Bridgerton Race But Its Is

Bridgerton follows daphne bridgerton played by phoebe dynevor the eldest daughter of the powerful bridgerton family as she makes her debut onto regency london s competitive marriage market.

Bridgerton race but its is. In the show she is a black woman who ascended the throne resulting in a more accepting world filled with equal opportunity where it wasn t radical to see black elite and middle class people. A duke footman lady s maid or even a respected boxer. The show which boasts.

Bridgerton is almost an alternate universe. To translate bridgerton exists in a fictional 19th century london society where unlike today queen charlotte s race was never up for debate. And those approaches in turn affect how we read bridgerton as a cultural text especially when we examine its handling of race.

But its core is escapism. Appearing in the fourth episode of bridgerton the first series produced by shonda rhimes as part of her powerhouse netflix deal this conversation between the show s main black characters is the first explicit mention of race in a story that revolves around the duke a black man named simon basset regé jean page and his passionate. That would imply that color and race were never considered when color and race are.

The netflix hit departs from the homogeneous casting of most period drama imagining a 19th century britain with black royalty and. Look at everything it is doing for us allowing us to become she insists love your grace conquers all appearing in the fourth episode. But the problem in bridgerton comes when the characters race is practically ignored for almost the entire show except for a few vague references in their dialogue using words like us.

Bridgerton takes on race. This post contains spoilers for bridgerton season 1 and is based on the netflix series alone not the books.