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I haven't watched the show but I saw this article headline today and thought it was funny, given my question to you about it looking like an alternate reality of history.
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Bridgerton
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Bridgerton: Netflix says drama is its biggest series ever
The streaming giant says 82 million households watched the show in its first 28 days online.
www.bbc.com
The comments on Twitter to this are hilarious. Everyone saying this show was trash.
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So stupid. Seriously. The books are standard, historical romances and contain all the standard tropes and norms of the genre. It is not fantasy romance, which is its own genre. They just didn't want to have an all white cast so made up some bullshit. Even though they could have picked one of a thousand other romance series that DO have non-white characters and storylines.
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I feel pretty much the same. Aside from thinking forcing color into the show is stupid, it's nothing of note in the show really. The show is compelling, and the cast is decent. I liked both Simon and Daphne, along with most of the Bridgerton family. The first 30 minutes I almost turned it off, but then I watched it in 2 days.
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Yeah, while I was sick my wife watched this in the room with me. I woke up to Mad king George and the Black Queen and couldn't figure out why many British nobles were black. Even explained, I still didn't get the seeming large numbers in the mix. When I saw the Shondaland production card, though, then I knew. They should have just made them all black and been done with it; made the villagers white or something striking. What I saw was almost Skinimax levels of Get down, although my wife swore it was often more tame. Of course with a black male lead and dainty white female lead, because <reasons>.
The show is not bad per se, its plot is typical of such fare set in the Regency Period (the comparison for me was made to 90's teen drama's for the plot). In the 1.5 episodes, I watched, the race issue faded as not a big deal. As my wife described it, it was "the world as MLK imagined it." In a not-insane world, this would even be laudable. Today, though, blue checkmarks are talking about how evil whiteness is, attacks on white people, and how spelling and grammar are a sign of "white supremacy". We don't live in a sane world.
The show is not bad per se, its plot is typical of such fare set in the Regency Period (the comparison for me was made to 90's teen drama's for the plot). In the 1.5 episodes, I watched, the race issue faded as not a big deal. As my wife described it, it was "the world as MLK imagined it." In a not-insane world, this would even be laudable. Today, though, blue checkmarks are talking about how evil whiteness is, attacks on white people, and how spelling and grammar are a sign of "white supremacy". We don't live in a sane world.
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