Bridgerton (Netflix)

JP Liz V1 · 10-11-2020 11:06pm #1

On Christmas day, Netflix is dropping Shonda Rhimes’s period drama Bridgerton which is based on the books by Julia Quinn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIsKen3y-mU

Aisling(",) · 11-11-2020 11:47am

Gossip girl but ye olde style!
I'll probably watch it.I'm still watching greys anatomy and I love a stylish melodrama.

Shelga · 26-12-2020 7:51pm

Anyone else watching this? I started off thinking it was ridiculous and dull, where every scene with women involved them obsessing over a husband.

I still think it's ridiculous, but it's also very entertaining :pac:

MonkstownHoop · 26-12-2020 7:53pm

Sounds awful, as already said in the Netflix thread it's been described as 'not as bad as covid'

Twee. · 26-12-2020 7:55pm

I just started it, I'm definitely dazzled by the gorgeous costumes (and gorgeous men :pac: ) Light and fluffy, I'll motor through it I'm sure!

JP Liz V1 · 26-12-2020 8:34pm

Julie Andrews voicing Gossip Girl for Jane Austen

jetfiremuck · 26-12-2020 8:35pm

Pure Schitt.....usual cameos from BBC crime series etc....

pinkypinky · 27-12-2020 11:13pm

It is very enjoyable, but massively anachronistic (and not even consistent therein).

JP Liz V1 · 10-01-2021 7:15pm

A hit so 8 seasons is expected

JP Liz V1 · 14-01-2021 8:17pm

Ride and Prejudice

fryup · 14-01-2021 10:11pm

pinkypinky wrote: »

It is very enjoyable, but massively anachronistic (and not even consistent therein).

just learned a new word, thanks

JP Liz V1 · 21-01-2021 4:43pm

https://tvline.com/2021/01/21/bridgerton-renewed-season-2-netflix-book-2/

walshb · 30-01-2021 10:22am

Forced to endure parts of this due to the better half watching it..

Comes across as a bunch of people bored out of their tits during lockdown who decided to make a show for the sake of it..

About as pointless as can be..with the most boring and bland actors and lines!

Mad_maxx · 30-01-2021 12:33pm

awful sh1te , thankfully herself grew bored after three or four episodes

spurious · 30-01-2021 12:35pm

It wasn't the worst.
I am afraid I must be getting old as I found myself thinking 'oh no, not more riding' every so often.

Alun · 30-01-2021 12:35pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

awful sh1te , thankfully herself grew bored after three or four episodes

I didn't get past about 10 minutes into episode 1.

Postgrad10 · 31-01-2021 2:04pm

Very pretty to look at and great use of modern music but the plots very simple. I wouldn’t bother watching a second series.

Sleepy · 01-02-2021 1:07pm

Watched this with Mrs Sleepy and I found it's use of race very unsettling. Of course there were people of colour in London in that era but they certainly weren't Dukes or Queen Consorts... the whole thing seemed to utterly gloss over the fact that the very type of characters being portrayed by people of colour in this series largely lived their lives of luxury off the backs of the slaves they owned in the colonies..

Aisling(",) · 01-02-2021 3:51pm

Sleepy wrote: »

Watched this with Mrs Sleepy and I found it's use of race very unsettling. Of course there were people of colour in London in that era but they certainly weren't Dukes or Queen Consorts... the whole thing seemed to utterly gloss over the fact that the very type of characters being portrayed by people of colour in this series largely lived their lives of luxury off the backs of the slaves they owned in the colonies..

It is addressed albeit very quickly.The duke and his aunt have a conversation about how their position is precarious as people of colour only rose in status because the king fell in love with a black woman and made her his queen.

It's a fluffy period drama/romance.I wouldn't be reading much into it.It meant they had a bigger pool of actors to pull from and its not as though its a true story.

D9Male · 02-02-2021 7:53am

This is absolutely terrible. There is so much good TV out there; I really don't understand how anyone could find this entertaining. The situations are unrealistic, the dialogue ridiculous and the only effort seems to have been put into casting Julie Andrews and the beautiful but ludicrous costumes.

Sleepy · 02-02-2021 2:31pm

Aisling(",) wrote: »

It is addressed albeit very quickly.The duke and his aunt have a conversation about how their position is precarious as people of colour only rose in status because the king fell in love with a black woman and made her his queen.

It's a fluffy period drama/romance.I wouldn't be reading much into it.It meant they had a bigger pool of actors to pull from and its not as though its a true story.

Yes, but that throwaway line wouldn't justify their whitewashing of Britain's extremely dodgy past imo.

If they wanted to include people of colour in the nobility, the way to do it was to set it in a fantasy world, not regency era Britain.

D9Male · 02-02-2021 2:56pm

I assumed that they are doing a type of colour-blind casting? So it doesn't matter the colour of the actor or the part they are likely to portray?

I am not against that, and it was one of the few things I didn't have an issue with in the one episode I managed to endure.

Cerveza · 02-02-2021 2:57pm

Stick plenty riding into it and it’s an instant success. If they put a bit of riding into mass we would be watching it Sunday morning.

Hurrache · 02-02-2021 3:22pm

Sleepy wrote: »

Yes, but that throwaway line wouldn't justify their whitewashing of Britain's extremely dodgy past imo.

If they wanted to include people of colour in the nobility, the way to do it was to set it in a fantasy world, not regency era Britain.

It is a fantasy TV show, why would anyone be taking from such a program an issue with race and the positions black people hold when you consider everything else that happens in the series.

Sleepy · 02-02-2021 4:49pm

I just found it jarring to have a series set in a version of British history that pretends one of the darkest elements of British colonialism (slavery - a key source of the wealth of the aristocratic classes portrayed) didn't happen.