 worth $150 million, according to The New York Times. It marks a major win for Netflix's deal with Rhimes, the superstar producer known for "How to Get Away with Murder" and "Grey's Anatomy." She struck a mega deal with the