Bridgerton Race

Vulture tv critic kathryn vanarendonk made an excellent point shutting down racist arguments against bridgerton.

Bridgerton race. The bridgerton books by quinn who has a sketchy track record when it comes to commenting on diversity don t tackle race at all. The drama centers on the bridgerton family. A duke footman lady s maid or even a respected boxer.

But its core is escapism. Bridgerton takes on race. Shonda rhimes new netflix period drama bridgerton has turned heads since its christmas day debut with stirs around race and historical accuracy of the time period.

One thing van dusen and rhimes make clear about their adaptation of bridgerton. But in reality. To translate bridgerton exists in a fictional 19th century london society where unlike today queen charlotte s race was never up for debate.

Plus most 19th century period dramas are overwhelmingly white. 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. What bridgerton says about race class and identity at large at first blush it may seem the show disregards the color of its characters skin in favor of a colorblind worldview.

I will give it this. Complaining about historical accuracy regarding race in a frothy regency romance is an impressively efficient way to communicate that the thing you care about is not historical accuracy she wrote on twitter after the show premiered. It s not a colorblind world race was very much considered when it came to telling this story.

The netflix hit departs from the homogeneous casting of most period drama imagining a 19th century britain with black royalty and. Bridgerton is an american streaming television period drama series created by chris van dusen and produced by shonda rhimes it is based on julia quinn s novels set in the competitive world of regency london during the season when debutantes are presented at court it premiered on netflix on december 25 2020.