Bridgerton hit Netflix last winter, of viewers tuned in to its antics, sucked into the sexy period piece’s easy frills and thrills.
A Regency-era romp about British high society and the bawdy dalliances contained therein, the show, based on the Julia Quinn novels, felt like a flirty pastiche of Jane Austen conventions—if you shoved one of her stories through a harlequin romance Instagram filter and soundtracked it to orchestral covers of Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish songs.
Bridgerton was a smash in part because of its contemporary flourishes, exploding the trend of similarly anachronistic streamer shows like Apple TV+’s Dickinson and Hulu’s The Great (which owe a debt, of course, to their foremother: in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette)..
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