Bridgerton Race Review

And perhaps this is me expecting too much but the show s reluctance to acknowledge race is odd.

Bridgerton race review. Bridgerton is pride and prejudice meets gossip girl based on the eight novel series by julia quinn bridgerton is a period drama ish taking place between 1813 and 1827 about the eight children of the late viscount bridgerton. Bridgerton did a lot of hinting or winking at race without actually ever going there. Parents need to know that bridgerton is a series set in the regency era of england with a cast of upper crust characters involved in society dramas and dilemmas in an unusual move for period dramas the cast is diverse in terms of race and ethnicity with people of color in every strata of society from nobles to servants.

It was almost like they were scared to say it out loud. Bridgerton is a sparkly period piece with a difference the first netflix series from shonda rhimes s company updates the genre with modern race and gender attitudes and lots of skin. Anthony benedict colin daphne eloise francesca gregory and hyacinth.

Bridgerton brings to life a society which is and was a lot more diverse than other works of art that have highlighted this particular era might have you believe. But its core is escapism. Bridgerton is a world where from the beginning when we see the portrait of this queen of mixed race married to this white king that we are very clear about how the color of your skin doesn t.

This conversation between the show s main black characters is the first explicit mention of race in a story that revolves around the. A review of bridgerton the new shondaland series for netflix based on the julia quinn series of romance novels. Bridgerton takes on race.

This seems like race blind casting rather than a part of the story a.