Bridgerton Review Woke

By pandering to woke casting bridgerton has ignored how fascinating queen charlotte s life really was bridgerton s portrayal of queen charlotte has prioritised fiction and fancy over the chance.

Bridgerton review woke. The following recap by the very definition of the word recap contains spoilers for all of bridgerton season 1. A history of color conscious casting in period drama. Bridgerton is a typical regency romance with a few bulletproof tropes working in its favor.

Critics can keep attacking inclusive period dramas for being too woke but series like bridgerton are here to. Bridgerton is adapted from a series of romance novels by julia quinn. Netflix s christmas day release a raunchy regency period drama set in london has garnered wildly different opinions and been accused of glossing over male rape in episode six.

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Set in the 1800s the historical romantic drama created by chris van dusen and based on julia quinn s series of novels focuses on the powerful bridgerton family. Netflix s bridgerton is just the right medicine the recent netflix release bridgerton with its colour conscious casting is just the answer that creative heads like julian fellowes need who have every excuse to justify an all white cast in their shows. Bridgerton is based on romance veteran julia quinn s epic eight part romance novel series of the same.

The first book upon which season 1 is based the duke and i was first published in 2000 twenty years ago well before woke culture the metoo movement and our growing understanding of consent and healthy gender dynamics it could be argued that the series creator chris van dusen simply didn t want bridgerton s.